What Pens Do You Own And Never Use?

[French]

Like many other posters, I use all my pens. I've paired down my collection to pens I enjoy writing with. I have also placed a limit on the number of pens in my collection, which really makes me think about adding a new one, as that means a current pen needs to be sold.

 

French

[jar]

Never is a word I try not to use carelessly.

 

BUT ... there are quite a few pens I have not used in a long, long time and that have little hope of making it into rotation anytime soon. You never know though. Today someone posted about some VPs which encouraged me to get one of mine out and ink the sucker up. Funny how stuff happens.

[Nyanzilla]

The are many pens I never use. Mostly because I have several of the same model in different colours.

Then I got a couple of pens I don't use because they feel uncomfortable in my hand (like my Lamy Vista, Pelikan Level L5 and Pelikan Future Pen)

[fpSuperstar]

The are many pens I never use. Mostly because I have several of the same model in different colours.

 

I try and avoid this unless the pen is really special

[Runnin_Ute]

All my pens get used, but it seems that over the last month or so that the Pelikans and Parkers (except for the IM Premium Twin Metal Chiseled) get used more frequently than the others. My Aero P51 Special seems to be already getting more use than the IM - and it just arrived yesterday and got filled last night!

[ac12]

A few too many.

- As was mentioned with relatives pens, I no longer use my mother pens. I now have other pens to use, so I don't have to risk damaging hers. However, I have restored most of them, cleaning and resacking, to get them into good condition.

- I also have my "collection." These are pens that I got specifically to collect, and while they could be used, I do not intend to use them. If I want to use a collection pen, I will get a "user" grade pen that I don't have to worry about dinging it up.

[Captivelight]

I guess that I'm a "collector" rather then a user ... I seem to have picked up rather a lot of pens in the last year, probably around 60 or so, all Parker and most of them from the late 60's through to the 90's with the odd current model. Having so many pens I will never use them all so I have my favorites that I use on a daily basis, an old Parker 45 TX, a modern Parker 45 Flighter and a 70's Parker 75 Ciselle.

 

The rarer pens, some of which are mint boxed and un-inked, will never get used ... to me this would devalue them as collectors items ... so they sit languishing in a dark drawer never seeing the light of day.

To see some of my pens have a look at my website Pen Collect

[william2001]

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 :-(

Ah, it's OK. You don't have to list them all.

[Sasha Royale]

Four Parker 21's, each a different color. Very pretty. Sections have micro cracks that ooze ink.

I hate them too much to touch them. It was likely a good school pen two generations ago, before

the plastic became brittle. Perhaps, they were never intended to last fifty years.

 

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[georges zaslavsky]

far too many and the list is too long to list

[estie1948]

I have a few fountain pens I never use. There are some I picked up because they were being sold with a fountain pen I did want. In that category are four Wearevers, an orange-marbled Stratford, an interesting Waltham piston-filler, an Elgin, a Plymouth, a Dexter (I will restore this one some day), two Chicago made Conklins, and a Colibri.

 

I also have a few fountain pens that intentionally acquired but, for one reason or another, I don't use. In this category are four Parker Vacumatics, a Sheaffer Snorkel, an impossibly thin Pilot, and a Waterman. The Parkers will not fill. I should have them restored and sell them. The Snorkel is a neat pen that I bought new when I was a teenager. It got a lot of use until it developed a massive leak several decades ago. The Pilot is a beautiful fountain pen that is a great writer, but is impossible for me to grip. The Waterman was an impulse purchase. It is a pastel blue that I have never inked. It was a bargain. It could be the best writer I own. I just have never even tried it. I really do have too many fountain pens.

 

-David.

[Mainecoon]

I have two fountainpens I don't use:

 

a vintage lady's pen that belonged to my grandmother. I don't know the brand; it has a 14k Bock-nib. Lexaf, active on this forum, restored it nicely for me. Now it's lying in my pencabinet. looked at on regular basis.

Here is a picture of it, "dipped for the occasion"

 

grandma's pen

 

The other pen is my MB POA Semiramis. I did a review on that (you can read it here). But that didn't make me write with it. I still can't part from her though. So she rests in her palace as eye candy.

 

MB POA Semiramis

 

 

[Pentulant]

I have a few that have never seen ink. Most of them are the LE Vanishing Points. I should just ink and go for it. Too beautiful to sit in their boxes.

[basterma]

A Geha Shadow and a Geha Champion sit unused because the cartridges are not made any more and I don't have a convertor for them. I have a A&W cartridge pen with a massive crack in the barrel that I dare not use for fear of breaking it.

[Ecriveur]

I have a Visconti Cosmos sitting in its original box that I don't want to use because it's a limited edition.

[inkstainedruth]

"Never use" pens for me are ones that needed repairs (mostly new sacs) when I bought them -- once fixed, they will be used. And someone I know was giving away an Herbin glass pen, and I have been unable to get it to work (I'm sure there's some trick that I'm just not seeing). Oh, yeah, there's the Parker Urban, which isn't even worth a PiF, because it's junk, but maybe it will get pulled out again someday if I ever get an ultrasonic cleaner to really get all the ink out of the nib unit (every time I flush it and think it's running clear I get more ink leaking out from the top of the nib under the collar ); I probably should pack it up and ship it back to Parker (I think I still have about a year left on my original extended warranty but it's almost not worth the effort (this is the pen they sent me after the original one got sent back to Parker twice for issues with converters).

There are a number of "haven't used in a really long time" pens however. Mostly low end Chinese pens and a couple of third tiers that I probably shouldn't have bought to begin with (the Arnold I seriously overpaid for, and a Morrison that *looked* in the photos like it was CBHR but I'm pretty sure is plastic); both of those are "meh" writers but I didn't exactly spend the rent money on either of them, either, so I'm a bit philosophical about them. And nearly all of the others in that category are there because I now have better pens that I like more -- but they're useful as test pens).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[william2001]

Some cool pens are listed here.

I am glad that someone said (s)he will use it again.

-William S. Park

[da vinci]

A Delta Dolce Vita oversize model with a fine nib.

 

Bought whilst I was going through my "orange phase" of pens. It has a too fine nib which has remained ininked and off to ebay next week.

[dojocho]

A vintage Diplomat with 14 kt nib I inherited from my grandfather, EF nibs are not my cup of tea.

A Parker Sonnet, the nib is far too flexible wich is not comfortable as a left handed underwriter.

[logantrky]

I don't use my Pelikan M205 too often, but I do like it. My TWSBI doesn't get inked much either, due to large ink drops dripping out of the feed/nib whenever it is being used.