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

[Skydiver]

And screaming at the window "Nooo!!!!! Come back!!!! Come back!!!" when I saw the mail truck do a U-turn out of my neighborhood four houses before mine would be also normal?

 

[DilettanteG]

2 minutes ago, Skydiver said:

And screaming at the window "Nooo!!!!! Come back!!!! Come back!!!" when I saw the mail truck do a U-turn out of my neighborhood four houses before mine would be also normal?

 

That depends, did you also run outside and chase it down?😆 If the answer is no, I think you're still doing okay. 👍

[Skydiver]

I only run after the trash truck when I don't get my trash out to the curb in time. 🙂

[Misfit]

@Skydiver in my neighborhood, we put the trash and recycling out the night before. 

[RedPie]

1 hour ago, Misfit said:

@Skydiver in my neighborhood, we put the trash and recycling out the night before. 

[Misfit]

@RedPie I’m missing the funny part. 

[Skydiver]

1 hour ago, Misfit said:

@RedPie I’m missing the funny part. 

They are reminding me to put my trash out the night before... Which I forget from time to time, and so I end up racing to get the trash out while the truck is actually outside me home.

[Skydiver]

The mail truck came down my road two more times last night. Pilot Myu 701 arrived! Looking at the manufacturing date on the nib, the pen becomes extra special: It was made Dec 1971. I was born Dec 1970.

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

What an interesting pen!

[DilettanteG]

2 hours ago, Skydiver said:

The mail truck came down my road two more times last night. Pilot Myu 701 arrived! Looking at the manufacturing date on the nib, the pen becomes extra special: It was made Dec 1971. I was born Dec 1970.

 

That is such an elegant, stream lined design.How does it write?

[Skydiver]

The nib itself writes amazingly well so far with Pilot Iroshizuku Syo-Ro. In fact, it feels even better than my Custom 74 Soft Fine. Smooth with just enough feedback to let me know I'm in control and that the pen won't just fly off. My best comparison would be like a writing with a bold or medium tip nib with a very wet ink on Clairefontaine or Rhodia paper. It's a little disconcerting because it's a Japanese Fine tip.

 

In my hands, the pen feels light and well balanced when posted. Without posting, it feels like writing with the original smaller Fischer Space Pens.

 

With it being super cold last night and this morning, I was expecting the section to feel cold like the sections of my TWSBI ALR's, but it was only initially cold and then warmed up quickly. (I hope that won't lead to burping in the future.)

 

The only thing that is not going well writing wise is that the pen seems a bit too narrow and I could feel some cramping in my fingers after copying down the lyrics for "Dreams" by The Cranberries. (Or it could be arthritis. Like I said it was cold.) It'll give it more time to see if it's just a matter of adapting.

 

 

[DilettanteG]

2 hours ago, Skydiver said:

The nib itself writes amazingly well so far with Pilot Iroshizuku Syo-Ro. In fact, it feels even better than my Custom 74 Soft Fine. Smooth with just enough feedback to let me know I'm in control and that the pen won't just fly off. My best comparison would be like a writing with a bold or medium tip nib with a very wet ink on Clairefontaine or Rhodia paper. It's a little disconcerting because it's a Japanese Fine tip.

 

In my hands, the pen feels light and well balanced when posted. Without posting, it feels like writing with the original smaller Fischer Space Pens.

 

With it being super cold last night and this morning, I was expecting the section to feel cold like the sections of my TWSBI ALR's, but it was only initially cold and then warmed up quickly. (I hope that won't lead to burping in the future.)

 

The only thing that is not going well writing wise is that the pen seems a bit too narrow and I could feel some cramping in my fingers after copying down the lyrics for "Dreams" by The Cranberries. (Or it could be arthritis. Like I said it was cold.) It'll give it more time to see if it's just a matter of adapting.

 

 

That sounds lovely and I think I'm going to have to ink up my Namibia Falcons with their custom extra flexible, extra fines next rotation. 

 

How small is that pen.? My smaller Fisher space pen is dinky! Though I'm really into small, light weight pens that post big and balanced right now, It's a really well designed feature.

[tragique]

Two more Sheaffer Snorkels. Both NOS.

[Baka1969]

Soon to purchase and a few weeks to come.

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

3 hours ago, tragique said:

Sheaffer Snorkels

I had a maroon Australasian made, factory stubbed maxi-semi-flex...and at BB it really drank ink. It ended up in better hands than me.

I was very shocked when I found out the Snorkel was a thin Large pen. I had always thought it a medium-large pen like a P-51. But it lay next to a Safari and was no shorter.

 

It has great balance...perhaps the best of all large pens, because it is so thin.

 

[inkstainedruth]

8 hours ago, Skydiver said:

They are reminding me to put my trash out the night before... Which I forget from time to time, and so I end up racing to get the trash out while the truck is actually outside me home.

We used to put out the trash the night before.  But several times recently the trash truck has NOT come, and the last time that happened some critter got into the bag and I had to pick up all the stuff strewn around.  At all (they just bypassed our entire street, and at least one of the cross streets).  So now my husband puts it out in the morning.  Of course  yesterday they picked up the trash but NOT the recycling.  Just sent a nasty note to the borough, asking how much we are paying the company who they've contracted out with, because the trash was picked up yesterday but the recycling WASN'T....  And also pointing out that in the past we've gotten calendars showing us which are recycling weeks and which weeks the trash is pushed back a day because of holidays (while Pittsburgh apparently recognizes MLK Day our town apparently does NOT -- at least as far as the third party trash collectors are concerned, anyway).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[inkstainedruth]

7 hours ago, Skydiver said:

The mail truck came down my road two more times last night. Pilot Myu 701 arrived! Looking at the manufacturing date on the nib, the pen becomes extra special: It was made Dec 1971. I was born Dec 1970.

 

@Skydiver What's the nib width on it?  And what sort of fill system does it have?  (I'm guessing the nib is stainless steel?)

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Skydiver]

@Baka1969 That is beautiful! Wow! I usually don't go for red pens, but that definitely will go in my exception list.

[Skydiver]

1 hour ago, inkstainedruth said:

@Skydiver What's the nib width on it?  And what sort of fill system does it have?  (I'm guessing the nib is stainless steel?)

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

From what I understand of the history of the line, when the pen first came out in 1971 they didn't mark the nib width because they only made it in Fine for that production run. The following years, Pilot started putting the widths but it was almost always Fine, and there are some very rare Mediums.

 

The pen takes Pilot cartridges, CON-B converter, and the CON-40 converters. I've currently got one of my CON-40's in it. If this pen ends up becoming one of my daily drivers, I may swap over to a CON-B or refill some cartridges.

 

Almost all of the original Myu's I've seen in auctions and reviews have been for stainless steel. The auction listing for pen had stated that it is a rare 18K variant. There is a slight yellowish hue on the pen with the pen here in my home lighting. Also when I was comparing photos of it compared to the other Myu's I bid on in the past, it does look slightly yellowish. Unfortunately, there is no stamp on the pen indicating that it truly is 18K, just like it doesn't have the nib size.

 

[Skydiver]

7 hours ago, DilettanteG said:

How small is that pen.? My smaller Fisher space pen is dinky! Though I'm really into small, light weight pens that post big and balanced right now, It's a really well designed feature.

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