Guider Zimbo in bluish ebonite.

[VijayGS]

Congratulations on your first and the subsequent guider pens. A great pen from one of the fine pen makers in India. If you have found yourself in love with guider pens, I would sincerely suggest the hooded nib ED filler model from guider. Mr. Lakshman Rao gaaru is usually reluctant in selling that model as it has a few flaws like ink drying up and a bland stock nib.  I am one among a few to have procured the above mentioned model and it has been an absolute delight after changing the stock nib with a Kanwrite 51. Good luck and enjoy. Happy writing. 

 

A few from my collection 

[Harish N V]

Wow. That looks great. Iam right now into a burst of buying student pens from pelikan. Currently out of the Indian eye dropper mode. Will come back to it sometime and thank you for the suggestion

[souparno100]

On 5/31/2022 at 12:47 PM, K Singh said:

When it comes to inks, I've never felt the need to try out any expensive inks. I am happy and content with my Waterman inks(I like the Blue, black and purple; the brown one feels too dry to me so I don't use it as much), Krishna Lyrebird Blue and Blue-black(Absolutely safe and very affordable too if you can get them in 100ml bottles), and Bril inks(I have them in all colours, but I mostly use the black one and sometimes the green one). Bril inks, or any other ink at that price range, will feel watery compared to the other costlier inks. Waterman and Krishna Lyrebird series inks are dark enough and safe enough for everyday use in my experience. What inks do you use by the way?

 

I have a few Ratnamson pens, but unfortunately I was not successful in buying these pens directly from them, even though I tried to contact them several times. But others had no issues so would suggest to call them directly if you need a pen.

 

I have written a full-post on Ratnamson 21 pen which you can read here 

I have a Ratnamson Supreme too with regular steel nib. You can search FPN for the pics. It's a well-made pen and very ergonomic too and if you can buy only one pen, that's the one I would recommend. They no longer make gold nibs for their pen so the only option is their generic steel nib, which is quite good in my experience though. They used to sell the Supreme for 4k, but they could have increased the pricing. Strictly based on pricing it's little hard to recommend them as you can have a similar pen with German nib and converter from other makers at that price. But I think they feel like a must-have to many of us, including me, especially because of their endorsement by Mahatma Gandhi. I like my Supreme and am happy that I bought it, rest is up to your own choice 👍

Thanks for the link of Krishna ink collection website. Unfortunately, it doesn't support Razorpay. I got all my "pen & ink spending" money in Amazon Pay wallet. Do you know any other way I can purchase those inks paying via Razorpay?? If possible please do help me, it would be of great great help.

[K Singh]

2 hours ago, souparno100 said:

Thanks for the link of Krishna ink collection website. Unfortunately, it doesn't support Razorpay. I got all my "pen & ink spending" money in Amazon Pay wallet. Do you know any other way I can purchase those inks paying via Razorpay?? If possible please do help me, it would be of great great help.

Sorry, no idea. You can directly contact them via email or WhatsApp and ask them about available payment options. Or you can check if any of your friends can accept payment from you on these platforms, and buy inks for you using some other payment app.

[souparno100]

9 hours ago, K Singh said:

Sorry, no idea. You can directly contact them via email or WhatsApp and ask them about available payment options. Or you can check if any of your friends can accept payment from you on these platforms, and buy inks for you using some other payment app.

I'm actually searching for those type of friends. I'm providing 10% extra if they buy for me. I will pay you in amazon gift cards or flipkart gift cards (your wish) of denomination 500 rs.

 

If you do not mind, can you help me? Don't think anybody else is such trustworthy.

[K Singh]

1 hour ago, souparno100 said:

I'm actually searching for those type of friends. I'm providing 10% extra if they buy for me. I will pay you in amazon gift cards or flipkart gift cards (your wish) of denomination 500 rs.

 

If you do not mind, can you help me? Don't think anybody else is such trustworthy.

You can buy some Krishna inks directly from Flipkart. Check this out - https://www.flipkart.com/krishna-lyrebird-blue-bottled-ink-fountain-pens-bottle/p/itmb494f9a7946cd?pid=PENFBYJMWNUAUZTB

[souparno100]

2 hours ago, K Singh said:

You can buy some Krishna inks directly from Flipkart. Check this out - https://www.flipkart.com/krishna-lyrebird-blue-bottled-ink-fountain-pens-bottle/p/itmb494f9a7946cd?pid=PENFBYJMWNUAUZTB

It's out of stock there, Sir.

[K Singh]

50 minutes ago, souparno100 said:

It's out of stock there, Sir.

It was in stock when I shared. Check thepenworld and Krishnainks website(this is different site than above) as well. Razorpay or Amazon one should work there.

 

Or just keep checking Flipkart every now and then. I myself bought my Krishna inks from there only. 

[souparno100]

22 minutes ago, K Singh said:

It was in stock when I shared. Check thepenworld and Krishnainks website(this is different site than above) as well. Razorpay or Amazon one should work there.

 

Or just keep checking Flipkart every now and then. I myself bought my Krishna inks from there only. 

Nice one thanks.