What Is Your Grail Pen And Does It Change?

[tarheel1]

I am wondering what your grail pen is and does it change when you get them?

 

My grail pen was the montblanc jules verne. I aquired it recently and i love it, but am now dreaming about the Michel Perchin blue serpent.

 

So should a grail pen stay your grail or once aquired should a new unobtainable pen become the grail?

[Edwaroth]

I'd rather a pen that suits my writing style and writes well...just the correct size, shape and weight with a smooth anib and a just wet enough line. In other words a pen I'll use and never want to be rid of.

[GabrielleDuVent]

My grail pen would be the one that writes exactly the way I want it to, when I tell it to.

 

I've no idea what his name is. Suffice to say, I haven't met him yet.

Edited June 12, 2013 by GabrielleDuVent

[Ginner]

I have been a watch enthusiast (WIS) for over 10 years and am just getting into FPs - and one thing I know is that 'grail(s)' change all the time, and that you CAN have more than one grail.

 

The best part about grails, and this happens to me all the time, once you put it down for a while and then take them out again, you get the same feeling you had when you bought it.

Edited June 12, 2013 by Ginner

[mirosc]

It's just a mind game.

Are you able to be content with what you have or do you want more, higher, better, stronger, prettier? Because there will always be something that's different. Nothing wrong with that, that's what has caused progress and development (I think that's inherent with our human nature and companies are making their profit from making you want something).

 

But in the end I think it all boils down to the question if you have the will to stop. It's just your own will and mind.

 

Personally I think the search for perfection (=grail) is futile.

[warblerick]

I have been a watch enthusiast (WIS) for over 10 years and am just getting into FPs - and one thing I know is that 'grail(s)' change all the time, and that you CAN have more than one grail.

 

The best part about grails, and this happens to me all the time, once you put it down for a while and then take them out again, you get the same feeling you had when you bought it.

That is a GREAT feeling. And it can happen with many things, not just a grail pen or watch. But really neat when it does happen; that same feeling you got when you first acquired it. Like deja vue all over again...

[Nashten]

Hmm.

 

For looks, it would be the Online Rose and Pearls fountain pen. (Google it )

 

For writing, it would be that pen Binderized to the way I want to write with my pen, and with a texture added to the shiny metal grip it has.

 

Fully Binderized so that I will never want to stop writing with it--and hence, it will keep me content with what I have.

Edited June 12, 2013 by Nashten

[TomJKT]

I'd rather a pen that suits my writing style and writes well...just the correct size, shape and weight with a smooth anib and a just wet enough line. In other words a pen I'll use and never want to be rid of.

+1 here. Like to add, I sometimes think it might be a certain pen, just to find out later, when I tried it, my search is still on.

Edited June 12, 2013 by TomJKT

[mbankirer]

Never the same from one moment to the next...it changes with every reading of a review on any of the web sites!

[basterma]

I don't have a grail pen, but I have a grail nib design. A nib that looks like DNA. Two strips of metal twisted around each other, so precisely aligned that they meet in a thin line that channels the ink to the tapered tip. The technical challenges would be intense, but man, what a pen that would make...

[apkayle]

I suppose my ideal pen is the Namiki Falcon. Semiflex (at least provides some line variation) yet good enough to be a smooth daily writer. I think the dimensions are ideal as well. But the pen isn't so desirable that I'm willing to plop down over a hundred dollars for just one pen when the same amount of money can buy me vintage pens and a ton of other things...like books

 

To be honest, my Noodler's pens are pretty darn close to grail-quality for me. Their nibs aren't vintage semiflex quality, but they're rigid and smooth enough to be daily writers and flexy enough for what I desire from flex (just a BIT of line variation in normal writing).

[apkayle]

I don't have a grail pen, but I have a grail nib design. A nib that looks like DNA. Two strips of metal twisted around each other, so precisely aligned that they meet in a thin line that channels the ink to the tapered tip. The technical challenges would be intense, but man, what a pen that would make...

 

Biology is my favorite field of science That nib does sound incredible.

[pajaro]

I have had my grail pen for a while now. I rarely use it, but I am pleased to have it. Now I just try out a few pens to enjoy the nibs and how the same nib from different makers feels different. Not so much seeking as having a bit of fun with nibs.

[UK Mike]

Grail pens are indeed a moving target.

 

Once my grail was a Montblanc 146 - I got one and to be frank I was disappointed because although an ok pen and nicely made, it never showered my writing in fairy dust and felt slightly inferior to my Sailor 1911. Consequently I sold it - at a loss.

 

......... so my grail changed to the Pelikan M800. And again I was disappointed as it was a modern pen and the nib was nowhere near as good as the one on a 1960s Pelikan I have. So i sold it - at a loss.

 

I tried the Namiki Falcon - I didn't like the nib so it was sold - at a loss.

 

Being a fan of Visconti, I bought one of the older Opera Black pens with the 14k nib. It irritated me because it didn't write as well as either the Rembrandt or the van Gogh. I sold it - at a loss.

 

The Graf von Faber Castell Guilloche came next. Lovely nib and real quality build but the grip didn't fit my fingers somehow. I sold it - at a loss.

 

..... and now I think my grail is an ST Dupont, or maybe a Delta, or perhaps an OMAS. I know this will cost me money.

 

In the meantime (in case you were wondering) I write with Platinum 3776 Century, Sailor 1911, Italix Parson's Essential and an old Lamy Studio. These are not for sale!

Edited June 12, 2013 by UK Mike

[PAKMAN]

Many of the pens in my collection were at one time "grail" (or I've got to have it, but can't find or afford it) pens. Many of these pens, that I couldn't live without, I later sold or traded because they didn't live up to my expectations as far as looks or how they wrote.

 

Grail is really about 'getting' not about having. After you have the pen it is no longer a grail but may be a favorite.

[de_pen_dent]

My grail pen WAS the Sailor Creatures of the Deep.

 

After that, it became a Visconti Wall Street.

 

Then a MB Jonathan Swift.

 

Then an Omas Paragon Arco.

 

Now... another Nakaya at some point.

[pajaro]

[Moxoftritonytes]

I have one Grail pen and it`s all mine, bwahahahaha!

[Sasha Royale]

I have an obsessive-compulsive nature. So, perhaps every pen is a Grail Pen.

May you always have a Grail Pen, and may you never find it.

 

For the joy of a search is not in the finding, but in the hunt. The best part of any journey is in the going.

*****************************************************************(Sasha Royale Payne Ian Diaz, 2013)

[legume]

My grail pen has always been a Pelikan M800, and no matter what other dozens of pens made their way through my wish list (because I let them marinate for a while in case my tastes change, as they often do), the M800 stayed. I was hoping for a blue M805 because the one I really dreamed of, the Brown Tortoise, only showed up on the market once every several years and auctioned for more than two grand. I never really expected to own one and was overjoyed when a new run was announced as a special edition. I still can't afford it, and it will most likely be out of production by the time (if ever) I can, but for now I'm happy to know it's out there and there's a better chance I might own one someday.