You Guys have Inspired Me

You guys have inspired me to clean up my old fountain pens--one Cross and five Phileas Watermans. Nothing fancy, but they got the job done. They were in my desk lap drawer and I must confess, I had let them dry out! I know: "Oh the Horror!"

Back when I was seeing patients I used to use them and kept the same color ink as the color of the pens themselves. Then I got into simply using rollerballs--less hassle when you are busy. But now, I'm retired.

Good news, I ran some water through them and they are all working fine. Now I just need to pick up some nice ink and I'll be back in business.

I probably will only keep a couple of them inked up to prevent another "drying up incident."

Cheers!

Very nice pens. Enjoy using them again!

Very nice collection, and congratulations on the retirement.

Those look awesome. Congrats on getting them up and running again AND on your retirement!

Nice collection - all you need is about 20 bottles of ink.

musicman1951 said:

Nice collection - all you need is about 20 bottles of ink.

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^ This. I have work to do too, I only have about a dozen.

great to see them back out and writing again. Fantastic collection

Nice little Phileas group! Glad you're using them.

Nice Phileas collection. We will now sit back and watch the collection groooow

Enjoy your pens long and in good health.

Very cool!

Love my Phileas, great pen!

Looking good.

Great looking collection. You have enough pens for most major ink color groups!