What Pen Are You Waiting For In The Mail 2018

[PaganArcher]

Though it arrived safely yesterday, I'm not currently at home to personally take receipt of it, my second Lamy 2000. But this one was a steal for a pen in excellent condition with a double broad nib.

[thx1138]

About 8 parker 75's and a bunch of spare 75 nibs and sections (I may have become a bit carried away with 75's), a couple of NOS Parker Premier ball pens, a handful of complete and incomplete Parker 180's, and a careen BP which should be in amber but the ad was contradictory.

[thx1138]

Oh, and 3 himilayas with broad nibs.

[dylim1]

Opus88 Demonstrator.

[leporeju]

Used Onoto and the crazy East Coast storm has delayed its arrival. Boo.

[biancitwo]

2 Pilot Custom 912s, one with a BB, and one with a music nib. A Platinum Chartres, with a SF. The last is my Omas Paragon returning to me with a new 18k Omas Mottishaw CI.

[Green Ink]

That turquoise Pelikan M600.

[biancitwo]

2 Pilot Custom 912s, one with a BB, and one with a music nib. A Platinum Chartres, with a SF. The last is my Omas Paragon returning to me with a new 18k Omas Mottishaw CI.

The Pilot 912, with music nib arrived yesterday. The music nib feels delicate. The triple tines click quietly as I write. There is not as much line variation as I expected. It is a wet writer. But, I write quickly and the feed does not keep up. The music nib seems quite flexible. I am not comfortable flexing it much. It is a very light touch. I have filled it with Asa Gao. In this pen, that ink is not as sarurated as in any of my other pens (mostly Pelikan). I love the feel, and the shape. I wish it held more ink. I look forward to the same pen arriving tomorrow with a BB nib. I believe that nib will seem more substantial. My returning Omas with its new nib may arrive tomorrow. So excited!

[biancitwo]

Removed double post.

Edited March 28, 2018 by biancitwo

[WarrenB]

A Hero 360, for the novelty and because in my naïveté I thought the Fountain Pentel nib shape was unique. (And because I'll need to save a bit for a Trident)

 

A Hero 970, because I decided I like orange pens.

 

Took possession of my second lot of Jinhaos yesterday. The barrel cap on my first 992 was popped out straightaway, 'til I could fiddle with it.

[MilanKov]

So I pulled my trigger after loosing another P-51 auction and bought dark blue wing sung 601 to cheer me up. I have lovely and currently lonely pelikán 4001 violet waiting for it.

[sdbruder]

Had my pen mail day: My 580AL Rose (finally) arrived with some red-ish inks together:

 

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

Waiting for a Jinhao X750 with a fude nib, a Wing Sung 6359, and two unidentified Chinese pens.

[akrohn2010]

Waiting on an Edison Menlo with a custom CI nib. Custom orders at Edison are backed up to about a 17 week wait now, so itll be July before I get it!

 

Patience is tough...

~AK

Edited March 29, 2018 by AK-47

[Tseg]

This has been a painful wait. I bought a Sailor King of Pen Pro Gear out of Japan on 3/10, it shipped 3/12, arrived in Tokyo preparing for international shipment on 3/17 and no updates since then... 19 days in total and may still be half a world away. The end of the delivery window is 4/5, but who thought they would use all the time? My Pilot Custom 823 (smoke) from Japan arrived on the front end of the delivery window. This extreme wait forced me to buy a Pelikan M1000 from the UK to keep my mind occupied and that was 3 days from my order to my doorstep.

 

[AmandaW]

Long delivery times are normal here. The way I deal with it is to not expect the item until the longest date quoted. If it arrives earlier than that: bonus.

[sdbruder]

Long delivery times are normal here. The way I deal with it is to not expect the item until the longest date quoted. If it arrives earlier than that: bonus.

 

 

I think you guys dont really know what is to really wait for something. Here overseas packages delivery times of 30 days are normal. These days where our local delivery company is basically failing/going bankrupt/imploding (how you can bankrupt a government-backed company??!?!) I-dont-know-if-it-will-arrive is the “new normal”. My TWSBI 580AL was 100 days in transit until it arrived. 3 months and 10 days.

[sdbruder]

This has been a painful wait. I bought a Sailor King of Pen Pro Gear out of Japan on 3/10, it shipped 3/12, arrived in Tokyo preparing for international shipment on 3/17 and no updates since then... 19 days in total and may still be half a world away. The end of the delivery window is 4/5, but who thought they would use all the time? My Pilot Custom 823 (smoke) from Japan arrived on the front end of the delivery window. This extreme wait forced me to buy a Pelikan M1000 from the UK to keep my mind occupied and that was 3 days from my order to my doorstep.

 

 

I officially envy you. Im waiting for my Sailor 1911 Large for an eternity, still didnt arrived.

[RoyalBlueNotebooks]

2 to 3 months of wait is normal for Italy too, especially from overseas, meaning North and South America, China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea. I've never bought anything from Australia and NZ but I don't expect the wait to be much shorter. It's mostly the fault of Poste Italiane, they keep the packages in warehouses for weeks before processing, due to a lack of machines and employees during the import procedures.

 

Anyway. Just placed my 3rd ink order ever. 1st and 2nd were from Diamine's official website, now I dared ordering from the online store called Seitz-Kreuznach, since orders above 15€ are free of shipping. I found that hard to believe, but I truly didn't pay anything for shipping during the checkout process. Boh.

 

Anyway, thanks to penpals and reviews here I bought 2 30ml bottles from Diamine, Salamander and Macassar, and 3 bottles from Rohrer & Klingner, Verdigris, Sepia and my first ever iron gall ink, Salix. Can't wait!

Edited March 30, 2018 by RoyalBlueNotebooks

[tvradio]

Just got in from JetPens a red Platinum Preppy M (into which I loaded some Sheaffer Skrip Red), a black Pilot Petit1 and, for a friend, a JetPens Chibi2 mini fountain pen.

Edited March 30, 2018 by tvradio