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I got this Pelikan M200 (old style) last week. It's the very first Pelikan in my collection.

 

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I didn't want to invest a lot of money on a brand of pen without trying it out a few weeks first. My first week with this pen gave me such a positive writing experience that I'm already looking forward to my next purchase. :)

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Congrats!!! It's a beautiful pen. Interesting greyish green ink color, I hadn't seen that one before. I'm new to Pelikan too, picked up my first in the last month and it was love at first sight. :happycloud9: I loved it so much I picked another.

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Sorry the ink looks a little washed out on the photo. It's a dark olive green color, a custom mix. :) Here is a close up of it. It's my current favorite ink.

 

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These Pelikans have a way of multiplying quickly, i see. ^_^

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Ooooh that color is really pretty! How do you get a custom mix?

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Ooooh that color is really pretty! How do you get a custom mix?

 

I'll ask my friend. I believe he asked Diamine for it? I'm not sure. I'll get back to you on this tomorrow afternoon. :)

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The ink looks very similar to Diamine Salamander (one of my favorite inks!)

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Congrats on the Pelikan. I have a few Pelikans - a 400 and a couple of others. They're one of my favorite pens and once you get the Pelikan fever it's hard to turn them down so you'd better hold on to your credit cards.

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Congrats on the Pelikan. I have a few Pelikans - a 400 and a couple of others. They're one of my favorite pens and once you get the Pelikan fever it's hard to turn them down so you'd better hold on to your credit cards.

 

 

I know, right?! Haha.

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Nice pen, awesome ink color! I wish I could back on board with trusting diamine after a few bad experiences

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Love those Pelikans! Congrats!

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Congrats on the pen. I love the look, feel, and balance of these. Heed the warnings about the birds multiplying and enjoy the pen!

PELIKAN - Too many birds in the flock to count. My pen chest has proven to be a most fertile breeding ground.

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Ooooh that color is really pretty! How do you get a custom mix?

 

Hi FayeV, my friend (who is the local distributor of Diamine in the Philippines) said that you can ask Diamine to make you a custom mix. that's how he got the Dark Olive color. :)

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Love my Pelikans - I have four now. A year ago I didn't have any. By the end of November I had 2. (120 Merz & Krell & M205 in Toledo Red) I have since acquired another M205 (black this time) and a M150.

 

Love all four of them.

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Hi FayeV, my friend (who is the local distributor of Diamine in the Philippines) said that you can ask Diamine to make you a custom mix. that's how he got the Dark Olive color. :)

 

Thank you! That's good to know. :)

 

Love my Pelikans - I have four now. A year ago I didn't have any. By the end of November I had 2. (120 Merz & Krell & M205 in Toledo Red) I have since acquired another M205 (black this time) and a M150.

 

Love all four of them.

 

Sigh... I got bitten by the Pelikan bug too. Picked up 4 within a 2-3 week span. And I was already on a pen ban at that time. Now I'm really really really on a pen ban. Really! They are the perfect size and weight for my petite hands.

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The nice steel 200 springy regular flex nibs can be had for @ $25.

I am very impressed with the 200's nibs.

Some day I'll get a 215, because of the nib.

 

I have semi-vintage and vintage 400's & a couple of '90-2000's Celebry pens, so don't need a 200. The Celebries and the '90's 400 have very nice springy regular flex that some of the 200's nibs match.

Hummmm....I could buy a 200's nib for them...but I'm sort of covered .... so will get a 215 for the prettyness of it.

 

Siopaopei, the paper you use feathers. You need better papers. What papers you can get in the Philippines or SW Asia I don't know, but one needs good to better papers.

 

One should buy some every 3rd ink....soon you would have a nice selection of fun papers that don't feather or have a wooly line.

That comes from a combo of poor paper and ink. Some inks feather or have a wooly line. I have found that true with the two Diamine inks I have and the four samples. So I am never going to buy any Diamine inks. ***

 

Herbin Vert Empire or it's Olive ink would be something to get a sample of, in you like murky green ink.

 

There is a wonderful thread where a fine poster did some 32 murky green inks.

Sorry I don't link, but some one will do that for you. Or look in Advanced search under "murky green".

 

*** I am a bit AR with wooly lines & or feathering.

BEF= bare eyed see it while sitting, feathering or wooly line.

NEF=near eye feathering/wooly line.

MAGF- feathering/wooly line with a honking thick big magnifying glass. Pretty good paper ink combo, actually.

NoMAGF- perfect line....very seldom...worth keeping the sample on top of you ink&paper folder.

 

Different nib widths&flexes will make differences with your ink&paper. (costs @ $25 for more 200's nice nibs.)

Do go to Ink Reviews and see what a difference paper alone will make. See Sandy1's great ink reviews. She uses some 5-6 regular type pen/nibs on some 4-5 good to better papers.

 

For green-green inks that shade, R&K Verdura is a head in front of MB Irish Green and a neck in front of Pelikan 4001, a very under rated affordable ink.

My first green was 4001, and it sent me into a year's green ink splurge of 11 bottles, including murky, spring, dark pine and so on.

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Fugi- Xerox is one of the very best of fountain pen papers from what I have read. So it should be available in SE Asia.

In reference to P. T. Barnum; to advise for free is foolish, ........busybodies are ill liked by both factions.

 

 

The cheapest lessons are from those who learned expensive lessons. Ignorance is best for learning expensive lessons.

 

 

 

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Congrats on your first Pelikan!

 

I´ve had my Souveran M400 for a few years now and I love it. I think you will enjoy it for a long time :) Top quality! Also worth considering buying a new nib in case you wanted an extra customised option (italic for example).

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Hope you are still enjoying your Pelikan.

Brad

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You have truly excellent and distinctive penmanship!

"how do I know what I think until I write it down?"

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