Hobbies?

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

Quills...WOW!!  Now there's a cool niche!  Aside from seeing them and knowing their history, I don't know much about them from a collecting standpoint.  I do love my FP's though which are pretty much direct descendants.  My specialty though is MP's.  I break my MP's down into two categories....old Drafting stuff like lead holders and the like, and then mechanical pencils like we see today.  Lots of really cool stuff coming out of Japan these days, and even some new kids on the block too.  Plus, one of the really cool things happening right now is people building bodies to run on the P-20x series engines.  Don't know if you've seen some of this stuff, but guys like Spoke Designs and I.J. Instruments Designs...really cool stuff! 

There's a guy in HI you might want to check out...Ti2 Designs.  Ever heard of them?  They make some really cool tech pens.  I've got a couple of their Titanium pens.  Slick stuff, and Mike's a great guy too!  I've been buying stuff from him since back in his Kickstarter days.  Got one of the first TechLiner pens while it was still a prototype.  He's a hell of a machinist!

Spoke does pens too, and some of their stuff is WAY cool!  In fact, I think they do the Model 4 in a pen.  Check 'em out.

Cool to know another collector here.  This makes three of us so far.

And the hell of the whole hobby is I can use my hobby to make money!...just by using it!  Us old Drafting guys never really die.  LOL!

I am mostly into the old stuff.

To tell you the truth, I never really thought about what the future in writing instruments would look like. I actually thought people had pretty much given up on them, with digital everything, and with most young people not even being to read or write in cursive. So, I thought that most writing instruments would all be instruments of the past.

You have peaked my interest. I will be looking into the new tech. Thank you.