What Was Your Last Impulsive Pen Acquisition?

[SLinkster]

Ordered a Conklin Duragraph "Abalone Nights" with a stub, and a Benu Minima "Royal Purple" with a fine nib. Also ink I have wanted but kept not ordering.  The Conklin is a gift, the Benu is min, the ink will be shared. 

 

Thank you, Pen Chalet, for having a moving sale. Thank you, interwebs, for finding a coupon code that knocked off a few more bucks. Always great to feel like I'm saving money when I indulge my spending habit lol

[Misfit]

Thank you @SLinkster  I ordered two of the Abalone Nights with stub nibs. One will be for my brother’s birthday later this year. There was only one in stock. That’s ok, because if both are to be birthday pens, there are 6 months before one of them is needed. 
 

I found a coupon code too. 

[carola]

On 3/2/2024 at 12:03 PM, Misfit said:

Oh you make me want a train pen @Tashi_Tsering  is the medium Skyline a good one? 

 

I have a whole bunch of Eversharp Skylines. Most of them standard sized, but also some Demis and one Executive. The Executives are rare and expensive, the Demis are VERY small, even for me and I have small hands. The standard sized Skylines are pretty convenient, very light-weight and some of them are among my best writers.

 

You never know what you get when you are buying them. I have bought "fully serviced" ones that wouldn´t write at all and needed a trip to my repair guy, who had a good laugh on seeing what had been done to the pen. The good news: They can be repaired fairly easily if you have got someone who knows what to do (or if you can do it yourself).

 

What I also do like about them, is that you can find finishes, no matter what your preferences are. You like solid coloured pens without a lot of bling and in colours that don´t cry "look at me"? Yes, no problem. Or subdued colours but quite a bit of shiny gold? There you go. You want a brightly coloured pen with pretty stripes that immediately jumps out on you, with small golden accents or just a bit more? Here you are. Or do you want a golden pen, either gold filled or 14K solid gold? Skylines have everything ready for you. 😄 And contrary to what some sellers want to make you think, there are plenty of them around and readily available, you even find some nice bargains now and again. If the specific colour or finish you want to have is nowhere to be found at the moment, you usually just have to wait and it will come around. Also no need to grab a model in obviously bad condition, a nicer looking one will come your way.

 

Long story short, apart from my Pelikans, the Eversharp Skyline is one of my favourite pens. And if you want to read a bit about them, here you go:

http://www.richardspens.com/ref/profiles/skyline.htm

[Misfit]

Thank you so much @carola  Everything you wrote is very helpful. One I’m watching on eBay has an opening bid of $85. Is that a good price?  It’s a striped cap, burgundy color, looks good in the photos, and a known seller. 

[DilettanteG]

On 2/29/2024 at 11:16 PM, Misfit said:

I like the two tone Cafe Creme. I’ve wished Pelikan would come up with another two tone version. If they chose the colors as well as they did with the Cafe Creme, I bet it would sell. 

You probably already know this, but I think they are a couple pre 1997 M200s with contrasting caps. One is green and black and there is an even more elusive one in burgundy and black. 
 

I inherited an old style M200 with a leaky barrel. I may end up replacing that with an aftermarket bind in some exotic color, if I can find one.

[tomb]

Montblanc Elvis

[Runnin_Ute]

1 hour ago, DilettanteG said:

You probably already know this, but I think they are a couple pre 1997 M200s with contrasting caps. One is green and black and there is an even more elusive one in burgundy and black. 
 

I inherited an old style M200 with a leaky barrel. I may end up replacing that with an aftermarket bind in some exotic color, if I can find one.

The M150 also comes as a green/black combination. It and its sibling the M100 are a bit smaller than the M20x pens, but every bit as nice. I have a all black M100 (chrome trim), and a green barrel/black cap M150 (M150 has gold trim). I am not certain if the M100 is also available as green/black, but I don't believe it is. 

[inkstainedruth]

Pilot Plumix (yeah, I know  -- but it was swag from the talk at B/W yesterday on the history of Pilot Vanishing Points, and everyone attending got their choice between a Plumix and a box of Pilot cartridges; so, free... ).  Of course now I've got to find out which style converter (if any) fits a Plumix....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Misfit]

@inkstainedruth no need to justify a Plumix, especially if it had a CM nib. 

