What was your last very deliberate pen purchase?

[Misfit]

1 minute ago, Fo0zle said:

Yeah, Makrolon. I like the look of the stainless one but the price is quite steep. I think the best of both worlds would be to buy a stainless cap and put it on my Makrolon 2K. I might do that some day.

I couldn’t remember how to spell makrolon, so thank you for that. 

[Fo0zle]

1 hour ago, Misfit said:

I couldn’t remember how to spell makrolon, so thank you for that. 

Just realized it looks like I was correcting your spelling. TBH I didn’t notice you had it misspelled 😆

[Misfit]

@Fo0zle I didn’t take it that way. I looked it up after your post. Should have done it before. 😉

[Penguincollector]

   It took awhile to find the right one (or one of them, as I would like a few finishes), but I was offered a black matte Sheaffer Slim Targa B (1003s) with converter for an excellent price. I wasn’t planning on buying anything for a month, but I have been looking for this one for years. I kept finding the later versions without the inlaid nib, or the steel nibbed ones.

[Misfit]

Congratulations on finding that pen @Penguincollector  

[Penguincollector]

Thanks, @Misfit!

[Surlyprof]

On 4/18/2024 at 3:43 PM, Fo0zle said:

Yeah, Makrolon. I like the look of the stainless one but the price is quite steep. I think the best of both worlds would be to buy a stainless cap and put it on my Makrolon 2K. I might do that some day.

 

You may want to try the stainless one before buying it.  I also desired the clean, modern look of the stainless but found it to be so heavy that I couldn't imagine using it much.  It weighs around 54g unfilled (more than double the Makrolon's 25g).  As much as I used to like weighty pens, I find that my preferences seem to max out around 40g.

[jchch1950]

54 g, posted or unposted?

[sebastel23]

After losing my wonderful black AL Sport at Malaga airport in 2020 (I overlooked it in the black box at the security check), replaced by a light blue AL Sport (sold in the meantime), followed by a raw aluminium version, I finally purchased a black one again.

 

Why? Because the black one's surface has a unique touch to the fingers, that I found to be missing with the other ones.

 

Cheers & happy writing,

sebastian

 

[Karmachanic]

There's no such thing as a last pen purchase.

[sebastel23]

1 minute ago, Karmachanic said:

There's no such thing as a last pen purchase.

 

i understand "last" here more in the sense of "most recent".

[Karmachanic]

9 minutes ago, sebastel23 said:

i understand "last" here more in the sense of "most recent".

 

Beowulf was a bit much, but I managed Chaucer.

[RedPie]

26 minutes ago, Karmachanic said:

There's no such thing as a last pen purchase.

That is right! LOL

[Surlyprof]

7 hours ago, jchch1950 said:

54 g, posted or unposted?

Posted.  According to Goulet’s site, the pen itself is 34g.  I guess that does make it reasonable (maybe even pleasant) but I personally prefer the 2000 posted.  Feels a little small to me unposted.

[sebastel23]

2 hours ago, Karmachanic said:

 

Beowulf was a bit much, but I managed Chaucer.

i don't know either.

at school, i had to battle Gerhart Hauptmann, and Heinrich von Kleist instead.

as a result, I'd never consider to buy a pen wearing the name of one of these.

 

back to the topic: on my way to the (deliberately chosen) black AL sport, I also bought (on an impulse) the piston sport ...

[Misfit]

@sebastel23 interesting about the black AL Sport. I’ve been on a Kaweco buying spree since discovering I wished I’d chased their limited edition colors instead of Lamy. I was looking at the rose gold AL. Maybe I’ll change to the black AL. I do like a stealth black pen. 

[Penguincollector]

  I just bought my birthday pen, it’s going in my husband’s office until my actual birthday. I bought it now because you never know with vintage pens. @terim had a beautiful Parker True Blue vest pen at her shop, and a True Blue has been a grail since I was a kid. I absolutely adore ring tops, and Duofolds are the pens of my heart. 

[BamaAl]

A Visconti Didgeridoo.  A limited edition for the Australian market that I’d been thinking about it for a while and was able to find very little information on it.  That mystery made me want it even more.

[LeakyLandy]

On 4/25/2024 at 6:56 AM, sebastel23 said:

i don't know either.

at school, i had to battle Gerhart Hauptmann, and Heinrich von Kleist instead.

as a result, I'd never consider to buy a pen wearing the name of one of these.

 

back to the topic: on my way to the (deliberately chosen) black AL sport, I also bought (on an impulse) the piston sport ...

I cant help but comment. I find Hauptmann's Ketzer von Soanna one of the best things I've ever read, and I've read it more than once. Hopefully not too weird or pretentious. I just love the story.

[Misfit]

I was thinking about a Kaweco Sport AL in rose gold as a next purchase. If I recall correctly, Amazon used to have it at a really decent price. But now, not so much.  After seeing @sebastel23post about getting another Sport AL in black, and mentioning the feel of the pen, the hunt changed to the AL Black. The search for it started. I was thinking about one on Amazon that rewards money would help on. Then I saw one on eBay for less. However the seller was on vacation. The wait began.  Today, their eBay store reopened, and I purchased a Kaweco Sport AL in black with M nib for $49 before tax. Happy May Day.