What was your last very deliberate pen purchase?

[Misfit]

I’ve been waiting for Levenger to either discontinue some True Writer pens, or have a good sale. That happened yesterday. @lantanagal alerted me to a sale. I got the two pens I wanted for half off. The color names are Northern Lights and Carrara. 

[Surlyprof]

I don’t know if I’d call this a “very deliberate” purchase or not since I didn’t expect find one.  Ishimaru Bunkoudou in Nagasaki’s website said they’d been sold out for a long time.   However, when we went there during our recent trip to Japan, they had one last one left in their display case.  I had admired this pen on ebay for a couple of years but haven’t been able to bring myself to pull the trigger because people were asking $460 or more.  Ishimaru Bunkoudou was asking their standard price of 39000yen (w/o vat).  It was a very exciting find!  
 

I’ve never owned a Sailor 21k fine nib before so it has been a new experience for me.  I think it feels even smoother than the 18k mf on my Sailor x Bungubox Norwegian Wood.  I didn’t expect to be able to discern much of a difference.  Could be the ink.  I’ll have to try them side-by-side with the same ink someday but that will have to wait until I tire of writing and drawing with such a fun pen!

 

[senzen]

Kamikaze purchase: Lamy 80, which will apparently take... Two months to reach me from Indonesia.

[Penguincollector]

Great finds, @Surlyprof and @senzen! @Misfit, I love watching your True Writer collection grow. 

[Bo Bo Olson]

The day before yesterday, I ordered an LE Pelikan 200...copper  rose, from my B&M. Since convid, it hasn't been going good for that 5 genereation Pen shop.

He no longer has the supply of Pelikan pens...LE's in shop like he use to. So he had to order it from Pelikan.

[number_seven]

I got my holiday bonus a couple weeks ago and as is the tradition in the house, a certain amount is set aside for my wife and I to buy something for ourselves (the remainder goes to savings).

 

I've wanted a Lamy 2000 for awhile now and my initial impulse was to get it. Then I second-guessed myself. Did I even want a pen? Maybe something else not pen-related (I know! Crazy!), you know? Maybe a different pen altogether. I have others I want, of course.

 

But the more I thought about it, and the difficulty in thinking of anything non-pen-related I wanted kept bringing me back to the Lamy.

 

So, I finally gave in and got it. As well as some Lamy ink, which seems only right, eh? (Of course, when I got it, I promptly put in the Iroshizuku shin-kai because that's just how I roll....

[Misfit]

@number_seven evidently if you don’t use Lamy ink, you void the warranty. I remember this from when I got mine years ago on what was then Mass Drop. Commenters mentioned Lamy ink and the warranty. So I read the warranty, and sure enough, it was in the warranty. 
 

So I used Lamy ink first. 

[number_seven]

17 hours ago, Misfit said:

@number_seven evidently if you don’t use Lamy ink, you void the warranty. I remember this from when I got mine years ago on what was then Mass Drop. Commenters mentioned Lamy ink and the warranty. So I read the warranty, and sure enough, it was in the warranty. 
 

So I used Lamy ink first. 

Uhhh, I had to look that up. In the US, it is illegal for manufacturers to wholesale void a warranty because one does not use their products in another of their products. I just looked myself and it says that Lamy will not cover under warranty any damages that arise from using non-Lamy inks.

 

That's reasonable and a big difference from what I think you said. But maybe I misinterpreted what you said and we're saying the same thing.

[Misfit]

@number_seven I was trying to recall something from maybe a decade ago. Probably should have looked it up before posting. Anyway, I hope you enjoy your Lamy 2000 once you have it. 

[CasmiUK]

My last deliberate pen purchase was a Kaweco sport (M) which I am thoroughly enjoying. I had one years ago that disappeared during one of several moves and I decided another one was in order.

 

In fact, I'm liking this one so much, I think a Kaweco Sport piston filler is next on my list!