Don't Just Tell Us About The Pen You're Using, *show* Us! - 2015

[mehandiratta]

 

And nice handwriting, too.

Thank you....could have been better if i would have written with more patience...

[usk15]

Yesterday evening I played arround with a pencil and a white pastel pencil doing some exercise to show liquid,reflection,light.

 

 

(Faber Castell - Castell 9000 - HB)

(Stabilo - Carbothello - white)

 

 

IMPRESIVE!

[carretera18]

It's a 3 Silver Sheaffer Stub Day ...

All three are stubs and all three are silver in color (one is stainless steel) Sorry that I don't have a close up of the solid one, but I will take more photos soon.

 

18kB, steel M, 18kBB

 

Gorgeous set! Lovely nibs!!

 

[carretera18]

Yesterday evening I played arround with a pencil and a white pastel pencil doing some exercise to show liquid,reflection,light.

 

(Faber Castell - Castell 9000 - HB)

(Stabilo - Carbothello - white)

 

Amazing water effect!!

 

[Thier.]

 

I am using Wality 71 JT..

Fitted with Ambitious #6 (35 mm nib)

 

 

What a look !!!!! The more I see those indian pens, the more I like it .....

[Houston]

[claudewick]

Today I received my Sheaffer PFM V with a fine nib, bought from Penamie. What a lovely pen! Exactly what I was waiting for. Definitely a daily writer.

 

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[amberleadavis]

 

It matches mine!!! I think yours is writing a little dry though, mine is (possibly) too wet.

[jmccarty3]

Today I received my Sheaffer PFM V with a fine nib, bought from Penamie. What a lovely pen! Exactly what I was waiting for. Definitely a daily writer.

 

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A beautiful example of a very hard-to-find pen!

[SNAK]

Quite a few Sheaffer pens on show, very nice! This is my contribution for the day.

 

 

 

 

 

The green portholes are ink window at the back end of the pen.

Pen: Pelikan P1 with OBB nib (c.1958-63)

Ink: Diamine Apple Glory and Private Reserve Spearmint mixture (plus a bit of surfactant)

Paper: Tomoe River (White)

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The green portholes are ink window at the back end of the pen.

Pen: Pelikan P1 with OBB nib (c.1958-63)

Oh, that nib is gorgeous! The pen too, I would say after my Parker 51 awakening.

[cybaea]

 

According to a handy-dandy inflation calculator I just found, $10 in 1962 was worth a little over $78 in 2014, if you figure inflation using the Consumer Price Index. Of course, some things have gone up more. The $75 list price I paid for a Montblanc 149 in 1967 is now $935.

 

I make that 5.40% annual inflation for Montblanc versus 4.03% for CPI. Gold went from $35 in 1967 to $1,451 in 2013 (source) which makes for 8.43% CAGR if my math is right. So if about 30% of the price of a pen is the gold nib and increases in cost with the raw material and the rest of the pen increases in cost with the CPI, then Montblanc is spot-on with the price?

(Of course the gold nib would not have been a constant fraction of the overall costs but we leave developing a more realistic model as an exercise for the reader.)

[grainweevil]

Yesterday evening I played arround with a pencil and a white pastel pencil doing some exercise to show liquid,reflection,light.

 

 

(Faber Castell - Castell 9000 - HB)

(Stabilo - Carbothello - white)

 

I'll have a bet on the drop on the right reaching the bottom first... Amazing stuff, Ptero.

 

Today a pre-loved Worcester Pen Co which is probably an "Orion", but I don't, alas, know what the acrylic colour is called. Nib ground by Oxonian, according to the seller. Long pen, but I like it muchly except for one glaring problem; I keep stopping to gaze into its acrylic depths.

 

 

 

Either I can get the ink, of I can get the pen. Both, so far, escapes me. Sigh.

[claudewick]

 

A beautiful example of a very hard-to-find pen!

Indeed. I spent months searching for a burgundy V. I guess the grey ones are even more difficult to find.

[ricecracker]

My utility set up for work: large Moleskine, Pilot Prera M nib, Noodler's Bulletproof Black.

 

You can see some serious bleed through which was my test with a Lamy Safari and Iroshizuku Shin-Kai which is a combo that does not work here.

 

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[Houston]

[Feathers]

 

I'll have a bet on the drop on the right reaching the bottom first... Amazing stuff, Ptero.

 

Today a pre-loved Worcester Pen Co which is probably an "Orion", but I don't, alas, know what the acrylic colour is called. Nib ground by Oxonian, according to the seller. Long pen, but I like it muchly except for one glaring problem; I keep stopping to gaze into its acrylic depths.

 

 

 

Either I can get the ink, of I can get the pen. Both, so far, escapes me. Sigh.

Such lovely acrylic! I'm the same with those deep resins. I cannot help but keep staring into them, delighting at a flash of shimmer at every turn. The colours are gorgeous in this one. So Autumnal

[mehandiratta]

 

What a look !!!!! The more I see those indian pens, the more I like it .....

yes they are worth every penny..

[Frank C]

 

This isn't on FPN, but here's a guide I find helpful:

 

​http://www.shopify.com/blog/12206313-the-ultimate-diy-guide-to-beautiful-product-photography

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