What pen are you waiting for in the mail?

[sotto2]

I liked the Pilot 78G broad that I got in the mail a couple days ago so much that I ordered another one, and I'm gonna play around with swapping nibs between those two and my Pilot Prera 'til I'm blue in the face.

[Lou Erickson]

Ordered a Lamy Vista, and all the sizes of nibs to test inks with from Goulet Pens. One of each of the Jinhao pens that they carry fell into my cart, because they sound like fun and are inexpensive. So did a couple of Platinum Preppies because I have o-rings that need pens. If true to form, they'll arrive Thursday. Looking forward to ink testing getting easier.

 

And that was AFTER the Pacific Pen Club meet, where I bought a "51" and three other "user" grade pens. (Two Shaeffer touchdown fillers with Triumph 14k nibs, and a lever-filling open nibbed white-dot Shaeffer with an unusual cap.)

 

I bought ten pens on Saturday. Shouldn't do THAT very often!

[Trouble]

I just got these two pens in the past hour. I LOVE em..The Laban scepter in ivory (a little over a hundred bucks)....great looker and very nicely made indeed. I found a great Cypriot seller who gives honest prices and it came with a bottle of ink and two boxes of ink cartridges and AN EXTRA B NIB!!!! Seriously where do you find that kind of service?

 

Secondly the beauty from India came with 15 euros straight to my door. It writes like a toothpick but OMG it looks AMAZING!!!

 

In different light it changes! I simply adore its looks.

 

It is an Oliver F 27. Not bad for the 15 euro, but you really have to change nibs if you are going to use this.

 

I will review them sooner than later. There are so interesting.

 

I must say....my wife who hates FP's saw the Indian Oliver F 27 and wanted to use it immediately, She hasn't done that since the Visconti Opera came in last Monday!!

 

 

[Trouble]

Ordered a Lamy Vista, and all the sizes of nibs to test inks with from Goulet Pens. One of each of the Jinhao pens that they carry fell into my cart, because they sound like fun and are inexpensive. So did a couple of Platinum Preppies because I have o-rings that need pens. If true to form, they'll arrive Thursday. Looking forward to ink testing getting easier.

 

And that was AFTER the Pacific Pen Club meet, where I bought a "51" and three other "user" grade pens. (Two Shaeffer touchdown fillers with Triumph 14k nibs, and a lever-filling open nibbed white-dot Shaeffer with an unusual cap.)

 

I bought ten pens on Saturday. Shouldn't do THAT very often!

You will love the Jinhao, its amazing how those pens work. But remember that break in does apply to this pen maker!!

[Lou Erickson]

You will love the Jinhao, its amazing how those pens work. But remember that break in does apply to this pen maker!!

Break in? Really. That's the first I've heard it suggested that a pen should have such a thing. I'm curious as to what it is breaking in and how long is expected.

[sargetalon]

Green, Post-'97 Pelikan M250 with M nib

[lreiley]

Jinhao 599-the Lamy clone that is cheaper than the Hero clone. LOVE Jinhaos.

[madden11]

Sadly none ... i just lost out on a nice blue Esterbrook on ebay. I wanna know who has it!!

[Sandy Fry]

 

You're right. I have all of that information, which is why I know it should have been here by now. It came into the US on 3/10/14 and I would have thought it wouldn't take a week to make it to my house once in the US. I'll give it another few days before I notify the seller.

I have had pens from China arrive in the States and then take 2 weeks to get to me! It all depends on where it arrives here in California. If it comes via Los Angeles I get it within a week. If it arrives via San Francisco it takes 2 weeks and sometimes more!!!

 

David

[Coop]

I have had pens from China arrive in the States and then take 2 weeks to get to me! It all depends on where it arrives here in California. If it comes via Los Angeles I get it within a week. If it arrives via San Francisco it takes 2 weeks and sometimes more!!!

