Happy to introduce myself after finally starting to post

[flaviocu]

Dear Forum

After lurking for a few years (correlating with the level of obsession with fountain pens), I finally felt inclined to post on a thread. So it's only polite to introduce myself:

• I'm male and 34
• I'm from switzerland, working in IT
• I got a beautiful mont blanc 12 years ago as a present, and enjoyed writing with it almost every day since

After two years I got fed up with my ugly handwriting and started learning italic using "Write Now" (Around 2008). It showed some results.. After that long time just a user of fountain pens, short from a buying spree in chinese fountain pens (a bit disappointed).

But now, I'm back. I'm currently working through "Italic Handwriting" by Fred Eager, bought a few pens (vintage and new) and plan on learning copperplate later.

I'll be a regular reader and an occasional poster. I wish you and your families great xmas!

[Jeph]

[85AKbN]

welcome aboard fpg.

[lisantica]

Welcome!

[cwent2]

to the forum

[TMac]

Hello and welcome to the forum.

[Tracy Lee]

Welcome, and the best to you and yours as well. Glad you joined us.

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[cedargirl]

Hi there. Welcome and Season's greetings.

Persistence always pays off.

[piscov]

Welcome here Flavio! Merry Christmas

[writingrav]

Welcome to the madness. Indulge!

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[ddustinn]

Welcome! We're glad to have you here.

[jacksterp]

Nice to "meet" you and good luck in your various penmanship endeavors.

[VertOlive]

Welcome and Merry Christmas to you! Thanks for including the titles of your penmanship books!

[flaviocu]

Thanks all for the warm welcome!

Welcome and Merry Christmas to you! Thanks for including the titles of your penmanship books!

Oh, I love books - my shelf is stacked already, probabely more than I'll ever be able to work trough

Currently I'm working with:

• Fred Eagers "The Italic way to beautiful handwriting" - I try write one to two pages daily, currently I'm on chapter 6 - What I love about this book is that everything is laid out step by step, including excercises instead of just throwing complete alphabets at you; this seems to be one of the better books to learn to understand calligraphy
• Reynolds "Italic calligraphy & handwriting" - mainly to get inspiration for ornamented letters
• Winters "Mastering Copperplate Calligraphy: A step-by-step Manual" - I plan on learning copperplate after learning some italic
• Andreas Lux "Neue Wege zur Kalligraphie" - A German book to learn italic, I like Fred Eager's better, but it has great examples of italic variants and chapters about calligraphic page design
• Denise Lach "Schriftspiele" - Examples of beautiful calligraphy - just for inspiration

At the moment I concentrate on only working with fountain pens (flex or italic) in order to learn a "everyday" handwriting. I never imagined having so much fun writing, it's almost a bit like meditating. Writing with the flex pen on the other hand is very rythmic and I start to get into the flow. So it's a great hobby to relax after work.

What are your goals when writing?

[Tony Rex]

What are your goals when writing?

To justify myself for more pens, what else?

Nice compilation of titles there mate! I'm too broke to buy books, but your list could be handy someday. I simply download freebies at iampeth For now.

Oh and

[caribbean_skye]

Welcome, welcome. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas.

[hamag]

[Jon Szanto]

Hello Flaviocu,

Welcome to the Fountain Pen Geeks forums! Smaller than the largest pen fora, larger than some, you'll find a comfortable community of pen-centric people here, with a growing body of posts, reviews, and group knowledge. Mostly, you'll find people who are enthusiastic about fountain pens, and fountain pen people.

Join in!

Regards,
Jon

[KrazyIvan]

to the Dark Side.

[heath]