Aloha,
It's been about 6 months for me now - a bit longer if you count my first experiments with an Amazon Basics FP. I now have 7 pens and 14 inks and feel that's a pretty good range of pens to explore right now. That doesn't mean I don't have thought of what might be next, though.
I find I like the community here and many of the pen reviewer/youtubers are quite interesting, so I enjoy learning more that way. I feel that's probably too many inks, but I enjoy trying to match/complement pen and ink and my first choice doesn't always work out the way I hoped.
I have two large pens (a Momento Zero Grande and Etruruia Magnifica) that I find I really like. I wouldn't have known about larger pens had I a) not watched a bunch of videos and b) taken a leap and ordered one. I love both the ones I have. I think there's a place for smaller pens, too. It's really about how the feel in the hand and the sensation I have holding them, working with them, feeling and seeing them.
My handwriting is terrible (it's been so all my life) but I've taken up the American Cursive Handwriting text and am working through it. I think I've gotten better, but I still wonder if I can ever get that neat, beautiful writing I admire. It's been a nice spin-off of the FP hobby to try and improve something that's been in need all my life!
1. New pen, ink, notebook - latest purchase was the Stipula Etruria Magnifica Miele Selvetico and three Akkerman inks still in the mail. I also got a 5- year journal I started last month.
4. New dream pen(s) - I really like the looks of the Eboya 2019 special edition Matcha Hakobune pen that's no longer available. My MZ Grande is also Japanese ebonite, and I'm wondering if that's part of the reason I like it so much.
Thanks for the interesting forum and for supporting us newbies.
-scot
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