I got this pen today

[Misfit]

My Cult Pens order arrived today. Among the items I ordered was the Kaweco Frosted natural coconut pen with a 1.1mm nib. The black clip was in this purchase, as well as the Clairefontaine Europa Minor Pad it sits on. I got three of those pads, in blue and purple as well as the red. They also had black. One of the new inks, Diamine Celadon Cat is in the new Kaweco. 
 

I chose this pen, because the price of the USA exclusive Black Crystal Kaweco was too pricey. 
 

[Penguincollector]

On 5/16/2023 at 1:40 AM, Misfit said:

I got this pen, though I do not know a proper name for it beyond Metal 83. 
 

  I like this one, seems so delicate- yet has the name METAL 83 (picturing the font on all those metal albums). 

[Misfit]

@Penguincollector looks are deceiving. It is indeed a metal pen, thus it has some weight to it. It didn’t cost a lot… AliExpress purchase. 

[Penguincollector]

1 minute ago, Misfit said:

@Penguincollector looks are deceiving. It is indeed a metal pen, thus it has some weight to it. It didn’t cost a lot… AliExpress purchase. 

I looked to see if there was other colors, but alas, just pink. It’s super cute.  

[Doug C]

On A Whim fountain pen (I put in the Franklin Christoph nib). He is a Canadian pen maker and the material is from Turnt Pen Co.

It is the one at the bottom with all of the colorful swirls.

 

[Penguincollector]

That’s beautiful, @Doug C! 
 

At my local art supply, I found a vintage Sheaffer No Nonsense calligraphy set and a blue Pilot Parallel for $3 each, a big Staedler calligraphy set for $10, and 6 packages of Slovenia Sheaffer cartridges on clearance. I also had a 10% off coupon, so it was great!
I also went to Oblation’s ink sale and bought a bottle of their Portland Rain, Sailor Manyo Koke, and a Ferris Wheel Press charger set. 

[inkstainedruth]

@Doug C -- I don't always like some of the rod stocks for modern pens, but that one is quite interesting.  Thanks for showing the photo!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Jayebird]

The pen was not part of my 2023 plans, but I love it. I haven't inked it yet because I didn't expect it today and hadn't thought out what I will try it with first.

 

Its a Pens by Pasquale acquisition. Nib tuned by Kirk Speer

[Doug C]

1 hour ago, inkstainedruth said:

@Doug C -- I don't always like some of the rod stocks for modern pens, but that one is quite interesting.  Thanks for showing the photo!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Interesting...hmm.

 

It is different. 

[Nellie]

I didn't exactly get this pen today - I've had it for at least 15 years - but I was finally able to get its section off last night and replace the sac, so now it's like I've got a new pen today - and one that writes incredibly well (I remembered that, which is why it annoyed me so much that that section put up such a fight!). Here's my Sheaffer Lifetime Flattop with one of its grandchildren:

Can anyone tell me if it's regular or oversize based on how it compares to the NoNonsense? I think OS because a #20 sac fit easily?

[Mark from Yorkshire]

6 hours ago, Nellie said:

I didn't exactly get this pen today - I've had it for at least 15 years - but I was finally able to get its section off last night and replace the sac, so now it's like I've got a new pen today - and one that writes incredibly well (I remembered that, which is why it annoyed me so much that that section put up such a fight!). Here's my Sheaffer Lifetime Flattop with one of its grandchildren:

Can anyone tell me if it's regular or oversize based on how it compares to the NoNonsense? I think OS because a #20 sac fit easily?

Ooh nice there is something about vintage fountain pens

[Bo Bo Olson]

I always thought 1/4th of the vintage pens, could be bad perhaps it was only half of that, but there were enough that stopped working too soon, ....I'm now after near a decade plus or minus, getting pens fixed.

This UHU is a third tier pen mid '50's pen, which got repaired at much much more than it's worth....It was pretty enough, and needed a rebuild....and mine. The next owner gets a working pen.

I only knew Uhu as a glue.

I had to get that pen...I had the ink for it.

