What Pen Are You Waiting For In The Mail 2016

[NinthSphere]

 

Do you mean more people bidding against you?

I spent half of my time at the Triangle Pen Show last month trailing around trying to get a M200 B, to put in my replacement Café Crème (which came with a firehose of an IM nib), and then barring that try to have the IM tweaked so it wasn't such a gusher even with iron gall inks. So I ended up at the Indy-Pen-Dance table to have Linda Kennedy work some magic on the IM, and mentioned I'd been trying (and failing) to find a B nib unit, and she said "Well, you didn't come to ME!" So now I have both the IM nib (still on the pen since I didn't want to flush the ink in the pen -- Pharmacist's Turkish Night, for which I don't have a backup bottle ), and -- when I finish the fill of ink in the pen -- the nicely tuned B nib.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

I do. It's funny. Whenever I find myself in an auction with multiple buyers, I'm on the edge of my seat, hoping I'll catch anyone else watching & trying to snipe just a bit too slow or a dollar short. When I find myself in an auction where I'm the sole bidder, noone even probing the high bid, it makes me second guess myself. It's just a broad 205 nib, nothing fancy, but it makes me wonder why noone else was interested.

 

Wrt to the IM nib, I would swap without flushing the current fill. That's my intention when the broad comes. Make sure everything is properly aligned, swap, then toss the current medium in a glass to soak before drying out for storage. I've still got about a third or more of a fill of Yama-guri loaded.

[Shannon]

 

I do. It's funny. Whenever I find myself in an auction with multiple buyers, I'm on the edge of my seat, hoping I'll catch anyone else watching & trying to snipe just a bit too slow or a dollar short. When I find myself in an auction where I'm the sole bidder, noone even probing the high bid, it makes me second guess myself. It's just a broad 205 nib, nothing fancy, but it makes me wonder why noone else was interested.

 

Wrt to the IM nib, I would swap without flushing the current fill. That's my intention when the broad comes. Make sure everything is properly aligned, swap, then toss the current medium in a glass to soak before drying out for storage. I've still got about a third or more of a fill of Yama-guri loaded.

 

 

Oh -- you speak my mind! Quite a bit of it is the chase....

[inkstainedruth]

 

I do. It's funny. Whenever I find myself in an auction with multiple buyers, I'm on the edge of my seat, hoping I'll catch anyone else watching & trying to snipe just a bit too slow or a dollar short. When I find myself in an auction where I'm the sole bidder, noone even probing the high bid, it makes me second guess myself. It's just a broad 205 nib, nothing fancy, but it makes me wonder why noone else was interested.

 

Wrt to the IM nib, I would swap without flushing the current fill. That's my intention when the broad comes. Make sure everything is properly aligned, swap, then toss the current medium in a glass to soak before drying out for storage. I've still got about a third or more of a fill of Yama-guri loaded.

 

Well, I would have as well, personally, but I suspected that Linda wanted to be able to work on tuning the B nib without having her hands covered with turquoise/green iron gall ink.

As for auctions, I never know how they're going to go. I bid on a music CD the other day with about 3 hours to go, and bid the minimum and got it (had trouble following the listing because apparently I had maxed out the limit on my watch list.... I bid the minimum on a Parker 51 Vac a couple of years ago (and then almost forgotten about the auction because I was too busy biting my nails over how much I'd get outbid by on the 51 Demi in Plum which ended the day before -- and ended up getting both (and didn't even hit my *intermediate* max on the Plum Aero -- go figure. (And both pens came in the mail the same day, too.... ). I suspect that a lot of people had ignored the listing for the 51 Vac, because it had the cap for a 51 Special on it. OTOH, Farmersmum did better on a Plummer than I did the same weekend -- I hadn't really looked at THAT listing because the seller said in the header that the pen was black.....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[mallymal1]

Viconti Opera in the Cherry Juice finish.

[mrfilbert]

I know it's nothing fancy, but I am waiting for a Lanbitou 757 demonstrator in the mail. It will be my first demonstrator pen.

