Greetings from Lahore

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January 11th, 2020, 01:56 PM
Salman

Greetings from Lahore

Dear members
Greetings. I live in Lahore Pakistan. Its an ancient city with long historical traditions. One of them is calligraphy and writing with fountain pen. Even though with the advent of modern ball points and now gel pens the fountain pen is fast becoming a dinosaur and may become extinct. However people like you still try to keep it alive. I acquired this passion to collect fountain pens, write with them and take care of them fro my father. Now after years of collection I have acquired a sizeable collection ranging from Sailor to Von Graff. I only write with fountain pen as I feel comfortable with them. I also write a journal and for me that is the high point of he day when I sit with my favourite pen of the week or month and write on paper. The feeling of sliding, moving and pointing on paper is the best feeling.
I am thinking to write my experience of each pen I have in the coming days.
Salman
January 11th, 2020, 02:09 PM
Chrissy

Re: Greetings from Lahore

Hello and welcome. :)
January 11th, 2020, 02:14 PM
carlos.q

Re: Greetings from Lahore

Receive a warm welcome from sunny Puerto Rico! :welcome:
January 11th, 2020, 04:43 PM
Anne

Re: Greetings from Lahore

Welcome:)
January 11th, 2020, 04:55 PM
countrydirt

Re: Greetings from Lahore

Welcome Salman!
January 12th, 2020, 06:21 AM
jar

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January 12th, 2020, 07:18 AM
jbb

Re: Greetings from Lahore

Welcome!
January 12th, 2020, 08:22 AM
Deb

Re: Greetings from Lahore

Welcome to FPG, Salman.
January 12th, 2020, 11:47 AM
calamus

Re: Greetings from Lahore

Great introductory post, Salman. I look forward to reading your accounts of your favourite pens! There's a thread in the "Pens in General" forum called something like "Posts Written Entirely in Fountain Pen." You may enjoy posting in it.

Welcome!
January 12th, 2020, 07:01 PM
VertOlive

Re: Greetings from Lahore

Welcome, pen friend!
January 14th, 2020, 02:01 PM
Wahl

Re: Greetings from Lahore

Hi Salman, :welcome:
January 14th, 2020, 06:40 PM
azkid

Re: Greetings from Lahore

Welcome! We'd love to hear more about you and your pens.
January 22nd, 2020, 07:19 AM
alexgalexg

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Hello and welcome! Yes the odds of my seeing someone else using a fountain pen in public are slim. But I dont think they could ever be truly obsolete. You cant get the same writing style from a gel or ball point, we have a much wider variety of ink and calligraphy cannot be made by a rollerball pen no matter what ink is used. But I will admit, especially when traveling on planes I take a Parker gel pen over my fountain pen. Minimizes the risk of an ink spell which as we all know is never fun and probably the only reason why ball points became the mainstream tool.