You know you're a Fountain Pen Geek when...

[velo]

You sniff your pens and inks.

[Adhizen]

-you feel naked with out a fountain in your pocket
-nib gazing through a lope for hours
-you watch Youtube pen reviews and call it "Pen Porn"

[KrazyIvan]

you press a ball-pen harder on the paper to get a broader line and are frustrated about the lack of result...

You don't know about Gclef, I gather.

[Feardorcha]

...you go home for 'lunch' everyday just to check if the next parcel of ink/pens has been delivered.

[erpe]

You don't know about Gclef, I gather.

Sorry, I don't, enlighten me unless it involves a ballpen of course

[KrazyIvan]

You don't know about Gclef, I gather.

Sorry, I don't, enlighten me unless it involves a ballpen of course

It does. Manny can make a ballpen do line variation. He's that good. Now, just think what he can do with a flex pen.

[Tracy Lee]

You don't know about Gclef, I gather.

Sorry, I don't, enlighten me unless it involves a ballpen of course

It does. Manny can make a ballpen do line variation. He's that good. Now, just think what he can do with a flex pen.

He is scary good with a ball point. He is super scary good with a flex pen. Even sitting there watching him do it is astonishing.

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[spotted and speckled]

...when you can tell by the smell what the previous ink was in the ebay pen you just got.

[ThriveToScribe]

....You immediately go out and buy more ink, even though you already have enough bottles to last your lifetime, twice over.

I do that even when I haven't knocked over a bottle of ink!

[erpe]

It does. Manny can make a ballpen do line variation. He's that good. Now, just think what he can do with a flex pen.

OK, you have me curious, where is it?

[AndyT]

OK, you have me curious, where is it?

Dotted around the forum. There's plenty in this thread.

[diogenesNY]

...You laugh like a maniacal supervillian while extending the snorkel on that vintage Scheafer.

---diogenesNY

[Newjelan]

... The most important item in your bag, whenever you go out, is a fountain pen and if you don't have one, you simply must turnaround, go home and get one (even of you're only going to buy some milk).


... You continually describe colours using the names of inks.

[KrazyIvan]

My coworker (who is not into pens) accompanied me when I met with Mike Dudek and Dan Bishop of KarasKustoms and said afterward, "I did not know you could carry on a 2 hour conversation all about pens!"

[Senecabud]

You have a notebook dedicated to listing in all your inks and another notebook dedicated to listing all your pens, including whichever ink they currently hold and whichever nib is currently fitted (and you faithfully log all changes of inks and nibs). And, oh, yes, you also have a listing of all your nibs and whether they are currently in use.

[auto winder]

You have a notebook dedicated to listing in all your inks and another notebook dedicated to listing all your pens, including whichever ink they currently hold and whichever nib is currently fitted (and you faithfully log all changes of inks and nibs). And, oh, yes, you also have a listing of all your nibs and whether they are currently in use.

Good to know I'm not the only one

[spotted and speckled]

You buy a hideous pen off ebay to get the gorgeous nib.

[kaisnowbird]

... tedious and long meetings are fun to you because you get to:
1. take lots of colour coded notes using your FPs, and
2. stare at the ink swishing inside your demonstrator when there's nothing worthwhile to jot down.

[Goldfish]

...at 11:30 pm you find out the mail carrier came and left a package from Goulet Pens at 7:30 pm, and get out of cozy bed and walk to your mailbox 200 yards away in 3 degrees Fahrenheit.

[kaisnowbird]

...at 11:30 pm you find out the mail carrier came and left a package from Goulet Pens at 7:30 pm, and get out of cozy bed and walk to your mailbox 200 yards away in 3 degrees Fahrenheit.

Oh yeah, you have to do that! We can't let the package freeze, with or without ink inside.