fountain pen taboos - don't enter if you're easily offended

[Algester]

PIlot USA's naming sense? but then I have to agree a pen named Elabo, Capless, Stella90s may not appeal to other markets... but hey I have already contended with games with different names upon localization...

[aawhite]

Picking your nose with a MB 149....

 

Either the user has a big nose, or ends up with one.

[discopig]

PIlot USA's naming sense? but then I have to agree a pen named Elabo, Capless, Stella90s may not appeal to other markets... but hey I have already contended with games with different names upon localization...

 

Speaking of Elabo, what does that name stand for? I was wondering a few weeks ago and couldn't find any answer. I figured "Elabo" may be Japanese for something but couldn't find anything.

[TorPelikan]

As for Pilot "Elabo", I've heard that's from "elaborate".

 

By the way, Japanese language "erabu" means "make a choice".

And, "erabo" means "let's make a choice".

 

Of course, there is no relation between "Elabo" and "erabo".

[WirsPlm]

Super fans (the ones who are actually fanatic and criticize everyone who disagrees, that kind of thing) are what bugs me, the Parker 51 fans are often the worst (the anti-Noodler's fans are also often quite blatant). Yeah, the P51 is a nice pen, and so is my Pilot Metropolitan, my Sheaffer italics, there's lots of nice pens and not considering the P51 (or whatever pen a person is going on about) the pinnacle of pen making isn't anything to get upset about. Same thing with inks, all kinds of companies make great inks and it's great that we have so many companies making FP ink, there's no reason to get upset or rude about someone else's personal preference.

 

Pilot's naming schemes are entirely strange, but I don't think anyone likes them (except maybe the people who are paid to come up with names at Pilot?).

Edited June 22, 2014 by WirsPlm

[ethernautrix]

Super fans (the ones who are actually fanatic and criticize everyone who disagrees, that kind of thing) are what bugs me...

 

Yeah, that and the "experts" who think they know what's best for everyone based on their own preferences. Don't like a nib size? Don't use it. Doesn't mean the people who like it don't understand what they're doing. Same goes for brands and inks and papers and how you hold your pen.

[babalipk]

I am not a pen collector but just a FP user.

 

People here talk quite a lot about P51 , I tried couple of such pens just out of curiosity, pens were smooth , but the cost at which those were offered , I think there are some better options available.

 

To be frank I didn't like Lamy Safari , well, it is good in writing department but looks very cheap, Lamy 2000 is also a nice writer but as someone has said earlier in this thread 'Lamys are designed like fine machines , they lack soul'

Edited June 23, 2014 by babalipk

[79spitfire]

I have a couple of 51s. Had to try them out. They are great pens. They do everything great pens should do. They are just a bit stiff for my taste. That's why they make different pen styles and types, there isn't "one pen to rule them all....."

[Yaakova]

Hyperpriced overdecorated pens laden with detail, gold, platinum, and/or gemstones that both look painful to write with, and would get ruined by even trying anyway. I'm a coin collector -- one fingerprint is all the difference between 'mint' and 'not mint'. These are pens designed to sit on a display pedestal and be looked at, not written with.

 

And if a pen's not meant to be written with, is it really a pen?

Preach it, brother! I see all these ridiculously embellished pens that look as though they'd be massively uncomfortable in one's hand. Sure, they're nice to look at, but if you can't actually write with one, what's the point?

[sotto2]

Preach it, brother! I see all these ridiculously embellished pens that look as though they'd be massively uncomfortable in one's hand. Sure, they're nice to look at, but if you can't actually write with one, what's the point?

 

Nothin' says "User Fountain Pen" to me like some snakes with ruby eyes.

[Algester]

 

Nothin' says "User Fountain Pen" to me like some snakes with ruby eyes.

ahhh are we probably all talking about the Aurora Diamante... hahahaha

[Garageboy]

Don't get the popularity of the "minimalist" pens (the no cap band, no clip, just an acrylic/ebonite body with no contrast or real shape to the barrel and cap)

[Algester]

Don't get the popularity of the "minimalist" pens (the no cap band, no clip, just an acrylic/ebonite body with no contrast or real shape to the barrel and cap)

minimalist is very much taste... if ore prefer a more simple design then I guess that is why or they are not willing to pay extra bucks for the clip

[GRJP]

1. The TWSBI Vac 700 replaced my P51 as my go to EDC

2. MB 149 was a disappointment.

3. Vintage Pelikan OM nib with some flex - tortoise - best writer in my "collection" (beats the 51 or the TWSBI) - new ones... not the best pens I had, but they are the better priced ones IMHO.

4. Best flex I ever tried: 40's MB 334 1/2 with gold flex nib (my pride and joy): but it makes my handwriting look like gibberish. Bottom line: flex does not make your handwriting nice - just... diferent. And worse if you have no talent for it, or put in the hard work.

 

Sidenote, considering I am limited to 3 FPs where I am I have the TWSBI, a parker sonnet (a gift when I finished law school) with a BI nib - the new nib was worth it and writes like a dream and the P45: so despite not being a particular parker fan, my subconscious seems to go that way.

[Fabienne]

Snakes on anything are just plain vulgar.

[napalm]

Snakes on anything are just plain vulgar.

 

Woot, no Montegrappa for you?

 

http://baggangexclusive.com/2013/07/31/2013-montegrappa-hand-painted-snake-pen-collection/

 

[The Blue Knight]

I honestly can't see the attraction of $600 Nakaya. To me the basic ones seem a bit plain and boring.

[Garageboy]

Nakaya was one of the pens I was thinking of. I love the Urushi lacquer, but the very generic "pen"/torpedo shapes are very uninspiring

[sotto2]

Nakaya was one of the pens I was thinking of. I love the Urushi lacquer, but the very generic "pen"/torpedo shapes are very uninspiring

 

Yes, I was completely non-plussed by that shape until I saw some for $10 at Staples.

[william2001]

If Pelikan didn't do it's job, try a different pen.

I recommend you the Parker Sonnet. It writes really well.

-William S. Park