If You Only Had One....

[MOVIESTAR]

If you only had one fountain pen to write with for the rest of your life everyday, which one would it be and why?

 

[emiliovillegas]

Lamy Dialog 3 because it has the perfect weight, size and it's smooth as butter!

[Sasha Royale]

One pen ? Life wouldn't be worth living.

I wouldn't be happy until I got a second pen.

Maybe a third. Besides, where would the other

90 pens have gone?

 

I would probably rob people, and take their pens.

[tomgartin]

The hypothetical details of these kinds of questions are always amusing so I'll contribute my own inner workings of answering this...

 

I have gone to Europe to enjoy my sabbatical but while I am walking through a small village in the south of France, I am kidnapped by a criminal mastermind who calls himself "Mister Bic." I am tied to a chair that has poor lumbar support and am forced to watch as he crushes my beloved fountain pens in a cheap IKEA blender, but it gets jammed so he puts the junk blender and the pens in a bigger German-made blender. Ink is flowing everywhere like blood. Then he shines a bright light in my face and fills my pockets with cheap disposable ballpoints, threatening that I will be monitored by his henchmen. I am allowed to buy only one pen but if I lose it I cannot replace it and will be forced to use those nasty little ballpoint buggers forever. I'm deposited on the side of a road somewhere in Germany. Walking to the nearest village I use my severely limited German--"Bitte, Das auto, Hamburg, danke?"--to get a ride to Hamburg. Once there I walk to Montblanc and slap down all my money for a one-off reproduction model 139 (long ink-view), the most beautiful pen to ever be discontinued.

[atypical]

A Parker 51 Aero-metric because of its reliability and because it's a pen that I wouldn't mind using for the rest of my life.

[Tess]

The hypothetical details of these kinds of questions are always amusing so I'll contribute my own inner workings of answering this...

 

I have gone to Europe to enjoy my sabbatical but while I am walking through a small village in the south of France, I am kidnapped by a criminal mastermind who calls himself "Mister Bic." I am tied to a chair that has poor lumbar support and am forced to watch as he crushes my beloved fountain pens in a cheap IKEA blender, but it gets jammed so he puts the junk blender and the pens in a bigger German-made blender. Ink is flowing everywhere like blood. Then he shines a bright light in my face and fills my pockets with cheap disposable ballpoints, threatening that I will be monitored by his henchmen. I am allowed to buy only one pen but if I lose it I cannot replace it and will be forced to use those nasty little ballpoint buggers forever. I'm deposited on the side of a road somewhere in Germany. Walking to the nearest village I use my severely limited German--"Bitte, Das auto, Hamburg, danke?"--to get a ride to Hamburg. Once there I walk to Montblanc and slap down all my money for a one-off reproduction model 139 (long ink-view), the most beautiful pen to ever be discontinued.

 

If I had a nickel for every time this happened, let me tell you...!

 

Seriously, though? I was very entertained by this bizarre turn of thoughts.

 

I am unfortunately not qualified to answer the original question with any kind of authority, as I currently only own a Lamy Safari and a TWSBI 540. Between the two I'd pick the TWSBI.

 

I have an Ahab, a M205, and an Esterbrook on order, though, so who knows what the future will bring. Provided I can stay away from, um, Mister Bic.

[mik86]

Something that wouldn't break, comfortable to hold, and wont need to be replaced because of a bit of wear...

 

Call me crazy, but I would say the TWSBI Micarta.

[myn]

Only one fountain pen?

 

Oh surely this is heresy, illegal, against all moral principles of decency - how could one ever

live with only one fountain pen?

 

MovieStar, is this a trick question??? :ltcapd:

[inkstainedruth]

Does it have to be limited to pens we currently own? If that's the case it would probably be my trusty Parker Vector (even over the Noodler's Konrad).

If it's any pen, ever, then +1 for a Parker 51, just based on the opinions here on FPN.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[pajaro]

Otra vez . . .Montblanc 144, red broad stub. Simply the best. I have used a lot of pens, and most of what's ballyhooed is just ordinary, Cross Solo and Esterbrooks are as good as most of the more expensive pens, just not as costly, but the best pen I have used is the Montblanc 144 in any nib size, extra fine, fine, medium, broad, broad stub, I have used all of these and still have most of these 144s. Parker 51s are just almost as good, but many of them are a tad toothy.

[BrandonA]

Wow what a question. It is almost "what is your grail pen" except it is expanded as a lot of people's grail pen is a pen which they would not use as a daily writer.

 

I'll answer based on pens I own. I think it would be my Voltaire. It is classic in appearance so I'd therefore hope that in 30 years when I'm still using it solely it has not become "dated". This doesn't mean that it is my favourite pen, I just think it is the most timeless of them all.

[MOVIESTAR]

Interesting opinions. I'm curious because we spend a lot of money on these pens when theoretically we only need one to do the job.

 

And I know we all have our favourite pens and I was wondering if you only needed one or if you could only use one what it would be.

 

For me at this moment its my M200 but I still need to make a review and ink my M600 so that might change

[tricnomistal]

Mine would be magic pen that changed into whichever fountain pen I wanted to write with at the moment.

[pajaro]

Mine would be magic pen that changed into whichever fountain pen I wanted to write with at the moment.

 

Truly a worthy and fitting answer to this question.

[Tess]

Mine would be magic pen that changed into whichever fountain pen I wanted to write with at the moment.

 

In the current edition of Dungeons and Dragons they'd call this a "dynamic fountain pen." I approve.

[davidw]

Lamy 2000 with medium nib

[Trayus]

A blue Aurora Ipsilon Deluxe with Extra Fine nib. This is probably because I actually have chosen this as THE pen to use for the rest of my life. Any other pens I buy from now on will probably for aesthetic or memorabilia purposes like New Millennium pens.

[kushbaby]

A few possibilities - I'd be ok with any of these as my only pen (not that I'm not horrified at the idea of having only one pen!):

 

- Pelikan 100N

- Pelikan 140

- Pelikan M800

- Twsbi 540

- Montblanc 146 (my burgundy one)

[tonybelding]

http://zobeid.zapto.org/image/pens/edison_morgan/morgan_bedrock_flake_2.jpeg

 

It's an Edison Morgan bulb-filler in bedrock flake acrylic. It's big and beautiful, holds a buttload of ink, has a large ink window. It's easy to strip down to the bare nib and feed for cleaning, too. The nib is steel IPG, originally a B taken from a Taccia Merit and ground to a 0.8mm stub through Pendemonium. It's the most perfect stub I've ever found for everyday writing. I've got it inked with Noodler's Texas Blue Bonnet right now. IMO it's the ideal ink for a stub like this, not too dull or too bright, and with fabulous shading.

[PAKMAN]

Very hard question.

 

I depends a lot on if you can replace the pen with another of the same make and model if it becomes lost, stolen or brokebeyondnd repair! And can I have multiple nibs to use with it???

 

If I can replace it - Visconti HS Lava

 

If I can't replace it but can have multiple nibs - Pelikan 800

 

If I must use the very same pen forever - Paker 51 Flighter