What Pelikan Are You Writing With Today? (2024 Edition)

[newkid12]

Pelikan M200 Brown Marble with Pelikan Brilliant Brown ink.

[Bo Bo Olson]

805 OBB, which is a 1/2 width wider than my W.Germany small 600. Loaded with Octuopus Unicorn, a shading and tilt for sheen blue ink.

 

I have a marble brown 200.

Loaded with PE Apatite.

And it is out in the small pen holder of my Pelikan two  holder pen holder. Two Pelikan's out in that holder.

 

[Cjtamu]

Couple tortoises this week. One white one with a 2 chicks cap and Fine 2 chicks nib. One 1952-53 brown one with EF semi-flex nib. Both are extremely pleasant to write with.

[Mercian]

13 hours ago, Cjtamu said:

Couple tortoises this week. One white one with a 2 chicks cap and Fine 2 chicks nib. One 1952-53 brown one with EF semi-flex nib. Both are extremely pleasant to write with.

Ooh, colour me ‘jealous’ green!
I have a green-striped 400 with an ‘F’ nib, from 1954. Writing with it is indeed a joyful experience 😊
I therefore now covet a brown tortoise 400 with an ‘M’ nib.

 

Today I am using my 1990/1 M800 ‘M’, inked with Edelstein Topaz.

[PAKMAN]

[Bo Bo Olson]

On 9/12/2024 at 4:00 PM, Mercian said:

Today I am using my 1990/1 M800 ‘M’, inked with Edelstein Topaz.

Still with one of those tad springier than the '91-97 era nibs.

 

I went over to Pelikan Perch, to see when my 18K 800 OM was made.

Mine even if from '90, that was one of my three W.Germany nibs, the 800, 200 and small 600...a deluxe 400.

My 805, now in use is an 2002 pen....my 800 W.Germany looks to be from '90. Both are pure black, one gold, the other 'silver'.

[Cjtamu]

On 9/12/2024 at 9:00 AM, Mercian said:

Ooh, colour me ‘jealous’ green!
I have a green-striped 400 with an ‘F’ nib, from 1954. Writing with it is indeed a joyful experience 😊
I therefore now covet a brown tortoise 400 with an ‘M’ nib.

 

Today I am using my 1990/1 M800 ‘M’, inked with Edelstein Topaz.

Consider the favor returned in regards to your M800. Love to own similar one day. Pic of the Dos Tortugas attached. Their black M600 cousin is going to see Mr. Speer tomorrow. Can’t wait.

 

[USG]

On 9/12/2024 at 10:26 AM, PAKMAN said:

 

That's really some pen 😀👍....  every time I see it I want one...

 

[AkitaMom]

   Aloha, it's been a very long time since I've been online. Today I Finally have something to talk about. I just received my New Pelikan 600 (Black version with ink window)! It's the Last pen I'll purchase and I'm very happy with it.  Ordered and received in less than 3 days from GB, I'm in WA State! 

  Inked in Iroshizuku Asa-Gao.  Now to start my letter writing!

   I

[Bo Bo Olson]

3 hours ago, AkitaMom said:

t's the Last pen I'll purchase and I'm very happy with it. 

I can well remember when I thought 10 pens and a dozen inks was all that one needed.

How may pens have you got now? What width of the nib???

 

I do like the 600 as a size, the best thing, is one can put in a semi-flex nib on it. I had a semi-flex B on mine until I had the BB nib made a stubbed B.

If you got a fat nib, suggest having it ground to a CI, cursive italic and have the nib get some life in it.

 

120 pens, 100 inks and that in only 15 years of buying mostly second hand....35 Pelikans.

 

((((((((((())))))))))) Sorry to laugh with you....but last pen, is what you tell them to buy in your will.

 

[Cjtamu]

4 hours ago, AkitaMom said:

   Aloha, it's been a very long time since I've been online. Today I Finally have something to talk about. I just received my New Pelikan 600 (Black version with ink window)! It's the Last pen I'll purchase and I'm very happy with it.  Ordered and received in less than 3 days from GB, I'm in WA State! 

  Inked in Iroshizuku Asa-Gao.  Now to start my letter writing!

   I

Congratulations. I love the look of the black Pelikan Souverans. The nib on my M600 is finally to my liking. You may have inspired to go pick it up and write with it 😁

[RedPie]

[Wil D]

M75 in green with M nib.

[yubaprof]

I spent the day with an M800 Red Stripe fitted with an OB nib. A magnificent writer! (And it looks good as well.)

[Wil D]

120

[Bo Bo Olson]

Bought from Fritz so I use his picture, is is so much better than what I can do. An EF loaded with PE Apatite.

[lamarax]

6 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

Bought from Fritz so I use his picture, is is so much better than what I can do. An EF loaded with PE Apatite.

 

[OT]: Are you perchance familiar with Fritz Schimpf inks such as say, Gewitterwolke? Or are those just re-bottled/rebranded? I'm intrigued...

[Bo Bo Olson]

No, I'm not familiar with his inks....I seem to be on an ink diet; wanting a hundred and affording six. And that not as often as I want.

 

That would be a good thread for you to start, in many of us have ordered pens from Fritz, even many in the States besides in Europe.

[PAKMAN]

Still using the M1000 Rennaissance Brown. This thing holds a lot of ink!

[Bo Bo Olson]

125ml =200/400/600 down from vintage days.

It's been a while since I thought of this, but the 600 could be there with the 800.

135ml = 800.

The 1000 holds 145ml, as much as a 146.

A 149 holds 160ml, or as much as a large Sheaffer cartridge. Boy, oh, boy did that kill off certain flame wars of how much more a piston pen held than cartridges.

.........................

The 1950-65 400/400nn holds between 1.95 and 2.00ml....something I never think about in time to weigh and find out which is right.

But Those are pens that really hold a lot of ink.

 

There are some Visconties and the Conids hold massive amount of inks.