What Was Your Last Impulsive Pen Acquisition?

[inkstainedruth]

Thanks!  I may try doing this.  It was just so annoying that the Edelstein cartridges are just a tad too long for the barrel to go over them.  (OTOH, I did only pay three bucks for the pen).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[inkstainedruth]

And the used French Blue Safari has just arrived!  YAY!   So this evening I'll get it flushed out and draining (it came with a converter already installed) and then the fun begins -- what color to ink it up with first! 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[BinaEliora]

7 hours ago, como said:

You apply shellac (a type of heat sensitive glue often used in sac’ing of fps) over the rim of the cut-off cartridge, then pull the correctly measured sac over it. Once the sac is on, you slightly rotate the sac so the shellac is even applied (while the shellac is fresh and not dried out yet). Then you wait for 20min to a couple of hours (depending on your patience). Afterwards you can test with water if the thing is working properly and not leaking. Then you are ready to go! Be sure you cut the sac to the right size. Too big, the sac is touching end of barrel and ink is squeezed out. Too small the ink capacity is compromised.

I need to look into it. Thanks.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Shellac is the preferred method of putting a rubber sac onto a rubber sac lever pen, not the nail polish from Frank Duble's book.

It's not that it won't work but  becomes very hard to replace the rubber sac after that.

Frank Duble wrote his book before supersaturated inks ate up rubber sacs and a rubber sac was expected to last 30-40 years.

Not the 10 with luck of today.

 

Do stay far, far away from supersaturated inks and ink sac's. I have read reputable repairmen having to replace a sack they put on in weeks because of supersaturated ink. A certain brand was named.

 

I've also read many replies (many very loyal to said brand) to that saying 'It didn't happen to me.'.................................yet.

 

One has other pens better for supersaturated inks than rubber sac lever pens or in this case a squeeze filler. Use traditional inks to be safe.

[JonSzanto]

A mini-update on the Narwhal pen I mentioned earlier: a quiet afternoon project has bumped the pen to favored status, as I've gotten a hold of extra nib collars and feeds and put in place a 1920s-era Sheaffer Lifetime 14k nib. The pen now has everything I like, a delight to the eye and to use in service of the written word. I hear they have another ebonite pen coming this Spring, which is promising!

[pajaro]

On impulse I bought a red Parker desk Jotter in red.  I can watercolor over the Jotter drawing.  I can have four ready to draw in blue, black, green and red.  Ballpoint and fountain pen drawing mixed to wash over.  Not everything needs to be writing.

 

[MuddyWaters]

15 hours ago, JonSzanto said:

A mini-update on the Narwhal pen I mentioned earlier: a quiet afternoon project has bumped the pen to favored status, as I've gotten a hold of extra nib collars and feeds and put in place a 1920s-era Sheaffer Lifetime 14k nib. The pen now has everything I like, a delight to the eye and to use in service of the written word. I hear they have another ebonite pen coming this Spring, which is promising!

Looks like a really nice and useful everyday pen!

[Emil3361]

A Kaweco Skyline Sport with the twin nib

[brokenclay]

A Parker Duofold Vacumatic, Laidtone green/brown, medium stub nib. This will be my first Parker, vintage or modern, and my first pen purchase in quite a while. I guess it qualifies as impulsive because I'm really not sure why i decided to go ahead with it. 

[essayfaire]

On 2/18/2021 at 1:10 PM, christam said:

 

I feel as though I should apologise for the overload of pics, especially as they were only taken with the iPhone, but this pen is so much more beautiful than I expected from the stock photos that I wanted to try to show it off a bit.  The nib is a broad, the ink is Iroshizuku fuyu-gaki, and the whole writing experience is as close to perfect as it could get.  This was something of a grail for me - even with a reasonable discount I paid more for it than any other pen I own - and it was honestly worth every penny.

This pen is gorgeous.  I love warm tones.  Enjoy! I can understand why this would be a grail pen.

