What Was Your Last Impulsive Pen Acquisition?

[amberleadavis]

On 3/15/2023 at 1:24 PM, senzen said:

There I was at peace with the world, enjoying all my inks and pens, particularly the bunch I got last year when... A slightly beat up Platinum President turns up on the big bazaar style site at 50-75% discount... Weeeeell it's the one big Japanese company I haven't tied so why not? It's not like you're buying more pens...

 

Two days later, Omas Milord at a spectacular price. I just closed my eyes as I hit the buy button, I don't even know the nib size.

 

Congrats!

 

On 3/15/2023 at 3:19 PM, 51ISH said:

Majohn C1  (Moonman C1?)

 

You guys are such 'enablers' ...😁

 

Should be here by the end of the month

 

That's what we do.

 

On 3/15/2023 at 3:42 PM, Mercian said:

I will therefore now, once again, be going back to repeating to myself the phrase “I do not need to buy a Toledo!” 😁

 

No no, you need to instead chant, I will only buy a Toledo when I find one at the right price.  (See message above about enabling)

 

On 3/15/2023 at 5:08 PM, gweimer1 said:

 

Mine will be on the table at the Arkansas Pen Show.....heh heh heh...after that........

 

Oh, just to really put perspective on my impulses, I'm currently waiting on three Nakaya pens.

 

Oh wow!

 

On 3/15/2023 at 9:04 PM, JonSzanto said:

 

At some point you ought to be honest with yourself, and admit that it is no longer impulse, but habitual behavior. 🙃

 

 

Tomato Tomato

This habit is still a lot cheaper than others.

[essayfaire]

9 minutes ago, amberleadavis said:

 

I think you should save up for something really special.

Seconded.

[senzen]

23 minutes ago, amberleadavis said:

 

Congrats!

 

 

 

Thank you! Hopefully it won't take as long to get to me.

[Misfit]

I ordered three pens on AliExpress because someone on Reddit shared a link to #5 size 1.1mm stub nibs. So the Jinhao 82 pens will have 1.1mm nibs. I got a pen that didn’t have a name except Metal 83. It’s pink with I suppose cherry blossoms.  It will get a 1.1mm nib also if it fits. 

[PithyProlix]

I just jumped on a 1986 Pilot Grandee F in red urushi faster than a cat on a mouse (or I could think, "Do I really need this pen?").

 

I guess that counts as impulsive.

[ruby.monkey]

A Burnham 46 with glass nib. Finally I'll have a classic glass-nib fountain pen with which to play.

[amberleadavis]

13 hours ago, PithyProlix said:

I just jumped on a 1986 Pilot Grandee F in red urushi faster than a cat on a mouse (or I could think, "Do I really need this pen?").

 

I guess that counts as impulsive.

 

You reminded me of the modified child's nursery rhyme, Three Mice Ran Up the Clock, the clock struck one, .... the other two escaped with minor injuries.

[Gloucesterman]

28 minutes ago, amberleadavis said:

 

You reminded me of the modified child's nursery rhyme, Three Mice Ran Up the Clock, the clock struck one, .... the other two escaped with minor injuries.

That kind of humor ticks me off, but we can talk/tok about it, if you have the chime, I mean time.

 

[amberleadavis]

37 minutes ago, Gloucesterman said:

That kind of humor ticks me off, but we can talk/tok about it, if you have the chime, I mean time.

 

 

LOL

 

So I did a crazy thing today.  It is sort of like impulsively acquiring a pen. I asked my son to pick a pen out of my collection and I would use it.  He found one that I hadn't used in a few years - a TWSBI.  It's like getting a brand new pen but with a custom nib just like I prefer.

[inkstainedruth]

2 hours ago, amberleadavis said:

 

You reminded me of the modified child's nursery rhyme, Three Mice Ran Up the Clock, the clock struck one, .... the other two escaped with minor injuries.

I needed a good laugh after spending 3+ hours trying to find an estate sale without having my phone on me  -- including trying to get directions at two gas station mini-marts, a mailman making a delivery, and one of the proprietors of an antique store, and driving back and forth on two different roads, where not only was the main roads not labeled, but half the side streets weren't either... (should have only taken an hour to get to the place).  And then after all that?  The only things worth buying were a couple of paperback books on 16th C. Elizabethan literature.  

Yes, there was a pen -- an Estie J series pen -- but not a nib I was particularly interested in at the price they were asking....  Although I did have an interesting conversation with one of the estate sale company people about music.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[51ISH]

13 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

I needed a good laugh after spending 3+ hours trying to find an estate sale without having my phone on me  -- including trying to get directions at two gas station mini-marts, a mailman making a delivery, and one of the proprietors of an antique store, and driving back and forth on two different roads, where not only was the main roads not labeled, but half the side streets weren't either... (should have only taken an hour to get to the place).  And then after all that?  The only things worth buying were a couple of paperback books on 16th C. Elizabethan literature.  

Yes, there was a pen -- an Estie J series pen -- but not a nib I was particularly interested in at the price they were asking....  Although I did have an interesting conversation with one of the estate sale company people about music.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

I'd recommend a 'used' Garmin satnav (I paid £70 for mine of ebay) a few years ago it was top of the range...mine has the UK and Western Europe maps. It's taken me all over the UK and Spain without a hitch. At that price you can leave it in the glove box with it's power lead for when you need it. (I've also used it on a motorcycle) Mine includes speed cameras and traffic information.  Of course, sometimes it's nice, just to get 'lost'

[essayfaire]

23 hours ago, amberleadavis said:

This habit is still a lot cheaper than others.

