What Pen Did You Get Today?

[Bogie]

I just got my second pen today. It's a Lamy 2000. I'm about to start writing a novel so I wanted a good workhorse pen.

[wvbeetlebug]

Received yesterday my second P51 Special. This one is burgundy. Needs a little tweaking, but so far so good.

[Maja]

Meant to write this on Sunday, but we had company over later that day and yesterday (long weekend here in B.C):

 

I found a black Esterbrook LJ (the long thin one) with a 2314M (relief Medium stub) nib, in working order for $10 at an antique sale. Looks like the former ones liked to nibble on the cap and barrel jewels as they are slightly chewed....

The nib and feed were covered in a black, difficult-to-remove substance that looked like nail polish or glossy paint. At first I thought "Oh, oh...India ink!" and almost passed on the sale...but then I thought "What the heck!" and took the little guy home, knocked out the feed using my knockout block and soaked the parts in cool water for a few hours. I had to use a very sharp dental pick to remove some residual debris from the fins of the feed and the feed channels (an old toothbrush couldn't remove it) but when I put everything back together, the pen wrote beautifully. Not bad for ten bucks...

 

P.S. I should mention that I first soaked the pen's nib unit in water for a few hours before I used the knock-out block. I knew that the feed would be gummed up and difficult to remove, so I pre-soaked and *then* knocked it out....

Edited August 7, 2007 by Maja

[AndyHayes]

Sailor Sapporo Mini from The Writing Desk

 

http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb177/shetlink/Sailor1.jpg

 

I just need to find a way of getting around the cartridge outlay. Perhaps sawing down a convertor might work!!

Edited August 7, 2007 by AndyHayes

[ThomasB]

Got the pink slip yesterday...went to the post office to retreived it...opened the package and inside was a Parker 51 Double Jewel in Nassau Green.

[dwmatteson]

Got the pink slip yesterday...went to the post office to retreived it...opened the package and inside was a Parker 51 Double Jewel in Nassau Green.

 

You mean the pink slip that means a package is there, right?

 

Not the pink slip that means your job isn't there....

 

Right?

 

Don

[LDF]

Parker 51 Special. It's a beautiful writer, and surprise, surprise, a gold nibbed one.

[donwinn]

Received a green Estie. Have not yet inked it, but it is my sole remaining eBay purchase, left over from before the moratorium on pen purchase by SWMBO, but I will have a Lissabon in the mail from marketplace.

 

Donnie

[George]

Nassau 51... Nice

[Zenistar]

 

Red stripe Pelikan M800.

[auscan]

Lamy Safari Red, EF - First Lamy, and loving it

[tamburlaine]

My Sailor Sapporo (GT) EF and my black Hero 329. The Sapporo is so good and it's nib is so smooth that it scares me! The Hero 329, I got a shock with. It is amazing! I did not expect too much when ordering it, but it is smooth and extra-fine and is as comfy to use as my "51". Definitely going to get more Sailors and Heros...

[southpaw]

A mint 1930s Well Japanese ED filler with flexible nib. The pen is all black: black clip, black urushi, with a beautiful long and sleek silver nib.

[TheNobleSavage]

Does it look like a smaller version of the Danitrio Ban-ei pens?

 

TNS

[southpaw]

Hmmm . . . sort of. Actually, it looks like this (photo from ebay auction by soundboy jp). Can you say "stealth flex nib Japanese ED?"

Edited August 9, 2007 by southpaw

[Ernst Bitterman]

A 12-hole leather pen-wallet, stamped with a fairly recent Sheaffer logo containing:

 

- Blue Snorkel Valiant and matching pencil

- Black Snorkel Sentinel

- Blue Snorkel Soveriegn

- Maroon Snorkel Saratoga

- Black Snorkel Admiral

- Black Vac Valiant-ish sort of trim level

- Black Vac Autograph

- Brown Vac Crest

- Slender Vac Balance, looks black but has carefully concealed (likely madly ambered) striations

- Green striated Vac Craftsman

...and for comedy relief, a black-bodied "Stylpoint" Skripsert.

 

One of the snorks just needs new seals and the first two vacuum-fills actually work, too! At just under $10 an item, I feel I spent my eBay money fairly well.

[alvarez57]

Dis one

 

http://inlinethumb51.webshots.com/12978/2883933680101882882S500x500Q85.jpg

Edited August 22, 2007 by alvarez57

[Excoriar]

Omigosh!! Went pen shopping today for my mom's birthday present and found a Graf Von Faber Castell Pen of the Year 2006!!!! Pictures next week!

[psfred]

Stupidly wandered onto eBay the other day in a fit of boredom (so VERY bad for me!) and sniped on a Sheaffer Snorkel Valient in green and a Brown Parker Vac that looks like it has a flexible nib (knowing my luck, it's a broad).

 

Won both of them, not that I need any more pens.....

 

Now I have to get more parts (I'm out of Snorkel sacs and Vac diaphrams)!

 

Less than $50 for the pair, not great but not too bad either.

 

Peter

[Bahamianlvr]

I am very excited about the two pens I bought today. I went to the D.C. pen show with the hopes of finding a good P51 that I could use as an everyday writer. I was fortunate to find one from the first vendor I went to (will not do that again). It's a black 51 special that I have filled with the super show blue. I haven't been on this site for some time so it was a suprise to see Richard Bender there so of course I had to pick up my first Pelikan from him while I was there (M200 blue marble fine). Yep, I'm pretty pumped up!