What Pen Are You Waiting For 2019

[truthpil]

It arrived 2 days ago - here are the naked pics of my Platinum 3776 Rokka.

In its birthday suit!! As in un-inked.

 

No apologies for 8 (yes eight ) pics of this empty pen. Indulge me, ok?

 

I love the way that light plays in and out of the pen. Quite stunning!

 

(Doesn't look half bad with Yama-Budo in it, either!! But haven't taken the pics yet).

 

 

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No reason to apologize! That is a crystalline beauty!!!!

[truthpil]

I'm awaiting my Osmia 72 OBB and Osmia 76 EF returning to me from Main Street Pens this week. I haven't seen them in over a year!

[madmath]

A TWSBI Eco white in EF, ordered 16-3-2019, 130 days ago, 4 months and 8 days. Ordered at LCDC. Sigh ...

[A Smug Dill]

A TWSBI Eco white in EF, ordered 16-3-2019, 130 days ago, 4 months and 8 days. Ordered at LCDC. Sigh ...

 

 

The Platinum #3776 "The Prime" silver fountain pen I ordered from LCdC on 14 July just arrived out of sequence, which took me completely by surprise. Another order (of three fountain pens) that I placed two days before that, and according to PostNL tracking, was put on a plane to Australia on the same day (as a separate shipment) is not registering as having arrived in country yet. The other item from LCdC that left the Netherlands a week before that, and is showing as having landed in Australia last week, is still nowhere to be seen.

[Calabria]

An Aurora Ipsilon Quadra Cento, which (I'd like to think) I had the good sense not to buy from retailers in North America, where the asking prices are so much higher than what I paid in pre-order several weeks ago.

I'm looking at that pen as well. Did you get it? Are you happy with it?

[A Smug Dill]

Did you get it? Are you happy with it?

 

Yes, I did. No, I'm not, and it has completely eroded any goodwill I have for the Aurora brand. I was gobsmacked when I opened the box, to find Aurora has put something glaringly not of merchantable quality into my unit of its brand new, very limited production run 100th Anniversary pens that can hardly be explained away as an inadvertent mistake in the factory. The matter is in the process of being resolved, so I won't explain further, but let's just say I'm not going to forget or forgive Aurora in a hurry even after the dust has settled.

 

Edit: The 'resolution' arrived this afternoon. I'm still not happy with what happened and how Aurora could have allowed it to happen (although I'd say it seemed to be wilful wrongdoing to me). I'm also not impressed with either the EF nib or the finish of the section, for a 100th Anniversary pen that was marketed with such fanfare. I think I'm happier with my run-of-the-mill Pilot Elite 95s (which has just been requisitioned by my fiancée, so I'll have to order a replacement soon).

Edited July 25, 2019 by A Smug Dill

[auslindamac]

 

No reason to apologize! That is a crystalline beauty!!!!

 

Thank-you! And what a lovely description!

[by_a_Lady]

Sooo, after lusting after this pen for years, I have finally spoiled myself with a Lamy 2000. I'm so excited! It's the original Makrolon with a very stubbish-looking B nib.

Maybe it's choice-supportive bias, but I know exactly that this pen will fit all my writing needs perfectly, as well as being absolute eye candy as a product of my very favourite school of design, Bauhaus. I just love to look at its lines; it's like with ballet - already really nice on its own, but much more fascinating when you're acquainted with the philosophies that power it.

 

Another thing that might be useful to know: I bought it "used" (it was a fairly recent purchase and had seen but two fillings of ink) for 86€, including insured shipping and original packaging, from a very nice member of the German fountain pen forum. My local paper supply shop has it going for 190€, Mayr & Fessler in the Inner City for a similar price, and on Amazon it's 130€. At first I thought I'd made a too-good-to-be-true bargain (I had set a budget of 100€ and expected to be offered some typically worn pens in good writing condition), but apparently that is a common asking price! (I looked through some older sale threads.) That's amazing, for 80€ you get a gold nib, piston filler, nearly indestructible material that was designed as an object of almost pure function but still has the most awe-inspiring looks out of all fountain pens I've seen.

 

 

Dominique

Edited July 25, 2019 by by_a_Lady

[praxim]

I am waiting for a very sorry-looking Onoto 2052, in serious need of cleaning and no doubt replacement of essential seals and washers, trusting that other parts are more or less intact. It has a No.2 nib which appears to have all of its tines and tipping, and should clean up, and the blue cap and barrel look as though they should be OK under the dust. It was not labelled a 2052 by the seller -- I am reasonably confident that is what it will prove to be. They were pretty much a unique design for Onoto with cap threads at the bottom end of the section like a modern Ancora. Released in 1935, it is a long slender pen for, as they said, "ladies or people who like long slender pens".

 

Pens of a particular design should be released for people who like that particular design. I have always said that.

