Pen T O D - Your Dream Pen.

[Brian K]

Let's dream big...

 

Pelikan M1000 maki-e Seaside with an OBB nib, tuned for a steep writing angle:

http://home.comcast.net/~baric/images/pelikan-seaside.jpg

-or-

Nakaya Ascending Dragon Deskpen in aka-tame gin bokashi, left oblique Broad nib.

http://home.comcast.net/~baric/images/nakaya-deskpen.jpg

On the more affordable side, a Montblanc 149 90th Anniversary edition, but only if i can find it for a more reasonable price, $800+ for this pen too much in my opinion.

 

 

I love the Pelikan maki-e pens but the Ascending Dragons desk pen has been one of my dream pens since I first saw it at nibs.com. My ultimate dream pen, however, is the Namiki Emperor Crane. It's a thing of surpassing beauty.

[Algester]

my Dream Pen

Pilot Custom Heritage 912 with FA... it literally is my dream pen but not a grail pen

a Micarta Orville pen by Newton Pens

Edison Pneumatic Filler

a Chronicler from Scriptorium

Pilot Parallel <-- hey at least I can dream... we have no Pilot FP distributor in the Philippines so... I can dream and shipping is not an option for me most of the time

PIlot Legno?

Apparently I'm probably inclined to the Pen turners on the forums than actual brands...

let's see...

not exactly a pen

Kuru toga gun metal roulette

Pilot S20 <-- It's like the BP version of a Pilot Legno

Grail class

GvFC Intuition Platino fluted Ebony

GvFC Classic Anello Ebony

GvFC Pen of the year 2007 <-- Petrified Wood

GvFC Pen of the year 2004 <-- Amber Anello like look

Visconti Opera Crystal

does this mean.... YES I'm sure clearly MB isnt to my taste...

Edited August 30, 2014 by Algester

[AllenG]

I have a dozen or so black walnuts in the orchard. Next time one needs to be felled I'll stabilize some wood and have a pen turned from that. Also going to rescale my kitchen knives with it too.

[ac12]

Parker T1

All the Parker 180s that I don't have.

 

To find my father's fountain pens, which are long gone.

[zaddick]

Montblanc Black Widow 88. I'll likely never even see one in person, but they are lovely to me.

 

Attainable and in my recent dreams is a Sailor King of Pen with a King Eagle nib. What a fun pen it is to write with.

[amberleadavis]

Montblanc Black Widow 88. I'll likely never even see one in person, but they are lovely to me.

 

Attainable and in my recent dreams is a Sailor King of Pen with a King Eagle nib. What a fun pen it is to write with.

 

Frank C let me doodle with his KOP and I fell in love. The only problem is the small amount of ink that converter holds when that pen just consumes ink.

[AndrewC]

Montblanc Black Widow 88. I'll likely never even see one in person, but they are lovely to me.

 

Attainable and in my recent dreams is a Sailor King of Pen with a King Eagle nib. What a fun pen it is to write with.

Go to a pen show. IIRC, I saw the Black Widow in LA at the show. You'd be amazed at what you'll see.

[Floreat]

I was in a Montblanc boutique yesterday and the beauty of the pens took my breath away. I've been given a 90th anniversary 146 for my birthday by an outrageously lovely and generous friend, and that had been a pen I had dreamed of owning so I'm still in shock that I actually have one. If money was no object though I'd totally get the purple Princess Grace Montblanc pen.

[PaganArcher]

David Oscarson Valhalla.

 

Far outside my reach, but it calls to me like a siren.

[mallymal1]

I was in a Montblanc boutique yesterday and the beauty of the pens took my breath away. I've been given a 90th anniversary 146 for my birthday by an outrageously lovely and generous friend, and that had been a pen I had dreamed of owning so I'm still in shock that I actually have one. If money was no object though I'd totally get the purple Princess Grace Montblanc pen.

 

What a wonderful gift!

 

What a wonderful friend.

[PabloAU]

This.

 

Unfortunately, I really need to buy a new car...

Edited August 30, 2014 by PabloAU

[LamyOne]

Hello Skylar and Everyone else,

 

My dream pen is a New Old Stock Parker Duofold from the 1920s/1930s in the original box and buying it for the original price.

 

To answer your second question; how it would make me feel:

 

Best regards,

 

Chris

Edited August 30, 2014 by LamyOne

[SkylarKnight]

http://www.novelli.it/images/limited/2141205546.jpg

What is this? It'd beautiful

 

 

http://www.altmanluggage.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/647x/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/v/i/visconti-62200.jpg

 

PININFARINA CARBONGRAFITE

Oh wow, that's a nice one

 

First, I'd like to thank Skylar for starting this. Then I'd like to voice my frustrations over these objects of desire to subvert my fevered dreams! How dare you heathens add to the misery of longing for objects unobtainable.

And back to first. Thank you Skylar, you have given us all another platform to begin the quest for our inky grails.

 

Paul

You're welcome, Paul! And I'm sorry for all the misery we're causing you! <\3

 

This.

 

Unfortunately, I really need to buy a new car...

It's pretty! But I actually prefer the pen they have on their logo

 

 

 

Please keep going with the thread, and if you add a picture (or a few ) It's ever better!

[Buzz_130]

I'm surprised only a few vintage pens made the list, so I'll add the ones I still dream of acquiring:

1940 (First Year) Parker "51" Vac

1946-47 Red Band filler Parker "51"

Mustard Parker "51"

 

Buzz

Edited August 30, 2014 by Buzz_130

[amberleadavis]

I'm a train buff and that's an Orient Express pen. It's WAY too much money.

 

I have to admit that I've "fondled" a few pens that really impress me. The Aurora 88 demonstrator, the Sailor King of Pens with the insanely stacked nib, and the Sheaffer pen that is currently in my hand and is on loan from DCPritch.

[WaskiSquirrel]

I like the Nakaya Neo Standard Aka-tamenuri. I've even set myself a savings plan to build up the cash for it. But, realistically, I know that I would never pay that amount of money for a pen. Once I have built up the savings for this pen, I know that I will spend that money on something else.

[amberleadavis]

Yeah... I totally understand....

 

New bathroom? Or New Pen?

 

http://www.nibs.com/www/WEBSITE%20PICS/Sailor%20Pens/KingEagleNibTopView.jpghttp://www.nibs.com/www/WEBSITE%20PICS/Sailor%20Pens/KingEagleNibSideVeiw.jpghttp://www.nibs.com/www/WEBSITE%20PICS/Sailor%20Pens/KingEagleNibWritingSurface.jpg

[Brian K]

After Pablo left a link to the Nakaya website I spent some time there and I realized that if I win the lottery I might be able to secure John Mottishaw's retirement

[PJohnP]

For a long time, I pined for the Pelikan Toledo M900.

 

It was, I thought, an unobtainable goal, but then a used one appeared at a local pen store. The store owner and I jousted at length over the price, and I finally succumbed to the purchase. The pen was and is everything that I had wanted, and then with a John Mottishaw ground italic nib installed, it glides over paper like a sharp skate on crisp fresh ice, with a motion that carves precise lines in pre-determined arcs. I don't use this pen everyday, as I travel for work heavily, and the thought of the pen disappearing at a TSA checkpoint instills deep dread, but every single time that I use the pen, it instills a deep sigh of pleasure and enjoyment.

 

Bliss can be found in the everyday world.

 

 

 

John P.

[Scootz]

For a vintage pen, it's a second generation Wahl Eversharp Doric with a wet noodle nib; pretty much what's in the OP's 2nd video, but without the adjustable nib.

 

For a modern pen, it's a Nakaya of some sort- so many choices I've yet to narrow down.