What Pen Are You Waiting For 2019

[ScarletWoodland]

Have been using my two Platinum Desk Pens so much this week that I gave in and ordered a Red version of the Carbon Desk pen too.

[gyasko]

I've been waiting for a vintage MB 149 to arrive since December. The post office has lost track of it. I don't expect it to ever show up.

[A Smug Dill]

A Platinum #3776 Century Oshino with Soft Medium nib I ordered from La Couronne du Comte last week. It's not really my favourite type of pen (it's a clear demonstrator!), but I'm just a little curious about the #3776 SM nib, and the Kumpoo (which is the other #3776 model that offered the SM nib as an option) is sold out everywhere, not to mention also 25% more expensive even when just comparing MSRPs.

 

It'll probably be some time before the pen will be dispatched though, because even though LCdC has (at least) one unit in stock on special offer for its 11th Anniversary sales promotion — which I bought, and now the item has disappeared from the store's product catalogue — I ordered a bunch of inks at the same time, primarily to qualify for free (international) shipping and not because I really need more inks urgently, and some of the inks are not in stock. In particular, I expect the bottle of Noodler's Blue Ghost to take a while to arrive at LCdC.

 

Dennis is perfectly willing to send me the not-in-stock items separately, but I've seen how much it costs him to ship a single 50ml bottle of ink from the Netherlands to Australia, and the Noodler's bottle, being larger, certainly won't be cheaper to send. It would neither be fair, nor make any sense, to make LCdC wear shipping charges that's about threefold what I paid for the bottle of ink!

 

I just received a shipment of five bottles of ink from Japan today (boosting my collection to about 190 inks), so I'm really in no rush.

[Says]

190 inks!!

 

Smug, thanks for making me feel that I do not have an addiction problem...

That sense of comfort just sent my wallet into an epileptic seizure.....

 

 

A Platinum #3776 Century Oshino with Soft Medium nib I ordered from La Couronne du Comte last week. It's not really my favourite type of pen (it's a clear demonstrator!), but I'm just a little curious about the #3776 SM nib, and the Kumpoo (which is the other #3776 model that offered the SM nib as an option) is sold out everywhere, not to mention also 25% more expensive even when just comparing MSRPs.

 

It'll probably be some time before the pen will be dispatched though, because even though LCdC has (at least) one unit in stock on special offer for its 11th Anniversary sales promotion — which I bought, and now the item has disappeared from the store's product catalogue — I ordered a bunch of inks at the same time, primarily to qualify for free (international) shipping and not because I really need more inks urgently, and some of the inks are not in stock. In particular, I expect the bottle of Noodler's Blue Ghost to take a while to arrive at LCdC.

 

Dennis is perfectly willing to send me the not-in-stock items separately, but I've seen how much it costs him to ship a single 50ml bottle of ink from the Netherlands to Australia, and the Noodler's bottle, being larger, certainly won't be cheaper to send. It would neither be fair, nor make any sense, to make LCdC wear shipping charges that's about threefold what I paid for the bottle of ink!

 

I just received a shipment of five bottles of ink from Japan today (boosting my collection to about 190 inks), so I'm really in no rush.

[ScarletWoodland]

Aaaand I caved and ordered the 14k version of Platinum's desk pen.

 

I wasn't going to as the DP-1000AN is perfect as far as I'm concerned BUT I want to try some of their Classic iron galls and that means gold. One black, fine, KDP-3000A is now on the way

Edited March 27, 2019 by ScarletWoodland

[A Smug Dill]

... I want to try some of their Classic iron galls and that means gold. One black, fine, KDP-3000A is now on the way

Nice one! Right now I have Platinum Classic Ink Khaki Black in my Pelikan M200 Smoky Quartz with a steel Fine nib, because Pelikan nibs call for very dry inks. We'll see if it destroys the nib.

 

I just received a bottle of Lavender Black as well, but I haven't decided into which pen I should put it.

[Honeybadgers]

Aaaand I caved and ordered the 14k version of Platinum's desk pen.

 

I wasn't going to as the DP-1000AN is perfect as far as I'm concerned BUT I want to try some of their Classic iron galls and that means gold. One black, fine, KDP-3000A is now on the way

 

I can confirm that you don't need the special marble desk base. it actually fits best in the cheaper slanted bases (where it clicks into the slip/seal, something the normal desk pens do not)

 

My only gripe with the 14k desk pen is that the barrel isn't straight. it's actually really annoyingly bent off in one direction. Writes a treat though. I do regret buying the marble base for it, since the pen's barrel is so cheap.

[truthpil]

Two Jinhao 992s with gold trim will arrive today. The gold trim models were only made once and now disappearing. They are also the only versions of the 992 that don't seem to have any cracking issues. I've been using one for years with no cracks forming at all and the smoothest nib imaginable. Hoping these two will be a similar experience.

