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

[Misfit]

I’m waiting on the Cult Pens and Kaweco Christmas edition silver glitter transparent with 1.1mm stub nib. 

[Baka1969]

2 hours ago, Misfit said:

I’m waiting on the Cult Pens and Kaweco Christmas edition silver glitter transparent with 1.1mm stub nib. 

Aaaaah! 🤩

[Mark from Yorkshire]

My Conway Stewart that I bought last weekend, and returned for a sac replacement. The sac was DOA, when I tried to fill and looked at it. Still a good Find as part of my Haul at the Yorkshire pen (I burst my pen show cherry so to speak). A hour and a half well spent, I think my bank cards/ credit cards disagree but hey ho. I enjoyed my Sunday morning.

[Skydiver]

On 12/8/2023 at 2:34 AM, Chouffleur said:

Absolutely. Especially if you program each app to play a different tone or birdsong followed by the location changes in a train conductor voice.

 

"PING! (or CHIRP!):  [Package nickname] Departed FedEx location CORPUS CHRISTI, TX 12/7/23 2:19 PM"

 

As long as you don't go as extreme as some people went during the Beanie Baby's craze... Some people were trailing UPS and FedEx trucks with their cars, and camping outside the Hallmark's and McDonald's waiting for deliveries.

[inkstainedruth]

Yeah, or the Cabbage Patch doll craze.  The woman up the street where I grew up got up at some ungodly hour to be at some store in the local mall by I think 5 AM (!) to get the "right" one for her daughter for Christmas once the deliveries to some store were made....

Of course I also remember my mom's story about when my brother was in kindergarten, and wanted a talking "Beanie" as in the old show Beanie and Cecil.  Some girl in his class apparently had one, and he wanted to play with it and the girl told him, "Tell Santa to get you one for Christmas!" and my mom said years later that she wanted to THROTTLE the girl.  She said she went bananas trying to find one, and managed to order one from FAO Schwartz in NYC and it got delivered on Christmas Eve....  

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Skydiver]

Wow! I didn't know about the Cabbage Patch doll insanity. I only know about the Beanie Baby craze because my ex-wife was crazy.

[Bo Bo Olson]

5 hours ago, Mark from Yorkshire said:

for a sac replacement. The sac was DOA, when I tried to fill and looked at it.

Back i the day of lever pens, a rubber sack lasted only 30-40 or so years....before supersaturated inks.

My inherited 1948-52 (lever told the age)  Eastie's sac took two-three years to die, so was 63 years old....it has sack in the back of a dark drawer for 15 years by my wife's aunt, and the same by us, before I started using it. 30 years of lack of use made it still good at 60 years of age.

 

Once a White made rubber sack was good for 30-40 years....if one didn't use the modern supersaturated inks...which can kill in in days or weeks.

I don't do repairs so don't know how long a White sack is now good for, but any old sack; the squeeze filler of a P-75 or the sack of a 1925 Waterman RG Gothic has to be replaced.

[Mark from Yorkshire]

18 minutes ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

Back i the day of lever pens, a rubber sack lasted only 30-40 or so years....before supersaturated inks.

My inherited 1948-52 (lever told the age)  Eastie's sac took two-three years to die, so was 63 years old....it has sack in the back of a dark drawer for 15 years by my wife's aunt, and the same by us, before I started using it. 30 years of lack of use made it still good at 60 years of age.

 

Once a White made rubber sack was good for 30-40 years....if one didn't use the modern supersaturated inks...which can kill in in days or weeks.

I don't do repairs so don't know how long a White sack is now good for, but any old sack; the squeeze filler of a P-75 or the sack of a 1925 Waterman RG Gothic has to be replaced.

I suspect it was 30 years old and well corroded. It was in need of tlc of which I’m neither confident or competent so sent it back to someone who is. If it was a cheapo one that I did not mind breaking I would of had a go to replace myself 

[Bo Bo Olson]

Requires the right shellac, pool hall talc (not baby powder) , and a couple  metal  picks..................and a couple DIY gismos, in the repair section.

Using fingernail polish like in Frank Dubiels old book is wrong, but that was a generation ago, for quick home fix.

 

Getting it all together but the sacs....decided to let a pro do it.

Flogged a lot of Esties, instead of re-sacking. Someone didn't like my descriptions of various Eastie colors, so I kept only two, while getting into piston pens.

 

[Baka1969]

 

[Misfit]

I’m waiting on another Kaweco Sport Skyline in pebble gray. 

[Surlyprof]

Just received notice that my Black Friday/Cyberweek impulse purchase, a Pilot Enjyu, now has a DHL tracking number.  It’s coming from Japan so details are still pretty vague.  Very excited about this one!

[AmandaW]

Auction win today: Black Pilot Lucina with a medium nib. It will join the green mechanical pencil and yellow ballpoint to make a little family.

 

I would have preferred a finer nib, but if they live in one of my mini pen drawers, which have four slots, there's room for one more...

[SLinkster]

18 hours ago, Baka1969 said:

 

😍😍😍

[SLinkster]

Waiting on eBay win of a lot of three pens with a bonus of some sort because the seller seemed to think I overpaid. The listing photos were promising so I think I'll be happy enough, for less than $30 with shipping from Portugal. No tracking so it almost hearks back to the bad old days of mail order when we mailed off a check, then hoped the seed order showed up in time to get the tomatoes started. 

 

Also waiting on a pen from AliExpress that purports to have a JoWo #6 nib, for the price of the nib alone from other places. Hopefully it is really a JoWo, really a #6, and fits another pen I have that takes that nib. 

 

[DilettanteG]

Ordered a third sparkly special edition demonstrator by Pelikan: a M205 Star Ruby with a fine nib. It’s due here Monday. I’ve ordered and paid for two others, but neither are in the post yet.

[AmandaW]

I'm waiting for a Levenger Pinkly fountain pen. There's a Starry Night mechanical pencil coming with it.

 

And an Osmiroid 65 set with 6 italic nibs. And a few Osmiroid Easy Change nibs to start a little collection of those.

 

A black Pilot Lucina fountain pen with a medium nib is coming from Japan. And a yellow Lucina ballpoint is almost here from somewhere else.

 

 

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

16 minutes ago, AmandaW said:

And an Osmiroid 65 set with 6 italic nibs.

Having Esterbrooks see no reason t put a new sac in my 65. You will enjoy the 6 nib set, which I also have.

[PAKMAN]

Asvine P20 and P36

[DilettanteG]

The N101 Tortoiseshell Brown I bought on eBay is in the post and winging its way towards me. I'm really enjoying all of my new pens, I'd forgotten how much fun this hobby is!