I'm starting to see a pattern here...

**mhosea** · January 18th, 2015, 05:17 PM

I don't ask myself what my "favorites" are very much, and I like a lot of different-looking pens, but I happened to look at the subset of pens that I have inked at the moment.

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Apparently, I like black pens with gold trim.

**Neo** · January 18th, 2015, 05:33 PM

Originally Posted by mhosea

I don't ask myself what my "favorites" are very much, and I like a lot of different-looking pens, but I happened to look at the subset of pens that I have inked at the moment.

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Apparently, I like black pens with gold trim.

What about the pen on the left?

Nice picture, thanks for sharing.

**mhosea** · January 18th, 2015, 05:54 PM

Originally Posted by Neo

What about the pen on the left?

I suspect it's feeling rather nervous. I have the black-with-gold-trim version of that pen, too!

**Lady Onogaro** · January 18th, 2015, 06:16 PM

That's a very "muscular" set of pens, Mike. I can see the little red one quaking.

**tandaina** · January 18th, 2015, 07:55 PM

Originally Posted by mhosea

I don't ask myself what my "favorites" are very much, and I like a lot of different-looking pens, but I happened to look at the subset of pens that I have inked at the moment.

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Apparently, I like black pens with gold trim.

Me too. Until recently well over half my collection were black with gold trim, all German.

**mhosea** · January 18th, 2015, 07:55 PM

Originally Posted by Lady Onogaro

That's a very "muscular" set of pens, Mike.

Yeah, but one of the MB 146's has Tsutsuji in it, the Sailor 1911 has Yama Budo, and the Parker Premier has Waterman "Tender" Purple. Strangely, the red Pilot Celemo has Kaweco Palm Green in it.

I quite like Kaweco Palm Green, BTW. I got a set of cartridges from Jetpens on a whim and wanted to buy a bottle, but it is so expensive per ml that I realized, eventually, that Jetpens' price on the cartridges put them at about the same price per ml, if not lower! So I bought several more boxes of cartridges and some of the other colors to try. It also reduced the risk of catastrophe due to freezing (though a cartridge leaking here or there from freezing might have happened, but doesn't seem to have). I just drain the cartridges and transfer it to whatever. I guess I can't accommodate sac'd pens or the Montblancs that well, but with a syringe there's usually a way to get it into the pen.