What's On Your Wishlist?

[bobaroo]

I'm only buying one more pen, and then I'm going to stop. It'll be the Delta Dolce Vita. Honestly, this is the final one I need.

[Ed333]

my TWSBI 700 Vac arrived, with 1.1 stub nib, and I am hooked by the look of my writing, there is the flair I wanted. I am going to have to pursue a flexible nib, maybe ordered from a nibMeister, only question is, medium or fine? I have tried broad, and I think adding flex to a broad might be just a little over the top. At least for now, as I continue to get my feet wet.

[82Greg]

I was very fortunate over the last three years to get many, many dream pens.

 

Right now for the rest of the year, the only pens on my mind are:

 

Pilot Parallel set (already ordered)

Platinum mix free ink kit (already ordered)

Kaweco ALSport in blue with a clip and a converter.

Some pen tray inserts to convert a tool chest to a pen chest to hold the pens I've acquired.

[savingbirds]

Here my list:

Namiki Falcon SEF

Pilot Vanishing Point Blue Carbonesque with Rhodium Accents EF

Pelikan M600 Blue-striped OB

TWSBI Eco EF when it comes out in January

[hungh]

Right now I'm drooling over:

Lamy Studio royal red

Platinum 3776 bourgogne, chartres blue

Visconti Opera crystal

[migo984]

The new Pilot Elite 95S in deep red with an EF nib.

[MannyBA]

Here's my wish list:

 

Franklin Christoph Model19 (Pendleton Edition)

TWSBI Micarta

Edison Hudson

Gate City New Dunn

Another Noodler's Ahab Flex

[MichaelJennings]

I have a pretty short wish list:

 

• Sailor 1911 Realo
• Pelikan M600

[Alexmw777]

I'm looking forward to maybe a TWSBI or two, but definitely a Lamy 2k.

 

My all time dream pen is a Visconti Opera Elements Crystal!

[Edwaroth]

My wish list is quite diverse... about eight pens.

1.Aurora Optima

2.Aurora Talentum

3.Pelikan 800

4.Sailor Realo Pro Gear

5.Bexley Pearlesse

6.Platinum President

7.Graf von Faber Castell Intition

8.Nakyka Briarwood

If I had only three or four of these I could die a happy person.

[danielbird193]

At the moment I'm weighing up between:

 

- Faber-Castell E-Motion

- Waterman Carène

 

Anyone got any thoughts either way which might help me in my choice?

[ParkersAndPaper]

Over the past six years or so I've accumulated examples of almost all of Parker's post-1950 low-medium end pens. I'm lacking examples of several of the company's flagships.

 

- Parker Vacumatic

- Parker 51 Vac (With blue diamond to replace my dimondless model)

- Parker 61 (Capillary)

- Parker Sonnet GT Flighter (I'm pretty sure that mine is a fake)

[zzbr76]

Yellow fountain pens !!!!!

[The Blue Knight]

Got a few on it at the moment and it has grown quite a bit recently;

 

Pelikan Twist Apple

Parker Facet Blue

Worther Compact

Diplomat Balance Black

Diplomat Aero

Diplomat Excellence Brown

 

Pens funds have been spent for this year so will probably try to knock off 2 possibly 3 of the cheaper pens next year.

[tinysnail]

Platinum 3776 Century Nice (I had been considering a 3776 as my first >$50 pen, anyhow, and I am just a sucker for that rose gold)

[GTOZack]

right now, a 1950s mb149 if im feeling wild, a 1940s MB L139

in Fine or medium

[Brian K]

When I was in college I saw ads in the NY Times for Fahrney's in DC and the pen that was most often featured was the MB 149. I had used fountain pens before but nothing that grand. I had won a Sheaffer school pen when I was 14 or 15 (42 or 43 years ago) and I used it for the rest of my high school years. When I arrived in Albany for college I discovered an art supply store named Coughtry's on Western Ave. where I purchased my first pen with an integrated filling system. It was a Pelican piston filler with a steel medium italic nib for the outrageous sum of $12.00. I also purchased an Osmiroid pen with 4 (?) nibs and I figured I had all the pens I needed for awhile.

