What Was Your Last Impulsive Pen Acquisition?

[AmandaW]

A black  & gold Kaweco x Moleskine F with a matching converter. Really just a dressed up Perkeo, but I like those for comfort and sealing and I've been enjoying the blue one* so much it was hard to resist in the black in the Milligram Black Friday sale which began today.

 

*especially since removing the 'Kaweco x Moleskine' print which made it look... meh.

[USG]

On 10/21/2024 at 12:59 AM, Penguincollector said:

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What color?

[Penguincollector]

2 hours ago, USG said:

What color?

  I don’t remember what the emoji was in reference to. 

[ruby.monkey]

Delta Windows limited edition, the Winter variant. Hopefully it arrives today to cheer me up about catching yet another winter illness.

[avlisyar]

Ordered and received an Asvine V126 Vac Filler in a Blue Swirl. Surprised me as

the fit and finish is quite good and the nib is surprisingly smooth and wet.

[Misfit]

I rejoined Reddit because it’s really the only place I’m willing to join to see Travelers Notebooks and comments. Someone had their Pilot Metropolitan gray Houndstooth pen laying on their TN. I did not start the day wanting a Pilot Metro pen. I have 5 that I don’t use much. But Jet Pens sold  it with the CM nib at the same price as those with F and M nibs. 
 

(Read this part fast) What could I do? Add more items to get to free shipping, then use PayPal to redeem $10.95 cashback money to help pay. 
 

(Back to normal speed) I got the fountain pen, a Zebra Midliner in mild lavender, a Life A6 Vermillion notebook, some Neox lead for the Pentel Twist-Erase mechanical pencils I found on my Dad’s desk, and a Sakura eraser. The Life Vermilion notebook will join the Life A6 Pistachio notebook I already have. 
 

I’ve been using my Dad’s mechanical pencils, and wearing my Mom’s jewelry to feel close to them as I miss them so much. 

[Mercian]

11 hours ago, Misfit said:

I’ve been using my Dad’s mechanical pencils, and wearing my Mom’s jewelry to feel close to them as I miss them so much. 

 

An excellent use of heirlooms

[Penguincollector]

  My heart goes out to you, @Misfit. It’s hard this time of year.

[Gloucesterman]

1920s/30s, Salz Brothers Red/Orange Flat top w/ Eversharp semi-flex nib.

[Misfit]

49 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

  My heart goes out to you, @Misfit. It’s hard this time of year.

Im sure the same goes for you, so my heart goes out to you too. It will be my first Christmas alone. I was going to say Thanksgiving, but there was one I was alone when I was at college. 

[Penguincollector]

6 hours ago, Misfit said:

Im sure the same goes for you, so my heart goes out to you too. It will be my first Christmas alone. I was going to say Thanksgiving, but there was one I was alone when I was at college. 

 Hugs to you, my friend.

[Misfit]

49 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

 Hugs to you, my friend.

Hugs back to you too my friend. 
 

I’m looking forward to the pen delivery. I expect it will be next week though.  

[gweimer1]

Nakaya Neostandard - "Human Peace"

[wikeh2004]

Just picked up another Pilot Prera Iro-Ai in blue with the CM nib. I love that nib because it feels like a medium stub. Great little writer and it came with a converter and a cartridge for a very reasonable price.

 

I also stopped by the Itoya store in Haneda Airport (Tokyo) briefly and picked up an A5 Romeo notebook. Nice paper. They had some beautiful maki'e pens, but I wasn't prepared to buy one of those higher priced pens. 

 

[Misfit]

@wikeh2004 I totally agree with you about the Prera, and the CM nib. The snap cap on the Prera makes a cool sound. 

[ruby.monkey]

Semi-impulsive purchase: Pure Pens have the new plastic-bodied Kaweco Sport piston-filler in stock and are running a pre-Christmas discount, so I nabbed one along with a couple of Kaweco Sport clips - one for this pen, the other for my old Sport 112.

