FPK,
I you get bored playing it in a conventional manner James Hill from Canada demonstrates so exciting experimental techniques. Probably better tested on a less expensive instrument.
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/0...james-ukulele/
FPK,
I you get bored playing it in a conventional manner James Hill from Canada demonstrates so exciting experimental techniques. Probably better tested on a less expensive instrument.
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/0...james-ukulele/
sinistral hypergraphica - a slurry of ink
"Nothing means less than zero"
fountainpenkid (December 4th, 2013)
About 8 years ago, I saw a pen that Roger Cromwell had at a pen show. Under glass, and the woman who was talking to him wouldn't shut up. I left his table and came back about 15 minutes later, and it was gone. I hadn't even held it in my hands. Love from afar, the worst kind. It took me awhile but I finally figured out that it was either a LE edition of a Namiki or an Aurora Optima Green Aurolide. I'm still not sure, but I got the first version of the Aurolide (used, for 1/3 of what the new ones go for) last year and am very happy with it. I had it retipped by Greg Minuskin a few months ago, and I don't think I could be any happier with a pen.
Much Love--
--Virginia
Bogon07 (December 5th, 2013)
I feel for you fountainpenkid...I walked away from an MB 142 in 'F' (my favorite nib size) at the DC pen show for $200 and have been regretting it ever since! my reasoning: I was looking for a vintage 144, and had just reached my limit of pen buying that weekend. Had I known the prices go down drastically the last day, I would have waited. So if you can make it to a pen show, maybe it'll show up again Just this past weekend a vintage 144 (whoever was bidding thought it was real and it certainly looked it, but I'm no expert) went for $250 on the 'bay. I do think that some pens you have to scoop up, others it may be sweeter for the wait if you know that there's a good chance you'll find them again.
fountainpenkid (December 19th, 2013)
I've found montblancs to be overpriced at the shows.
Yes, me too, and they're the same prices online generally it seems...
I had pursued a Parker 51 in plum color for years. I finally got one by manually sniping an ebay auction. Around $204. Then all the jokesters on fpn post about getting a plum mislabled as burgundy for next to nothing. I think there is a large bs factor there. Now, I want no particular pen. Someday I might like to have a nice Waterman. No rush. Possibly I'll just put a Waterman nib in an Estie.
In the meantime I'll just use my red MB 144s from the eighties. These are the best pens.
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I am not pursuing a grail pen, because I am realistic enough to know that I will never be in a position to spend $1600 on a pen.
My grail pen!
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Pen collection finished (for now)!
kaisnowbird (December 27th, 2013)
What is it?
I have a Grail List:
Platinum 3776 Celluloid Koi [actually in the mail as I write]
Nakaya Naka-ai Brown-Green
Platinum Century Maki-e Black Tiger--this is the BIG one for me.
Then I'll be all done for a while.
I forgot to name the pen:
It is an Elysee Impression No 1. "Towards the Light" by artist Manfred Eberhard. Elysee shut down about 10 years ago. A great reference is here. There are several articles on Elysee.
Not sure if I would call it my grail pen, but it certainly is an object of some serious desire for me -- Aurora Optima Demonstrator Red LE with a factory stub nib.
Kai
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." -- Lao Tzu
Mine, 'accidentally' acquired earlier this year. Chance eBay auction...Fired a bid in for $37, got it for $32.
A USA broad nibbed Parker 51 Cartridge/converter. It's been through some trauma (ok, it got run over by a car. Can you tell?), but it's still a lovely writer that gets used everyday alongside my Snorkel and 2000. I'm not certain whether it's a bit too much for a student to be running around with though, but it does clean easily compared to an aerometric or vacumatic.
Currently obsessed with: Parker 51s and Sheaffer Targas.
Don't know that I would call it a grail, but would love to have a Parker 45 Flighter. Had the ballpoint, would love to replace it and make it a set. The bp I had was lost, it was a Made in UK version.
Brad "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling
"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain
For me:
1) A cap for my John Holland #72 BCHR
2) A Parker T1
3) A 8556 Esterbrook "Sunburst" nib. I have a 3556 but need/want an 8556
4) Esterbrook marbled V-Clip $1.50 pen
#2 and #4 hurts my budget and #1, #3 are just flat out hard to find. OK, a little more than just pens but they are pen related
"My God—it's full of stars!"......Bowman's last words before entering the Monolith.
Arthur C. Clarke - 2001 (the book)
I have a 142 with a broad nib, they are great little pens. I bought mine on the American ebay, and paid a normal price you'd expect to pay for one on ebay.com, but recently I started kicking myself for buying it there. I started buying vintage Montblancs on the German ebay (ebay.de), where Montblancs sell for ridiculously low prices. A 142 just sold for 50.40 euro on December 11th, which is the equivalent to only $69.63! Even with shipping, you can find one for less than $100.
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