Green Pen Club - Show Us Your Green Pens!

[Bo Bo Olson]

When changing over to the forefinger up, from the Death Grip Tripod grip , I moved the pen up from the ever so painful ring fingernail junction to 1/3rd of an inch up towards the fingertip....and the pain of decades stopped.

[LeakyInk]

Some great looking green FPs, everbody...

[dms525]

11 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

 These are lovely! That Aurora is especially eye catching.

Thank you! The Aurora is the Primavera. Mine is  No. 6776 of the limited edition of 7500 from 1998. It has a 18kt nib that Mike Masuyama ground to a very crisp cursive italic for me about 10 years ago.

 

David

[Armo]

Reform, Sailor, Pelikan, Pelikan, Eversharp, Conway Stewart, Pilot, Geha, Hero

[Penguincollector]

10 hours ago, dms525 said:

Thank you! The Aurora is the Primavera. Mine is  No. 6776 of the limited edition of 7500 from 1998. It has a 18kt nib that Mike Masuyama ground to a very crisp cursive italic for me about 10 years ago.

 

David

  That makes it even better! Crisp italics and cursive italics are some of my favorite nibs.

[Penguincollector]

3 hours ago, Armo said:

Pilot, Sailor, Pelikan, Pelikan, Eversharp, Conway Stewart, Pilot, Geha, Hero

 Gorgeous set of greens! 

[Bo Bo Olson]

The first Pelikan you have there from the left a 150, I have in that color with a gold ring at the piston cap...a 151 made in Milan. A newer pen, post '97.

And one of my first Pelikan pens was a 120 which was given to me by my auto mechanic. Then near or mint.

 

I used the almost mint 120 little, but all by its self after only @65 years, the gold plating started evaporating.

Luckily, that don't matter to the writing quality of the springy regular flex steel nib.

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Grumble cubed...the 120 was one of my inked pens in my inked pen cups, and my 151 just ran out of ink...and I decided I didn't want to use my EF Pelikan Pastel Blue, so that 120 F got the call..........and the clip showed underneath the gold plate the metal was becoming rough.

I hit the whole pen outside of the nib with a gold polish cloth, and got the clip to be looking better, but the ridge of the clip shows roughness under the gold plating. The rest is still ok.

This deep one pen scientific test proves that gold plate will last some 65 years if unused.....others can add to this study by noting how long their gold plating lasted.

 

The Chinese gold wash of a Reform 1745 don't count, in waving that pen in the air for a few minutes will dissolve the gold mist coating. (A Chinese pallet of caps and a pallet of barrels, with nib, are shipped to Hamburg....where in a Hamburg warehouse they are screwed together: so made in Germany. In 2000 Mutschler sold its Reform tooling and who knows what other tools to China as Mutchler went belly up.)

Sigh squared

I don't know why I have my little gray box of index cards, when I don't write down what ink is in the pen...Kaweco Palm Green is far from the shading dark blue I have in it. I suspect one of my Pure Pen's blue inks, Celtic sea or Saltve.

[Bo Bo Olson]

When using my 120 (springy regular flex) before in the 15 years I've had it, it worked well, and I never remembered looking at the bottom of the feed. I must have.

So yes, the original 120 has the 4 longitudinal ebonite combs/rills of the '50-65 era.

 

Does it make the pen write wetter?

 

Just taking what ever pens were in my pen cup....only 5...(I do have only 2 more that are inked...But a superflex and CI just don't get into the equation.)

 

Not noticeably, it shades with Pure Pens Celtic Sea...a slightly off blue, on HP 90g premium. A paper that is not up to the 90g paper of 5 years ago, but only a bit better than the common 80g copy paper.

I wanted to have some shading when I edit, so have no qualms of putting it in the printer. I have stopped using 80g paper ...thankfully. Now it's nothing but 90g....and this 90g HP premium won't be bought again.

(I have 4 reams of other 90g papers to feed my printer with. I will test the no name 90g...but the 3 reams of Neusiedler Japan Post seems nice enough shading, when scribbled on.)

 

With other Pure Pen inks, and in three Pelikan (wetter nibbed)  pens, some semi-vintage...a couple of my 'newer' 200's there is little to no shading, and they write in a fatter line.

 

Pure pens Glens of Antrim shades in a B.

On both papers.

HP Premium 90g  ... only shaded with two of the four Pure Pen inks.

 

On Clairefontaine Triomphe 90g

The 120 with the Celtic Sea, shades on both papers. The 120 F, is thinner on CT.

One of the blue Pure Pen inks shades just a bit.

The other two shaded more than on the HP paper. Enough to say they shaded.

And the Glens of Antrim shades on CT well, in B.

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My original question, would need work, I'd have to find an F in semi-vintage.

The wetness in most of my '50-70 era pens, comes from being semi-flex.

In the end for me due to laziness of having to clean out pens.... I'm going to say... I don't think it would make a difference, compared the ebonite feed to the plastic one in semi-vintage. It's an ink and paper influence more than the feed.

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I am glad I'm using that 120, and it's F is good for editing.