...but I Always Seem To Find Myself Reaching For My....

[cellmatrix]

Last few months, Ive been using my parker 51 as my daily writer despite the fact that I have more expensive pens sitting in storage. It's just such a great pen, super smooth and my handwriting has adapted nicely around it.

[The Blue Knight]

Cheap 15 year old parker jotter fp.

[OcalaFlGuy]

Lately it's been this one.

 

 

First, Ariel Kullock did an absolutely wonderful job (with no input from me even) setting up this pen. It writes about a 7.5 wetness with a silky smooth 14k nib, Exactly like I like my 51s to write.

 

It's a beautiful nearly hypnotically so pen. It's almost impossible to not waste a minute or two just turning it around in the light while using it to watch the light dance off of the ever changing patterning.

 

It feels and writes Just Like a "real 51" and I use it knowing there's less than a handful like it on the planet. (Not to mention the mindbendingly great deal I got on it.)

 

Bruce in Ocala, FL

Edited June 13, 2013 by OcalaFlGuy

[Sailor Kenshin]

It's awesome...but what is it?

[NewFPU]

I do have 1 pen with a B nib, a Huashalai 3000 I'll have to try the Ancient Copper in it. Thanks for the suggestion R&T!

 

 

Myste

[inkstainedruth]

Bruce, that *is* a very pretty pen....

I don't have any super expensive pens. The most I paid for any of them was for the Plum 51, and even that one I think I got a pretty good deal on.

I swap out pens fairly often (I have more inked at the moment than sometimes, because I've gotten a lot of samples recently -- although I did the number down some last week before going out of town). And I've got a bunch of vintage pens that need servicing/repairs before I can really use them. But I almost *always* have one of my Konrads inked up with Kung Te Cheng. And I suspect that the Plum 51 is *also* going to be in the EDC category as well, but it's *such* a nice pen to write with. Right now, it still is lubed up with Quink Black because it was faster to refill it than flush it before the trip, but once that fill's *finally* used up I will give it a thorough flush and get it back into rotation ASAP. Just have to decide what will look good coming out of it....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[cellmatrix]

It's awesome...but what is it?

Its a customized Parker 51, and quite a nice looking one at that!

[OcalaFlGuy]

Its a customized Parker 51, and quite a nice looking one at that!

 

Done by Ariel Kullock in Argentina.

 

It is supposedly done in the same material as the modern Parker Blue Duofold. I can't say that it's the Exact material, I'm not so Duofold knowledgeable, but it sure is close to it to me.

 

I got mine from him on a Fleabay auction for about 1/2 what he was listing them for as a BIN.

 

PS; Thanks cellmatrix.

 

Bruce in Ocala, FL

Edited June 13, 2013 by OcalaFlGuy

[avlisyar]

While I love my Bexley's ( Have about a dozen ),

the three (3) pens I am always reaching for are

my Edison Pearl with the new 1.1 Stub, a custom

Lhotse that was done by John Brady ( Jeb's Pens )

and the Chatterly Pens Delta Fusion with a Stub.

[Silvermink]

My Montblanc 14 gets inked significantly more often than mere chance would account for. It's a good, reliable writer, looks good, holds a lot of ink, and is easy to clean.

[Tom Aquinas]

I try to rotate my collection, I believe in using the pens. But I always have my MB 144, a Sonnet, a Parker 75, a Parker 51 and my Man 100 loaded. If I am going somewhere that I don't want to raise "pocket jewelry" tall poppy syndrome , I use my Lamy 2000, which is as good a pen as the classical P51 and P75.