What Pen Are You Waiting For In The Mail 2018

[Corona688]

  On 8/20/2018 at 9:10 PM, Barkingpig said:

Goulet & Goldspot Pens both sell samples of 2ml

 

Anderson Pens sells 3ml samples

 

Vanness & Pen Chalet both sell samples of 4ml

I got Wonderpens, which only go up to 1.8. Chiselers.

[Bisquitlips]

Montblanc Hemingway FP. Excited I am!

[thx1138]

YAP180.

(Yet another Parker 180).

[trdsf]

Kaweco Liliput Fireblue.

[Rindy_Ruth]

I feel like I have been heading towards this pen ever since I re-started my interest in FP after the first of the year. Today I ordered my Grail pen, the Pineider La Grande Bellezza - Rodolite Red in Soft Fine. It has everything that I have wanted in a pen. A beautiful, weighty body made of marble dust and resin, a magnetic capping mechanism (I just hate the ritual of unscrewing my pens), and a bouncy gold nib designed by Dante Del Vecchio. My only hesitation, aside from the price, is the shaped metal section where my fingers will rest. But I can't imagine the section being enough to put me off the rest of this gorgeous pen. Time will tell, and it should be in my hands early next week.

 

Rindy_Ruth

 

Edited to add: Much to my surprise, my pen is out for delivery today! I won't get it until I arrive home from work at the end of the day. Already the hands of the clock are moving even slower than they do on a typical Friday. Counting the minutes . . .

Edited August 24, 2018 by Rindy_Ruth

[Shannon]

I've got a Montblanc 144 with a BB nib out for delivery today!

[Dochertya765]

Im waiting on a Mabie Todd Swallow with No.2 superflex nib.

[TSherbs]

  On 8/20/2018 at 9:10 PM, Barkingpig said:

 

Goulet & Goldspot Pens both sell samples of 2ml

 

Anderson Pens sells 3ml samples

 

Vanness & Pen Chalet both sell samples of 4ml

 

this has been my experience, too

[Corona688]

Not a pen exactly, but I'd been shopping for Ferrous Sulfate (to use in iron gall). But it's so hard to find chemicals in North America! Everyone's a suspected meth-smith or arsonist until proven innocent. Since I'm not a doctor, don't operate a water plant, and don't keep hogs, I finally gave up and ordered Ferrous Ammonium Sulfate (better anyway) from Belgium of all places.

And if anyone else tinkers with iron galls I recommend the same. Plain Ferrous Sulfate doesn't keep, in its bag or in your ink. Ferrous Ammonium Sulfate lasts many times longer and is 10x less toxic anyway. The "real" iron galls still made now apparently use it.

And now to wait.

For discount international shipping.

Grant me patience.

Edited August 24, 2018 by Corona688

[Sinistral1]

If you don't mind me asking, are you planning on making your own iron gall ink?

[Corona688]

  On 8/24/2018 at 4:48 PM, Sinistral1 said:

If you don't mind me asking, are you planning on making your own iron gall ink?

 

Yes, I've been trying for a while. See my thread, "The Gall of That Person!"

 

TL/DR, the popular "kitchen recipe" with tea, steel wool, and vinegar isn't iron gall as we know it -- it's walnut ink with tea instead of walnuts. It writes dark and darkens only slightly.

 

Properly darkening iron gall takes purer ferrous compounds than someone with finite patience can make in a home kitchen.

[Honeybadgers]

A visconti divina metro... again... As much as I said I'd never own it again... I just couldn't. it's too gorgeous.

and $600 is a little cheaper than the MSRP I paid originally

[bemon]

Not a pen, but some samples from Fountainfeder. Possibly the funnest stamps I've ever seen.

[A Smug Dill]

I finally received these last night in the mail from Japan, so I suppose I'm not waiting for them any more, but I have been waiting for weeks; the first order in this lot (sent as a combined, single shipment) was placed mid-July.

