What Pens Do You Own And Never Use?

[william2001]

What (fountain)pens do you own and never use?

Let me start.

I have a Parker 51 sitting on my desk, but I never use it because I broke it.

I also have two Parker 180s and a Parker 75 that I never use because it is very old and the gold wore out.

What's yours?

-William S. Park

Edited July 5, 2014 by william2001

[JotterAddict62]

I have a coin filler pen called The Standard Self-Filling Fountain Pen I have since restored and had the nib tuned.

I will not use it. By the way I have the original box with it. My oldest non Parker in my stable.

[SujiCorp12345]

If I buy a pen, I always make sure to use it. FPs are expensive enough that I'd be hitting myself in the head if I got one and didn't put it to good use!

[Effin1]

I have a gorgeous solid gold overlay Waterman Safety pen in hand etched vine. The nib is a B ball point and as smooth as butter. The seals have gone and I have been advised that repair could damage the pen and she should be allowed to retire gracefully. Even though I would so love to use her I can only do so as a dip pen.

[JoeyZ]

My father in law gave me his MB 144/classique. It was a fantastic gift, but I really don't like the pen. It was allowed to sit with a cartridge in (It cleaned up fine but the inevitable trim gold corrosion kinda bugs me), it is a little too small for my taste, and the nib is broader than I like. It is a nice pen, but I don't like using it and can't bring myself to re-home it either.

 

(talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth eh?)

[sharonspens]

I have a collection of FP/pencil combos, most of which have been set to working condition. Probably paid $75 for the most expensive one. I do not use any of them.

 

I also have a Bexley first edition, or early edition, button filler. I don't use it because it leaks at the nib base.

 

There are a few others, mostly dip pens, that haven't been touched in a long while.

 

Sharon in Indiana

[perth]

A modern Orange Duofold which has a bad nib. I've got to get it worked on, which I haven't had the time yet.

[WaskiSquirrel]

There are pens I like better than others. But, I figure that if I ever get to the point that I don't use one, it's time to give that pen away. This is what led to my last pen purge. I'm now smarter about buying fountain pens. So, the next pen purge will be pens I like less than others.

 

The things which I own should be things which I will use. My house is too small to keep things that I don't use.

[Hardcase]

I don't use my great grandmother's fountain pen. It's the spitting image of a Parker Lucky Curve 15 with a mother of pearl inlaid barrel and gold filigree cap. The nib is very, very flexy and at 112 years old, I'm just not willing to risk it.

 

Of the pens that I've purchased, I use them all, eventually.

 

-Drew

[Parker51]

A restored, ready to write Chilton. I have inked it up, and tried it, but only a little. It is my rarest pen and a present from my wife, and my Grail pen, a Pelikan Niagara Falls that is Mint, a very sentimental present from my wife, and a pen I know I will one day use, but not quite yet. I have a hard time using a pen as a regular in the pocket take it with me writing tool if it can't be replaced, except at significant cost. My limit seems to be pens valued at over $500 stay at home. I believe this is because I lost a great Jade Balance one at my in laws over a Christmas many years ago. My wife gave it to me, it was expensive then, and would be even more so now, if I could ever find one in as fine a condition as it was. I carried that pen regularly, had a suit combination that I particularly liked which my wife helped me put together just to go with thoe pen and I lost it. I still hope that one day, maybe when her parents house is completely gone over after her parents passing that it will be found, perhaps in some corner, or under some furniture where I didn't look well enough, though I recognize it likely was destroyed, having been taken out with discarded gift wrap and burned.

[LisaN]

A virgin in plastic snorkel pen pencil set

[Lyander0012]

Hmm, I have a Sheaffer Taranis that doesn't really get any use. For one, while I like the pen itself, which is great for daily use, I've since grown find of broader nibs. I picked a Fine for the Taranis, which makes my current penmanship look spindly. And speaking of the nib, there are flow issues that make writing with it a chore; might need some micromesh to fix that, as there's nothing wrong with the feed, that I know of.

[Vlad72]

I have an unbranded thin FP, a gift from a previous boss, which stays in its box taped because I broke the section's screw.

I also keep there a Faber Castell Loom, which I find smooth and cool but it's a bit too big for my hands, and a Rotring Artpen survived from my school days.

[Chi Town]

Unfortunatly i have too many pens to begin with, there in lies the problem.....I can't even think of all the pens that I don't use :-(

[Jerome Tarshis]

I only rarely use my Hero 100. The nib is finer than I really like, but occasionally I'll be using overly absorbent paper. That too-fine nib, helped by feathering, will give me a line I enjoy. I keep the pen because I am interested in the Parker 51 and touched by the popularity of that pen among some Chinese people during the 1940s and 1950s, and I have had an imaginative relation with the Chinese since my World War II childhood.

 

I can't see myself giving much use to my Reform 1745. It is too cheap-looking for me. The narrowness alone can't be the whole problem: I write with an Aurora Hastil and a very slim Ronson pen and Cross Century FPs, and used to own a Montblanc Noblesse, but the Reform 1745 lacks charm.

 

Perhaps strangely, I almost never use one of the most pleasurable pens I own, a Parker 51 with a broad nib, because on many kinds of paper it lays down too much ink.

 

In recent times I haven't used my Cross Townsends, although I once found them lovable pens and have no complaint against them now.

 

When my collection was still growing, I gave away some pens I didn't really want, but now I think of my collection as stabilized, and am going to keep all the pens on the ground that buying them was part of my life's history. (And pens take up so much less space than books!)

[tringle]

I have several I do not use.

 

Edacoto sterling silver overlay, I had the section repaired after it cracked, and once I received the pen back I broke the section in the exact spot.

[alexander_k]

A few weeks ago I realized with slight horror that I had been sparing some of my favourite pens, which had been uninked for over a year. In the meantime I've managed to sell a few of other pens that stood in the way and created space for the real favourites in the rotation. This leaves me with two trays of underused pens. The first contains an assortment of lesser pens, like a Parker 21, a few Sheaffer Touchdown pens with nice nibs, a couple of Montblanc 2xx models with even better nibs etc. I intend to keep most of them, although I don't know if they'll be used more intensively in the future. They're not too expensive to be a pity and a waste that they remain underused. The other tray, contains mostly Indian eyedroppers, which I like a lot although I'm less than thrilled with their nibs. I'll have to find a solution for this problem, although these too are not too expensive to stay in their tray most of the time. Moreover, there'll be more new inks to try and this means that more pens are added to the standard rotation.

[The Blue Knight]

Good Question:

 

I don't use a few cheapies these include a Parker Reflex and a Lamy Safari. The Reflex has a scratchy nib that needs smoothing and I generally don't like Safari's so it gets rarely used.

 

Also I rarely use a Cross Century II as well as I find it too slim so it's uncomfortable.

 

These 3 were ones I bought early on in the hobby so I class these mistakes that hopefully won't be repeated.

[Mezzie]

I use all of mine; they're all good for different purposes.

 

I do find myself using a particular Jinhao less and less, though, so I may be PIFing that soon. I see no point in keeping something that I'm not using, especially if someone else would enjoy it.

[Sandy1]

Hi,

 

I use all my pens - except a mint Pilot Elite M90.

 

I have no idea why it hasn't seen ink.

 

Bye,

S1