 

Technically, my most recent pen purchase is not a pen.  I gave in and bought the Taccia kimono six pen wrap so I can stop carrying my overflowing pen cup (which is actually a really cool holder that we 3-D printed with the first few hundred digits of pi) around the house.  I shouldn't need more than six pens at a time!

[es9]

On 2/22/2021 at 8:04 PM, Bo Bo Olson said:

Shellac is the preferred method of putting a rubber sac onto a rubber sac lever pen, not the nail polish from Frank Duble's book.

 

Years ago I walked into Fahrney's Pens in DC to see if they could put a new sac on a Sheaffer Flat-Top for me.  This was before I really got interested in repairing.  The guy handed me a sac and told me to cut it to size before trying to fit it.  When I told him I'd read that I needed shellac, he told me I could also use honey, dental floss, or thread. 😂  I was not comfortable with the idea of honey and a little hesitant about a mint flavored pen, so I went with thread.  Not exactly a best practice, but certainly worked in a pinch!  I just checked on the pen -- the thread outlived the sac, which was not talced and has finally started to go.  

 

   

[Naisirf]

A Sailor Professional Gear Ocean with a fine 18K nib.

 

The pen does not look that special but lots of positive reviews especially about the nib made me buy it. I just received it just two days ago so I can’t confirm this yet from my own experience.

[inkandseeds]

On 2/22/2021 at 3:19 AM, como said:

@inkstainedruth and @JonSzanto For small pens that only take small converter/cartridge, I use this cut-out small cartridge attached to a sac as in the photo of my very small Delta Dolcevita Mini. It gets enough ink and primes the feed at the same time, not to mention the fun of squeezing the sac for "swoosh swoosh" 😀.

That is so cool.  I am going to have to try it.  Thanks a million.

[A Smug Dill]

4 hours ago, Naisirf said:

A Sailor Professional Gear Ocean with a fine 18K nib.

 

The pen does not look that special

 

It is special, if it has an 18K gold nib. 😲

 

The regular-sized Sailor Professional Gear has a 21K gold nib, and the Professional Gear Slim has a 14K gold nib. I have both, in the Ocean special edition no less.

[BinaEliora]

I need to stay away from places that sell pens. I just bought a 1940s Esterbrook SJ in copper. I can’t remember the nib, only that it is fine from the 2xxx series. Supposed to arrive on Monday. Fingers crossed. 

[Naisirf]

18 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

It is special, if it has an 18K gold nib. 😲

 

The regular-sized Sailor Professional Gear has a 21K gold nib, and the Professional Gear Slim has a 14K gold nib. I have both, in the Ocean special edition no less.

You are right it has a 21 K nib. So not a ‘special’ nib unfortunately ☹️

[AmandaW]

1 hour ago, Naisirf said:

You are right it has a 21 K nib. So not a ‘special’ nib

 

A Sailor with a 21K nib is special though. And definitely on the upper end of a list of nice pens. 

[Bo Bo Olson]

19 hours ago, BinaEliora said:

I need to stay away from places that sell pens. I just bought a 1940s Esterbrook SJ in copper. I can’t remember the nib, only that it is fine from the 2xxx series. Supposed to arrive on Monday. Fingers crossed. 

Easties are perhaps the most addictive of all pens here. (1 of the five pens that started me in collecting was a smoke gray Estie)

 

I once had 5 of the 8 smoky grays, 3 of the 5 greens, only had 6 blues, (still have one)  still got my copper....Don't count the black and or white one i had. Never did get even one of the two reds nor the Tootsy Roll.

The start of the madness had some second tier Wearevers too, pre and post war. As good as the Esties.

[Manalto]

This Wahl Eversharp. I like its slightly clunky form that unmistakably evokes another era. It has been restored (I'm told) and I probably paid too much.

[Bikerchick]

1 hour ago, Manalto said:

This Wahl Eversharp. I like its slightly clunky form that unmistakably evokes another era. It has been restored (I'm told) and I probably paid too much.

Hey James, that's the Skyline, right? May I be so bold to ask how much you paid for this? You don't need to answer if you don't want to, obviously.