My White Pen Collection Is Slowly Coming Along...

[empliau]

I don't have any white pens, but one of the pens of my dreams is the Visconti Domus Aurea. Beautiful ivory color with (I think) scrimshaw. Scrumptious!

[Waltz For Zizi]

A little late to the party, but here's my white pens collection. I also try to collect white pens, but they need to be a little bit expensive, not any white pen. When you have a lot of nice expensive pens, I can't jusify wasting time writing with a cheap one. Life is too short. I want to use them while I can, not preserve them like mummies for the future archeologists.

Next on my list is the new Pelikan m605 transparent white, the white tortoise, Graf von faber castell intuition fluted ivory, and probably a white sailor.

[denbuh]

A little late to the party, but here's my white pens collection. I also try to collect white pens, but they need to be a little bit expensive, not any white pen. When you have a lot of nice expensive pens, I can't jusify wasting time writing with a cheap one. Life is too short. I want to use them while I can, not preserve them like mummies for the future archeologists.

Next on my list is the new Pelikan m605 transparent white, the white tortoise, Graf von faber castell intuition fluted ivory, and probably a white sailor.

You have a great collection of white pens! Since starting this thread, I have added two more white pens to my collection...the white Pilot Vanishing Point, and the Sailor white with pink gold Pro Gear. I really like the VP, and I do love the look of the PG, however, it comes with a M/F nib which is a bit smaller than what I usually go for, and it is a tad scratchy. I can deal with the size, but the scratch is bothering me. I really need to get some supplies so I can do a little smoothing. Once I do that, I am sure it will be a "love" pen too. Which white Sailor do you have your eye on?

[Waltz For Zizi]

You have a great collection of white pens! Since starting this thread, I have added two more white pens to my collection...the white Pilot Vanishing Point, and the Sailor white with pink gold Pro Gear. I really like the VP, and I do love the look of the PG, however, it comes with a M/F nib which is a bit smaller than what I usually go for, and it is a tad scratchy. I can deal with the size, but the scratch is bothering me. I really need to get some supplies so I can do a little smoothing. Once I do that, I am sure it will be a "love" pen too. Which white Sailor do you have your eye on?

I have my eye on the same sailor you just said you have have.

[Ed_Usinowicz]

Hello denbuh,

 

Could you please tell me what the bottom pen is in your original post? I think I see Pilot, but what model? I want one!

 

Thanks,

Ed

[Waltz For Zizi]

Hello denbuh,

 

Could you please tell me what the bottom pen is in your original post? I think I see Pilot, but what model? I want one!

 

Thanks,

Ed

Pilot metropolitan. Cheap, and although many like it, I don't recommend. The first one I got was dry and scratchy (M nib), and the second one wrote just the same. I got it just in case the first on was a dud, but apparently that's how they write. Edited November 4, 2017 by Waltz For Zizi

[denbuh]

Could you please tell me what the bottom pen is in your original post? I think I see Pilot, but what model? I want one!

 

Hi Ed!

 

Sure! Good eye! It's a Pilot Metropolitan in White Tiger. This was my very first fountain pen, and although I have many others now, I still keep it in my rotation. It is currently inked with Diamine Hope Pink. If you find that you like the Metropolitan, it comes in quite a few fun colors, along with 6 or so different black ones. It's a great pen, and I highly recommend it!! Mine is a medium nib (pretty fine for a med.), and my husband has a black one with a fine nib. We love them!!

[Ed_Usinowicz]

 

Hi Ed!

 

Sure! Good eye! It's a Pilot Metropolitan in White Tiger. This was my very first fountain pen, and although I have many others now, I still keep it in my rotation. It is currently inked with Diamine Hope Pink. If you find that you like the Metropolitan, it comes in quite a few fun colors, along with 6 or so different black ones. It's a great pen, and I highly recommend it!! Mine is a medium nib (pretty fine for a med.), and my husband has a black one with a fine nib. We love them!!

Thank you!

[Ed_Usinowicz]

Pilot metropolitan. Cheap, and although many like it, I don't recommend. The first one I got was dry and scratchy (M nib), and the second one wrote just the same. I got it just in case the first on was a dud, but apparently that's how they write.

 

 

I appreciate your honest input and of the other Pilots I have I too found them a bit scratchy. A couple of figure eights on mylar and a little flossing with brass shim may make the pen write the way I like. At $12 US how can I go wrong; besides I really like the way the pen looks.

Edited November 5, 2017 by Ed_Usinowicz

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

The Pilot White Tiger is so white, it doesn't show so well from the pictures online, thanks for sharing OP.

 

Also, I love color-coded collections.

[Waltz For Zizi]

My white tortoise just arrived in. A new friend for my pink one. It's so tiny and cute.

[sidthecat]

Some day you may need to get one of the vintage doctor’s or nurse’s pens. Waterman made one, and I think Wahl-Eversharp did as well.

[Runnin_Ute]

We are nothing if not enablers.

If you get into collecting something like Esterbrook J series. Then is it all colors (6; black, red, copper, green, blue, gray) of all types (at least 4; transitional, J, LJ, SJ) which would be 24 pens, or just a single color of each type which would be 4 pens. I chose ALL. One can go nuts in this collecting business.

Esties can get nuts.

 

My current collection of them is as follows:

red SJ

black LJ (Bell Systems)

blue transitional J (late transitional - regular jewel not toaster)

black, copper, green and gray J

 

To get all the regular J colors I need red and blue.

 

My white collection consists of my TWSBI Eco (1.1)

Edited November 21, 2017 by Runnin_Ute

[mitto]

If ivory comes under the definition of white, I have a Duofold Centennial in ivory, a few wgite German School pens and some white Sheaffer Lady pens.

[Waltz For Zizi]

Update on my almost white pens. The white tortoise is still uninked after two months. Waiting for the right moment.

[sidthecat]

I observe that there’s a post on the Waterman Forum regarding a Nurse’s Pen.

[Waltz For Zizi]

I observe that there’s a post on the Waterman Forum regarding a Nurse’s Pen.

I personally am not into vintage pens.