What Was Your Last Impulsive Pen Acquisition?

[Waltz For Zizi]

6 new Jinhao 82 in colors I didn't have

[ruby.monkey]

A handful of Platinum Preppy Wa and a bottle of Diamine Mulled Wine.

[ruby.monkey]

... oh, and a Montblanc 264 with a broad oblique nib. Almost forgot in the Preppy Wa excitement.

[B. Honeydew]

I picked up an amber Conklin Duragraph FP with a stub nub.  It is my first Conklin and first stub nib.  Now I need to decide what ink to load it up with.
 

😀 It’s all @lascosas fault for posting that it was on sale yesterday.  😀

 

 

 

[inkstainedruth]

Went to an estate sale earlier today, because there seemed to be a few pens in one of the listing photos.  Came home with four; all appear to have EF nibs, and all need repairs -- but for $3 apiece?  Sure!

1) Parker Deluxe Challenger (button filler, mottled red and black).

2) Windsor -- not a Senator Windsor -- this one is marked made in USA (lever filler, grey with seems to be a tarnished metal cap that has a HUGE cap band -- I'd say nearly an inch in length).

3) Eberhard Faber[?] (lever filler, black with a random design of rectangles, squares and diamonds in various colors).  Unfortunately I just noticed that there's a big split in the cap, stretching about an inch above the cap band.  

4) Elliott [a brand I've never heard of before (what *appears* to be a version of a plunger filler, mottled black and a sort of greenish gold).

 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

[Gloucesterman]

Filcao button filler sterling silver w/ medium stub nib. Looking forward to inking it up and writing with it today or tomorrow.

[jmccarty3]

Expecting a Bungubox Fujiyama Blue Realo (Sailor) on Friday.

[SLinkster]

I too snagged the Conklin Duragraph Amber Stub Nib that @lascosas posted about a couple of days ago.

 

And I can't call it impulsive since I've been trying to lay hands on one for a while: a vintage Pilot pocket pen with a posting nib. It's shipping from Japan and will hopefully be here before the Dallas Pen Show so I can have it professionally tuned if needful. 

[Surlyprof]

Although I was pretty overwhelmed at my first pen show (SF), I couldn't leave empty-handed.  Ben Walsh was kind enough to piece together one of his Gravitas delrin pocket pens with a titanium section and one of his titanium flex nibs.  This is a great sketching pen.  Light but not too light and front weighted.  The titanium flex nib is very smooth and fun to draw with.  I also picked up a fluorescent yellow Pelikan Twist for my wife.  She called me at the show and said if I found something under $50 that she could easily find in her bag then I should get it.  I'd post a photo but it's always with her.  She loves it.  I have to say that it is a surprisingly smooth writer for a $20 pen.  

 

[Penguincollector]

I have been really into Japanese short long pocket pens lately. I found a cute Morison and the seller gave me a deal, so by next week I should have it. 

[amberleadavis]

On 4/26/2023 at 9:08 AM, carola said:

And something new here, arrived today straight from London:

Conway Stewart 60L Red Herringbone from the 1950s with a stub nib.

 

That red herringbone pattern just screamed at me "You want me and you know it!"

Yes, I want you!. 

Red there is a beauty.

[USG]

On 8/30/2023 at 10:28 AM, carola said:

 

The nib is a dream. You start out with EF or F, depending on how much pressure you regularly use, and then, when you push it a little, the nib suddenly spreads out to lay down a 4 mm line (we used calipers to measure it). And with pushing it, I don´t mean pushing down like mad until the nib snaps, just very gently using a little bit more pressure than usual, that´s enough. It took a while for the ink flow to keep up on this because the pen was completely dry, but once the feed had accumulated enough ink, there was no railroading. The nib is smooth with just a tiny bit of feedback, no scratchiness at all.