 

Many years later I could not get the 149 out of my mind and about 1986 or 87 I finally bought one. I was single and foolish and figured the $279.00 I paid for it was well spent. I still use it and have never regretted the purchase.

 

I find, however, that I still desire other pens. I have fallen in love Parker 45s and 51s. I have several of the former and one Special and 2 Vacs of the latter. One of the Vacs is a 1947 cordovan brown with a 16kt gold filled cap. The other is a 1948 demonstrator with a long arrow Lustralloy cap my father gave me for my birthday which I will send to Danny Fudge for restoration.

 

I love the pens I have but I find that I still want two pens I will probably never have. First, and only likely if I win the lottery, is the Namiki Emperor Crane - without a doubt the most beautiful pen I have ever seen a picture of. When I was a kid I read an article in National Geographic about a maki-e artist who was a living national treasure (officially) and they showed a large tray he took forever to make with a crane made of quail eggs (he said it took so many quail eggs to get just the right color match he would never eat another!) The cranes on this pen are made the same way and this pen has become my fantasy pen (the Nakaya red and silver Ascending Dragon pens are a close second).

 

More realistically, yet still highly unlikely on my current income (adjusted for inflation it is quite a bit less than I was making when I bought the 149), I would love to have a Visconti Homo Sapiens Bronze Age Maxi with a stub Dreamtouch nib. So many people on this board have praised them and they are so beautiful that I can not help but desire one. Someday if I am really lucky, but I don't know if I have that much luck! (Especially as it represents about 2 weeks take home for me.)

 

I guess it just shows that there are way too many truly great pens out there for thise of us who love them to ever be completely satisfied with what we have. It's always nice to have something to aspire to, I suppose.

 

Regards,

 

Brian

Edited July 29, 2014 by Brian K

[Algester]

Pens in my wish list huh...

Newton pens Orville in Micarta

Scriptorium pens Chronicler with a lava lamp 28 or 48 or 45 (and probably have a pendleton brown nodified nib)

and Probably a Dolcevita like look with Bronze Chocolate (I have Ideas) <-- probably by scriptorium pens

Edison Pneumatic filler in black slate

Pilot CH 912 FA

GvFC Classic Anello Ebony (it maybe a heavy pen but still its a grail pen for me)

Visconti Homo Sapiens Bronze

Visconti Opera Crystal :X (grail pen)

Pilot Parallels

on a different note

Uni-ball Kuru-toga roulette

 

Sadly these pens are beyond my reach :X

[The Blue Knight]

Pens in my wish list huh...

Newton pens Orville in Micarta

Scriptorium pens Chronicler with a lava lamp 28 or 48 or 45 (and probably have a pendleton brown nodified nib)

and Probably a Dolcevita like look with Bronze Chocolate (I have Ideas) <-- probably by scriptorium pens

Edison Pneumatic filler in black slate

Pilot CH 912 FA

GvFC Classic Anello Ebony (it maybe a heavy pen but still its a grail pen for me)

Visconti Homo Sapiens Bronze

Visconti Opera Crystal :X (grail pen)

Pilot Parallels

on a different note

Uni-ball Kuru-toga roulette

 

Sadly these pens are beyond my reach :X

 

 

Even the Parallels?

 

Or is the same problem I have? That you have spent all you can for the foreseeable future?

[Algester]

 

 

Even the Parallels?

 

Or is the same problem I have? That you have spent all you can for the foreseeable future?

it's the problem when your country doesnt have a PIlot fountain pen retailer... <_< >_> or then your Pilot retailer concentrates on the G-techs and BPs and sign pens same with the uni-ball

I also forgot a Sheaffer Triumph nib with CE Levi's mini Nos

Edited July 29, 2014 by Algester