[ScarletWoodland]

Nice one! Right now I have Platinum Classic Ink Khaki Black in my Pelikan M200 Smoky Quartz with a steel Fine nib, because Pelikan nibs call for very dry inks. We'll see if it destroys the nib. ;)I just received a bottle of Lavender Black as well, but I haven't decided into which pen I should put it.

 

90% Sure they'd be fine but I don't want it to keep me up at night

 

I don't know how I'm going to choose which one of the Classics to spring for as I kind of love the look of all of them. Hopefully Pure Pens will start doing samples now they have them in, or I'll have to throw a dart at my top three. Leaning Lavender or Citrus at the mo.

 

EDIT: Nya ha! An ebay seller in Scotland is doing samples. I forgot about them.

 

I can confirm that you don't need the special marble desk base. it actually fits best in the cheaper slanted bases (where it clicks into the slip/seal, something the normal desk pens do not)

 

My only gripe with the 14k desk pen is that the barrel isn't straight. it's actually really annoyingly bent off in one direction. Writes a treat though. I do regret buying the marble base for it, since the pen's barrel is so cheap.

 

That's good to know. I have one of the cheap, two pen desk stands on the way so hopefully it'll fit in there. The clunky caps don't bug me as much as I thought they would though, so would be fine with it hanging out in my pen pot.

 

The bent barrel thing would annoy me too. Will have to imagine it's hand crafted by blind monks or something

Edited March 28, 2019 by ScarletWoodland

[sidthecat]

A mystery eyedropper: the seller says the broad nib is flexible, and that it isn't a Sheaffer.

 

Well, one loves a mystery.

[truthpil]

This stunning beauty arrived in time for my birthday!

 

Unfortunately, I have Chinese pens that cost a twentieth of this pen that have smoother nibs, so I'm probably going to have to send this off for smoothing at some point.

 

 

 

[Sinistral1]

Great photos of a beautiful pen. Happy Birthday!

[truthpil]

Great photos of a beautiful pen. Happy Birthday!

Thanks, Sinistral1! It ended up being a very busy work week, but this pen made it much nicer haha.

[biancitwo]

A Nakaya Portable Cigar, in Aka-tamenuri, with soft medium nib. Pendleton Brown will have it next week. How about your’s TruthPil?

[truthpil]

A Nakaya Portable Cigar, in Aka-tamenuri, with soft medium nib. Pendleton Brown will have it next week. How about yours TruthPil?

I plan on sending a few pens to PB once I'm in the US again this summer.

[georges zaslavsky]

It has been a while since I have ordered something , but I ordered two modern limited edition Conklins made by Visconti:

Conklin Nozac Word Gauge LE by Visconti - 36/898, Marble Blue/Tortoise, Piston Filler, 18K Medium Nib (Near Mint in Box) from Terri Moris
Conklin Mark Twain Limited Edition Red Overlay Fountain Pen from Bryant Greer

[biancitwo]

I plan on sending a few pens to PB once I'm in the US again this summer.

I look forward to hearing about them; also to reporting on my new Nakaya.

[strictlyobiter]

Another PenBBS model on the way, this time a 469 in Manjusaku. Beini has updated the Etsy store for anyone on the lookout.

[inkstainedruth]

Just hit the "pay" button a couple of hours ago on a Sailor Pro-Gear Slim Purple Cosmos with a zoom nib. I was shocked and amazed last week when I discovered that there a still a few of them floating around at various vendors online (mine's coming from Cult Pens in the UK, because that was the best price I found which still had most of the nib widths available (I think the only nib they didn't have for that color was M-F).

I had been holding off until I could actually find someone locally who had a zoom nib to try (turns out a good friend had one, although he couldn't find the pen with a music nib on it; he also had a couple of the naginata-togi nibs, but I was good to my wallet and didn't try one of those ; I'm not financially flush enough to buy a nib that cost more than my M405 Anthracite Stresemann did...). It was very feedbacky on the paper in an Eco-Qua notebook. But I had also brought along some Tomoe River paper -- and on that the nib was a joy.

My friend got treated to a nice dinner at a place he likes by me and my husband, and we were sitting there playing with the pen while waiting for the food to arrive (my husband even tried it -- and he's not really a FP guy ).

Of course I told my husband on the way home that I might just have to buy the larger size Nanami Paper notebook, the one with the blank pages (someone in another thread had said "I use my pen with the zoom nib for drawing").

The people at Cult Pens are going to walk into work first thing Monday morning and find my order in their computer system (and will likely be going "Oh, it's that crazy American chick who contacted us last week...").

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[biancitwo]

A Nakaya Portable Cigar, in Aka-tamenuri, with soft medium nib. Pendleton Brown will have it next week. ...

Just received the Nakaya. I was anxious to use the soft medium, but had decided without trying it to get a PB CI. I was surprised to find the nib is very fine. Then I wrote with it. I was even more surprised to find the nib very smooth. It is relatively wet, though the line, while dark, remains quite fine. I filled it with Monteverdi Horizon Blue. I haven't written on good paper yet. This is a treat. I may not have a modification done. A beautiful pen, with a wonderful nib.