Any Fountain pen users?

How do you date a fountain pen ?

Sounds like fun but I would end up with more ink on me than the paper. My penmanship is so bad I was always asked to just print and at one time it looked like drafting work printing. Now sometimes even I cant read what I have written.

Haven't used a pen or pencil going on five years now. Even documentation at work is all digital.

Ah...the age when personal accouterments meant something, defined who you were. Them days are gone, my friends!

Do own a number of fountain pens. Write to my family members using the fountain (everyone else gets email). I have not purchased any since about 2000. But do have Mont Blancs, Pelikans, one Cartier, one Montegrappa, Lamys, Sheaffers, and several others. Collected them for years, both estate and new. When I write a letter, I have a bit of a process I go through:
1) select pen, ink and paper
2) write the letter with flourish
3) seal the letter with wax and seal (the dang post office charges me 2 cents more when the letter is wax sealed)
4) and post
Anyway, as I said, I only take the time to do all that with family members, as they understand my obsession. Most is stored away at this point, though I've given a few of the pens to my children. Writing with a fountain pen these days s a bit like keeping time with a manual wind watch, using a 35mm film camera or wearing a suit and tie to the office. A throwback to a past era. Reminds me of a scene in one of the Sherlock Holmes TV series played by Jeremy Brett where Watson sits at a desk with his pipe in his mouth and is scratching away a letter with a fountain pen. He's in suit and tie with waistcoat, and the chain of a pocket watch exposed. Sometimes we just long for another era.
If I can dig a few out I'll post some pictures here.
Nice nostalgic thread.

I have two that I use from time to time. Nothing fancy, just low priced one's from Jinhao. They work well though and I'm happy with them for thier use in both writing and art.

I use Noodler's Ink, black.

You sent me a link to your google mailbox. But, thanks anyway - I got ink with it.

Ha. Perhaps. 

I learned to write cursive with a fountain pen before they invented cheap ballpoints. I can still only write cursive with a fountain pen where it's legible, so mostly I don't. Last time I used one was when we went to sign the papers for our first house. What a screw up that was. Drove the title company people up the walls.

I got into fountain pens about a year ago. I've only had a few, but find that my Pilot Metropolitans. I have one fine nib loaded with Pilot Iroshizuku shin-kai ink (dark blue), and a medium nib loaded with Noodler's Heart of Darkness. I had a LAMY Safari, but suspect it was a dud and wrote like garbage. Can't bring myself to buy another when the Pilot Metropolitans are significantly cheaper, metal bodied, and write fantastically. Oh, and they come with their own converter, too...

Yes, to me a fountain pen takes up ink from a bottle.

I like to write with a fountain pen but I am hardly a collector. I have typically used a pair of extremely cheap hooded-nib Parkers at work. Being $5 narrow bodies from the 1980s, you would never know they were fountain pens unless you were looking for it.

Recently I got a really lovely slim 1980s Dunhill, out of interest in the Dunhill pipes, originally made by Pelikan. Unfortunately the feed is extremely clogged. Body is in perfect shape, and sometimes it writes, but not reliably enough to take it to work