I got this pen today

[DvdRiet]

This pen arrived today so I guess that makes it a New Pen Day. It's a pen turned by Haskoson, made of blue and orange/brown celluloid with a black ebonite cap and grip section. I like the feel of it already. It doesn't have a clip so I'm taking suggestions for a nice roll-stop for it!

 

 

Anyone else get a fun new pen today?

 

[inkstainedruth]

Not today, but yesterday the orders from Goulet Pens and Anderson Pens came in, and the Goulet order included a Noodler's acrylic Konrad, Forbidden City (which I've wanted for several years now) and converters for the two Pelikan P22s I got at the Ohio Pen Show a couple of weekends ago.  

Everything got pre-flushed last night.  The Konrad now has Noodler's Heart of Darkness in it.  Haven't decided what will go in the two P22s yet (they weren't quite dry when I pulled them out of the votive candle holder with paper toweling in it this morning).

Your pen is nice, but I can't help thinking that a dark blue ebonite cap would have looked even better than the black.  Can't help you on roll stops, sorry -- all my pens either have clips or are ringtops.  But thinking that if you could find a gold-color one, it would look really good.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[DvdRiet]

50 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

Not today, but yesterday the orders from Goulet Pens and Anderson Pens came in, and the Goulet order included a Noodler's acrylic Konrad, Forbidden City (which I've wanted for several years now) and converters for the two Pelikan P22s I got at the Ohio Pen Show a couple of weekends ago.  

Everything got pre-flushed last night.  The Konrad now has Noodler's Heart of Darkness in it.  Haven't decided what will go in the two P22s yet (they weren't quite dry when I pulled them out of the votive candle holder with paper toweling in it this morning).

Your pen is nice, but I can't help thinking that a dark blue ebonite cap would have looked even better than the black.  Can't help you on roll stops, sorry -- all my pens either have clips or are ringtops.  But thinking that if you could find a gold-color one, it would look really good.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Oooh, I've just searched the Konrad Forbidden City - that's a very good-looking pen. Love the colors!

 

And yes, I agree that a blue cap would have been quite interesting on this pen. The orange is just a bit darker and more brownish than in the photo (it does pick up the light though), so the black is luckily not quite as stark in comparison as it looks here. And I am indeed thinking something nice and big and gold on the cap should do the trick.  

[chromantic]

I got my yellow Optima  last night, does that count?

[AmandaW]

My Indian Summer Kaweko Perkeo arrived today. I do like the murky yellow green!

 

That completes a little set of the four colours released in the first year. My delicious dilemma is now whether to look for the next few in the series.

[DvdRiet]

I couldn't help myself! This was my most recent most definitely impulse buy...

 

[mizgeorge]

52 minutes ago, DvdRiet said:

I couldn't help myself! This was my most recent most definitely impulse buy...

 

Gorgeous - is that the Stipula?

 

[DvdRiet]

12 minutes ago, mizgeorge said:

Gorgeous - is that the Stipula?

 

 

That's what I've been told! (Haven't done a lot of research on it myself, but there wasn't much info out there in my admittedly short search of the interwebs.) 

[inkstainedruth]

Interesting, DvdRiet  The cap band is kinda cool looking.  But I'm confused by the clip... does the loop it's hooked into actually come open somehow, or is the clip not actually functional?

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[DvdRiet]

1 hour ago, inkstainedruth said:

Interesting, DvdRiet  The cap band is kinda cool looking.  But I'm confused by the clip... does the loop it's hooked into actually come open somehow, or is the clip not actually functional?

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

The end of the clip is not a loop attached to the cap; it just looks that way because of the angle of the photo. It's a ring on the end of the clip itself (a ring through a ring). It's permanently welded together though, so it doesn't move or turn like the little barrel-shaped rings on the ends of the OMAS etc. clips. So it's a functional clip. I don't know how useful a clip it is, but it is functional! 

 

[AmandaW]

I received two pens today - they arrived in the post yesterday - but 'he who collected the post' forgot to pass the parcel. They are an orange and a blue Wing Sung 3003 - that's the Prera look alike - except they're bigger. That's my first impression. It will be interesting to compare the writing experience.

 

I have inked the blue with Waterman's Serenity Blue and my black Prera was already filled with Jacques Herbin's Gris de houle so it won't be an exact comparison, but good enough to test while I write them both to empty over the next few days.

