What pen(s) are you waiting for in the mail?

[Baka1969]

Holiday Gifts

 

I picked up a total of 15 Jinhao 82 pens to give out as gifts this year. I'll be adding a bottle of ink, a hard cover notebook, a gift box, and a pen sleeve for each. A fountain pen starter package of sorts. 

 

Spreading the love!

 

[Misfit]

@Baka1969 who do you give those fountain pen starter packages to?  It’s a cool idea. 

[Baka1969]

3 hours ago, Misfit said:

@Baka1969 who do you give those fountain pen starter packages to?  It’s a cool idea. 

 

My sister, brother-in-law, friends and my fellow Board members. 

[RedPie]

What a great idea and such good colors as well. Happy Holidays! @Baka1969 Way to go! 🤩

[Baka1969]

52 minutes ago, RedPie said:

What a great idea and such good colors as well. Happy Holidays! @Baka1969 Way to go! 🤩

Thanks!

 

The Jinhao writes pretty well for the low cost of entry and feels really nice. Hopefully everyone will get a quality experience.

 

Happy Thanksgiving!

[Skydiver]

These last few posts inspired me. I drew my niece who is an artist for Secret Santa this year. After getting the items on her list, there was still a little bit of room on the budget, so I'm throwing in some Varsity's and Preppy's into the lot.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Coming in from repair.

An EEF, East German blue Singwitz. I'm hoping this pen will do the trick so I don't have to buy a new/Japanese EF pen. 1925 Waterman gold overlay lever pen....nib impressed Francis. No one caught on at the auction house tht is a 14 k overlay...so I got it 'cheap'. I didn't either, was told of my good fortune by wise Waterman posters.

the silver dip pen polished up nicely.

 

400nn, screw in nib/feed housing was cracked and had to glue the cracks in the filling knob. The last I knew, the first I didn't. It is normal  color darker than the photo. But I was missing a tortoise 400nn. That makes four I have a '90's 400, this and a '50-54 400 and 500. ...which have the lighter tortoise color this seller's light gave it.

 

The Faber Castell piston pen , needing a new piston head and O ring....will be a surprise, in I have no idea which pen it was.....

 

Items put in a sturdy little box for repair shipping and by the time the Sparrow has Landed, one can become forgetful.

 

Workers have Eagle's Landing, retired has Sparrows.

 

[Surlyprof]

After considering starting a thread called, "What pen temptation have you successfully thwarted?", Black Friday got me after all.  No thwarting... just anxiously awaiting my first Japanese fountain pen now.  As a designer and woodworker, I'm pretty excited about this one!

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

Beautiful looking pen. I don't have a closeup of my diplomat burl pen from @ 1990, but I only have one wood pen. It has a nice springy regular flex nib.  and I don't pay for Imgur so it don't want to cut and chop for me.

 

 

I was told on the com, the Diplomat burl pen was made in Japan.

 

When I see fine wood, wooden pens in town fairs, the turner has too cheap a nib section on them and want more than I want to spend on a nail nib.

[Surlyprof]

2 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

When I see fine wood, wooden pens in town fairs, the turner has too cheap a nib section on them and want more than I want to spend on a nail nib.

I know what you mean. Based on everything I could find about this and the Pilot Ichii, I am under the impression that the nib on the Enjyu is comparable to a Pilot 845 or 823.  I've never seen an 845 but I've had the chance to try an 823 a few times and really liked it.  Fingers crossed!

[tutelman]

Waiting on a NOS piston-filling Columbus Academia (by Yamazaki) in an ivory onyx celluloid (nitrate).  Another eBay bargain.

[ak47]

I am waiting for a sailor fude de mannen 

[jchch1950]

Lamy Safari special edition for Itoya.

[AmandaW]

1 hour ago, jchch1950 said:

Lamy Safari special edition for Itoya.

They are only available from the store in Japan?

[Bo Bo Olson]

11 hours ago, Surlyprof said:

Fingers crossed!

For you, me too.

I chase the nib, have @ 35 of the 45 possibilities.

 

I like the balance of a posted standard, or medium-long/large pens. There are some medium-small pens with very good to great balance also, like the long capped Pelikan 140, which in size posted is = to a 400 and balances as well.

 

About the only Large pens I find with great balance are the thin Snorkel, and the P-45 has real good balance.

In I try to avoid Large pens, my bias shows. I find the Large 146 to almost be ok.....nimbler than the Pelikan 800. For me the Large 146 is still a bit stately.

I do have a great balanced '49-60 MB medium-large 146 with a maxi-semi-flex nib....I really wish I had taken before pictures of this beater, missing the cap rings. The cap was a bit cockeyed too.. If he could I expected the cap straightened and two plain brass bands. not the Mount Bronc bands. It's the third telescopic piston MB that I have from that era. MB 2341/2 deluxe KOB semi-flex, a rolled gold 742 a real heavy pen in a nib flex between semi&maxi....the only one I have of that flex (35 semi's, 15 maxi's,) and this now well polished maxi-semi-flex, great balanced  medium large 146.

 

 

I have too many good pens.

 

 

I am totally ignorant of Japanese pens, the better Chinese ones, too.

 

I had a well balanced Japanese made Shaffer once, but it was a nail so I got rid of it.

[Surlyprof]

14 minutes ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

 

 

I have too many good pens.

That’s a great color.  Love the fade.

[Baka1969]

19 minutes ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

For you, me too.

I chase the nib, have @ 35 of the 45 possibilities.

 

I like the balance of a posted standard, or medium-long/large pens. There are some medium-small pens with very good to great balance also, like the long capped Pelikan 140, which in size posted is = to a 400 and balances as well.

 

About the only Large pens I find with great balance are the thin Snorkel, and the P-45 has real good balance.

In I try to avoid Large pens, my bias shows. I find the Large 146 to almost be ok.....nimbler than the Pelikan 800. For me the Large 146 is still a bit stately.

I do have a great balanced '49-60 MB medium-large 146 with a maxi-semi-flex nib....I really wish I had taken before pictures of this beater, missing the cap rings. The cap was a bit cockeyed too.. If he could I expected the cap straightened and two plain brass bands. not the Mount Bronc bands. It's the third telescopic piston MB that I have from that era. MB 2341/2 deluxe KOB semi-flex, a rolled gold 742 a real heavy pen in a nib flex between semi&maxi....the only one I have of that flex (35 semi's, 15 maxi's,) and this now well polished maxi-semi-flex, great balanced  medium large 146.

 

 

I have too many good pens.

 

 

I am totally ignorant of Japanese pens, the better Chinese ones, too.

 

I had a well balanced Japanese made Shaffer once, but it was a nail so I got rid of it.

 

I want! 🥰

[Bo Bo Olson]

The '48-60 -70MB's have stubbed semi-flex nibs and the 2xx pens, are affordable...in the auction section of German Ebay.***

if you want to pay Stateside prices, do go to the Buy Now , dear impatient person section.

 

The 2xx pens are the way to go.......sleek, well balanced, and my next area that I'll slowly chase.

I have a vintage '50-70 MB 32 with a nice semi-flex nib, (I also have some sort of 3xx with a nail from later...so those after '70 don't have the grand nibs of the vintage era.) and handled a couple '50-70 2xx's semi-flexes, I sent off for someone else to my repair man. 

 

They were very close to my Geha 725...but not quite. They the 21/22 can be had for €70-120 if you HUNT in the auction section, and snipe.

 

Just looked they want ever so much more for '50-60's !4x pens than a few years ago....but they are being offered at Stateside prices.

 

 

 

*** I will admit buying in live auctions for the last decade, but now they have become as expensive as Ebay, in they now have telephone and computer bidding in live auctions.

I may be going back to German  Ebay, if the live auction costs keep going up....in the auction section only.

[ak47]

6 hours ago, ak47 said:

I am waiting for a sailor fude de mannen 

It is arrived!! What a nice nib!!

[Baka1969]

For my final Lamy I just picked up a Glacier Studio and added an extra fine gold nib. It will be my fifth Studio and third with gold nib. So I'll have the ef (Glacier), fine (Imperial Blue) and medium (Black Forest) gold nibs. The other two Studios have a 1.1 stub (stainless) and the stock black medium nib (All Black).  This will complete my Lamy collection.