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

[Bo Bo Olson]

On 1/24/2024 at 10:53 PM, Lam1 said:

Does your W. Germany M800 have a 14k nib? 

Those are the best modern Pelikan nibs, in my opinion.

No, it and my W.Germany 600 have 18K nibs.

The 800 OM has a nice springy regular flex nib, but the OB 600 has a tad more tine spread ease.

My other W.Germany nibbed Pelikans are a couple 200's (one a NOS set that is still NOS) The 200's  they match the other W.Germany pens being that slight tad more springy than the '91-97 era....but one has to have both to notice the difference.

(W.Germany pens normally cost 20-30% more than the '91-97 ones or did when I was looking.)

 

I ended up with as many W.Germany pens as '91-97 and Celebry era. a 400 tortoise, two slightly different green marbled pens, a Celebry and a 381..and a black and chrome Celebry. Those too match the '91-97- era pens for nice nibs with a nice clean line.

 

I find the double ball nibs including the now recently ruined double ball 200 not to have a clean line the tear drop '82-97 or stubbed tipping of the '50-65 era. .

 

I started out a semi-flex freak, but they were often/mostly too wet for shading inks, and I got to like the regular flex nibs for that, in I like shading.

When I came back from after 40 years in the desert as a One Man, One Unused Pen guy, I went wide, only getting F's as a place holder. Ended up often being too cheap to buy wider....or kept the F anyway.

I now like M's.....

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I'm using Silver Star P18/P478...semi-nail, some tine bend, not much tine spread...In back in the day, very few had any of the '66-81 Pelikans, and none mentioned nib flex rate.  I didn't want to waste money to find out it was they were semi-nail or nails.  That is the only one of that era I have....

I find the 200's, 381, and Celebries and of course the semi-vintage 400 to have much better nibs.

I have it inked with Diamine Silver Fox a shading gray ink.

Every once in a while one has to use that dusty pen in the corner.

[DilettanteG]

Inked up my M205 Duo Highlighter in yellow with a 2mm nib and swapped the nib in my green M205 Duo highlighter to a 1.5mm Italic, also from my MC110. A BB Nib just seems too narrow to actually highlight anything. Just me?

 

 

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

'54 Transitional light tortoise 400,** with a semi-flex B nib, with Diamine Tropical Glow, a silver glitter ink, that shades on good paper...not on poor paper.

 

** Originally thought by me to be a 400n, but wasn't. It had the nib width marking and not the normal '50-54 400's piston knob marking.

It is difficult for me to see much difference between a 400 and a 400n........but it wasn't an n.

Is ok, still love the early '50's light tortoise colors. I also have a 500.

[Carrau]

A modern 101N in the Brown Tortoise with a M nib that is pleasant to write with. It is another pen that fits well in my hand, to my surprise, which is a bonus on top of its good looks in those browns/greens, so appealing to my sensibility.

[chromantic]

M400 blue-striped with Stipula Dark Blue and 140 with MV Sapphire.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Forgot to mention my 'Opel' marked, black and chrome P-570 Celebry. It would be the one I'd sell to the Opel car dealer. Which is probably where the original owner got it.

His widow gave it to me.

Very nice nib of the same regular flex rate nib as the 200, steel F,  and tear drop tipped so writes with a nice clean line.

 In it is a Pelikan BB cartridge, that had to be re-hydrated a bit, in after only 15 years it was half full.

[DilettanteG]

20 hours ago, Carrau said:

A modern 101N in the Brown Tortoise with a M nib that is pleasant to write with. It is another pen that fits well in my hand, to my surprise, which is a bonus on top of its good looks in those browns/greens, so appealing to my sensibility.

That's the pen that made me buy the entire M101N series! It's certainly the best looking one. 👍

[inkstainedruth]

Today it's been the M200 Café Crème, B nib -- still with Edelstein Topaz.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Andy1883]

Note taking with a M151, Diamine Oxford Blue together with a M200, Diamine Ancient Copper 

[carlos.q]

Pelikan M600 EF nib with Sailor Yama Dori:

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

1 hour ago, Andy1883 said:

M151,

Have one, an Italian market Pelikan. Looks much like a vintage 120 in coloring, but has the modern cap finial and piston knob.... 150 size...have two black 150's.

That was a pen I didn't know existed, until it popped into my life from a woman up stairs who bought it in Italy while on vacation.

[SLinkster]

An "old style" M200 (ink window!) and Edelstein Moonstone. Broad nib. Juicy. I can blow through a LOT of paper with this pen - there's no twee delicate writing going on today!

[PPPR]

A Level L65 with a medium nib.

[N1003U]

On 2/21/2024 at 7:59 AM, carlos.q said:

Pelikan M600 EF nib with Sailor Yama Dori:

 

Beautiful. That is the pen (though with an F nib) that started me down this beautiful Pelikan rabbit hole over 20 years ago, and still one of my absolute favorites!

[Bo Bo Olson]

A black and chrome Celebry, just now ran out of Daimine Silver Fox ink that I shot into a long Pelikan cartridge. Am going over to a '91-97 400 Tortoise M....one of three tortoises I have inked, the other two are 400nns.

No idea what ink is in it, but it is not the Moonstone gray that I have on it's card. Vert Empire probably. I don't (as far as I know) have a lot of murky shading greens.

 

I must have inked it the last time I made the mistake of going over to the ink section, and Vert Empire or a cousin was mentioned....could be it was a Vert Empire cousin.....but to stay on safe ground I'll call it Vert Empire....or was that Seaweed....(MB Johnathan Swift). More than likely Seaweed, in it was easier to get at.

My little gray plastic index card box is only a yard away....in plain sight.

Too far away fro use it appears.

[RedPie]

My Pelikan Twist with M nib. 

[N1003U]

Today my little M300 in traditional green stripes, which was freshly tuned up for me at the Baltimore pen show.

[eerestis]

Pelikan P20 with the Silvexa cap. I've mainly used Pelikans pre 1960's and post 1980's, and I was pleasantly surprised how good this pen is. It came in a lot, and I wouldn't have bought it separately. While the 50's Pelikans have far superior design in my opinion, the design of the Silvexa has grown on me. Solid pen.

[irrigger]

This week has been a Twist with a medium nib, a M200 fine and my M1000 also with a fine.

[N1003U]

41 minutes ago, irrigger said:

This week has been a Twist with a medium nib, a M200 fine and my M1000 also with a fine.

How is your experience with the M1000 Fine? In general I find the M1000 nibs are among the most fun to use I have. They are nice and bouncy, buttery smooth and super reliable, though really wide and REALLY wet.

 

I have an M1000 with an EF that puts down a similar width to my Pilot Custom 823 Broad, and a little wetter. I also have an M1005 Stresemann with a B nib and it is an absolute fire hose. I can drain in less than 10 A4 pages. It is a living advertisement for blotting paper.

 

The tactile experience of the M100x is unsurpassed, but my experience is to make sure you let the result dry before doing anything with it.