[Lachryma]

I got the Conklin Endura, abalone and gun-metal grey, ef yesterday.

 

I wanted something wintery-looking and this one seems sort of dark but magical and wintery to me.  It's so pretty.  I won't use it, though, till either winter or some unofficial sign of practically winter . . . First snow, perhaps.  Or maybe when I just can't wait any longer. 

[inkstainedruth]

On 11/26/2021 at 6:45 PM, DvdRiet said:

 

The end of the clip is not a loop attached to the cap; it just looks that way because of the angle of the photo. It's a ring on the end of the clip itself (a ring through a ring). It's permanently welded together though, so it doesn't move or turn like the little barrel-shaped rings on the ends of the OMAS etc. clips. So it's a functional clip. I don't know how useful a clip it is, but it is functional! 

 

That's really cool!  Thanks for posting the extra photo.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[A Smug Dill]

20 minutes ago, Lachryma said:

I wanted something wintery-looking and this one seems sort of dark but magical and wintery to me.

 

Then, there are the Fine Writing International's ‘Snow Scene’ and ’Winter Night’ in the Fenestro range.

[DvdRiet]

On 11/28/2021 at 1:57 AM, Lachryma said:

I got the Conklin Endura, abalone and gun-metal grey, ef yesterday.

 

I wanted something wintery-looking and this one seems sort of dark but magical and wintery to me.  It's so pretty.  I won't use it, though, till either winter or some unofficial sign of practically winter . . . First snow, perhaps.  Or maybe when I just can't wait any longer. 

 

I was expecting something very grey when I looked this one up but was surprised to see such a pretty blue and green in the abalone. It does indeed look quite magical! I would say use it as soon as you need to add a little everyday magic to your day. 😊 (But I do confess that I can never put off inking a new pen for very long!)

[A Smug Dill]

These arrived last Friday (evening?) — and two out of three have problems. The following is a collage of what I sent AliExpress as documentation for the dispute I raised.

 

[DvdRiet]

21 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

These arrived last Friday (evening?) — and two out of three have problems. The following is a collage of what I sent AliExpress as documentation for the dispute I raised.

 

 

Wow, Dill, that is a serious discrepancy with the ink reservoir. Huge difference! And too bad about the transit damage - hope you get it all sorted out without any trouble.

[A Smug Dill]

24 minutes ago, DvdRiet said:

Wow, Dill, that is a serious discrepancy with the ink reservoir. Huge difference! And too bad about the transit damage - hope you get it all sorted out without any trouble.

 

Thanks! AliExpress has jumped in to offer an alternative resolution (of returning the pen to the seller using the free return service, which I assume will cost the seller behind the scenes) of a 50% partial refund for me to call it good and keep the damaged Wing Sung 699. I accepted it.

 

As for the defective HongDian N1-S, the ball is in the seller's court. I just estimated (by measuring the relative lengths of the ink reservoirs, using pixel count) the pen only has ~56% of the ink reservoir capacity it ought to have.

[A Smug Dill]

I was expecting a DHL package containing 11 items — across a stack of not yet completely fulfilled orders placed in the last seven months — last Monday; but, to my utter (and unhappy!) surprise, it inexplicably contained only one item.

 

Today, the rest of those (and a few more items) arrived in a second DHL package. Among them, as far as pens are concerned:

• a Scribo FEEL Panarea
• two Faber-Castell Loom (in gunmetal matt, and metallic grey)
• an Opus 88 Picnic in brown (completing my collection of the four non-exclusive colours, and being the one I thought I wanted most keenly)

to join the Tibaldi Bononia Martini Olive that arrived last week.

 

[Mercian]

10 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

I was expecting a DHL package containing 11 items — across a stack of not yet completely fulfilled orders placed in the last seven months — last Monday; but, to my utter (and unhappy!) surprise, it inexplicably contained only one item.

 

Today, the rest of those (and a few more items) arrived in a second DHL package.

 

I am very glad to read that they did!
I remember reading the post in which you wrote that your package had arrived with only 1 of the 11 items that you had ordered;  if that had happened to me I would have highly annoyed, and got straight on the phone to the vendor to ask them what the Vorsprung durch Technik was going on!