What Pen Are You Waiting For 2019

[Runnin_Ute]

 

The Pacific is a lovely colour.

Not sure why I didn't get it when it first came out.

[Liis]

6 Pilot Metropolitans F and 1 Pilot Petite1 from the US (I dislike the compulsory M-nib and European cartridge/converter combo we are offered here).

A pile of dark blues from Diamine is approaching from the other direction. Both shipments are way overdue and I am getting anxious.

School-folks saw me using a Metropolitan and wanted them too. I feel like a drug dealer. They do look pretty...

 

Oh and 2 nibs from Aliexpress to see whether I can replace a slightly scratchy nib on my Metro F.

[mallymal1]

Not sure why I didn't get it when it first came out.

 

Something else must have distracted you.

[SchaumburgSwan]

6 Pilot Metropolitans F and 1 Pilot Petite1 from the US...

School-folks saw me using a Metropolitan and wanted them too. I feel like a drug dealer. They do look pretty...

 

 

Well done!

 

Best

Jens

[minassamy]

i am waiting for

Liy Mitu galaxy ef

Moonman s1 koi finish f

Delike new moon ef bent nib

jinhao x450 matte black

[City74]

Pelikan M205 Demonstrator with M nib

[Honeybadgers]

Ordered my first TWSBI eco in the blue special edition and a sailor pro gear multipen, and a platinum 14k desk pen.

[ScarletWoodland]

Just ordered a Platinum Carbon desk pen while waiting for my PTL from Japan, because I'm an impatient little ferret.

[truthpil]

Ordered my first TWSBI eco in the blue special edition and a sailor pro gear multipen, and a platinum 14k desk pen.

 

The 14k desk pen sounds interesting. I wonder how it compares to the steel-nibbed version and something like a 3776 14k EF.

[Honeybadgers]

 

The 14k desk pen sounds interesting. I wonder how it compares to the steel-nibbed version and something like a 3776 14k EF.

 

I'll let you know. The pen's ridiculously cheap, so I'm expecting something similar to the PTL-5000A (the most expensive part is the base, I could've gotten a mount-less base for like $15, but I opted for a marble one for $30) but the nib shape itself is different.

 

I went with the "ultra fine" model. I don't really have a huge need for it since my 14k sheaffer snorkel desk pen is literally XXF perfection, but I may make it into a sketch pen. I love the steel nib platinum desk pens for sketching.

 

Thank Gil for making me waste $60 on this endeavour

Edited March 9, 2019 by Honeybadgers

[A Smug Dill]

Thank Gil for making me waste $60 on this endeavour

I felt the temptation on many occasions myself to buy one or two of the gold-nibbed Platinum desk pens, but in spite of their being the cheapest (but still 'proper', I would say) gold-nibbed pens from the Big Three manufacturers of Japanese fountain pens and available in (Japanese!) EF nib width, no less, I decided that my ² so-called reasons were just frivolous and irrational even for a hobbyist, so thus far I've refrained from putting in an order.

 

I'm so 'proud' of myself, haha, that I've even resisted buying a Platinum #3776 Century in Laurel Green, complete with custom laser-engraved inscription in kanji, with any nib (except Music) I could want for ¥9,530. It's another one of those things: I haven't tried a #3776 UEF or EF nib, and I don't have a #3776 Century in the rather attractive translucent dark green colour, but now that I have so many of the #3776 fountain pens (including a Chartres Blue RT and a Bourgogne) I think the plain resin models are just 'okay'. I prefer any celluloid (probably even the pink Sakura) model, any briar model, the yakusugi model and either kanazawa-haku model; I already have six of those, and of course there is room for more (since I'm still missing the light briar model, for example), but why am I even looking at the Laurel Green just because it's 'new' to the market and therefore less commonly owned than some of the other models?

 

There was also a Platinum Procyon 'Deep Sea' with F nib for ¥3,908, but that's stillA$50 before shipping costs are taken into account. I'm not that curious to experience about how it compares to the #3776 nibs, the steel F nibs on the Pilot MR and Prera, or even Leonardo pens' steel EF nibs, much less 'discuss' or report on that topic in a forum.

 

What I will probably get next is an Aurora Optima Nero Perla, but after getting hit with $6,500 in bills this past month, that'll have to wait.

 

² Just to be clear, I am repudiating my own motivation but not your reasons for purchase.

 

Sdf

[chromantic]

Today, I received a Jiffie from a seller in Belgium, a lovely lilac color (a bit darker than the photo suggested) with black clip/section.

[Honeybadgers]

the 3776 UEF is fun, but it's a scratchy bugger. not super unpleasantly scratchy, but it clearly aims for needlepoint fineness over trying to shoot for some degree of smoothness.

 

It's a very deliberate tool. you want one if you're writing in ledgers or in the margins of books or have to write in pen on garbage lab notebooks. Other than that, a custom ground XXXF would be a better bet. these still have a whiff of mass production about them, and not for the better.

[truthpil]

the 3776 UEF is fun, but it's a scratchy bugger. not super unpleasantly scratchy, but it clearly aims for needlepoint fineness over trying to shoot for some degree of smoothness.

 

It's a very deliberate tool. you want one if you're writing in ledgers or in the margins of books or have to write in pen on garbage lab notebooks. Other than that, a custom ground XXXF would be a better bet. these still have a whiff of mass production about them, and not for the better.

This is some very valuable information. I guess for me that means another order from Pablo rather than a pretty new Laurel Green 3776 EF or UEF. With book margin writing, it's essential that I cannot only write tiny but also quickly, so the less feedback the better while still having the finest point possible.

[miwishi63]

I took delivery of two Jinhao 51A pens (wood bodies) from China on Friday. Inked one up with Noodler's Red-Black and like the result so far.

[Driften]

Just ordered a Peyton Street Pens Ranga Zayante in smooth ripple Red/Black Ebonite. It will be my first modern ebonite pen. I have two BCHR vintage pens, but not one like this.

[ScarletWoodland]

Received my Platinum Carbon Desk pen today and am already so enamoured that I've ordered a double pen stand and another of their desk pens.

 

Was tempted by red but went for the DP-1000AN one in black intead (the one with the gold at the end of the barrel) as I'm fussy about putting anything other than black or red ink in a red pen. This way I'll still be able to tell which is which but can use any ink that takes my fancy.

 

My current one has the absolutely perfect amount of feedback for my taste so I'm even more excited to receive my PTL-5000 now.

 

I also ordered 4 more Jinhao 911s because they really are fantastic little workhorse pens, even taking the stupidly low price out of the equation.

[City74]

My first Pelikan arrived today...the M205 demo. Glad the wait is over. Its a nice pen

[A Smug Dill]

My current one has the absolutely perfect amount of feedback for my taste so I'm even more excited to receive my PTL-5000 now.

There are, of course, also the Platinum KDP-3000A desk pens which sport 14K gold nibs at nominally 60% of the price of a PTL-5000A each, if you're really into desk pens.

[Intensity]

Long wait for Lamy 2000 with EF nib preorder.