What Pen Did You Get Today?

[Zanshin]

A Noodler's Ahab has just landed on my desk. Time to get flexy.

[mhguda]

Seven pens, from three different sellers!

Two Baoers, two Heroes, and a Dragon Overlay pen, a Noodler's Ahab, and an Esterbrook.

All are great, except for the Dragon Overlay pen, which is a bit of a disappointment. Not clear yet why but I find the ink flow a bit erratic, and there is something that makes writing with the pen less pleasant. Especially compared with the other six, which vary from OK to great. The Ahab needed some tuning (it was too wet at first!) but for all the others, just washing with slightly soapy water and rinsing well was sufficient. I especially like my Baoer Starwalker. I filled it with Montblanc Midnight Blue and it is fabulous...

[Muncle]

Um...they came yesterday?

 

Airmail eyedropper and Camlin 21, both with flexible nibs from Fountain Pen Revolution

[NedC]

Caran d'Ache Dunas. A very pretty pen, elegant interplay of straight lines and curves, hexagonal facets and tapering cylindrical form. It has a very smooth medium nib that write like a very smooth fine when inverted, unfortunately it seems to have an annoyingly small sweet spot when used in the normal manner. The body fits nicely in my hand and in my pocket, it will hold two short international cartridges and accommodated my Schmidt K-5 converter. However, and most maddeningly, the pen will not post–the cap will slide over the tapered and rounded barrel just fine put there is no way to get it to stay on, it is far too loose. Aaaarrrgh! Still thinking about whether or not I'll keep this pen.

 

BTW the gift box is an over the top aluminum sleeved affair.

 

A full review should follow in several days.

[Avalonia]

A Baoer Eight Horses pen just arrived this morning. I think it's medium nib. Haven't had a chance to use it yet, I need to give it a good washing out first along with my unknown numbered Wing Sung pen that showed up two days ago.

[lemanfan]

Deliveries end of last week:

 

• A green Lamy Safari. Just for the collection I aparantly started.
  
• A TWSBI Micarta with fine nib and clip.
  
• A green/black Pelikan M1000 with EF nib.
  

 

Boy.. the nib on the M1000 is something else... wow.

[PAKMAN]

This is my haul from the Little Rock show this weekend:

 

 

On the left a vintage oblique dip pen. From the top: Limited Edition Parker Duofold True Blue, Limited Edition Parker Duofold Norman Rockwell, Vintage Conway Stewart 85L and a Limited Edition Henry Simpole Sterling overlay Jasmin pen.

[toniw]

I received a Kaweco Sport in black today, along with some Kaweco blue/black cartridges.

Looking forward to use it tomorrow

[iceboom]

I got a screaming deal on a Diplomat Excellence in Sapphire Blue with a medium nib. So stoked.

[maus930]

I just wanted to start a poll showing the new pens people get every day!

 

Have Fun!

 

 

Today it was a TWSBI 580 EF

[mhguda]

My Dilli from FPR arrived today, plus the Camlin Elegante I ordered at the same time. Both with fine stub nibs, a new offering. Inked them up with Akkerman bekakt haags that a friend brought for me from the Netherlands, and wow!

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[Inkysloth]

My Onoto Minor found at a flea market came back from being fixed by Eckiefump today but I wasn't in to sign for it, so I'll get to collect it tomorrow. *bouncebouncebounce*

[tringle]

Yesterday, I spent what most of my friends would consider an unreasonable amount of money on what is my grail pen, a Visconti Homo Sapiens Steel Age. After trying a couple Mont Blancs out, I found out that looks aren't everything. Now, my collection is complete, and I am content. WHat inks next??!

 

 

rbadger332 - Get whatever inks appeal to you.....I just received my own HS, Steel Age and mine writes beautifully with Sheaffers Skrip, J Herbin, Visconti, Omas etc.

[RickH9]

New Bexley Corona in Lemon Meringue

[liapuyat]

A Bexley Imperial with steel M nib (in burgundy, part of the Philippines pen group's 5th anniversary order). Filled it with Diamine Midnight and it writes a wonderfully smooth line.

 

Also received a Platinum 3776 Century Chartres Blue with 14k M nib. Beautiful, jewel-like translucent blue barrel and cap. Springy - not flexy, just responsive - smooth nib. A friend brought it home for me from Itoya in Tokyo.

[JulesSilvan]

My first Lamy Al-Star, the all-black version (can't make up my mind as to what ink to put in it though) and a TWSBI Diamond 540 in amber, which is more the colour of Irn-Bru if you ask me.

[Nick T]

Twisbi 580 with 1.1mm stub.

[lbr218]

At the Atlanta Pen Show, I bought a TWSBI Mini ("Classic" coloring) with M nib from the Andersons, and a BEAUTIFUL Waterman lever-filler (flex!) from Pendleton Brown. Unfortunately, I must have messed something up when putting the Waterman away because when I opened it up to try to use it one of the tines overlapped on top of the other. I am looking into how to fix that now, but having trouble. Anyway, here they are:

 

Waterman:

http://i.imgur.com/M3hG0Ag.png

 

TWSBI Mini filled with Private Reserve Naples Blue (That ink has some crazy sheen!):

http://i.imgur.com/Vy5wIi6.png

 

Also, got my boyfriend his first FP, a Pilot Metro!

[Mr5x5]

I was PIFed a blue FPR Dilli from a gentleman on another forum. He found it challenging but it isn't as difficult as the Ahabs from my experience.

[amateriat]

Together Again For the First Time:

 

It's been several months since my original Pilot Custom 823 went missing. Unhappy camper I've been about this: It was about as close to perfection as I dared expect from a pen, and the moment I declared it officially lost for good, I laid out plans to get another one. Since the original was translucent black, and the only version officially imported here is translucent amber (which I may also get at a future date), I had to go the usual extra mile to get the black version.

 

Or, to put it properly, it had to go the extra mile to get to me:

 

The black barrel and cap on this example appears to be ever-so-slightly less opaque than on my first 823, but that pen wasn't brand spanking new like this one is, although it arrived in my hands looking as pristine as a used pen can. Amusingly, the pen came with a Pilot cartridge tucked away in the case (but with the correct "Type P" instruction fold-out sheet.

 

Whereas the first pen had a sweet M nib, I decided to take a chance and see what the F nib was like. On first ink-up , I was a tad worried: it seemed a bit scratchier than I'd have liked. Then I slapped my forehead and remembered: flush the thing first, dummy! that having been accomplished, and upon re-inking, the pen wrote just about as smoothly as the M-nibbed 823, just with a finer line:

(Yeah, I know...missed crossing a "t" there. I was a bit excited, okay?)

 

Needless to say, I'm thrilled to have an 823 back in my hands. My only decision now is whether to replace my clear, B-nib Custom 74 with either (1) a Smoke-finish 74 with M nib, or (2) an amber-finish 823 with M nib. Oh, the agony.

 

 

- Barrett

Edited April 21, 2013 by amateriat