 

It is a very slim little thingy, slimmer than I usually like my pens to be, but as the section doesn´t have a step and becomes continually wider, I can hold the pen surprisingly comfortably. Capped, the pen is a little bit longer than a Pelikan 400, uncapped it is a little bit shorter. It can be posted, which makes the pen almost 50 % longer but doesn´t change a lot balancewise as the cap (and the whole pen) is very lightweight - no inner cap, no clip, no bling. The only metal on the whole pen is the nib and the two 14 C golden bands on both sides of the inlay. No filling system (eyedropper), no nothing. It is the simplest pen I have ever seen.

 

While I was talking to the seller, I used the pen to doodle a bit and he ended up with a striped cat and a hairy devil on his paper. The devil resulted from me getting something that distinctly looked like a pair of horns when I was drawing two curves, one down and to the right and the other down and to the left with increasing pressure. I just had to fill the gap between them with a head. 😁 That pen is a lot of fun to play around with.

 

Hi Carola - thanks for the answer.  You have a very interesting pen.👍

Three more questions.... in normal writing, how much flex is there?  What does the feed look like?  How does the nib behavior vary between wet and dry inks?

[JayDubya]

I  finally bought an amber Custom 823 <M> (after years of procrastinating) and a bottle of Iroshizuku Yama Guri for it. Waiting for the shipment...

[carola]

On 9/3/2023 at 7:25 AM, USG said:

 

Hi Carola - thanks for the answer.  You have a very interesting pen.👍

Three more questions.... in normal writing, how much flex is there?  What does the feed look like?  How does the nib behavior vary between wet and dry inks?

 

The nib is so soft that there is quite a bit of flex in normal writing. The feed is completely flat on the underside, no fins. It is made from a red and black mottled material, probably ebonite, I have seen pens with very much the same looks.

 

I haven´t gotten around to playing with that pen a lot and it hasn´t seen any other ink than Pelikan 4001 Royal Blue. It is an eyedropper and I have absolutely no experience with filling those. Until I am getting better at it, I´ll stick with an ink I can remove easily from my hands and my desk with an ink eraser you get cheaply at shops selling school supplies.

[carola]

On 9/3/2023 at 4:47 AM, amberleadavis said:

Yes, I want you!. 

Red there is a beauty.

 

Thank you very much. I enjoy that pen a lot.

[USG]

On 9/2/2023 at 10:47 PM, amberleadavis said:

Yes, I want you!. 

 

Haha ALD-

 

Reminds me of a Beatles song:

"I want you
I want you so bad
It's driving me mad, it's driving me mad..."

 

2 hours ago, carola said:

 

The nib is so soft that there is quite a bit of flex in normal writing. The feed is completely flat on the underside, no fins. It is made from a red and black mottled material, probably ebonite, I have seen pens with very much the same looks.

 

I haven´t gotten around to playing with that pen a lot and it hasn´t seen any other ink than Pelikan 4001 Royal Blue. It is an eyedropper and I have absolutely no experience with filling those. Until I am getting better at it, I´ll stick with an ink I can remove easily from my hands and my desk with an ink eraser you get cheaply at shops selling school supplies.

 

Hey C-

 

Eyedropper

I've been eyedroppering everything lately.   Anything I can get a medicine eyedropper into.  I unscrew nibs on the Pelikans, and any other pen with a removable nib.  I Refill Pilot and Sailor cartridges because the opening is big enough for the eyedropper.  I've been in eyedropper heaven, but as of Today I have one fast rule.  NO EYEDROPPERING BEFORE COFFEE !

 

 

This morning I decided to change the ink on my Aurora Primavera.  That's a real PITA not only because it's a piston filler, but because it's very hard to flush out the ink chamber.  The problem is the entire section is hollow to accommodate the removable nib, which has a protrusion on the end that passes through a small opening at the bottom of the section, separating it from the ink chamber.  So there I was, CluelessMe not paying attention, picked up the freshly cleaned and dried pen, (sans nib) and eyedroppered in a fair amount of Edelstein Sapphire.  So far so good.  But as I screwed the nib back into place, I discovered that what I had inadvertently done was to fill the section with ink and had not gotten any ink into the ink chamber below it, so as I pressed down on the nib section, the ink overflowed out of the top of the pen....  quite a mess...  Luckily I was working over some paper towels but the ink was all over my hands..... Inky Monday.

