Pen Collecting...Do you plan?

[fountainpenkid]

Hi all!

I used to have no idea as to where I wanted to go with fountain pens, but now, I have a very solidified idea (I think). I want to end up with (not including the pens I already have:
-All colors of the Slender Vacumatics
-Pelikan 500
-Aurora 88 vintage model
-OMAS Paragon in Arco
-vintage OMAS Lucens
-OMAS Dama
-MB 142 Black
-MB 142 Green
-Waterman Carene
-Oversize Vac!
-Soennecken 111 or 222
-Parker Vest Pocket Duofold
-Sheaffer Snorkel Crest in Mandarin
-A waterman's pen made over 100 years ago (preferably not an eyedropper or saftey)
-Lamy 2000 (maybe)
-Pelikan 100n

Does anyone else know exactly what pens they want to have? Have you been able to stick to your list? Should I not do this? ()
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Best!

[Bogon07]

I have an idea until Eric, Dan & Doc Brown show off some new pens on FPGTV or some does a review here (I'm pointing at you KI). And then I add another couple to the list.

Aimless browsing through eBay doesn't help either.

[fountainpenkid]

I have an idea until Eric, Dan & Doc Brown show off some new pens on FPGTV or some does a review here (I'm pointing at you KI). And then I add another couple to the list.

Aimless browsing through eBay doesn't help either.

The FPGeeks turned me on to the vintage A88, and Dan's article on Vacumatics got me interested in them, and Stephen Brown's waterman carene review got me even more interested in that! They are certainly great enablers.

[earthdawn]

Im scared to make a list....

I might start putting dates I need to get them by lol

[fountainpenkid]

Im scared to make a list....

I might start putting dates I need to get them by lol

Maybe you're right.

[fountainpenkid]

I have a budget limited by money I make from summer jobs, and gift money, and a little bit from my parents...so I guess I don't have to worry about splurging as much as other people here...a couple more years though.

[chad.trent]

I have a plan. If it's a demonstrator, I must have it.

[KrazyIvan]

I have an idea until Eric, Dan & Doc Brown show off some new pens on FPGTV or some does a review here (I'm pointing at you KI). And then I add another couple to the list.

Aimless browsing through eBay doesn't help either.

Pointing at little o' me? I actually have three reviews done, well, make that two and a half since I misplaced my final draft on one of them. I have not had time to take pictures. By the time I get home, my regular sun lit window has lost its glow. That means I only have the weekends to get good pictures. I tried with some lights but have an awful time with the white balance. I need to make myself another cheap light tent.

[snedwos]

-A waterman's pen made over 100 years ago (preferably not an eyedropper or saftey)

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Best!

If you wait long enough, the Waterman Carène will fit this category! Though I assume you mean pre-1920, more or less? I would like one too, but all that seems to be widely available are 52 1/2V's which are too small... 52 is what I want!

And a nice Balance, pref OS. And a B, stub or flex Vac. And a Doric, and an Equipoised, and a Skyline, and a DecoBand (can anyone tell I like Eversharps?). And plenty of other stuff...

[KrazyIvan]

I am noticing a trend with matching up pens to Characters in Star Wars.

Darth Vader:


20120706_135343.jpg by IvanRomero, on Flickr

Storm Trooper


Pelikan M100 by IvanRomero, on Flickr

R2D2


Behold, I will dub thee my R2D2 fountain pen by IvanRomero, on Flickr

I think I might as well keep it going but I might have trouble finding a furry brown fountain pen for Chewbaca.

[Tracy Lee]

My only plan as of two years ago is to continue expansion of my Visconti collection. No list, I keep my eyes open and see what I find and take it from there. Budget smudget.

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[fountainpenkid]

I am noticing a trend with matching up pens to Characters in Star Wars.

Darth Vader:


20120706_135343.jpg by IvanRomero, on Flickr

Storm Trooper


Pelikan M100 by IvanRomero, on Flickr

R2D2


Behold, I will dub thee my R2D2 fountain pen by IvanRomero, on Flickr

I think I might as well keep it going but I might have trouble finding a furry brown fountain pen for Chewbaca.

Brown furry pen...lol!

[snedwos]

I am noticing a trend with matching up pens to Characters in Star Wars.
I think I might as well keep it going but I might have trouble finding a furry brown fountain pen for Chewbaca.

I'm sure Brian Gray can find you a material...

[fountainpenkid]

I'm sure Brian Gray can find you a material...

Bear hair cast into clear acrylic resin?

[snedwos]

Or you could glue faux fur onto the outside... Or some sort of clever chasing pattern.

But I'm liking your hairy micarta idea...

[fountainpenkid]

Or you could glue faux fur onto the outside... Or some sort of clever chasing pattern.

But I'm liking your hairy micarta idea...

The micarta isn't acrylic...

[ink mixer]

As long as you were willing to bend on the "furry" part, one of the brown swirl ebonites would work well.

[fountainpenkid]

As long as you were willing to bend on the "furry" part, one of the brown swirl ebonites uld work well.

Yeah. I think KI actually has a custom edison in that material! It is quite fat...but not like chewbaca.

[KrazyIvan]

Hmmm, I think the Micarta or my Edison Pearl would work as Chewy. I'm leaning Micarta because its rougher.

[snedwos]

It isn't but, it's that same sort of idea of a composite material.

KI, do you have a gold plated pen for C3PO?