I must remember to tell my family that.

 

4 hours ago, ruby.monkey said:

A Burnham 46 with glass nib. Finally I'll have a classic glass-nib fountain pen with which to play.

This is exciting!  I have yet to buy a glass nib, but they are intriguing.

 

2 hours ago, amberleadavis said:

I asked my son to pick a pen out of my collection

Who got to choose the ink?

[gweimer1]

4 hours ago, amberleadavis said:

 

You reminded me of the modified child's nursery rhyme, Three Mice Ran Up the Clock, the clock struck one, .... the other two escaped with minor injuries.

 

Lawyer humor.  😁

[inkstainedruth]

1 hour ago, 51ISH said:

 

I'd recommend a 'used' Garmin satnav (I paid £70 for mine of ebay) a few years ago it was top of the range...mine has the UK and Western Europe maps. It's taken me all over the UK and Spain without a hitch. At that price you can leave it in the glove box with it's power lead for when you need it. (I've also used it on a motorcycle) Mine includes speed cameras and traffic information.  Of course, sometimes it's nice, just to get 'lost'

I don't mind getting "lost" -- I often get into to the mood of "Let's see where this road goes".  What I DO mind is driving up and down the same length of road repeatedly (the way I did this morning) because the signage is so lousy (I'm used to roads out in the "boonies" where the main road isn't marked as such -- but NOT where the side roads aren't marked either...).  

Normally -- had I not forgotten my phone -- I would have have used WAZE, which also gives information like where cops and speed cameras and where vehicles are broken down along the sides of roads -- although it does have a habit of telling you about railroad crossings WAY before you get to them (I CAN read/recognize railroad crossing signs).  And also seems to have developed a case of dyslexia: telling me that my "destination" is on the left when it's on the right, and vice versa).  And, like its parent company Google, persists in want to take me around the block to the traffic light instead of up my street to the t-intersection which is shorter and often (depending on traffic) FASTER -- especially if I'm going to be turning left onto the main road through town and then going towards Pittsburgh; it also wants to take me down a road in the next block from that intersection that now has speed humps on it....   I also have the problem of not being able to turn the volume up enough to hear it when I'm in the car alone (PLUS it complains about me "looking" at it instead of at the road -- yet doesn't understand why I'm not paying attention to the ads which block half the map...).

We used to have a Tom-Tom (a Christmas present from my brother) but I wasn't overly impressed by it -- it had a nasty habit of taking me off the highway at *every* rest area on the drive home from DC the first year a friend of mine and I went to DCSS (a number of years ago, back at the old site).  Which is ironic, because my brother had a Garmin at the time -- but got us the OTHER brand instead (and it took HIM down the "shorter" route from eastern NJ to my house -- which got him stuck in rush hour traffic just across the county line -- and NOT the FASTER (mostly all highway route, except for the last couple of miles) that I had given him -- I didn't even take him down the way that cut the corner because it was a much smaller road.  But nope -- the idiot believed the tech and NOT the person who'd been making the trip between Pittsburgh and the greater NYC area for years.... And drove south from I-80 through Altoona, to US 22 (a much smaller road, where the traffic lights used to be VERY poorly timed through Murrysville, where he called me from...).   Sigh....  Plus the Tom-Tom website routinely crashed my computer -- because Heaven forfend it talk to non-Microsoft systems.... 🤬

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

[PithyProlix]

18 hours ago, PithyProlix said:

I just jumped on a 1986 Pilot Grandee F in red urushi faster than a cat on a mouse (or I could think, "Do I really need this pen?").

 

I guess that counts as impulsive.

 

5 hours ago, amberleadavis said:

 

You reminded me of the modified child's nursery rhyme, Three Mice Ran Up the Clock, the clock struck one, .... the other two escaped with minor injuries.

 

Oh, man, I am with you on the last line but you cannot whatsoever skip the Hickory Dickory Dock part. I think there might be some law about that. 

 

I am certainly not anything like an authority on vintage Japanese pens but, discounting the many maki-e designs, I thought I had seen almost everything Pilot/Namiki - I didn't know this model existed until I saw that one of my friends was selling it yesterday. The price was low. It pretty much nails my pen design aesthetic (though I could do without the "Grandee" clip logo) and, being a mid-high-ish level Pilot, it promises to be a great writer and it's in my preferred nib width, so I am particularly excited about it.

 

In other words, "Pounce!!!"

 

These (hotlinked) photos are not my mine, of course, nor is it my pen, but it's the same model. 

[amberleadavis]

1 hour ago, essayfaire said:

I must remember to tell my family that.

Who got to choose the ink?

 

My son has a Lego habit that is more expensive because he is my care giver.

I haven't inked yet.  I'm thinking a new to me ink from my Inkvent calendar.

[PithyProlix]

5 hours ago, Gloucesterman said:

That kind of humor ticks me off, but we can talk/tok about it, if you have the chime, I mean time.

 

Your tactlessness is alarming! You deserve a good clocking. 

[amberleadavis]

1 minute ago, PithyProlix said:

 

Your tactlessness is alarming! You deserve a good clocking. 

 

Hickory Dickory Clock.

[PithyProlix]

28 minutes ago, amberleadavis said:

Hickory Dickory Clock.

 

Ok - this is getting way too cuckoo

 

[clock] 

[ParramattaPaul]

2 hours ago, PithyProlix said:

 

Ok - this is getting way too cuckoo

 

[clock] 

I'm a grandfather.  Perhaps I should chime in before it's too late.