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Today I got two Lamy Safaris. One in glossy black with a fine nib and a white one with an extra fine nib that I swapped from another Lamy. Enjoying both pens very much, but the white is my favorite.

"Instant gratification takes too long."-Carrie Fisher

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Lamy Safari M nib in red.

My writers: S.Z.Leqi 800, Hero 329,Parker Vector, Pilot 78G, Lamy Safari, Wality 77D, Pilot Elite, Platinum PG-250, Reform Memo 166, Parker 45, Parker Inflection, Wality 69LFB, Pilot Vortex, Hero 100, Pilot Prera, Parker 95, Waterman Phileas

Inks: Sheaffer Skrip Black, Hero advanced washable Black, Hero advanced washable Blue, Hero Blue,MontBlanc Black

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hexadecimal Rare

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BIG day!

  • Pelikan 140 'F' Green striated/Black
  • Pelikan 120 'F' Green/Black
  • Pelikan 140 'M' Green striated/Black

All from Fleabay...

Hey, I've worked out how to set up an avatar! Next week I'll move onto tying my own shoelaces...

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montblancdude Vintage

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Montblanc Boheme Precious Resin Platinum/Sapphire!

 

It was a gift from my grandparents for doing well in middle school.

Loving Mont Blanc and everything fountain pen!!!!!!!!

 

One of the few, the proud... 14 year-old FPN'ers!!!!!! ;)

 

MY FOUNTAIN PENS: Montblanc Boheme Bleu (M), Montblanc 145 (M), Waterman Phileas (M), Jinhao X450 (M), Parker Vector (M), Parker 15 (M), Sheaffer Cartridge Pen (M)

MY INKS: Parker Quink Blue, Private Reserve Midnight Blues, Montblanc Black

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Thornton Collectors Item

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Montblanc Boheme Precious Resin Platinum/Sapphire!

 

It was a gift from my grandparents for doing well in middle school.

 

Whoa. I'd be lucky to get a wheat penny from my grandpa. Congratulations!

"Instant gratification takes too long."-Carrie Fisher

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montblancdude Vintage

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Montblanc Boheme Precious Resin Platinum/Sapphire!

 

It was a gift from my grandparents for doing well in middle school.

 

Whoa. I'd be lucky to get a wheat penny from my grandpa. Congratulations!

 

Thanks, it's truly amazing... :cloud9:

Loving Mont Blanc and everything fountain pen!!!!!!!!

 

One of the few, the proud... 14 year-old FPN'ers!!!!!! ;)

 

MY FOUNTAIN PENS: Montblanc Boheme Bleu (M), Montblanc 145 (M), Waterman Phileas (M), Jinhao X450 (M), Parker Vector (M), Parker 15 (M), Sheaffer Cartridge Pen (M)

MY INKS: Parker Quink Blue, Private Reserve Midnight Blues, Montblanc Black

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Bexley Simplicity F in Tortoise.

Lamy 2000 EF

Hero 100

 

The Hero and Lamy are real winners. I need to ink the Bexley soon, but I am having way too much fun with the other two pens and a new bottle of Baystate Blue!

"In this world... you must be oh, so smart, or oh, so pleasant. Well for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant."

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This week, I discovered this great network, reading lots of inspiring reviews. A strong desire arose. I had to buy a more expensive fountain pen than the ones I had laying around.

 

The Pelikan M215 was praised all over this forum, and it looked very nice on pictures, so I went out to buy it. I'm from Holland, and here the M215 costs around 90 euro, so about 130 dollar. I tried it in the store, and immediately got disappointed. It was pretty, sure, but very light and short, and it felt a bit too plastic-like. And above all: it almost tore the paper to pieces, while making loud noises. All three of the M215's I tried (all of them with F nibs) gave about the same experience.

 

Now what?

 

I liked the look of the new Waterman Expert, it's weight, it's classy sigar form. And it appeared to write very smooth, making hardly a sound. So I bought it, for 95 euro. The matt black one, with silver finish and Fine nib.

 

But when I got home, a new disappointment awaited me.

The Expert did write very smooth on standard copier, but immediately turned into a nail when I used it on my beloved G. Lalo correspondence paper with laid finish.

 

Back at the store, I had the the nib replaced by another Expert Fine nib. It was dipped in ink on the service counter, and it wrote excellent on the sample of Lalo paper I brought. But back at home, once the normal ink flow was restored, this nib too started acting like a stubborn mule and refused to move smoothly over the laid finished paper. Plus, even on normal paper, the pen skipped a lot, rendering my words almost illegible.

 

Now what?

 

Again, I went back to the store, to have the nib replaced once more with another Expert Fine nib.

And at last: victory!

This particular nib didn't have any trouble finding its way over the Lalo paper. And after writing two letters just now, I have no complaints at all.

 

All in all, I can't understand why the Pelikans get so good reviews here. I tried them in two different stores. In both cases, they wrote just terribly on the Lalo paper, hardly shedding ink at all.

 

The Waterman Expert II, in contrast, doesnt't get many praise on this forum, but I like its smoothness and looks a lot.

 

So this was the story of how I got to own my first - more or less valuable - fountain pen.

 

I hope in time a lot will follow.

 

 

 

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Are these pens with steel nibs?

 

I like steel nibs for italic writing, and I have a couple that are remarkably smooth, but it sounds to me that you should be looking at somethinig like a gold stub nib.

 

Pelikans make wonderful pens but the nibs vary a great deal

 

Solitaire

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VP Blue Carbonesque (courtesy of njoyingaz)

 

http://home.comcast.net/~lgschamp/pens/vpblue.jpg

Hey, I've worked out how to set up an avatar! Next week I'll move onto tying my own shoelaces...

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McPete Rare

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Got 3 Super Rotax NOS piston filler from Germany today.

One in blue, one in maroon and one in grey.

Just looked those up on the 'bay... I like the look of them! How do they write?

 

Hex; That carbonesque VP is a very nice looking bit of gear... It's on the list now :P

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Got 3 Super Rotax NOS piston filler from Germany today.

One in blue, one in maroon and one in grey.

Just looked those up on the 'bay... I like the look of them! How do they write?

 

Hex; That carbonesque VP is a very nice looking bit of gear... It's on the list now :P

 

Smooth steel xf nib. Some says it's xxf

Comparable to my sailors

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ZeissIkon Antique

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Yesterday's mail brought me a package of pens forwarded by another FPN member: two Gui Guan, a black 10 and a gold-tone 20, both with very broad nibs, a gorgeous red Hero of unknown (and unmarked) model with a flexible nib that's a little too fat and wet to really gain much from flex, a Wing Sung 230 that had a leaking section (now solvent welded and apparently leak-free), and a so-far unidentified Sheaffer cartridge filler (possibly a Skripsert of some stripe) with a bent nib that I hope to be able to straighten.

Does not always write loving messages.

Does not always foot up columns correctly.

Does not always sign big checks.

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LostInThought Near Mint

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I got a Mabie Todd thin Blackbird self-filler (circa 1935). Unfortunately, it doesn't have the original nib, but the Swan No 2 replacement nib is nice and wet with a good amount of flex.

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A Boheme

 

Parker 17 with a beautiful broad nib but a cracked hood - now what to do? Any ideas?

 

Waterman Jif with a glass cartridge

 

No name BCHR lever fill from around 1928

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Yesterday's mail delivered my much anticipated Waterman LeMan 200 mineral blue Rhapsody! ( :notworthy1: medium nib too!!)

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