What Pen Did You Get Today?

[ethernautrix]

Thanks! I'll see if she can help me. Are you happy with the XF, or did you get the XF trying for one that writes like an F?

 

I LAAAAAAHVE the XF! Ha ha ha! It's perfect!

[jakespoppy]

Thanks! I'll see if she can help me. Are you happy with the XF, or did you get the XF trying for one that writes like an F?

 

I LAAAAAAHVE the XF! Ha ha ha! It's perfect!

 

Sweet!!! I sent Teri a PM, and will let you know if she has the key to identifying the nib type.

[ethernautrix]

Sweet!!! I sent Teri a PM, and will let you know if she has the key to identifying the nib type.

 

I realized that my answer was ambiguous. I think the XF is a true Western XF, and it's what I wanted. Yay!

[jakespoppy]

Sweet!!! I sent Teri a PM, and will let you know if she has the key to identifying the nib type.

 

I realized that my answer was ambiguous. I think the XF is a true Western XF, and it's what I wanted. Yay!

 

I thought you were very graciously cutting through the clumsiness of what could have been my slightly off the mark question asking "what type nib did you end up with?'" and answering what you understood me to be asking as "are you happy with your pen?". Thanks for understanding that and answering both questions!

[BamaPen]

Postman just delivered an Inkograph stylus pen. It's a black lever filler and took ink in easily and writes well. I got it because I used a Koh-i-noor Rapidograph when I took drafting back in the dark ages and this pen is a sort of upscale version of the Rapidograph. Of course I also used India ink in the Rapidograph, which is probably why it was constantly clogged up. I filled this one with FPN Van Gogh Starry Night Blue and the writing is very good. It's rather fun to feel the weight move inside the pen every time one lifts or lowers it.

[jakespoppy]

Congrats on getting re-connected with a pen from your past. And one-day delivery? One-day would be amazing even if it was next door!

 

I picked up a 444 on eBay which had a confusing nib description. It was described as Medium, but was also tagged as Fine in another part of the listing. Either way, I love the pen, and believe it's a Fine nib but would like to know for certain. Can you see the nib marking on your pen? Maybe I'm just missing it.

 

Teri brought a 444 (F) to Pen Posse on Saturday, and it wrote more like a Medium, so she sent me one with the XF. I can't see any markings, either. The F that I tried (not the NOS one, but an inked one that she brought for me to try) wrote wide. The XF, to my eyes, writes like a true Western XF.

 

Maybe Teri can help you with a definitive answer (?). Her FPN name is terim.

 

Teri says the 444 nibs are never marked directly on the nib like some pens, only by a tag or sticker that gets removed. I'll just choose to believe mine is....the right one.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Won the matching blue and black stripped Clipper pen to my rose and black striped Clipper pen...Didn't get it to day, but did buy it.

 

I know it is not a Wearever, how ever it will come in a Wearever box.

 

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I'd wanted the blue a year ago, and didn't get it. I got the rose. A gray and black was up a couple of months ago but I was chasing another pen.

 

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The Rose and Black had a special stamped nib with a small three tailed air plane in a circle, "Clipper" a nick name for the Constellation air plane, we called it the "Connie". I worked on them, they were one of the two major prop passenger just before the jets came. It was AF 1 for IKE.

 

The nib on the Rose one was slightly semi-flex, and I hope this one is too.

Edited August 26, 2010 by Bo Bo Olson

[Philips]

Just back from the pen shop with my purchase of ink, along with a Vista, which I will put to use at work.

Won the matching blue and black stripped Clipper pen to my rose and black striped Clipper pen...Didn't get it to day, but did buy it.....The Rose and Black had a special stamped nib with a small three tailed air plane in a circle, "Clipper" a nick name for the Constellation air plane, we called it the "Connie". I worked on them, they were one of the two major prop passenger just before the jets came.

 

Just an aside, Bo Bo, I love the Constellation aircraft! Several years ago I was spending a Saturday sight-seeing in Amsterdam before a connecting flight home from working abroad, when I heard an amazing sound in the air above me. I looked up and saw a Super Constellation banking low over the Dutch capital, being escorted by two other aircraft (I seem to remember they were both more modern turboprops). Well, I had always seen these beautiful and graceful aircraft in my father's books and now I had seen one flying, I will never ever forget that, the sight and sound will stay with me forever. The aircraft was on its final leg of a journey home from America. I went to see her a few years ago in Lelystad, just beautiful. I understand that the German carrier Lufthansa is also restoring one to flying condition.

[AltecGreen]

I just got these the other day including one I didn't even order.

 

Ancora #4

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Minvera Classica

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Aurora Iridia

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[Bo Bo Olson]

My First Kawaco. I have an other black Mercedes pen from the era, but with no other name; it though is not chased.

 

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Boehler Gold...a tortoise. Boehler was the brother of Osmia, who split to make his own pens as Farber-Castell started taking over Osmia in the late '30's.

