What pen is your Holy Grail?

[pajaro]

Parker 51, single jewel yellowstone, extra fine nib.

[FarmBoy]

Parker 51, single jewel yellowstone, extra fine nib.

Interesting choice.

[Cryptos]

I'm looking for a pen that is balanced in my hand, and has a nib that writes with the same characteristics as a Gillott 404 dip pen.

 

I suspect that this will be a quest without a material end but with, perhaps, a spiritual enlightening.

[inotrym]

Discontinued Montegrappa Miya Argento as far as production line pens go.

 

Other than that that I would love to design my very own pen someday and have it manufactured.

[Monad]

For now, my future Custom Heritage 92, whenever it arrives...

Edited July 10, 2016 by Monad

[Old_Inkyhand]

Visconti Homo Sapiens Bronze, a yellowish tortoise Pelikan with black finials (no matter which one) and Montblanc Franz Kafka. A more attainable one - Waterman Expert Precious

[DustyR]

This thread just keeps on giving....

 

I'd like to run across a Meteore Pullman at a garage sale. ;-)

[bitjit]

For me it would be Sheaffer Snorkel Saratoga or Admiral, probably 1950s,Black..but not the triumph nib, with an Gold Flex Nib...Ooohh..and yes some Penman Sapphire will definitely make this droolworthy-er

[mcorrea]

For me it would be an Omas Paragon in celluloid, with a fatory italic nib.

[GardenWeasel]

For me it would be an Omas Paragon in celluloid, with a fatory italic nib.

Nice choice!!

[ScienceChick]

Phoenix Lacquer Arts's Bees and Peonies. Divinely beautiful, imo, and completely out of my financial league. Such is life; I'll just keep staring lovingly at pictures.

[lionheartlee]

I would have to go with Viscont Divine Comedy

 

I love this pen...one day it will be mine...even if I have to sell an arm.

 

I also like the Edgar Allan Poe writers edition Montblanc...but it doesn't hold a light to the Devine Comedy of Visconti.

[Recoil Rob]

Nakaya Squid/Sperm Whale....

 

 

 

http://www.nakaya.org/products/IMAGES/BODY/11092(4).jpg

 

 

 

http://www.nakaya.org/products/IMAGES/BODY/11092(5).jpg

[Raif79]

Nakaya Squid/Sperm Whale....

 

Oh wow! I like that a lot.

 

http://www.nakaya.org/products/IMAGES/BODY/11092(4).jpg

 

 

 

http://www.nakaya.org/products/IMAGES/BODY/11092(5).jpg

[inotrym]

I would have to go with Viscont Divine Comedy

 

I love this pen...one day it will be mine...even if I have to sell an arm.

 

I also like the Edgar Allan Poe writers edition Montblanc...but it doesn't hold a light to the Devine Comedy of Visconti.

 

 

Make sure it´s not your dominant/writing one!

[lionheartlee]

Make sure it´s not your dominant/writing one!

For that pen I would learn with my left!

[uemuraw]

I wanted to revive a great thread and add my Grail Pen... Its a red Platinum Izumo Tamenuri with a M-F nib.

 

I really dig the Izumo Ironwood. My grandfather planted an ironwood tree on Maui on Armistice Day (the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918). I reckon it turns 100 in a couple years. If all goes well, I might ask Platinum to make me a commemorative pen for Dad to mark the centennial. Here's a picture of the tree.

 

https://www.google.com/maps/@20.8005247,-156.5925827,3a,90y,195.89h,89.68t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sGRuf5h2cgvp2CPZXtuu5kw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1

[uemuraw]

 

How is it that I never posted to this thread before (or even remember reading it before)?

Oddly enough, if I had read this 3 years ago I would have said a Plum 51. I have one now. It's probably my favorite pen. Not minty minty, and a Demi size, but that's okay. I got it for a reasonably good price, it's got I think an M nib on it, and it's a great writer.

If people read my posts last March about my trials and tribulations with the USPS, they probably would presume it was an Emerald Pearl Vac -- because *every* time I think I've got one in my sights something happens -- most recently I was trying to decide between three slightly different ones at the Triangle Pen Show, and just couldn't. And so I walked away to clear my head (and hope someone would make my decision easier by buying at least one of them ). Only, instead, at a table literally back to back with the first one I found a Green Shadow Wave Vac Junior Speedline filler.... http://www.4smileys.com/smileys/thinking-smileys/think_smiley_24.gif

But truthfully, my grail pen is one I will likely never be able to afford unless I win the lottery, or write a best seller or or something. I've wanted one ever since someone (Pakman, I think) posted a picture of one several years ago. It's a Yard-o-Led Viceroy Victorian Standard (I suspect a Grand would be too large and heavy for me). Yes, there are beautiful and more expensive pens out there -- some of the maki-e pens I've seen are simply breathtaking. But I don't dare get one even if I could afford them. But the Viceroy Victorians are just simply exquisite.

Ironically, I don't actually the like the look of most of the Y-o-L lineup.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

For you, I think maybe it's less the one grail, than it is every goblet, chalice, cup and bowl set on the table that day.

[uemuraw]

I would have to go with Viscont Divine Comedy

 

I love this pen...one day it will be mine...even if I have to sell an arm.

 

I also like the Edgar Allan Poe writers edition Montblanc...but it doesn't hold a light to the Devine Comedy of Visconti.

 

Definitely grail-worthy.

[FOUR X FOUR]

The Porsche Solid. 3135 in Titanium. 18 kt gold gold M nib