 

 

I don't know how many other people do this but I use Windex to remove most of the ink that gets on my fingers or the plastic mat on my desk.  I just spray it into a paper towel and take it from there...  Today's job might have been OK for Windex but I didn't even try, I headed straight for the Amodex. 🤪

[cossar]

I impulsively bought this MB 144 since it was engraved with the month and year I was born! No affiliation with the companies however. I sent a lowball offer and the seller accepted it. It’s my first Montblanc pen. 
 

The Lamy 2000 and Danitrio Cumlaude were trades. The Lamy 2k is the first gold-nibbed pen I ever wrote with. 
 

I now have two gold-nibbed pens in the collection, and this budding hobbyist is quite happy. 

[carola]

20 hours ago, USG said:

 

Haha ALD-

 

Reminds me of a Beatles song:

"I want you
I want you so bad
It's driving me mad, it's driving me mad..."

 

 

Hey C-

 

Eyedropper

I've been eyedroppering everything lately.   Anything I can get a medicine eyedropper into.  I unscrew nibs on the Pelikans, and any other pen with a removable nib.  I Refill Pilot and Sailor cartridges because the opening is big enough for the eyedropper.  I've been in eyedropper heaven, but as of Today I have one fast rule.  NO EYEDROPPERING BEFORE COFFEE !

 

 

This morning I decided to change the ink on my Aurora Primavera.  That's a real PITA not only because it's a piston filler, but because it's very hard to flush out the ink chamber.  The problem is the entire section is hollow to accommodate the removable nib, which has a protrusion on the end that passes through a small opening at the bottom of the section, separating it from the ink chamber.  So there I was, CluelessMe not paying attention, picked up the freshly cleaned and dried pen, (sans nib) and eyedroppered in a fair amount of Edelstein Sapphire.  So far so good.  But as I screwed the nib back into place, I discovered that what I had inadvertently done was to fill the section with ink and had not gotten any ink into the ink chamber below it, so as I pressed down on the nib section, the ink overflowed out of the top of the pen....  quite a mess...  Luckily I was working over some paper towels but the ink was all over my hands..... Inky Monday.

 

 

I don't know how many other people do this but I use Windex to remove most of the ink that gets on my fingers or the plastic mat on my desk.  I just spray it into a paper towel and take it from there...  Today's job might have been OK for Windex but I didn't even try, I headed straight for the Amodex. 🤪

 

🤣🤣🤣

I have filled my pen with a syringe and a blunt needle but being elsewhere with my thoughts, I sat there at my desk, syringe in hand, needle pointing upward and without thinking I wanted to get the air out. Why? I have absolutely no idea, because it makes absolutely no sense when you are filling an eyedropper. But you can probably imagine the mess. And no, there were no paper towels lying around. I was really glad I had had enough sense to have used an erasable ink AND to have bought an eraser, or else I would have gone to a nice restaurant looking like a smurf that evening. 🙈

[ParramattaPaul]

1 hour ago, carola said:

 

🤣🤣🤣

I have filled my pen with a syringe and a blunt needle but being elsewhere with my thoughts, I sat there at my desk, syringe in hand, needle pointing upward and without thinking I wanted to get the air out. Why? I have absolutely no idea, because it makes absolutely no sense when you are filling an eyedropper. But you can probably imagine the mess. And no, there were no paper towels lying around. I was really glad I had had enough sense to have used an erasable ink AND to have bought an eraser, or else I would have gone to a nice restaurant looking like a smurf that evening. 🙈

I've done quite the same thing, but in my case it was by screwing up the plunger in a converter to get a pen to feed. 

[ruby.monkey]

A tortoiseshell Pelikan 400NN with OBB nib and matching 450 propelling pencil. This should do me for a while.