What's the one pen you keep coming back to? ...

[cmeisenzahl]

What's the one pen you keep coming back to? You've bought a few or many pens since, some you don't care for, some you used for a while. But there's one pen that you keep coming back to. Which pen is it for you, and why?

 

For me it's the Lamy 2000 w/ XF nib. Since I got it I've tried a bunch of others but keep coming back to the 2000. I think it's the fact that's it's a piston filler w/ a large reservoir. That and I love the Bauhaus design. ;-)

 

Chris

[MikeLip]

Weirdly, it's my 1947 Sheaffer Admiral. I just love the way it writes and fits my hand.

[cvasara]

The same two Targa's I've been using since 1979, Black ink since 1962

[KCat]

expected response: Pelikan 200

[sonia_simone]

My homely little Phileas.

[DavidM1]

My black Pelikan m215 with an F nib. I like the way my writing looks with this pen more than any other. I have a Lamy 2000 with EF nib which I love to use for the variation it puts into my writing but my writing really needs the Pelikan's consistency most of the time.

 

http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/7356/img2367tq4.jpg

[fauxbro]

I keep coming back to my red XF Safari. I've bought cheaper pens and more expensive pens, but it's still one of the best writers I own.

 

Ken

[solaris]

Plain black Sheaffer Valiant touchdown, F nib, with Quink or Sheaffer black ink. It has a tiny tiny tiny crack where you screw the piston, the window to see the amount of ink has some red halo, but it doesn't matter which pen I use or try or like, I always find myself back to it pen. My all time favorite.

[winedoc]

Easy, this one...

 

Kaguyahime "Tale of the bamboo cutter" based on one of the most ancient Japanese tale. It is not my most expensive Maki-e pen, but most loved. She has traveled with me to many pen shows and some of you folks might have written with it at a show. It is well broken into, so the flow is nice and jucy. I have to admit, she can be quite distracting. I found myself staring at her back side now and then waiting for her to turn aournd OK, now I am getting weird :ph34r:

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v392/winedoc/Maki-e/Koichiro%20Okazaki/tn_DSC04285.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v392/winedoc/Maki-e/Koichiro%20Okazaki/tn_DSC04287.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v392/winedoc/Maki-e/Koichiro%20Okazaki/tn_DSC04286.jpg

 

Kev

[Carrie]

Parker 51. It's used all the time, but every now and then I'll just get a little obsessed and use that pen and no others for a few weeks.

[obmike]

red safari with a F nib. i've bought a crazy number of pens and keep going back to that one.

 

however....

 

i just got a pelikan m800 today and it may be the one.

[OldGriz]

This is obviously not going to be any surprise... but for me it is actually three pens...

a Parker 51 Vac filler with a butter smooth fine nib

a Sheaffer TD with a smooth fine Triumph nib and

a Parker second generation Azure Blue Vacumatic with a fine nib.

[OldGriz]

Parker 51. It's used all the time, but every now and then I'll just get a little obsessed and use that pen and no others for a few weeks.

I can understand that.... but you realize that might end when you load that Vacumatic with your FPN ink....

[sonia_simone]

Kevin, I love that pen as well, I remember an earlier post about it. I'm glad she is one of your favorites.

[Dr.Grace]

My Pelikan M600 in the green stripes, with nib reground to cursive italic.

 

Don

[Onion]

My Pelikan 800 with stub nib and my back Phileas with a cursive italic nib.... everytime I use either of these I fall in love with them. They stay in rotation and sometimes they ae the only two in rotation.

[winedoc]

Kevin, I love that pen as well, I remember an earlier post about it. I'm glad she is one of your favorites.

That is the only woman my wife does not mind me staring at. She think I am nuts of course

 

Kev

[sonia_simone]

She think I am nuts of course

 

Kev

That's the best part about marriage--they know we are nuts and they love us anyway.

[Richard]

I don't think it'll come as a surprise to anybody here that the one pen I keep coming back to -- actually the one pen I never leave -- is this 1Q1946 double-jewel Parker "51":

 

http://www.richardspens.com/images/collection/zoomed/51_cedar_sterling.jpg

 

If someone mugged me and took that pen away, I'd be very sad. But there's this other "51", y'see, a nice 4Q1948 Plum, that's just as smooth:

 

http://www.richardspens.com/images/collection/zoomed/51_plum.jpg

 

So I would survive.

[Viseguy]

expected response:  Pelikan 200

Ditto here. Even though I enjoy using larger pens (e.g., the old-style Paragon -- now I always have to say "old-style", harrumph , and even an 800 now and then), I keep coming back to the comfy 200, cuz it's, well, comfy. And oh so reliable.

 

Edit: Stray comma zapped. Bzzt!

Edited December 6, 2006 by Viseguy