[Shannon]

This should be (knock on wood) a good mail day: two Jinhoas with nibs to be replaced with Goulet stubs, and a lot consisting of a Levenger TW in Delft Blue, Levenger Oceania Carbon Fiber, Parker 45, and a Sheaffer Imperial. Pretty sure I'm going to leave work a bit early....

 

Oh -- and a couple of bottles of ink!

Edited July 7, 2016 by Shannon

[Joe in Seattle]

Pelikan M101N tortoise, brown. My 7th bird and 4th tortoise.

[TheRealMikeDr]

I've got a nice looking Jinhao 500 on a boat headed my way from China right now. Also a Pilot 78G with a BB Stub nib that I just got from eBay. Never tried a stub nib before and looking forward to playing around with one.

[graystranger]

A burgundy Pilot Decimo with a Fine nib. Just ordered it less than an hour ago. Probably get it Monday or Tuesday.

 

i have two Vanishing Points, and spare nibs in all the sizes from EF to the 1.0mm stub. I've been really curious about the Decimo and its smaller size and weight. By the way, my 1999 Vanishing point was used daily at work for nearly 15 years and has been used regularly since I retired over 3 years ago. Never a problem at all, the mechanism is just as smooth as my 2014 Copper LE VP. The finish on the pen still looks like new, though has been carried in my pockets thousands of times. None of the 5 nibs I have ever gave any problems.

[chromantic]

A Sheaffer VFM gift set containing a bright, shiny red fountain pen, medium nib, and a shiny dark blue ballpoint.

 

Now, why they didn't make it a matching set, with both the same color, is beyond me. It's still in the original packaging with the label showing FP / BP red / blue so no funny business involved. I only bought it for the shiny red FP and this set was cheaper than the FP alone from other sellers so ... boo-ya, I guess.

[mrfilbert]

Platinum Preppy with 2 ink cartridges

[Noihvo]

 

[graystranger]

Platinum Preppy with 2 ink cartridges

 

These pens are just wonderful! Did you know that you can switch from fountain pen to felt tip marker to felt tip highlighter pen just by switching the tips? Goulet pens sells both Preppy markers and highlighters and the replacement tips for them. You just pull the nib/feed tube and swap around whenever you want. They share the same feed/grips.

 

Want a rugged Preppy to toss in your backpack, one that can get banged around without cracking the clip, cap, or body? Get the Platinum Plaisir fountain pen for $18. It is an aluminum clad cap and barrel, but the guts are the Preppy guts. Again, you can swap around the cap and barrel with any Preppy section. The finish looks great, Plaisirs look like much more expensive pens.

 

I always have 5 or 6 Preppy pens inked up. Wonderful pens that can sit capped for a long time without drying out.

 

I have Preppy pens in fountain and marker formats filled with Blue Ghost invisible ink. Great fun.

[mallymal1]

Lamy 2000.

[NinthSphere]

 

 

Nice. Who's T? Torelli?

[chromantic]

A 3-lot of Sheaffer Stylists, grey and black with chrome trim and a dark sparkly red with gold trim and nib; bought the lot to get the red one. Listed as 'new' (pics show price stickers still on) and 'unused', they are unboxed and missing the originally-supplied push-button converters.

Edited July 10, 2016 by chromantic

[mallymal1]

An early Aurora 88, and a black Esterbrook J double jewel with a 2284 broad stub.

[Ileach]

I finally ordered four (!) Chinese pens. Actually I am only curious what pens I will receive and who knows, maybe I take one as a dip pen with permanent ink (Diamine's registrar's ink). I do not want to use a valuable pen but as a dip pen it should be ok to write addresses on letters or signing the tax return papers :-)

At a total of less than 12 Euro (including shipping) I ordered a Jinhao X450 and a X750, a Baoer 3035 and a Hero 901.

[eliweisz]

Three Parkers: 65 Flighter, 45 Insignia, blue Slimfold.

[Noihvo]

 

Nice. Who's T? Torelli?

 

That is honoured master John Twiss.

 

http://www.handmadefountainpens.co.uk/

 

Naturally, I have no affiliation with his or his work, other than being a new and very happy customer.