[inkstainedruth]

Thanks.  The nib is marked as being an M, but it really does look like an italic or stub nib, especially when looked at from underneath.  I don't know much about that particular Pilot line of pens, so don't know what the range on nib widths for them are; the cartridge included seems to be blue (so guessing probably Namiki Blue).  Plus, I just got home from the B/W show about an hour and a half ago, and had to get stuff unloaded from the car -- including figuring out what I'd done with the TV remote, which decided to hitch a ride to Baltimore with me , and had to update my inventory notes and the file of what pens are inked up (and with which inks) because I got three pens repaired over the weekend (a fourth one -- the blue Snorkel I picked up at an antiques place in WV on the way out, had to go home with a repair person because apparently it was in worse shape than either of us realized; but at least it wasn't like the previous blue Snorkel I'd bought, which some prior owner had tried to turn into a c/c pen... ).  

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Misfit]

I won the auction for the Eversharp Skyline. I bid with 45 seconds to go. A bid came in at 5 seconds. With tax it’s under $100. 

[Misfit]

18 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

I don't know much about that particular Pilot line of pens, so don't know what the range on nib widths for them are

The CM nib is 0.58mm.  I got a set of Pilot Plumix pens from CF to CB. That’s where I learned the nib widths.  Oh, and I think the Plumix takes the same converters as a Metropolitan, Prera, etc. 

[inkstainedruth]

So are all the Plumix nibs "C" nibs?  (I didn't think to ask the people at the Pilot table this weekend), because there was so much going on, and barely even looked at the pen before now -- and almost no retailers that I could find online even listed them as being part of their lineup of Pilot pens.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Misfit]

I wouldn’t swear to it, but a lot of them have the CM nib. I like that they are a low priced way to get that nib. Plus the cap looks a bit like a cartoon rocket ship. 
 

edit: I looked for the Plumix online.  It seems like it is not showing up much. Two reviews mentioned the italic nib, and the nib had <M> on it. That makes me think yours is the Calligraphy nib. Plus from your own inspection, you saw that.  If you like the nib, they are friction fit, and swap easily into other Pilot pens (Prera, Kakuno, Explorer, Metropolitan etc.  I’d say the lower priced Pilot pens).

[inkstainedruth]

Hah!  You're right about the cap!  Hadn't really looked at the pen all that closely, between everything I was dealing with yesterday, and then having to pack up and check out of my hotel, then drive back over to the show in hopes of there actually being parking this morning without having to park a block away and on the opposite side of a 4 lane road... ).  Then of course having a roughly 5-1/2 hour drive home from the show, then unpacking, dealing with some mail, and getting my laptop plugged back in so I could catch up with a bunch of email (including a mailing list I'm on for the other hobby sort of blowing up at the moment).

Tomorrow I get to run errands and do all the laundry that normally would have been done today; thought I might get at least one load done tonight, but just didn't have the energy, since I got home after dark.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Karmachanic]

11 hours ago, DilettanteG said:

I may end up replacing that with an aftermarket bind in some exotic color

 

There's an M200 with a binde? I thought they are/were coloured plast-eek.(Binde is German word that describes the colored/patterned sleeve that is fitted around the outside of the barrel.)

[DilettanteG]

10 minutes ago, Karmachanic said:

 

There's an M200 with a binde? I thought they are/were coloured plast-eek.(Binde is German word that describes the colored/patterned sleeve that is fitted around the outside of the barrel.)

It’s entirely possible i’m using the word incorrectly.

[A Smug Dill]

What have I done? 😵

 

11 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

almost no retailers that I could find online even listed them as being part of their lineup of Pilot pens.

 

I think (production of) the Plumix and Pluminix models has been discontinued, for quite some time now.

[N1003U]

1 hour ago, A Smug Dill said:

What have I done? 😵

 

 

I think (production of) the Plumix and Pluminix models has been discontinued, for quite some time now.

Very nice-looking pens, especially if one is a Star Wars fan…😃

[A Smug Dill]

34 minutes ago, N1003U said:

Very nice-looking pens

 

That's just the front and rear of one pen, the #1 (“Opening”) model in the LE collection.

 

It'll join these: