What Was Your Last Impulsive Pen Acquisition?

[Particular_Song3539]

Because I couldn't sleep at 3am, so I browsed over Rakuten marathon and found a under 4000yen Sailor Shimoyo. 
I am usually not a Sailor person but I want a pen of that color badly ! 
Also picked up a bottle of Teranishi Open Rose ink for around 1000yen.
Now need to find a matchy ink for that Shimoyo. 
Finding an ink has the right balance btw Teal and turquoise is reallly difficult !!

[A Smug Dill]

10 minutes ago, Particular_Song3539 said:

Now need to find a matchy ink for that Shimoyo. 

 

Sailor Shikiori Shimoyo ink?

[Particular_Song3539]

@A Smug Dill Shimoyo ink is a bit too dark for my taste. I am looking for something like these. 
Probably Iroshizuku Ka-jaku

[Armo]

Diamine turquoise is pretty close.

[Particular_Song3539]

43 minutes ago, Armo said:

Diamine turquoise

 

Thank you ! I will see if I can grab one

[PithyProlix]

10 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

  Thanks!  The Lucky Lab is a fun place to hold our meetings.  I walk up to Tabor pretty often, I used to run there until pretty recently. They’re going to fill the reservoirs back up, apparently. I hope they restart the fountain, too. Portland is a bit busier and a little more crowded than it was, but it’s still fantastic. 

 

I lived in Seattle and went to Portland about 20 times or so. I agree - it is fantastic and Mount Tabor Park is a jewel.

 

10 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

 Oh, my impulse buys were a Pilot Lizard in F, a Sheaffer slim Targa in M, and not really an impulse as I had seen it before and liked it, a 1928 jade Parker Duofold Lady ring top in F. 

 

Is the Pilot Lizard the Metropolitan version or the vintage one that was wrapped in lizard skin (or something else ...)?

[Penguincollector]

  It’s the ‘70s model, a thin brown leather pen with a fingernail shaped nib and a matching pouch. Also, having made the same trip in the reverse, I am picturing two cars passing each other on I5 crossing the Columbia. I often sit on a bench located on the west side of Mt. Tabor with my journal to look at the city and contemplate life.

 

1 hour ago, PithyProlix said:

 

I lived in Seattle and went to Portland about 20 times or so. I agree - it is fantastic and Mount Tabor Park is a jewel.

 

 

Is the Pilot Lizard the Metropolitan version or the vintage one that was wrapped in lizard skin (or something else ...

[Penguincollector]

11 hours ago, Particular_Song3539 said:

@A Smug Dill Shimoyo ink is a bit too dark for my taste. I am looking for something like these. 
Probably Iroshizuku Ka-jaku

  I inputted the hex code over at inkswatch, here are the results:

[OldTravelingShoe]

On 11/20/2023 at 7:01 AM, PithyProlix said:

2 days, 4 pens, 3 continents:

• Pilot Super 250 (Elite series), Signature nib
• Sailor Hoscal F in red/black spiral finish 
• [...] 

Alas, I was previously doing a pretty good job decreasing the size of my collection... 

 

Very nice! Would you mind sharing a photo or two, especially of the Hoscal and the Signature nib? Thank you! 

[OldTravelingShoe]

With the Black Friday offering all sorts of (perverse?) incentives, I fell agin through the rabbit hole and acquired a pen I wanted for some time:

 

The Pilot ArtCraft Silvern Fuyu-kodachi (Winter grove)

 

It's the pen I like the most out of the ArtCraft lineup, and the Fuyu-kodachi pattern is the one I like most of the original (1969) Silvern lineup. My pen is made in the 1970s, but was NOS and for what I thought is a good price. Without further ado, Figures 1 and 2 depict the new (vintage) pen. 

 

Figure 1. The pen, capped. 

 

Figure 2. The nib shines. 

 

Enjoy and thanks all for sharing your recent pen acquisitions. 

[Surlyprof]

2 hours ago, OldTravelingShoe said:

 

Figure 1. The pen, capped. 

 

Figure 2. The nib shines. 

 

Enjoy and thanks all for sharing your recent pen acquisitions

Wow!  That’s beautiful.  I had no idea that existed.  Thanks for sharing.

 

Black Friday sales got me, too…

[SLinkster]

I impulsively ordered the Jinhao 9019 in "Lake Blue". Again, can't have too much blue - ink, eye shadow, pens, yarn, indigo vats.

 

I accidentally won a couple more auctions, too. Waiting to see what's in the packages since the photos and descriptions were all a little vague. I'm sure all the pens will require cleaning.

[Paul-in-SF]

2 hours ago, OldTravelingShoe said:

The Pilot ArtCraft Silvern Fuyu-kodachi (Winter grove)

 

That is the most attractive of those Silvern pens I have seen. I like it even better than the more abstract design that I bought (Tsumugi), which is still being made. 

[Shinyblue]

As I only buy vintage pens - my recent splurge is a black Parker VP for about £30/$38 on an auction site

[Gloucesterman]

36 minutes ago, Shinyblue said:

As I only buy vintage pens - my recent splurge is a black Parker VP for about £30/$38 on an auction site

First of all, welcome to FPN.

Take a moment  and tell us a bit more of your pen focus.

Are you only interested in the vintage Parker brand?

If so, have you discovered the brand focused section of this site?

 

[PithyProlix]

5 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

It’s the ‘70s model, a thin brown leather pen with a fingernail shaped nib and a matching pouch.

 

I have one too but I did not know about the pouch! Could I trouble you for a photo please? 

[A Smug Dill]

5 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

I inputted the hex code over at inkswatch, here are the results:

 

Wow, that is glorious! Except for Diamine Marine, I have none of the listed inks, in spite of having well over 500 different inks in my ‘collection’. 😅

[Particular_Song3539]

wow thank you so much for your help @Penguincollector 🙏 <m(__)m>
I probably will get either Sailor 141 or Iroshizuku Kajaku. Arigatou !

 

@OldTravelingShoe 
BIG congrats ! 
That is the pen I have been eyeing for a while. I think in the past year it appeared in Kingdom note for twice.
But twice I didn't have the budget for it.  
There was one available in Tokyo Pen show but the condition was far from desirable.
I too, really admire the Fuyu-kodachi way more than other design like the Kiku. 
Congrats, I am happy for you !

[Penguincollector]

2 hours ago, PithyProlix said:

 

I have one too but I did not know about the pouch! Could I trouble you for a photo please? 

  So now that I’m looking at it in the light, it’s not a match, but they seem to be from around the same time. Here’s a picture, I don’t know much about Pilot history, but it’s a cool pouch. It has the Pilot logo embossed on the loop.

[Penguincollector]

1 hour ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

Wow, that is glorious! Except for Diamine Marine, I have none of the listed inks, in spite of having well over 500 different inks in my ‘collection’. 😅

  Wow, I am so surprised by this. Are you planning on adding these to said collection? This is my favorite color group for inks, but I definitely don’t have all of them.