Modern Pens - Delta Le's

[sarahfar]

there are the nibs

 

#8 with a Rhodium on 18K fine, Fusion Stub, and Fusion Stub.... I am pretty surprised at how much I actually like the fusion nib.....

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/mikefarha/IMG_0114_zps2b11f839.jpg

[flyshot]

Is the celluloid Stantuffo Star cage argento russo a heavy pen? I forgot to ask Bryant before I ordered it.

 

I consider my Pilot V.P. to be on the heavy side. My Sheaffer Legacy in sterling silver is heavier.

 

I would like to use it in my rotation of daily writers.

 

The Delta really looks nice in the photos.

[gregamckinney]

I'm a major fan of the largest sized Deltas. I prefer a very wide gripping section, and these pens are great in that regard, and overall.

In my experience, Delta is the most reliably "works out of the box" of all the Italian makers.

 

I have five, but didn't have the button-filler demo with me when I took this (poor quality phone) picture:

http://www.gergyor.com/images/delta2sm.jpg

The first and third pens from the top are Chatterly/ Delta collaboration pens. One of twenty-five of the "new pompeii" material, and one of two of the dark orange with black veins.

The Gallery and the Oro are just as great. I have all with factory stubs, and then penmeistered to be just slightly narrower and sharper.

 

Here is a better shot of the "new pompeii" pen:

http://www.gergyor.com/images/delta-tigerstripe-celluloid2.jpg

 

Best Regard, greg

 

 

[sarahfar]

My answer would be no. They are though heavier than say Omas, a MB 149, but not heavy in terms of being out of balance. They are a little heavier than the oversize flat tops, but not uncomfortable.

[Bogon07]

Sarahfar the SugarCane Stantuffo Star cage sure is pretty.

I was tossing up between the Argento Russo & the Blue Treasure (which I bought) and also selected the Fusion Stub which I am very please with.

[JohnEbach]

I was lucky enough to get one of the Star Cage Pompeii's at the Dallas Pen Show. I have loaded it with ink and it writes so smooth. It has the fusion nib, the piston filler (ratchet). and a medium nib. It is really a great writer and I think it will be in my rotation for quite a while.

[tryphon]

Inuit

 

http://s26.postimg.org/r26kwqwrd/Inu3.jpg

[jmccarty3]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/mikefarha/IMG_0110_zps042866e1.jpg

 

These are 3 new Chatterley Exclusives that are great values....

 

The first is the over-sized Stantfuffo Marmo Incinato which is the brown celluloid used in one of their older LE's more than twice as expensive. It is a gorgeous material and sports 14K # 8 and hand carved ebonite feed. All white trim and it writes exceptionally well. It has a ratcheting piston filler as do the other two here.

 

I just bought the last remaining Stantuffo Marmo Incrinato from Bryant, with a stub nib. It's a beauty. I inked it with De Atramentis Tokyo, which is a reddish brown that goes nicely with the finish of the pen.

[guyinkits]

Wow this post made it difficult for me to pick my next pen. I was thinking a Visconti HS or Wall Street Ltd Ed. but now I'm thinking maybe a Delta pen. The oversize #8 nib looks amazing but the section looks ridiculous. Anyone with a regular sized hand want to vouch for how comfortable or not comfortable using the oversize is?

[sciumbasci]

Just FYI: looks like Delta is in a bad situation, according to fountainpen.it forum users

[Babangita]

Dear and refined gentlemen I am really sorry, just couldn't resist to resurrecting this post...

The postman just brought in a L.E. of 100 Delta Sorrento, the pen arrived in pristine condition and the first thing that came to my mind was to come back to this post and share it with you.

Couldn't find much info about it, seemingly it is a FPH made LE.

Hope you will enjoy the pics.

[sansenri]

adding mine too

The Delta Fusion 82 LE Chatterley in dark green (I also have the blue one, but no pic yet)

[MBfan80]

adding mine too

The Delta Fusion 82 LE Chatterley in dark green (I also have the blue one, but no pic yet)

 

 

Delta is closed, correct? No more sales?

[sansenri]

Unfortunately yes.

Their heritage lives on in Leonardo Officina.

What was left of Delta in the hands of Martemodena is but a pale shadow of the marvels produced by Delta.

It's also such a pity that this thread and the great photos shown (ArchiMark! do you still have those originals??) are so badly crippled by the hated photobucket.

 

Here is another LE, made by Delta for Chatterley in a stunning turquoise celluloid (as used by Montegrappa for the Miya)

[sansenri]

and this one is the Delta Chatterley 10th anniversary LE in Lapis blue celluloid (one of the most beautiful celluloids ever made)

 

Edited September 12, 2019 by sansenri

[aggoo]

and this one is the Delta Chatterley 10th anniversary LE in Lapis blue celluloid (one of the most beautiful celluloids ever made)

 

 

Ooh, that is gorgeous. I love Montegrappa celluloid more than almost any other material, but this pen is out of this world. Visconti used this celluloid for the Voyager LE, is that right? Looks much better on this Delta.

[sansenri]

I think Pelikan also used this in a 101.

[sansenri]

The Visconti celluloid used in the Voyager Midnight blue Anniversary is slightly different, it has gold specks in it

Edited September 18, 2019 by sansenri

[A Smug Dill]

On 1/12/2021 at 11:02 AM, ArchiMark said:

Just realized all my links to photos of my Delta pens at beginning of this thread are no longer working

 

The links in your posts are still working, and the images are still accessible by clicking on them, but aren't displayed inline hotlinked to Photobucket's hosting server.

 

 

On 1/12/2021 at 11:02 AM, ArchiMark said:

Although the other possibility is that with recent forum change to different forum program, it might be that links need to have the and tags added around the link to photos.

 

Nothing to do with tagging, whether you meant adding metadata to aid searching, or HTML tags such as <A> or <IMG> into the post's text. Hotlinking inline images to external hosts, using HTTP instead of HTTPS as the protocol in the URL, just isn't going to work any more.

[sansenri]

ArchiMark, we would be awfully grateful to see al your photos again!

Don't rush, we're not running after you, but a little at a time it would be great!

 

Photobucket was a nightmare for quite a number of forums... first they tried to hold everybody's photos at ramson not allowing them to show in forums unless you'd pay an awful lot of money...

then, when most users turned away and just left their images there and stared uploading elsewhere, and Photobucked had become a pale shadow of what it used to be in the image storing services, they changed strategy (when it was too late) and let the images be shown again, but with their hated watermark defacing them...

in the meantime a plethora of other free cloud storing services had taken over...

 

looking forward to seeing you photos again, at your convenience, thanks