 

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And a simple Osmia but with a BBL or as others call it a OBB nib, that I had been missing. Osmia makes very nice nibs.

 

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I won them today, didn't get them, yet. I wish they would pen the what did you get, and what did you get today threads. I just stick what ever in which ever I find first.

 

 

Super Constellation, in the military was called an EC-121, with radome top, bottom and in the nose. I worked on that and one called the R model that had no radomes, that was so secret that you could not work inside the plane with out the crew chief there. Everything interesting was covered. The R model read their mail. The EC-121 was the AWAC's of it's day. As soon as an airplane broke the ground we knew. It could stay in the air for 12 hours of spy in the sky.

The C model (No radomes) was a military passenger version; for the base commander. With out the radome's and looking like a pregnant hunch back, that was a real sleek plane.

 

I went on 3 months TDY's to places like Iceland, Thailand, Taiwan, Japan, Korea and was stationed a couple of places in the States; Massachusetts and California. I was seldom there. I liked the Orient better; out side of Japan back in Silver Dollar days, a Sgt, lived like a Prince over there.

It was not that I did not like Japan, but Japan was expensive as the States; so I did not live high off the hog.

 

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Edited August 29, 2010 by Bo Bo Olson

[Bo Bo Olson]

That Blue striped Clipper came in and the nib is as I hoped semi-flex. It is a Fine.

The rose stripped one was an M.

It is quite a handsome pen.

[jaspertyler]

This weekend I bought a Lamy Studio with a Fine point, and two Levenger True Writers, both medium points but I have changed one to fine (which seems thicker than the medium!!) and one to stub (which is nice!)

[laser8]

A Pilot Custom 742 FA, and some ink.

[hardyoyo]

A Wearever Pioneer, in cool 1950s green, looked virtually untouched, from a junk shop for a $1. Terrible pen nib is junk, and the section has a hairline crack. Oh well, was a fun diversion, easily worth a buck. Will keep it for parts.

[LoveMyLamy]

Pelikan M205 Highlighter duo.

[pth3x]

Sadly bought a Pelikan M200.

Must one press down hard when writing with a Pelikan M200 FP Italic Nib?

Must one "break in" this pen by means of some hazing before it writes nicely?

No pressure needed to flow a liquid line of Noodlers out of my Aurora, Waterman and Lamy fountain pens.

But this new Pelikan M200 I just got from Joon writes poorly or not at all with little-to-no-pressure.

Perhaps 10 minutes of trying to coax calligraphy out of it is insufficient.

But I can't decide whether I am ignorant of something here, or if the pen is lacking in some basic attribute.

Maybe a $100 Pelikan M200 is just not worth $1?

[Bo Bo Olson]

Sadly bought a Pelikan M200.

Must one press down hard when writing with a Pelikan M200 FP Italic Nib?

Must one "break in" this pen by means of some hazing before it writes nicely?

No pressure needed to flow a liquid line of Noodlers out of my Aurora, Waterman and Lamy fountain pens.

But this new Pelikan M200 I just got from Joon writes poorly or not at all with little-to-no-pressure.

Perhaps 10 minutes of trying to coax calligraphy out of it is insufficient.

But I can't decide whether I am ignorant of something here, or if the pen is lacking in some basic attribute.

Maybe a $100 Pelikan M200 is just not worth $1?

 

 

Have you flushed the pen a few times with cool water?

There is no break in other than that.

 

I don't know who Joon is...but I only "know" the big names.

 

Send it back....a Pelikan is a good pen.

The guts are as good as my 400. The nib and section is good...good enough to use in a 400 if one wants, they are interchangeable. Pelikan Steel nibs have a good reputation.

 

The 200 is not a cheap pen, it is an inexpensive pen, there is a big difference.

I don't have a 200. I have a 120, a 140, a 400NN, '90's 400, and a 605. The 120 was the 200 of it's day.

I would say there are 100 folks here with 200's and I've heard only good stuff. There is some times a tad of a problem with some nibs, that is why many buy from Binder. As I said I don't know who Joon is, and I assume he/she ground your nib to Crisp Italic...or was that Cursive Italic? It should work...if it don't it's the fault of the nib grinder.

Had it been a factory nib, I'd tell you to adjust the tine alignment and run it around a brown paper bag for up to a minute...but this was ground for you..it should have been tested, and work....so send it back.

 

Is the nib misaligned? Can you shove a piece of paper under the nib with little problem? If so it would not be touching the feed, as it should.

[Samovar]

Lamy 2000 EF with Noodler's Judicial Black. Judicial Black is a special blend made for Singapore Aesthetic Bay.

[matt385]

Retro 51 Tornado Chrome Fountain Pen with a medium nib. very smooth and a fun pen. Also got some PR carts, blue suede which is a dark turquoise and a black.

[bassopotamus]

Copper Esterbrook

Bexley Simplicity from Binder. Haven't had a chance to try it out yet.