Hobbies?

[FlyingClayDisk]

No way dude! I collect pens! I have about 100 interesting specimens.
Some are from interesting places I have traveled to, some feature unique design or ink, some are vintage, some are probably worth quite a bit... some I know are worth quite a bit.
I am particularly fond of parkers. I just found a 1970s era Parker CT with blue ink. I haven't gotten a GT yet but I am on the lookout for one. My favorite pens are usually not the fancy ones though, but the ones with sentimental value, i.e. got on a memorable family trip, given by a friend, and so on.

Nice to meet another writing-utensil collector. 

I collect pens and mechanical pencils, but the heart of my collection is my fountain pens and my quills.

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!