[Calabria]

 

 

Yes, I did. No, I'm not, and it has completely eroded any goodwill I have for the Aurora brand. I was gobsmacked when I opened the box, to find Aurora has put something glaringly not of merchantable quality into my unit of its brand new, very limited production run 100th Anniversary pens that can hardly be explained away as an inadvertent mistake in the factory. The matter is in the process of being resolved, so I won't explain further, but let's just say I'm not going to forget or forgive Aurora in a hurry even after the dust has settled.

 

Edit: The 'resolution' arrived this afternoon. I'm still not happy with what happened and how Aurora could have allowed it to happen (although I'd say it seemed to be wilful wrongdoing to me). I'm also not impressed with either the EF nib or the finish of the section, for a 100th Anniversary pen that was marketed with such fanfare. I think I'm happier with my run-of-the-mill Pilot Elite 95s (which has just been requisitioned by my fiancée, so I'll have to order a replacement soon).

Oh no! Aurora QC has been lacking lately - there has been a lot of discussion about cracks in the new pens. I think they're releasing too many models too quickly. Thanks for letting me know - I'll stick with my trusty, 10 year old 88.

[Chrysiridia]

It might not be glamorous, but I'm waiting on two pens, both second hand: A Nemosine Singularity Fuschia and PenBBS 309 Summer. Both have fine nibs.

[bogiesan]

Following with their Tipo and Pico lines, I hope Lamy will offer truly fluorescent colors for the Safari range.

[pkotrcka]

I am waiting for a Faber-Castell Neo Slim in Oriental Red & Rose Gold.. with B nib :-)

[A Smug Dill]

Oh no! Aurora QC has been lacking lately - there has been a lot of discussion about cracks in the new pens.

In my case, I wouldn't attribute the unforgivable act to a Quality Control issue per se on the part of Aurora.

 

Aurora installed an obviously used nib into my Ipsilon Quadra Cento Italia, which of course I'd expect to be brand new considering it's an 100th Anniversary limited edition model with a short production run that I had to pre-order. I wasn't even aware that there were any Aurora models with small-sized (as opposed to the ones on the Aurora 88 and Talentum) ruthenium-plated 14K gold nibs before this, so I was gobsmacked to see permanent discolouration on my 'new' pen's nib consistent with prolonged exposure to nib creep, and that is not even properly aligned with the feed. It is implausible that the seller had performed a switcheroo, given the rarity of such a nib, although it was undeniably an oversight for it as a well-known retailer not to check what Aurora supplied, before sending the pre-ordered item to its customer.

 

I took photos of the nib and feed, and sent them to the retailer with a strongly worded message, asserting that the nib I received was literally junk. The Director of the company replied in less than ten minutes, apologising for his staff's negligence and expressing agreement that what Aurora supplied was shocking and unacceptable. Given it is a limited edition pen of which his allocation had long since sold out, I told him I wasn't keen on returning the item for a refund, but asked him to figure it out with Aurora how to resolve it. He got Aurora to send a replacement nib-feed-section assembly (complete with the unusual ruthenium-plated trim rings), since the nib and feed on the Ipsilon are not enclosed in a screw-in housing.

 

The seams on the replacement plastic section are more noticeable than on the original one, and detectable with the naked eye. Both of the EF nibs seem to leave a marginally broader line than the (larger) rhodium-plated 14K gold EF nib on my Aurora Alpha, which in turn leaves a broader line than the rhodium-plated 18K gold EF nib on my Aurora 88 Sigaro Blu.

 

For what it's worth, the pen (now with the new nib and section) looks and writes OK, but not really to the standard of a premium pen that has an MSRP of US$395, or even what I paid for it buying from Europe.

[adamselene]

MB “Diplomat” (I hope) platinum faceted, said to be “probably” unused.

 

Fell in love with this in the early stages of this addiction.

 

Guess it is a grail for me. An unexpected “ win”

 

It would be an interesting thread to post: “How did getting the Grail feel?”

 

Maybe it’s been done?

 

Too many “ in this post, what’s a couple more?

[FOUR X FOUR]

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The wait is over.

[BergerDM]

Right now I'm waiting on a Delike Element and a Sheaffer No Nonsense! Another Platinum pen I was waiting on arrived today and for inexperience on the seller's part (and his attempt to "keep the mystery" about the pen) I only payed about a quarter of its found price.

[MadAsAHatter]

I'm eagerly awaiting 2 PenBBS 308's - one in snowflake white and the other in a smokey grey/black. I also ordered a Conklin Duragraph in Blue Nights special edition from GouletPens yesterday.

[inkstainedruth]

Oooh. That grey/black PenBBS 308 sounds pretty. And I just saw pix of the Duragraph Blue Nights in the email from Goulet Pens.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[jchch1950]

Lamy 2000 with a obb nib,can't wait.