Fountain pens led to writing letters

The fountain pen forum just recently had a post asking people for a list of sub $15 pens. Here is someone's list:

Baoer 388
Nemosine Singularity
Jinhao 601
Parker Fontier
Pilot 78G
Kaigelu 368



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awesome, PhilNH5!  is most of your family still in my area?

Andrew,
My wife's sister lives in the ancestral family home directly on the other side of the Pike from you.
My mom and two siblings all have houses in the next town over from you and I have another sibling a little further away but still in Delco.

Phil

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That is really neat.  Letter writing is all but a lost art.  I use fountain pens all of the time but just for my note taking.  Keep up the letter writing to you niece - it will be something that she remembers later in life.  When I was in the Marines my Grandmother wrote me every single week (this was in the 80's).  Never failed - even when I got no other mail - I would get a letter from her that just let me know what was going on there and usually included a newspaper clipping of something happening in my home town.  Hopefully you niece will have the same memories.  BTW - get her a cheap fountain pen to keep her interest and to keep the letters comining!

Cincinnatus,
Thanks for the kind words and your own story. I am amazed that a lot of my letter recipients saved my letters. But I am glad to apparently touch them in some way.

Phil

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Very cool! This post makes me want to get a nice pen and write a letter to somebody. I have a 10 year old nephew that would be a good candidate. I know nothing about fountain pens though. I must say you have piqued my interest.

wyzeone,
Glad this thread piqued your interest. I have a list of approximately 25 people on my letter list. I rotate through the names each week. Except for my mom. She of course gets a letter EVERY week

Not many folks write back but I hear one way or another how much the letters are appreciated. I do have a regular pen pal in the form of my mother's octogenarian neighbor. And Freddy too! But I enjoy writing the letters.

Good luck in you start. You will get lots of good advice from Freddy.

Phil

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I have been very fortunate to be the recipient of several of Phil's illustrated letters and they are fantastic. No wonder his niece enjoys them so much.

Freddy,
Glad you like the letters. Adults seem to enjoy them as much as the kids.

Phil

awesome, PhilNH5!  is most of your family still in my area?

Andrew,
My wife's sister lives in the ancestral family home directly on the other side of the Pike from you.
My mom and two siblings all have houses in the next town over from you and I have another sibling a little further away but still in Delco.

Phil

very cool. glad to see some Delco roots still. Do you guys still have the Philly accent? say 'wooder' instead of 'water'?

awesome, PhilNH5!  is most of your family still in my area?

Andrew,
My wife's sister lives in the ancestral family home directly on the other side of the Pike from you.
My mom and two siblings all have houses in the next town over from you and I have another sibling a little further away but still in Delco.

Phil

very cool.  glad to see some Delco roots still.  Do you guys still have the Philly accent?  say 'wooder' instead of 'water'?  

Yes - still have the Philly accent and colloquialisms.  I use "cheesesteak" in lieu of "steak and cheese", "hoagie" for "sub", "traffic circle" instead of "rotary", "water fountain for "bubblah (bubbler)", etc. I figure the Boston accent is so hard to understand I should try to talk in a confusing manner back at 'em.

awesome, PhilNH5!  is most of your family still in my area?

Andrew,
My wife's sister lives in the ancestral family home directly on the other side of the Pike from you.
My mom and two siblings all have houses in the next town over from you and I have another sibling a little further away but still in Delco.

Phil

very cool.  glad to see some Delco roots still.  Do you guys still have the Philly accent?  say 'wooder' instead of 'water'?  

Yes - still have the Philly accent and colloquialisms.  I use "cheesesteak" in lieu of "steak and cheese", "hoagie" for "sub", "traffic circle" instead of "rotary", "water fountain for "bubblah (bubbler)", etc. I figure the Boston accent is so hard to understand I should try to talk in a confusing manner back at 'em.

hahahahaha. my mom's uncle lives in Arizona and has been out there for at least 40 years, I'd say. he still says stuff as if he were in this area, like 'wooder' instead of 'water'. makes me laugh..

Please forgive my handwriting. I am a lefty. I concentrate very hard as I write but it is still poor penmanship.

Hey, wait a minute! Being a lefty does not automatically mean bad handwriting (and I can read yours just fine). I'm a lefty, too, and have the penmanship of an inebriated baboon. Some other lefties I have known have beautiful handwriting, however. Anyways, I think it is very cool that you write letters. Sending an illustrated letter to your niece was a really nice and thoughtful thing to do. That your niece wrote back to you must have been heartwarming.

I also write with a fountain pen. My motivation for doing so was to have waterproof ink for letter addresses and notebook entries. In my case, fountain pens led to wetshaving. Someone posted a link to a wetshaving forum on a fountain pen forum. After finding out that the shaves were great and blades were pennies each instead of $$$, I was hooked. To any of you lefties out there: Yes, left-handed people can write with a fountain pen, and there is no such thing as a left-handed fountain pen.

Try a Lamy - cheap, functional, and a good starter.  Use the cartidges first and later try the bottled ink.  A fine nib on the pen would be a good starter.

That is a good recommendation in my opinion. The Lamy Safari is a great, durable pen at a dirt cheap price. A coworker let me use his for a day, and it was a pleasure to write with. My work pen was a Hero 100, a Parker 51 clone, also an inexpensive pen that writes wonderfully well. Hero 100s seem to be scarce these days, but the Hero 1000 is reportedly equally good and of the same general design. Safaris are sold on Amazon for around $20. Isellpens.com sells the Hero 1000, which has a gold nib and is bottle-fill only, for $40.