What was your last very deliberate pen purchase?

[ruby.monkey]

A Pelikan IB nib unit for an M200, and a spare M215 ringed barrel with piston.

[Misfit]

I’ve decided I’m going to return the True Writer in Americana. I look at it, and am underwhelmed. I’ve like every other True Writer I bought or received as a gift. This one just lacks what I expected it to have. That the light would play with the colors. It only plays with the blue in the pen. Otherwise I look at it, and feel meh. So it needs to go back. I never put ink in it.

[Penguincollector]

I deliberated for about 6 weeks on whether I should buy this pen, but I had coins and it was a good deal- so I bought a clear Wing Sung 698 with a Lucky 14k nib. I’ve read very good things about the nib on this pen.

[Karmachanic]

Nahvular Ebonite Nautilus.  To accomodate an MB146 14k CI nib.

[Penguincollector]

Namiki Tradition Origami Penguin F nib, after what seems like forever, a grail pen because penguin.

[inkstainedruth]

I just looked that pen up online to see what it looked like and it's really interesting looking.  But I'm guessing an urushi finish, and urushi and I don't get along (urushiol oil being the same stuff that's in poison ivy, and I'm super allergic.... 

Maki-e pens I admire from a distance....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Penguincollector]

4 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

I just looked that pen up online to see what it looked like and it's really interesting looking.  But I'm guessing an urushi finish, and urushi and I don't get along (urushiol oil being the same stuff that's in poison ivy, and I'm super allergic.... 

Maki-e pens I admire from a distance....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

  Yes, it’s Urushi-  on the bright side, your allergy probably saves you thousands!

[inkstainedruth]

True.  I once found a website that had a bunch of really beautiful maki-e pens for sale.  And told my husband, "Congratulations -- I just saved you twenty THOUSAND dollars...."  And that price was for just ONE of the pens on that site....   So imagine what the bill would be for buying several of those pens.  

The really scary part?  Just ONE of those pens was more than double what I paid for my first *car* (bought brand new from the dealership).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Bo Bo Olson]

Pelikan 200 Pastel blue.

 

and any pens/pen lots I win at a live auction.

Last a MB 32 semi-flex eyeballed OEF (Nibs were narrower back then, and MB seldom marked nib width)  and a Kaweco '60-70, 12G semi-flex F, piston Sport.

[Misfit]

Very nice buy @Bo Bo Olson 

[Paul-in-SF]

On 9/21/2023 at 11:27 PM, jchch1950 said:

The price increase is too much to be explained by a technical change to make parts in bronze.

 

I think (take this for what it is worth, it is based on something a youtube commentator said) that the usual chrome-colored furniture has a different process from the plating that is required for rose gold and bronze, and that they had some trouble originally with the rose gold plating, which has apparently been resolved. I'm guessing it is more steps or something like that. 

[Misfit]

@Paul-in-SF that sounds like what I was told. I didn’t have good recall of all that was written. Thank you for clarifying this. 

[Misfit]

I put some very pretty Christmas washi tape in my Amazon cart. I knew if none of my friends got it for me for Christmas, I’d be ordering the Kaweco Sport skyline in pebble gray. So today I did order the pen and washi tape. 

[Misfit]

I’ve been wanting the TWSBI Eco that got away, the Cement Gray. I saw, possibly here or on Reddit, that AliExpress had it. It’s been in my cart for awhile. The price is about $10 more, so I didn’t buy it before. When checking out with PayPal, it showed the rewards money, so I applied that, and it’s about what you’d pay for an Eco with tax. The pen looks like the real deal, so I’m hoping it is. 

[Bo Bo Olson]

Not won, but bought...Perhaps my last LE 200 Blue Pastel.. My first one an amethyst was €40 more expensive than a regular 200 at €120.....I think it was that, a long time ago.

I have the amethyst, which is a bit more transparent than the Ruby one.

I don't need any more transparent pens.

The LE 200 Pastel cost me €160...so the next 200 LE I buy is going to have to match the  or the

[txomsy]

The LE pastel is a gorgeous pen that looks like a classic doctor/nurse pen. Congratulations.

[A Smug Dill]

I just placed an order for fifty-two Jinhao 777 fountain pens and two hundred compatible blue ink cartridges, to take advantage of the opportunity I saw for stacking multiple offers from sellers and AliExpress itself. Very deliberate and not impulsive at all!

[Misfit]

A TWSBI Diamond Mini AL in silver with a 1.1mm stub nib. I’ve been thinking about that pen once I decided against the clear version, and the grape version. I liked a photo of lined paper reflecting on the silver grip. It’s now ordered using my Pen Chalet ink drop rewards. 

[Bo Bo Olson]

a 400nn tortoise.

[RedPie]

19 minutes ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

400nn tortoise

A wonderful pen! Congrats!