 

This Senator  pen works, and I paid a pound of coffee and picked it up and she did have some ancient ink laying around and gave it to me for free.

[Nellie]

6 hours ago, Mark from Yorkshire said:

Ooh nice there is something about vintage fountain pens

Absolutely! This is one of my best ever writers. Thanks!!

[Misfit]

@Bo Bo Olson that Senator pen is beautiful. 

[Bo Bo Olson]

Often the lesser pens are pretty....or I lucked out over the decade and a half.

Some I don't remember the cost of, others were part of a live auction lot, and a few i do remember the price of but will eventually sell them.

these were affordable.....and pretty.

1948 Italian Columbus piston pen one of my prettiest.

Full tortoise @ 1938 Boehler 54...That was the year the Boehler brothers split their firm Osmia.

Some nice poster here turned me on to these two Austrian Resuwe 1950's pens. small Cracked Ice non-stub semi-flex the both of them.

Late '30's-late '40's no name...nice no name semi-flex nib. The clip look l like the jewler's clip...or the clip used in Pfortzheim...the jewelry center of Germany.

I've a copule silver overlays and a 14k gold pen with such clips.

And up front is the blue and black and red/rose and black Clippers, which were well affordable.

 

One of the very prettiest pens I've seen here on the com was a second tier Swan, a Blackbird...................so beauty can come from second tier.

A sub-brand of Shaffer, a Crest had a carmine red pen, I really wanted...but US overseas postage robbery kept me out of the US market.

 

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Colorful....odd....more for non-fountain pen users...the flashing neon sign of fountain pens...........

On the other side of the price border....Krone gets no play here. And I of course don't have any of them.....

[Misfit]

The Faber-Castell Grip Silver Glam arrived today. I’m posting photos without flash, and with flash. The pen looks more like the without flash. When it’s ready for its  closeup, it looks like the photo with flash. 

 

Edit: Now that I’ve carted the pen around the house with me, I see some sparkle more.

 

 

Edited May 21, 2023 by Misfit
To explain the pen’s glam

[A Smug Dill]

Not today, but on Friday, a HongDian N8 ‘Maple Leaves’ I impulsively ordered a week or so ago on AliExpress arrived. The price was right, so to speak; and I was curious about the ebonite feed and the specifics of how it's constructed inside the grip section, so even though I was offered the EF nib option, I got it with an F nib anyhow.

 

 

That the nib unit could be unscrewed so readily surprised me. At least I can fit one of my spare HongDian EF nib units into this pen if I want now, even though the nibs themselves (as in the pieces of metal) aren't the same size/geometry.

 

I did find, however, that there are some minor manufacturing/cosmetic defects:

 

that were quite difficult to capture in photos. Once I did the hard work, however, I thought what the hell and raised a dispute; and so I got a partial refund issued by AliExpress. I'd have kept the pen anyway, even if they came back offering only the option of returning the pen (at the seller's or AliExpress' expense) for a full refund.

[Misfit]

@A Smug Dill That pen is so gorgeous. I love the looks of it. 
 

I placed an order on AliExpress, and one item among several was not what I ordered. I downloaded the app, and tried to chat, but no replies. Is it easy to start a dispute?

[A Smug Dill]

13 minutes ago, Misfit said:

Is it easy to start a dispute?

 

Yes. However, things change from time to time; just today, when I opened the dispute, I discovered the interface and options have changed again, since I opened a dispute some weeks ago. Then there's the matter of actually winning the dispute; but generally, in cases of being sent something different from what you ordered, it's straightforward. Don't throw away any of the external or internal packaging until you've taken adequate photos of the details, labels, etc.

[Jayebird]

7 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

Not today, but on Friday, a HongDian N8 ‘Maple Leaves’ I impulsively ordered a week or so ago on AliExpress. The price was right, so to speak; and i was curious about the ebonite feed and the specifics of how it's constructed inside the grip section, so even though I was offered the EF nib option, I got it with an F nib anyhow.

 

Wow! This is really pretty. I love the design and the mix of reds in it.