What pen(s) are you using today?

[Tashi_Tsering]

1 hour ago, OldTravelingShoe said:

@Tashi_Tsering, this is turning into a "excellent pen, black, GT, please" collection 😄

Yep  I like black with GT pens. I have, I think, 40-50 black pens

[NgunnawalJack]

16 hours ago, essayfaire said:

I'm using a Sport today too, but in Dark Green! With  Diamine Dark Forest.

🥳

[OldTravelingShoe]

4 hours ago, ruby.monkey said:

From long experience with amassing photographic equipment, I like to call myself an accumulator rather than a collector. Collectors at least have some sort of discipline

I quite like the explanation. A collector typically also has a map for the collection, for example, a catalog or (incomplete) list of items to collect. 

 

The only thing I don't like about the term accumulator is that it implies the desire is to accumulate, whereas explorer implies the desire to try out. I even started, with @DvdRiet and a couple others (thanks, everyone!), the Netherlands Pen Club, where one of the goals is to showcase and share pens so we explicitly do not have to accumulate so many ourselves. Try out, explore to understand what you like and then accumulate only what you really feel like owning. So, explorer here. 😄

[A Smug Dill]

13 minutes ago, OldTravelingShoe said:

... the Netherlands Pen Club, where one of the goals is to showcase and share pens so we explicitly do not have to accumulate so many ourselves.

 

Then I guess I'm firmly in the accumulator camp, then, since I want to have unfettered access to an extensive library.

[ruby.monkey]

34 minutes ago, OldTravelingShoe said:

I quite like the explanation. A collector typically also has a map for the collection, for example, a catalog or (incomplete) list of items to collect. 

 

The only thing I don't like about the term accumulator is that it implies the desire is to accumulate, whereas explorer implies the desire to try out. I even started, with @DvdRiet and a couple others (thanks, everyone!), the Netherlands Pen Club, where one of the goals is to showcase and share pens so we explicitly do not have to accumulate so many ourselves. Try out, explore to understand what you like and then accumulate only what you really feel like owning. So, explorer here. 😄

Not so much a desire to accumulate, as an inability not to. "Ooh, shiny!" has taken its toll on my wallet in many areas.

[inkstainedruth]

11 hours ago, mallymal1 said:

Don't randomly buy any pens. If you are buying a pen have a very good reason for it.  

Does "an incredible good deal" count as "a very good reason"? 

Because three of the four most recent acquisitions fall under that category (the most expensive of the three being under $10 US, plus tax and shipping).  And the one I bought Saturday, the Pelikan 120, seemed to be a decent price (and when I went to flush it out it had NO residual ink in it at all!    And the piston seemed to be working just fine, as well....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[inkstainedruth]

Apologies for the double post.  I just did updates on my computer this morning and not sure things aren't slightly borked as a result....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[ParramattaPaul]

1 hour ago, OldTravelingShoe said:

...explorer implies the desire to try out. ...

That is me.   Excepting the pens that I have kept from my youth, were given to me, or inherited every pen I have, and those I've given away has been an experiment of sorts be it a nib, size, style, or brand.

[ParramattaPaul]

15 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

Does "an incredible good deal" count as "a very good reason"? 

Because three of the four most recent acquisitions fall under that category (the most expensive of the three being under $10 US, plus tax and shipping).  And the one I bought Saturday, the Pelikan 120, seemed to be a decent price (and when I went to flush it out it had NO residual ink in it at all!    And the piston seemed to be working just fine, as well....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

My answer, even though I'm not the one you asked, is an emphatic 'yes'.

[ParramattaPaul]

49 minutes ago, ruby.monkey said:

Not so much a desire to accumulate, as an inability not to. "Ooh, shiny!" has taken its toll on my wallet in many areas.

LOL!

[inkstainedruth]

I was really good the first year of the pandemic -- I managed to limit myself to what Bo Bo Olsen refers to as "the Pen of the Month Club" or so.  The next year?  I went a little crazy (over 30 acquisitions).  Then this year, I hit a drought for a couple of months, only to have made up for it somewhat in the past week plus....   Plus one earlier in the year which a friend gave me, and counting the one she gave my husband (which I don't know if he's ever used).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[essayfaire]

53 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

I was really good the first year of the pandemic -

I was not.  I wasn't spending money on all the other things I would normally spend money on, so I was able to justify a great deal...  Plus, I wrote many, many letters - at least one each day for over 100 days.

 

I am trying to restrain myself presently.  

[Kumachan]

10 hours ago, ruby.monkey said:Collectors at least have some sort of discipline about their purchases beyond "Ooh, shiny!"

😂 I am, clearly, an accumulator, too.

[afishhunter]

These two (Transitional?) Esterbrook "J" from the 1940's.

The copper has a 9461 nib, and is loaded with Noodlers Black.

The green sports a 2556 nib, and Monteverde Jade Noir ink.

[mallymal1]

10 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

I was really good the first year of the pandemic -- I managed to limit myself to what Bo Bo Olsen refers to as "the Pen of the Month Club" or so.  

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

I've just spent September's club money.  🙄

[mallymal1]

11 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Does "an incredible good deal" count as "a very good reason"? 

Because three of the four most recent acquisitions fall under that category (the most expensive of the three being under $10 US, plus tax and shipping).  And the one I bought Saturday, the Pelikan 120, seemed to be a decent price (and when I went to flush it out it had NO residual ink in it at all!    And the piston seemed to be working just fine, as well....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Absolutely!   

 

 

[ruby.monkey]

Today's pen is a Narwhal(*) Schuylkill in Asfur Bronze, medium nib, filled with (I think) Diamine Imperial Blue.

 

(* Yes Narwhal, not Nahvalur. Reject Modernity! Embrace Tradition!)

[OldTravelingShoe]

1 hour ago, ruby.monkey said:

Yes Narwhal, not Nahvalur

I would have missed this without your comment. I missed so far the whole drama of TWSBI vs. Narwhal, Narwhal changing names, and so on. Who knew the roaring twenties also mean... 2020s?! 

[A Smug Dill]

12 minutes ago, OldTravelingShoe said:

Who knew the roaring twenties also mean... 2020s?! 

 

No, 2020 was mostly masked, and if it roared it would be muffled and obscured by a piece of something opaque.

[OldTravelingShoe]

2 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

No, 2020 was mostly masked, and if it roared it would be muffled and obscured by a piece of something opaque.

Clever. 

 

Flaming, I'm afraid the opacity is still happening: I read a few histories of the 1910s flu pandemic, and they all seem to agree that the pandemics fizzled out and stopped being 'an issue' due to (1) the death count slowing down, even if the infection continued, but also because (2) people simply not accepting anymore lockdowns and government mandated restrictions, and (3) media not reporting anymore on the spread and eruption of the virus. That's the opacity.