Show Us Your Oddball Pens!

[Sailor Kenshin]

 

 

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A wooden kit pen given to me by a beginning penmaker from long ago.  Heavy, doesn't post, but writes well.

 

Rotring Core (or KOOR, after my favorite Klingon).  Just.  Plain. Weird.  But it writes really well and I love the nib.

 

Laughably hideous NoNami pen from Walmart or somewhere way back.  Weighs as much as a school bus, doesn't post, and doesn't write all that well but I had to have it just because.

 

Little Pentech Mr. Kenshin got me from a drug store.  Fond memories and it writes well enough.

 

Diplomat Butterfly, the third fountain pen I ever bought, not counting a Sheaffer school pen and an infomercial one that was hawked as being able to play darts with.  

 

Levenger Mach 5, heavy as neutronium and difficult to hold, but it writes beautifully.

 

NoNami pink pen, probably the fifth fountain pen I ever bought.  Its pink rubbery plasticky barrel gets sticky after a couple of years, but alcohol revives it.

 

Tombow Zoom.  Wonderful writer, comfortable to hold.

 

Apart from the Butterfly, all take standard international cartridges or converters.

 

[amberleadavis]

I really think the NoNami is cool.  

As for the custom pens from beginning pen makers, I have a few of those.

My daughter has a blue KOOR.

[Sailor Kenshin]

18 hours ago, amberleadavis said:

I really think the NoNami is cool.  

As for the custom pens from beginning pen makers, I have a few of those.

My daughter has a blue KOOR.

Thanks!  I love those Koors… such weirdly constructed pens but they write beautifully.

[Penguincollector]

The KOOR  is so of it’s time, I love it. I had one, my brother laid claim to it in high school, for art. 
 

 My most loved pen is my weirdo, but in the best way possible. Once I’ve used all my new buys, George will get a refill.

[amberleadavis]

59 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

The KOOR  is so of it’s time, I love it. I had one, my brother laid claim to it in high school, for art. 
 

 My most loved pen is my weirdo, but in the best way possible. Once I’ve used all my new buys, George will get a refill.

 

I love George the Penguin.

[Penguincollector]

2 minutes ago, amberleadavis said:

 

I love George the Penguin.

He told me to tell you that he loves you too 🐧🖤

[amberleadavis]

Just now, Penguincollector said:

He told me to tell you that he loves you too 🐧🖤

LOL

[Bo Bo Olson]

On 9/1/2023 at 3:49 PM, Sailor Kenshin said:

Tombow Zoom.  Wonderful writer, comfortable to hold.

I have one of those, which was part of a fountain pen lot at a live auction.

I won't call it comfortable, but one can write with it....I was much impressed at the English price worth.

This is a designer's 1950 ball point.FASS AUFZUGE on one side...A.W. Faber-Castel TEKOGRAPH 9603

 

With permission of Penboard.de

A '30's fend pen a Fendomatic Safety Pen made in Milian. 18k rolled gold.

When I was it a pre-show for a live auction, I thought...OMG someone not only stole the nib but the feed too. I'll never play poker with that woman behind the counter. she twisted the end and the nib came out.

My pattern is just a tad different.

I do have a pre'23 MB Safety Pen, but that Fendomatic is more unusual

 

othere red pens, top a English made Parker Jr. Doufold with a semi-flex nib. The small one a Painbow on the clip, a rubber tube squeezes filler in hooded like the P-51, and is 10cm/4" closed 11cm/4 1/4th posted.

It was given to me by a member from Slavika. So could be from that area.

Bottom one, a standard sized,  mildly glitter ruby red  Pelikan 200.

[Sailor Kenshin]

21 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

The KOOR  is so of it’s time, I love it. I had one, my brother laid claim to it in high school, for art. 
 

 My most loved pen is my weirdo, but in the best way possible. Once I’ve used all my new buys, George will get a refill.

 

 

George is tooo cute!  

[Baka1969]

[Sailor Kenshin]

1 hour ago, Baka1969 said:

Love the Core/Koor!  👍🏻