What Pen Are You Waiting For In The Mail 2015

[NinthSphere]

Recoil Rob & anyone else looking for confirmation, the Waterman converter does fit the plastic threaded 144s without mod. Which is awesome, because the only carts I had on hand were Majestic Blue. Lovely color, but I don't need it in so many pens.

[trdsf]

Woot! The Esterbrook set is here! The pen only needed a J-bar and sac; that was no problem. And they're just completely gorgeous.

 

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[vxv]

ordered a dip pen of every possible size and flexibility i could find

my second 'antique' purchase ever

i had ordered a rusty nib, but that was out of stock so i got a free CLEAN nib(i think) and another free nib!

from my selection what i remember is the

-plume pygmee (extremely fine, extremely flexible)

-rose nib brause

-esterbrook j 0.9

-william mitchell witch pens (maybe my favorites)

-glass dip pen nib

-glass pen holder

-scroll nib

i cant wait for it all to arrive but i guess i'll just use speedball nibs and my music nib until then.

[legitimate3]

Waiting for my Platinum 3776 Nice Pur in Broad

[inkstainedruth]

A 1953 cordovan brown Parker 51 !! Can't wait to get my hands on it, flush it and hopefully lay down a nice fine line

OOOH....

I got sniped on a Cordovan Brown with a GF nib a couple of years ago. The really annoying part was that I had built up a nice rapport with the Ebay seller: I'd ask questions and the seller would check with the pen's former owner and then send me the answer. And then I got sniped with seconds to go and didn't have time to up the bid.

My "in the mail" is a Pelikan M200 Café Crème with a B nib. I had been waffling between getting an EF and a B, but settled for the B after ordering inks from the Goulets this AM, and discovered that even though they no longer seem to carry Pelikans, they still have the writing examples of the different widths on their "Nib Nook" page.

I'll have to be patient, though, because the pen is coming from Germany. There were a few cheaper ones on Ebay, but this one is coming from missing pen-de and I had read good things about Rolf Thiel in other threads.

It's actually a bit weird for me to be ordering a *new* pen for a change -- so much of the stash are now older models or vintage (the last "new" pen was the Pilot Metropolitan I got up in Boston after Christmas when I did a pilgrimage to the Bromfield Pen Shop; couldn't find anything at FPH pen-wise when I made my pilgrimage THERE, although I did come home with three bottles of ink, plus three more from Bromfield's). The M200 is only the third pen I've bought this year (the other two being the 50s era 400 with an OB nib, and a Parker 45 that turned out to have nib issues).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[sidthecat]

A Remington with a Waterman New York nib - like putting a golden bridle on a burro.

 

I have plans,...if it isn't completely rubbished.

[Alexcat]

ordered a dip pen of every possible size and flexibility i could find

my second 'antique' purchase ever

i had ordered a rusty nib, but that was out of stock so i got a free CLEAN nib(i think) and another free nib!

from my selection what i remember is the

-plume pygmee (extremely fine, extremely flexible)

-rose nib brause

-esterbrook j 0.9

-william mitchell witch pens (maybe my favorites)

-glass dip pen nib

-glass pen holder

-scroll nib

i cant wait for it all to arrive but i guess i'll just use speedball nibs and my music nib until then.

Sounds like a wonderful assortment! Love to see pictures when they arrive....

Alex

[gweimer1]

Aside from my usual projects and repairs to be, I indulged myself a little. I have a Columbus pen set that should be arriving soon.

[Aysedasi]

Red Monteverde Napa with stub nib.

 

Black Ebonite Gama Brahmaputra

[Hallel]

Waiting patiently for an Italix Parsons Essential in Italic Fine in Burgundy

And a Pilot CH 91 in Soft Fine

It's a combination of birthday present and weight loss reward.

 

Happy Birthday to Me!

[georgeb]

Garant Alkor with a fine nib

[Bookman]

I can hardly wait …

 

 

[R. N. Dominick]

My Lamy 2000 is back from it's fifth trip to Lamy USA since my car wreck six years ago. This time they replaced the piston. My advice: don't get into a car wreck with a fountain pen in your pocket.

 

While I was driving downtown to Appointments to pick up the pen, I got an e-mail saying Cole's of London had shipped my Visconti Van Gogh Pollard Willows back to me. I guess we'll soon see if the ink flow is any better than it was before.

 

I have an almost record number of pens out for repair, even with those two back to me: both of my Faber-Castell Ambitions (a Saffron and a Curry), a Waterman Taperite whose section isn't staying in the pen, an Eversharp Skyline with a tricky lever and a Parker Vacumatic with a problematic nib. And then there's the Conklin Duragraph, which I haven't gotten around to packaging up to send to Yafa just yet.

 

And, as always, waiting on my Pelikan Stresemann in EF... I've never tried so hard to spend that much money before.

[john74]

Treated myself to a Nakaya for my birthday. It will probably arrive next week. I went for the decapod twist, no clip, with a soft fine nib. I chose the Ao-Tamenuri finish because it spoke to me in photographs, but not having seen it in person I am a little bit worried about it. Fingers crossed.

[jvillan29]

Pilot CH92 smoke black M nib

[Bisquitlips]

Parker Norman Rockwell with all its trappings! Should be here Monday.

 

Edited April 4, 2015 by Bisquitlips

[acolythe]

Kaweco Sport in chocolate BB, 2 Pilot zmetropolitan M

and thanks to Massdrop: Pelikan M1000 F

[NinthSphere]

ASA Sniper brushed black with a 1.1.

[sidthecat]

A Waterman 52 1/2 v with a very fine New York nib: a lucky purchase from a vendor who knew a little less than I did about the things. Fred Krinke is cleaning it up for me.

[Oldtimer]

A Waterman 52 1/2 v with a very fine New York nib: a lucky purchase from a vendor who knew a little less than I did about the things. Fred Krinke is cleaning it up for me.

 

Photos, please! Hummm!