[inkstainedruth]

Parker 75 FP & BP set.  Sterling Ciselé, 14k F? nib on the FP (the code on the bottom of the feed says "65" which I think means "fine").  Not sure what is wrong with the BP (I opened it up to see if it was a BP or a pencil, and now can't get the thing to close back up)  The box had some paperwork, a press-bar style converter, a couple of spare cartridges of "Super Quink Permanent Blue" (there was a dead cartridge in the FP) and the pens were in a leather (?) sleeve case (sort of looks like a glasses case, but not hard sided).

Both pens are pretty tarnished, but for $15 US for the set?  I can live with that (especially given that I paid close to 10 times that for the one with the B nib I got on eBay a few years ago...).  And think I *might* have some silver polish in the house (for the good flatware that had been my grandmother's -- my uncle brought it up from where he lived when I got married years ago).  

Meant to make up sleeves for that out of silvercloth, but never got around to it (the roll of silvercloth I bought years ago has traveled to I think possibly all three houses my husband and I have lived in over the years... still in the bag the roll of fabric came in...). 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[AmandaW]

I'm getting a Dark Brown Lamy Studio with an EF nib. Wasn't even on my radar. Long forgotten, even though I liked it when released as a SE / LE a few years ago. Black Friday thing...

[awa54]

1 hour ago, inkstainedruth said:

Parker 75 FP & BP set.  Sterling Ciselé, 14k F? nib on the FP (the code on the bottom of the feed says "65" which I think means "fine").  Not sure what is wrong with the BP (I opened it up to see if it was a BP or a pencil, and now can't get the thing to close back up)  The box had some paperwork, a press-bar style converter, a couple of spare cartridges of "Super Quink Permanent Blue" (there was a dead cartridge in the FP) and the pens were in a leather (?) sleeve case (sort of looks like a glasses case, but not hard sided).

Both pens are pretty tarnished, but for $15 US for the set?  I can live with that (especially given that I paid close to 10 times that for the one with the B nib I got on eBay a few years ago...).  And think I *might* have some silver polish in the house (for the good flatware that had been my grandmother's -- my uncle brought it up from where he lived when I got married years ago).  

Meant to make up sleeves for that out of silvercloth, but never got around to it (the roll of silvercloth I bought years ago has traveled to I think possibly all three houses my husband and I have lived in over the years... still in the bag the roll of fabric came in...). 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

 

Did you have to wear a mask and point a firearm suggestively to get that price?!?

 

First off, don't use paste silver polish on this set!! aside from being a huge PITA to get all the dusty residue out of the grid pattern, it will lighten all of the metal, which means your grid won't have any contrast until the low points tarnish again.

You can just write with it, which will brighten all the places your hand contacts the pens, or you can get a silver polishing cloth (many jewelers will give them out free as promotional items, or sell them cheaply), which will get the high points brightened up quickly and without the mess of polish (or the unwanted brightening of the incised portion of the grid).

 

Second, IIRC the matching ball pen is one where the entire top of the pen is the "button" for extending/retracting the point. you may need to screw the halves back together without a refill in and "click" it to retract the mechanism, which will allow you to fit a refill easier.

It might also just be a case of the return spring (that goes around the end of the refill) not going back in the barrel correctly, or the tip of the refill jamming in the spring, rather than playing nice and centering its self as intended.

 

Nice find, $100 would have been a great price for that set if it isn't beat up, or broken!!!

[awa54]

So, in a somewhat similar vein to Ruth's epic sumgai find, I picked up an all stainless "octanium" nibbed USA made Parker 75 and a two-tone cartridge fill 2nd gen Parker 61 Flighter from a favorite Ebay seller last week.

 

The 75 is NOS in box with a fine nib and was instantly de-NOSed with a fill of Diamine evergreen and carried to work the following day. It's a *really* nice pen!

The 61 OTOH, looked great in the auction images (possibly used for a few weeks then put back in the box?), but has the dreaded section shrinkage issue... since black with gold arrow sections are scarce at best, I Franken-penned it with a NOS gray section. It's a fine or fine-medium nib and is a fabulous writer.

 

All in all, these weren't anywhere near Ruth's lucky find, but getting two less common pens in such great shape for under $150 all told (incl. new section), feels like a pretty good score to me (and not a bad birthday present to myself either)!