What Pen Did You Get Today?

[Beechwood]

A Conway Stewart Dinkie just back from the restorers. this pen the good luck to have a broken lever very early in its life so it is like new. I am totally the wrong owner tho, it is shorter than my middle finger and as wide as a pencil.

 

Also a Esterbrook SJ from Lexaf, many thanks, I am delighted and a Parker Pen set, new and unopened. Plus a Sheaffer 12 pen display tray

[Souljer]

Hi,

 

Just saw this thread. I'm new to fountain pens as a hobby but a long time admirer.

 

My pens are nowhere near as nice as some of yours and I'm sure you're seen plenty of examples before, so I will not bother with pix.

My first true and decent fountain pen was a Lamy Studio.

Just this Friday I got the first of what I consider icons in the pen design world; a legendary Lamy 2000. Just for the excellent spring & hinged clip I can see a long friendship ahead.

 

No precious metals, no lacquers, no amazing artwork but a beautifully designed example in that every detail has a purpose. I'm happy.

[Clive Merrick Morel]

Hi,

 

Just saw this thread. I'm new to fountain pens as a hobby but a long time admirer.

 

My pens are nowhere near as nice as some of yours and I'm sure you're seen plenty of examples before, so I will not bother with pix.

My first true and decent fountain pen was a Lamy Studio.

Just this Friday I got the first of what I consider icons in the pen design world; a legendary Lamy 2000. Just for the excellent spring & hinged clip I can see a long friendship ahead.

 

No precious metals, no lacquers, no amazing artwork but a beautifully designed example in that every detail has a purpose. I'm happy.

Hello, Souljer.

 

Congratulations on aquiring a new Lamy 2000! Fancy frillwork is just that - window dressing. As long as your FP lays down a good line, it's a great writing instrument as far as I am concerned. If its body and cap have visual appeal, well then, so much for the better. In other words, though not an absolute necessity, it's an additional treat for one's eyes!

 

You're input is very much welcome here at FPN - and anything/everything you say is important to us! No detail need be spared, by the way ... for, after all, it's the minutiae we crave.

 

I look forward to reading further posts penned by you.

 

Very Best Regards,

 

-Clive

[cjabbott]

Went on my annual trip to Hot Springs this past weekend! (Always a good pen-hunting excuse)

 

Found:

Black Estie J w/AAA logo on barrel.

Copper Estie J

Aiken Lambert Vis-O-Pen w/lucky curve nib

BCHR J. Harris w/flex nib

Jade flat top Webster w/ 14k Warranted #8 nib (with flex)

Parker Deluxe Challenger (black w/ pearly pieces throughout)

 

A very good trip!

[ethernautrix]

Not a pen but a Binder Pelikan steel medium stub nib.

 

I can write like Leigh R!

 

 

No. No, I can't. But still, this nib is already way cool!

[VPI]

Stopped at Art Brown's during lunch and picked up a Visconti Van Gogh Maxi. Only intended to buy paper but this one stood out so I had to take it home with me.

[DixieAmazon]

CJAbbot, I grew up in Little Rock and have family in Benton. We will be visiting Hot Springs either around Easter or this summer. Got any suggestions of where to go pen shopping?

 

 

Edited due to FFS (Flying Fingers Syndrome).

Edited February 23, 2009 by DixieAmazon

[MattN]

I've just started using my very first fountain pen, a Pelikan M200 in black with a Binderized medium nib. It makes me happy, although I think I want a finer nib. I've been writing a lot with the nib backwards today, which gives me about an XF-sized line that I quite like. I have my eye on Richard's XF/XXF flexy duopoint, but I think I should wait until the value of the Canadian Dollar improves...

[Fernan]

Last Friday, received a Black Esterbrooke Dollar Pen, exactly as described here.

 

Also last Friday, got a sweet little Sheaffer, as described here. I'm afraid I may have paid a little too much for this one.

 

Both write well. I love both of them and plan to use both on a daily basis at work. There are not too showy, and convey a business-like feeling.

 

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Today, I received the Onoto I bought here on FPH from Obnubilator : see here. The pen is, again, exactly as described. My first English pen (from an truly English company). I really like its semi-flex stub nib. And it's really well-made. This one will be used for my journal on a rotating basis.

 

Also today, my first vintage French-made pen: an Edacoto, ca 1935. A real beauty. Another semi-flex, this one fine. A beauty. Another one for journal writing, on a rotating basis.

 

Waiting for the Germans : a set of Pelikans (400 pen, pencil, and ball point), and a vintage Montblanc from the Fifties.

 

 

Fernan

[MsLoathsome]

The simple Reform 1745 I ordered from JJBlanche arrived today. I am impressed by how flush the piston knob is against the barrel. My coworker was shocked when I started unscrewing it away from the body. Can't wait to get some green ink in it.

[dizzypen]

Today I got a Raspberry Lamy Al-Star XF and a Blue Levenger Illuminator F

 

I can't wait to try them out!

[David III]

A Conklin crescent filler, stainless steel fine nib (couldn't do the $$$ for a gold nib) - read about it in another thread and had one on order that day from Swisher.

I join here and suddenly I seem to have a pen coming every couple weeks.....

[asimplemaestro]

None...durn mailman.

[Deirdre]

Today I received a Conway Stewart Churchill from Bill Riepl.

 

http://www.runningdogstudio.com/images/IR/IRchurchill1.jpg

 

I'd paid attention to the fact that it was a lever-filling demonstrator with silver trim, but I hadn't really paid attention to the fact that it was a Churchill.

 

All I can say is: it's so BIG. It dwarfs the other pens I have with me today.

[Fountainbass]

Impulse purchase: I bought myself a marbled blue Phileas from Office Depot yesterday. It may well be the smoothest-writing pen I've ever used!

[Beechwood]

Black Parker 21 Mark 2 and a Wyvern pen and pencil boxed set from 1930s, even small than a CS Dinkie

[tomscs]

Vintage Conway Stewart 100 mmmmmmmm-smooooooth!!

[supenguin]

Impulse purchase: I bought myself a marbled blue Phileas from Office Depot yesterday. It may well be the smoothest-writing pen I've ever used!

 

Around here, Staples carries the blue marbled Waterman Phileas and also a black Parker Latitude for about twice the price of the Phileas. I've been tempted by both but can't afford either until I go back to work... I may have to try the Phileas in the near future :-)

[Mac in Alberta]

Libelle Winter Storm.

 

[beneAUT]

Waterman Carene Glossy Red XF and Pelikan M200 green transparent XF (to be exchanged for an Binder XXXF full flex when i have the money for it )