 

 

Apart from the Platinum #3776 snap-cap with the dark briar barrel (on the far right), the rest are just cheap Platinum Plaisir and Balance pens with custom engraved messages. Sadly, retailers in Australia want anywhere up to A$30 for a Plaisir, whereas these Plaisir pens were priced at ¥1080 (~A$13) including free name engraving service plus international shipping.

 

 

 

 

 

I wouldn't say the quality of the engraving is tip-top, but then I probably cannot get Chinese engraving done either easily or better from anyone local; and so that was part of the allure and value proposition.

 

All but one of the messages (in lieu of names) are from the Confucian Analects:

• 子https://ctext.org/dictionary.pl?if=en&id=1271 (This is on the green Plaisir, which is a present for my fiancée, and the message is a sorta in-joke; she is a published author of horror and speculative fiction, and I told her there is room for her in the market, especially since Confucius is no competition.)
• 子曰:「主忠信,毋友不如己者,過則勿憚改。」
• 子曰:「不患人之不己知,患不知人也。」
• 子曰:「仁遠乎哉?我欲仁,斯仁至矣。」
• 子曰:「不患人之不己知,患不知人也。」
• 曾子曰:「吾日三省吾身:為人謀而不忠乎?與朋友交而不信乎?傳不習乎?」
• 子曰:「三人行,必有我師焉。擇其善者而從之,其不善者而改之。」
• 子曰:「唯上知與下愚不移。」(N.B. Here, 知 in ancient Chinese has the meaning of 智 in modern Chinese.)
• 子曰:「辭達而已矣。」
• 子路曰:「衛君待子而為政,子將奚先?」子曰:「必也正名乎!」子路曰:「有是哉,子之迂也!奚其正?」子曰:「野哉由也!君子於其所不知,蓋闕如也。名不正,則言不順;言不順,則事不成;事不成,則禮樂不興;禮樂不興,則刑罰不中;刑罰不中,則民無所措手足。故君子名之必可言也,言之必可行也。君子於其言,無所苟而已矣。」

The remaining message, the odd one out engraved on the Plaisir in Bali citrus, is also from a Confucian quote:

• 子曰:「危者,安其位者也;亡者,保其存者也;亂者,有其治者也。是故,君子安而不忘危,存而不忘亡,治而不忘亂;是以身安而國家可保也。易曰:『其亡其亡,繫于苞桑』。」

[kmart_security]

Waiting on a platinum 3776 :D

[mtbradley]

Sailor Pro Gear Slim Demonstrator w/ 14k Medium nib. Goldspot.com. Feels like I found the last one of these NIB on earth with a medium nib (or just about nib for that matter). Very excited for it to arrive.

Edited August 31, 2018 by mtbradley

[doggle2]

Waiting for a Wing Sung 601 Demonstrator Piston. It's actually not on the way to me, it's on the way to a friend who'll trade it for one of my Lamy nibs on the first day of school!

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

I wanted to pit a vintage Pelikan Pelikano against my modern one, but I couldn't find mine. So last month I bought a new modern Pelikano, and this month I set about purchasing a vintage one.

Since I didn't want to go over-budget, I had thought my quest would be a long one, as vintage Pelikano go for higher prices than the contemporary ones. But lo and behold! I won one today as the only bidder, and I remained within budget! I'm a happy writer! ^^

[Aysedasi]

Broad nibbed Platinum President.

[Narciss]

I`m waiting on a grey marbled Pelikan 100 with a Bock Dauerfeder, a NOS Pelikan Level L5 Ceramic with 14ct M nib, and the 14ct gold nib of an old Pelikan 400 with ebonite feed to arrive. The nib is for the Pelikan M110 Calligraphy pen that I got last month. I love the deskpenlike shape of the M110, but I have no use for the 2mm Calligraphy nib it came with. And finally, there has been an update on my SEC Magia fountain pen - I`m getting an overworked version of the pen with a brandnew ebonite feed! The only thing that remains of my "old" Magia is the flexible Bock goldnib in EF. I`m really looking forward to that.