Hello from New Hampshire

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Hi all, I've just joined the forums but have enjoyed many of the videos and info posted by FPGeeks. I was reading FPN but that wasn't working out so I went looking for a new forum to satisfy my pen habit and here I am.

I'm 50 years old, male, working in IT in southern New Hampshire.

My fascination with pens is pretty old, but I have always seemed to have bad luck when I bought one. Recently, I found 2 pens I had bought from Levenger years ago and had issues with, and decided to make them work or throw them out. After a short while researching on the net, I was hopelessly enthralled. I was able to get both working reliably (Levenger kindly sent me a new nib for one even after 7 years, great customer service there). Months later, I have a small and growing collection of pens. Here are my currently inked pens:

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1. Pelikan M800 Blue O' Blue with a custom F left oblique 18K nib
2. Pelikan M600 Ruby Red with a custom OB 18K nib
3. Conway Stewart Belliver in Nebula with an IF 18k nib
4. Conway Stewart Wellington in Black Whirl with a M 18K nib
5. Conway Stewart Winston in Classic Claret with an IM 18k nib
6. Yard-O-Led Viceroy Standard Victorian sterling silver rollerball (yes, not an FP but I like and use it ;-)
7. Nakaya Neo Standard in Kuro-tamenuri with a custom M left oblique 14k nib
8. Danitrio Hyotan in gold ishimeji urushi lacquer with an Edison two-tone F steel nib (the original 18k soft fine was NOT to my taste... yet)
9. Edison Pearlette in Deep Indigo Flake with a 1.4mm steel stub nib

Not shown:

1. Levenger True Writer in Golden Tortoise with a F steel nib
2. Levenger Argento in marbled blue resin with sterling trim and a M 18k nib (this is a WET writer!)
3. Parker 51 "Special"
4. (2) Parker 21's

OK, so maybe I've gone overboard in the last few months, but I sure have been enjoying myself.