I got this pen today

[Penguincollector]

Happy early birthday tooo meeee 🎶

Baby Blue Sheaffer TRZ and Green Pilot 78G BB from  @terim at Peyton Street Pens- love buying Sheaffer from Teri- thanks so much for the care you take with my orders! 
A penguin printed financial nib Moonman from Ali Express 

Nothing too fancy, but there’s new maple flooring getting installed upstairs and a new craft room setup in the works, so it’s all really icing. 

[Misfit]

Very nice haul @Penguincollector  Early Happy Birthday to You, and many more 🎶🎵🎶

[Penguincollector]

Many thanks- and enjoy your beautiful mountain pens!

[Misfit]

Thank you. I’m still trying to decide what ink to use in the K2 Mountain pen. 

[HauntedMyst]

It writes well but it's stiff.  Super light weight.  My guess is that it was a $10 pen back in the 80's.   

[OldTravelingShoe]

I got this pen to try out today, for the first time - a Sailor 1911L pen with a Naginata Fude nib:

 

 

... and I am so very happy to share it is instant and pure joy! 

Edited May 15, 2022 by OldTravelingShoe
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[DvdRiet]

5 minutes ago, OldTravelingShoe said:

I got this pen to try out today, for the first time - a Sailor 1911L pen with a Naginata Fude nib:

 

 

... and I am so very happy to share it is instant and pure joy! 

 

Oooh, I know what pen I hope you will put on the list to take along to the meetup!!  

[OldTravelingShoe]

17 minutes ago, DvdRiet said:

 

Oooh, I know what pen I hope you will put on the list to take along to the meetup!!  

Can-do attitude 😄 Happy to share - but please add it to our planning documents so we don't forget. 

[DvdRiet]

36 minutes ago, OldTravelingShoe said:

Can-do attitude 😄 Happy to share - but please add it to our planning documents so we don't forget. 

 

Done! 

[OldTravelingShoe]

37 minutes ago, DvdRiet said:

 

Done! 

I propose also a new rule for the first meetup:

 

Rule: Per meeting, you can bring at most one fancy pen in the set of 10 you want to share with others. (For me, it's going to be this one.) 

 

This rule addresses the need to be fair and nice to everyone who may not have more than one fancy pen, while allowing others to experience such pens as shared by others. One can of course present another fancy pen, or none at all, in the following meetup. 

Edited May 15, 2022 by OldTravelingShoe
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[DvdRiet]

31 minutes ago, OldTravelingShoe said:

I propose also a new rule for the first meetup:

 

Rule: Per meeting, you can bring at most one fancy pen in the set of 10 you want to share with others. (For me, it's going to be this one.) 

 

This rule addresses the need to be fair and nice to everyone who may not have more than one fancy pen, while allowing others to experience such pens as shared by others. One can of course present another fancy pen, or none at all, in the following meetup. 

 

Oops, sorry, didn't mean to put you on the spot there with your new fancy pen! Please don't feel any obligation on my account!!! I have been wanting to try both a fude nib and Sailor nib for a while now - the fude to see if I might like drawing with it and the Sailor to actually feel how much feedback they have in comparison to the smoothness of Diplomat nibs, for example. I also haven't had a good opportunity to travel to one of the pen specialists since the lockdowns, etc., so when I saw your post, I'm afraid I couldn't resist! Do these Naginata nibs have the same feedback as the regular Sailor nibs?

 

And coincidentally sort of to the same end as this proposed rule, and since I will have to bring at least one Diplomat - obviously  - I thought I would bring along a same or similar model with a gold and a steel nib. Whether there is a discernible difference between them is a question I see asked a lot, and since I have both, I thought that might be of interest. 

[OldTravelingShoe]

17 hours ago, DvdRiet said:

Do these Naginata nibs have the same feedback as the regular Sailor nibs?

I think this is a very different kind of nib, at least for me. The Naginata Fude seems to very... wet, Sharpie-like is how I would call it, as opposite to the more pronounced feedback, pencil-like?, of the regular nibs on modern pens.

 

I experienced much more variation in their vintage pens. The Naginata Fude is not flexing at all for me. The range is given by how you hold the pen - this would be closer to their large, Zoom? nibs @Chi was presenting a while back. 

 

Perhaps this Naginata Fude nib is closer to the coarse nibs in Platinum and Pilot pens, which are for now the largest and most Sharpie-like I have tried. 

 

Note: Some may not like the Sharpie comparison. I mean it very positively, if one ciuld give me a Sharpie with full control over stroke thickness, with a body my fingers actually want to hold, whose tip never tires or dulls, and for which I can easily change inks, I'd take it!

[OldTravelingShoe]

17 hours ago, DvdRiet said:

And coincidentally sort of to the same end as this proposed rule, and since I will have to bring at least one Diplomat - obviously  - I thought I would bring along a same or similar model with a gold and a steel nib. Whether there is a discernible difference between them is a question I see asked a lot, and since I have both, I thought that might be of interest.

I am myself very interested in this and I can easily imagine many others would as well. Very nice idea, @DvdRiet! 

[OldTravelingShoe]

17 hours ago, DvdRiet said:

Please don't feel any obligation on my account

Hehe. And yet I do 😄

[PithyProlix]

Pilot Grance - my first. Appears to be the same #5 nib and feed as on the Custom 74 & Custom Heritage 91/92 but with different engraving, of course. The marbled cap and barrel appear to be acrylic with the lighter red being pearlescent. Likely brass under the acrylic. I prefer the Custom 74's thicker grip and CON-70 converter but the Grance is a nice pen and I'll get another if one comes up at a good price.

 

Also received this molded leather case - I believe it says "Kenobo". Does anyone know anything about it?

 

 

 

[OldTravelingShoe]

3 hours ago, PithyProlix said:

Pilot Grance - my first. Appears to be the same #5 nib and feed as on the Custom 74 & Custom Heritage 91/92 but with different engraving, of course. The marbled cap and barrel appear to be acrylic with the lighter red being pearlescent. Likely brass under the acrylic. I prefer the Custom 74's thicker grip and CON-70 converter but the Grance is a nice pen and I'll get another if one comes up at a good price.

 

Also received this molded leather case - I believe it says "Kenobo". Does anyone know anything about it?

 

 

 

Very nice pen, @PithyProlix! And, for some reason, it is only now that I see your wonderful FPN signature. 😄

[PithyProlix]

1 minute ago, OldTravelingShoe said:

Very nice pen, @PithyProlix! And, for some reason, it is only now that I see your wonderful FPN signature. 😄

 

I just changed my signature a few days ago. 

[OldTravelingShoe]

17 minutes ago, PithyProlix said:

 

I just changed my signature a few days ago. 

Dye-based digital ink for your old signature... 

[AmandaW]

It arrived. Cute Bear.

 

[Misfit]

Hurray!  I’m glad your cute bear arrived. Amberlea Davis sent me a sample of Noodler’s Ottoman Rose, which is the ink I put in my cute bear pen. 
 

Ah ha, we chose different bears to put on the clip.