What Pens(s) Are You Waiting For?

[akapulko2020]

Waiting for my first two real pens to arrive from Fontoplumo : a coral Lamy Safari and a green Kaweco sport. Can't wait...

[Lady Onogaro]

A generous friend of mine (on this board) is sending me a pen, and I am very much looking forward to that. I do have a Parker 45 with an orange barrel on the way. I have been buying some of the cheaper Parker 45 offerings on ebay and cleaning them up.

[Lady Onogaro]

I wish I could meet with you all to talk about pens. It sounds great to have a group that can meet up once in a while.

[earthdawn]

SAILOR Pro Gear Black Silver trim NAGINATA EMPEROR 21K m/f nib

[ainterne]

SAILOR Pro Gear Black Silver trim NAGINATA EMPEROR 21K m/f nib

Soooo very nice... Very sharp pen....

[Cob]

I wish I could meet with you all to talk about pens. It sounds great to have a group that can meet up once in a while.

It is great! And the beer's nice too.


Cob

[Cob]

SAILOR Pro Gear Black Silver trim NAGINATA EMPEROR 21K m/f nib

Interesting: what looks to be a metal overfeed - I have seen these only on very old Swans and Onotos.

Cob

[discopig]

Ranga model 4C customized to accept tachikawa/zebra G nibs

[Willieboy]

Pilot Prera and Stargazer are on the way.

[RayCornett]

Parker Sonnet and Franklin Covey Freemont which I won today in a PIF here on FPG

[Avalona]

A Lady Sheaffer, 1970s edition. Black with gold tulle/mesh pattern. (And it's a ballpoint. I feel like I'm being sacrilegious - none of my most recent pens have been fountain pens!)

[ainterne]

There you go COB, not the best examples but they will do until I find more. I just love that Waverley nib...

1. Cameron self filling No 5 (1913?). It has the famous Waverley nib, medium/broad overfed with fair flex. It is bulb filler in black hard rubber.
2. Cameron X3 in ripple hard rubber (1932?) It has M&C nib medium. Lever fill.

Looking forward to them.

[Wrathen]

I ordered my first Franklin-Christoph pen on Monday and waiting for it show up later this week. Ordered a Model 02 Smoke and Ice

[Silverbreeze]

I ordered my first Franklin-Christoph pen on Monday and waiting for it show up later this week. Ordered a Model 02 Smoke and Ice

You will love it. Personally I favor Edison models more but F-C is a great company too

[Wrathen]

I ordered my first Franklin-Christoph pen on Monday and waiting for it show up later this week. Ordered a Model 02 Smoke and Ice

You will love it. Personally I favor Edison models more but F-C is a great company too

Thanks, looking forward to it I should have it by Friday they think. I ordered it with a Masuyama Medium-Italic Steel nib. It will be my first Masuyama Nib as well. I have heard alot about his work and cant wait to give it a try.

Edison is another company I hope to try out sometime in the future. But what really sold me on the F-C pens was the large grip diameter on alot of their pens. I was debating between the model 02 and the model 19 but decided to go with the model 02 since it was a bit more unique and would look really cool as an eye dropper.

[Silverbreeze]

Masuyama nibs and sugar cane paper are among the reasons I buy as much as I do from F-C directly. Also F- C nibs fit Edison and Noodler's Ahab pens. If you ever used a mass produced CI, you will never buy one again. Masuyama is an acknowledged master not only by manufacturers but by other nibmeisters. If you are like me you will favor his steel to any stock gold. Even pen snobs a Masuyama nibs are worth breaking the Stock Orginal rule.

I have seen bids online raise because there is a Masuyama chomp stamp in the picture

[Cob]

There you go COB, not the best examples but they will do until I find more. I just love that Waverley nib...

1. Cameron self filling No 5 (1913?). It has the famous Waverley nib, medium/broad overfed with fair flex. It is bulb filler in black hard rubber.
2. Cameron X3 in ripple hard rubber (1932?) It has M&C nib medium. Lever fill.

Looking forward to them.

Grrrrr! Jealous...

Well found

Cob

[Kaputnik]

But toward the end of 2014, on an impulse, I decided to add one more nation to the selection of pens I have, and ordered a blue Delta Serena. It arrived, but I had some serious problems with the nib. So it went back, and now I'm waiting for its replacement.

What type of problems did the nib have ?
Was it a steel or a fusion nib ?

I find my Serena feels a more slim and compact pen than most of the Delta range, among those I have.
Mine has quite a nice steel fine nib which goes well with Edelstein Garnet.

Probably just an anomaly. I hope so, since I had read good things about Deltas.

But the platinum coated steel nib felt scratchy. Under a loupe the tines seemed aligned, but it also appeared that there was virtually no tipping material on the underside; it was all on the top. And looking at the underside, it was very scratched up, as if someone had attacked it with rough sandpaper. I've never seen a nib on a new pen looking like that.

I think somehow one pen got sent out with a damaged nib. Although I won't mention the seller until this is resolved, it's someone who I'm sure will make it right.

Gee, I just looked at mine under a loop and yes there is next to no tipping on the underside of the tip and only a slight amount on the top ! Strange indeed. Still it writes ok. My was a pearl red Italian edition from Martemodernusa with gunmetal trim and nib. I hope your issues are soon resolved to your satisfaction as the Serena is a nice pen for the price.

The replacement arrived today. I'll put more information in the "acquisitions" thread after giving it a day or two of testing.

[ainterne]

There you go COB, not the best examples but they will do until I find more. I just love that Waverley nib...

1. Cameron self filling No 5 (1913?). It has the famous Waverley nib, medium/broad overfed with fair flex. It is bulb filler in black hard rubber.
2. Cameron X3 in ripple hard rubber (1932?) It has M&C nib medium. Lever fill.

Looking forward to them.

Grrrrr! Jealous...

Well found

Cob

Ugghhh... Retracted... I am not paying the postage that goes along with these pens. So have cancelled.... When the postage announced is going to be a quarter of one of the pens, enough is enough...Its not that nice..... I have been looking hard for one of these, I will keep looking.

COB, here is the nib in case you didn't see it..

[RayCornett]

Sometime this week I will receive two of my favorite Parkers. A deep red Parker 45 which I previously restored for the owner as well as a lovely blue gray Parker 51 from the same person. A few months back I had restored a few pens for her. One was the deep red Parker 45 which during the restoration I developed a crush on. I found out today that it was for sale so I immediately snapped it up. I have a Parker 51 double pen desk set but this will be the first Parker 51 I can actually carry around with me. I so can't wait!