Are there any pen remake (of an old model) that is actually better than the original?

[inkstainedruth]

On 4/25/2021 at 5:38 PM, Paul-in-SF said:

It makes me feel very old when you describe a pen from the mid-1960s as "vintage," considering I was a teenager at the time. 

I guess I shouldn't make you feel even older by telling you how old *I* was in the mid-1960s....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Mech-for-i]

On 5/4/2021 at 6:17 AM, Jerome Tarshis said:

An imperfect reply: I own the 1970s version of the Pelikan 120 and the recent M120N Iconic Blue, and I think the recent one is a better pen. Larger ink capacity, more solid feel in the hand, a longer pen, all in all something better than the "school pen" the 1955 and 1970s pens were. Pelikan is selling the newest iteration into a basically upper middle class adult market, whereas the earlier ones were genuinely for school children and artists and adults of modest means who were not hobbyists. One may read that the middle class is being squeezed out of existence, and this pen strikes me as an example of a manufacturer leaping from the earlier market situation to the way things are now.

 

Add one here whose just as old ...lol

[Mech-for-i]

Well back to the subject , not exactly a remake but Wing Sung 601's piston pump Vacumetic is vast improvement over their earlier and Parker's original diaphragm mechanism. Though its not in itself original. Gold Star ( Jinxing ) pioneer this piston pump way back 1950's before anyone else, but Wing Sung made it available for everyone and within a very reasonable price.

[Estycollector]

On 4/25/2021 at 5:33 PM, sandy101 said:

Platinum # 3776 with the slip and seal mechanism. 

 

Parker 51 with the aerometric filler instead of the vaccumatic.

 

  

I don't think so. 

[gyasko]

On 5/3/2021 at 2:19 PM, alfredop said:

The current Pelikan M101N seems to be at least on par with the historical Pelikan 100N.

 

Alfredo

 

 

The nibs and feeds are totally different.  The vintage nibs are vastly superior in terms of line variation and feel.  

 

 If you only care about having a lookalike, then i suppose the modern ones will do.

[AL01]

 

 I think the modern Pelikans (M400 and up) are probably made out of a superior, (more stable?) material that feels pretty close (if not the same) to the Pelikans of the '50s.

 

 I think the M101N would be superior to the vintage pens with a vintage nib...