What Was Your Last Impulsive Pen Acquisition?

[flaneur]

Looks like J Herbin Vert Pré to me, for what it's worth. Though as you know, it also says Diamine on the page & so I suspect you're right. Nevertheless, another option for those who like such colors. 

[AmandaW]

Wooo hooo, are we playing guess the ink? How about Sailor Waka-Uguisi.

[flaneur]

It could be ANYTHING? I mean with the lighting it could be just an older bottle of Diamine Oxblood or Bastate Blue.... WILL WE EVER KNOW?!?!?!?!

[NgunnawalJack]

16 hours ago, Bikerchick said:

Looks like Diamine Jade Green

Soooo correct!

 

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[flaneur]

Well I guess the fun is over, but now we know.

[essayfaire]

On 10/6/2021 at 5:10 PM, CXC said:

1. The A is short for "anfänger", the German word for "beginner".  So far I have only found this type of nib on German pens.  For ease of use it is a very sturdy nib, with a big round ball of tipping so that there is no sweet spot, writes readily off center and always same width, zero flexibility, and cheap.  Those features also suit this adult.

2. The nib looks very straight, so I think the left/right element is confined to the grip section.  I also believe that the "LH" designation implies the "A" designation as well.
 

Thank you for the clarification!  

[NgunnawalJack]

Dark green with black swirls Jinhao X450.

 

I loved the colour in the photos and it’s even nicer in real life.

[tde44x]

Ordered an Opus 88 Halo with a broad nib. Curse endlesspens and their hop drop sales!

[Bikerchick]

20 hours ago, NgunnawalJack said:

Soooo correct!

 

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

🙏

[Gloucesterman]

8 hours ago, NgunnawalJack said:

Dark green with black swirls Jinhao X450.

 

I loved the colour in the photos and it’s even nicer in real life.

 and value It still somewhat amazes me that the Jinhao 159/750/450 pens sold for under $5.00 (some many years ago) are still around and providing good service to the fountain pen community.

 

Perhaps another thread is due to extol, or at least, recognize the legacy nature of the older inexpensive pens that still provide dependable service and value.

 

I wonder too, if many of the older vintage 2nd, 3rd and 4th tier pens are still doing dependable, daily duty unheralded and unrecognized? We rarely hear of a "Keene", New Banker or even a Saltz Brothers pen ( except perhaps for the "Peter Pan") being recognized and favorably commented on.

 

Perhaps it's time to consider impulsive purchases of other natures?

[Peter_H]

On 9/8/2021 at 10:18 AM, ethernautrix said:

This reminds me of my multi-year odyssey with a Parker Duofold Centennial International which nib I'd exchanged for the needlepoint. Maybe the mistake was mine in believing a needlepoint meant a sewing needle and not the blunt point of a knitting needle, but as the ranking of it was below EF, I'd assumed I'd get what I'd now describe as at least a  Japanese-brand EF.

 

I don't remember how many times I sent the pen back (this was in the mid-90s). The last time I did, I sent a page of lines written with at least a half-dozen other pens with F nibs, all of which wrote much finer than the Parker needlepoint. The reply was that the pen would be sent to the Queen of England's Master of Fountain Pens and Nibs to manufacture the proper nib. Something like that. Memory's a funny thing.

 

When the pen returned, I had high hopes. The problem had been bumped up to the highest level of problem-solving. My pages showing the proper line widths must have finally gotten the message across.

 

Nope. Still wrote like a fuzzy medium, or, to be fair, fine-medium.

 

That’s why I won’t consider Parker pens.  Way back in 1972, as a callow youth about to go to University the following year, I had a Parker 61 and learned of the existence of needlepoints.  Since the factory F nib was still too broad for me, I had one fitted.  Even though I am in the UK and the pen was only going to Newhaven, this took an age.  Eventually it came back - almost broad! So, back and forth, back and forth…  I was a teenager and my stationer was getting pretty fed up with all this, so in the end I went off to University without it.  Never touched one since- the nearest I have come is my trusty Jinhao Centennial clone.

[Peter_H]

On 9/8/2021 at 10:18 AM, ethernautrix said:

(Double post)

 

Edited October 11, 2021 by Peter_H
Double post

[NgunnawalJack]

Burgundy Kaweco Sport

 

[gweimer1]

I decided to jump on this W.S. Hicks sterling silver fountain pen.....and then a cabinet to keep it in.

[JonSzanto]

3 hours ago, gweimer1 said:

I decided to jump on this W.S. Hicks sterling silver fountain pen.....and then a cabinet to keep it in.

 

Well, that is a stunning example of "go big or go home", though in this case it's "and go home"! Congrats, that's a handsome pen.

[JonSzanto]

This is in the "+cil" category...

 

I'm not a pencil collector so it was only on impulse that I saw the following scroll by. On impulse I put a snipe on it and eventually won. I figured it would pair with one of the red Duofold Jr. pens I've restored, and it was only after winning that I realized it was the same seller I purchased a Duofold Sr. fountain pen from about 2 weeks ago! Serendipity and synchronicity.

 

 

[BinaEliora]

I was looking for a Waterman‘s 94 in Moss Agate, and was prepared for a longer wait. But there it was. It has a rigid but very smooth fine nib. 

Photo: The pen on top is my gray marbled 94 with a flex nib. The pen at the bottom is my new Moss Agate. I just love the color, the pattern is almost three dimensional. Both pens are wonderful writers.

 

[Peter_H]

Burgundy Kaweco Sport

 

 

Nice ink colour - although it probably won’t knock Monboddo’s Hat off the top spot for me!

 

The pen is a nice colour, too!

[brokenclay]

An unrestored Majestic:

 

[maclink]

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