 

David

 

That's nothing! I live in the Netherlands... I had packages from the US arrive here in the Netherlands, pass through customs in only a week and a half time, be dispatched to the local distribution hub and then flown back to the US, to be stuck in customs there for 2 weeks, then my package bounced around between 3 or 4 hubs in the US, was flown to the Netherlands again, stuck in customs yet again for a week, pass through 2 more mail hubs before it arrived at the same local distribution hub as was in before, then it was kept there for another week... Then it was finally delivered to me with a lovely bill for €85 euro in customs fees for priority processing of an express package.

 

I'm pretty sure that if I map the path that package followed on a world map, it'll draw a big stuck up middle finger...

[flyingfox]

Parker Vector Mexico Green and White!

 

It was an impulse purchase, totally... I was on Amazon, getting a book (that I saw on "Inky Thoughts" forum of all places! And I thought that was a dangerous place only re. ink....) and a few other random stuff (not related to pens at all- risotto, glue sticks, headache medicine....) Then I just started browsing around for fun, and looked up Parker Vector (a friend of mine just got one, and raving about it.) Next thing I know, I saw super-cute ones with South West design, and I just could not resist the green one. It is actually mostly turquoise, with green and pink design. So pretty... colors of the spring!!! I cannot wait- both re. the pen as well as the spring!!!!! It was snowing again here yesterday...

 

Then- I got the notice that a part of my order has been shipped, I got back there to see what's going on with the rest of my order. I just "happened to" notice that the white one is now on sale!!! This one has the same design as the green one, but the body of the pen is white, and the designs are in teal and pink. And yes, I "had to" grab that one as well....

[injesticate]

Sadly none ... i just lost out on a nice blue Esterbrook on ebay. I wanna know who has it!!

You haven't been bidding on any copper ones, have you? I've lost out on 3 of those.

[madden11]

You haven't been bidding on any copper ones, have you? I've lost out on 3 of those.

No I haven't; Ijust bid on another one, but it isnt copper. Frustrating feeling isn't it?

[andymcc]

I've fully given into my addiction this month and spent twice what I'd agreed on, last night I bid on a Pelikan M400 expecting to be outbid and wasn't, the pen is already on it's way to me(hopefully). I planned on getting an M200 in a few months but the chance to get a fairly new M400 for a similar price to a new M200 was too good to miss

[Zookie]

A Baoer Green / Black leopard print FP. No model number, but I just couldn't take my eyes off it!

It HAD to be mine

[death89]

Nothing at the moment, but I have just received a beautiful (to me) French made Parker 15 Red GT from 1981, to go with my UK made 15 Black GT and Flighter GT (Flighter also bought this month - both for a shade over a fiver each!).

[kenshiro]

I *was* waiting for an Aurora Firma Qube. Then no fewer than three retailers listing them for sale told me 'Just kidding! We don't actually have stock!'

[a m a r g o]

 

Finally at home!:

Edited March 18, 2014 by coppilcus

[Dickkooty2]

Nothing at the moment, but I have just received a beautiful (to me) French made Parker 15 Red GT from 1981, to go with my UK made 15 Black GT and Flighter GT (Flighter also bought this month - both for a shade over a fiver each!).2014-03-18-1504 resize.jpg

It is amazing to me how much true design and manufacturing skill can be bought for about the price of a Chinese strike-off, near-miss, gaudy piece of brass. I don't get the appeal of these almost-are's when compared to a pen made for what it is and its price point.

 

I just received a Jinhao model in plastic, designed and made for it's price point … ok, maybe the Safari entered into the thinking. But it has an honesty of design and clarity of line. The lack of this design goal is why the strike-off, near-misses are what they are… junk.

Edited March 18, 2014 by Dickkooty2

[odd_soul]

If my local post office can stop being dumb, I will soon get a black smoke Pilot Custom Heritage 92. It's been in the area since Saturday, and I still don't have it in my hands, thanks to the post office not redelivering when I asked them to.

 

I also have a Pilot VP Raden on the way! Yay!!