What Was Your Last Impulsive Pen Acquisition?

[ParramattaPaul]

30 minutes ago, mizgeorge said:

I had a little treat arrive this morning, with an added bonus. A Pocket Six (which I've been hankering after for a while) which bizarrely had managed to reach me from the US in 10 days (it's taking longer than that to get things from 20 miles away), and despite having been customs processed, was delivered without them charging me the fee or the ransom money.

 

The nib's a Jowo 1.1 stub and is doesn't need a thing doing to it - writes perfectly on even quite ropey paper. 

 

I'm also pleasantly surprised to find I like the ink (a Monteverde purple) that it came with as well - though I still wish it didn't use cartridges. I shall have to see if one of my Kaweco sport converters works with it.

I love the colours!

[JonSzanto]

1 hour ago, mizgeorge said:

I had a little treat arrive this morning...

 

That's a Schon Designs pen, yeah? Boy, I really like his work but I really, really wish he could do sections with some texture, because smooth metal sections just are not a possibility with me. Nice guy, too. Have fun!

[Carrau]

I received a lovely Santini Libra Cumberland with gold trim and a medium Flexy nib .  The ebonite is a mahogany wood grain-like material, beautifully finished, as are all their pens.  They continue to be a joy to deal with as a company.

 

https://www.santini-italia.com/libra-cumberland-gold.php

[JonSzanto]

1 hour ago, Carrau said:

I received a lovely Santini Libra Cumberland...

 

Lovely pen, this is on my short list for 2021. Congratulations!

[mizgeorge]

2 hours ago, JonSzanto said:

 

That's a Schon Designs pen, yeah? Boy, I really like his work but I really, really wish he could do sections with some texture, because smooth metal sections just are not a possibility with me. Nice guy, too. Have fun!

He's got some new ridged sections, in various colours or in the build your own version, and they were tempting - 

but I decided against in the end because I think they cover too much of the nib - and it's having the big nib that makes it such a pleasing pen.

[JonSzanto]

5 minutes ago, mizgeorge said:

...but I decided against in the end because I think they cover too much of the nib ...

 

Inorite? I can't quite figure that design move, and it still doesn't address rotational slippage, which is important if you have stub/italic nibs (don't want the pen rotating). I may write him, since there aren't any pen shows to hook up with him in the near future.

[Carrau]

10 hours ago, JonSzanto said:

 

Lovely pen, this is on my short list for 2021. Congratulations!

Thank you.

[Stompie]

Just got a Platinum Prefounte on a whim. Night Sea colour.

 

Nice writer. Not made up my mind yet whether I should stub it or not. 

[hariharan]

I recently ordered two guider pens "zimbo" and "capsule". My colleague sent me photograph of his acquisition and within 15 minutes i had paid for my new order 😀

[sgphototn]

I've had glass dip pens for testing inks, but grew tired of constantly writing very few words than heading back to the bottle. When I was ordering a couple of Ranga 8b ebonites, I remembered the recommendation of a friend and impulsively ordered the Ranga thick dip pen.

 

What a difference compared to glass dip pens! Since it has an ebonite feed it generously holds a paragraph of words. Now I can test out inks not normally in my converter/eyedropper pens to write correspondence, swish the nib in water, quick dry with a paper towel, and move on to other inks. The Ranga branded broad nib is smooth and writes wet as I like.

It's made testing inks a joy rather than a drudgery.

Made to the same high standards of regular Ranga pens, if you've grown tired of glass dip pens, give it a try. Now my glass dip pens are to be gifted to others.

[Karmachanic]

I've been eyeballing these for quite sometime. Quick - before Brexit!

 

[mizgeorge]

A bright green Narwhal seemed to arrive in the post. Must have fallen into the ink cart and not been much of a swimmer. It's seriously fun with some Sailor Studio 260.

[ParramattaPaul]

4 hours ago, Karmachanic said:

I've been eyeballing these for quite sometime. Quick - before Brexit!

 

Call me what you like for thinking it, but I honestly believe Brexit will be much like M2K -- much hype, much fear, and little drama.

[Karmachanic]

14 minutes ago, ParramattaPaul said:

Call me what you like for thinking it, but I honestly believe Brexit will be much like M2K -- much hype, much fear, and little drama.

 

Probably. I purchased it from Spain at a competitive price. Brexit was my excuse for doing so.

[sgphototn]

The Brexit breakup went better than my last divorce. I still walk with a limp from twenty years ago.

[Karmachanic]

The cost one pays for "the triumph of hope over experience."

[sgphototn]

5 minutes ago, Karmachanic said:

The cost one pays for "the triumph of hope over experience."

It's like opening the refrigerator, finding the milk has spoiled, then putting it back in the fridge as though it's going to get better in a couple of weeks.😄

[ParramattaPaul]

1 hour ago, sgphototn said:

It's like opening the refrigerator, finding the milk has spoiled, then putting it back in the fridge as though it's going to get better in a couple of weeks.😄

The comedian George Carlin once asked, 'How do you know when sour cream has spoiled?'

 

[AmandaW]

1 hour ago, ParramattaPaul said:

The comedian George Carlin once asked, 'How do you know when sour cream has spoiled?'

 

It separates.

[A Smug Dill]

7 hours ago, Karmachanic said:

I've been eyeballing these for quite sometime.

 

Ooh, I like that box better than the rather impractical (but cool looking) display box in which my pen came years ago. (The photo below is not mine and not of mine.)

 

Source: @777's review of the pen model on FPN (but the embedded images in it are no longer rendered inline)