If You Could Only Have 1. 1 P-51 That Is...

[OcalaFlGuy]

More precisely, one of These 5 P-51's.

 

They may not be Your favorites, but they Are mine and I'm curious.

 

If you wouldn't mind, list your order of preference for me. Also whatever nib you'd put in your poll choice.

 

Me, I'd go with a .55 mm Masuyama rounded CI, 6.5 wetness in a 1st year, Cedar Blue please with a smooth Silver cap with Aluminum jewels thank you very much.

 

My order of preference would be; 1st year, Plummer,-Lustraloy w/GT, Midnight Blue Aero Lustraloy-GT, BBB tie, Flighter.

 

Bruce in Ocala, Fl

 

 

Edited January 29, 2015 by OcalaFlGuy

[SockAddict]

Um, I'll play, only as long as you remember I don't know what I'm talking about.

 

First preference: Whichever color looks least like black, tied with the Fligher. From there, proceed through the colors as they look more black. Why? Black pens are boring.

 

Nib: either EF or a fine CI, slightly dry.

[OcalaFlGuy]

Rest assured.

 

Knowing what you are talking about Is Not any "requirement" to post here.

 

You Know what You like, that's what Really matters.

 

Bruce in Ocala, Fl

[FarmBoy]

I selected the single jewel Nassau Green pen with the Watermelon cap and a factory stub.

[Brian K]

Well, I guess I chose the plum because you have shown so many nice pictures of them here, Bruce, but if I could have free reign in my choice I'd keep the '48 vac demo with a medium nib my father and stepmother gave me for my birthday this year. It came with a Lustraloy cap but once in a while it looks nice with the rolled gold cap from my '47 cordovan vac with a fine (xf?) nib.

[spotted and speckled]

Flighter, because I don't have one. And while we are dealing in fantasies, I'd like it to have a stock 1.3 stub or ltalic nib.

[NinthSphere]

Midnight Blue, Burgundy, Cedar Blue, Plum, Flighter. I'm playing around with a 1mm stub I just got from Greg Minuskin, so I'd probably go with that.

[Cryptos]

Gosh, that is a tricky choice.

 

I have a Midnight Blue aero, though it does not have a GT cap, so I would choose that one with a small CI grind, or an oblique grind.

 

Joint first would be the Cedar Blue, similar nib.

 

The rest have zero appeal to me. In an ideal world I would jettison the two aeros (midnight blue and burgundy, both boring nibs) I have and pursue just one 51 that I could love, and that would most likely be a Cedar Blue Demi with a Sterling cap and an interesting grind on the nib. Pipe-dream really.

Edited January 29, 2015 by Cardboard_Tube

[Matlock]

I have chosen 1st year Cedar Blue and India Black as I have both (the Black being a demonstrator). My second choice would be the BBB Aero Rolled Silver-GT Cap as I have one (but in Black). Fine nib being my preference.

[richardandtracy]

I've voted for the BBB + Silver cap, though that isn't really my favourite. My dream P51 is one I have, a BBB + Custom cap + English medium-broad ball nib. Gorgeous. In fact it's so nice I rarely use it, to prevent damage to it.. Bit silly really, given the bulletproofness of the P51.

 

Second to the BBB is my 1.1CI P51. Don't care one iota what colour the pen is with that nib!

 

Regards,

 

Richard.

[mitto]

I would like to go for the first choice with gold filled cap and broad nib. I like the broad nib on all the first rated fountain pens of mine. Would , however , not mind F nibs on my Japanese pens and M nibs on my current model Parker and Sheaffer pens. having said that I wouldn't let slip any of the Parker 51 off my hands regardless of the finish and the nib size. My greed for the P 51 is limitless.

[Ste_S]

Me, I'd go with a .55 mm Masuyama rounded CI, 6.5 wetness in a 1st year, Cedar Blue please with a smooth Silver cap with Aluminum jewels thank you very much.

 

 

 

 

Very similar to me. Cedar Blue Vac (always vac, durability be damned). Happy with Lustraloy or Silver cap, 7 on the wetness scale, 0.8mm Cursive Italic.

 

I have the pen, just need to arrange for someone to grind it.

[octatonic]

Bruce knows my answer...

 

 

Plum Demi with a Lustraloy cap with a gold clip.

My second favorite color is Burgundy and then I think Midnight Blue...or maybe Forest Green, or maybe... well that's why I got one of each Demi...LOL

[pajaro]

Rest assured.

 

Knowing what you are talking about Is Not any "requirement" to post here.

 

You Know what You like, that's what Really matters.

 

Bruce in Ocala, Fl

 

So true.

 

I prefer the midnight blue aerometric with the GT cap, if GT means gold trim (clip). I already have one of these with a fine nib. It is my third favorite pen, Lustraloy midnight blue aero with fine nib, owned 45 years and midnight blue aero with Minuskin stub being one and two.

 

Of your list,

midnight blue aero with GT cap,

Flighter,

plum aero,

bloody brit burgundy aero and

first year vac 51.

 

I like midnight blue best, with cedar blue being next. I have one of the cedar blues, fine nib, GT lustraloy cap. Annoying tendency to need resacs.

[JotterAddict62]

Bruce would have to stop by to help me choose on which P51 set I should keep :lticaptd:

as I have a few too many [ Yeah Right ]

[OcalaFlGuy]

Bruce knows my answer...

 

 

Plum Demi with a Lustraloy cap with a gold clip.

My second favorite color is Burgundy and then I think Midnight Blue...or maybe Forest Green, or maybe... well that's why I got one of each Demi...LOL

 

Why yes, yes I do.

 

As you and I have discussed, I generally do not sell my own personal pens. Period. I've sold maybe 2 and those were to really good friends. Me selling a Plummer of mine would generally be unthinkable.

 

There are times though I HAVE to make an exception.

 

You have been a nice pen friend. I KNEW how bad you really wanted that Demi Plummer. If there was any doubt, and there wasn't,

you've more than proved the point with your Demi collection.

 

No matter that it was a Plummer, and I Wanted it. You NEEDED it.

 

It isn't often you can sell someone a pen you KNOW will be their favorite pen.

 

I know I would have regretted NOT selling it to you.

 

 

 

 

 

I prefer the midnight blue aerometric with the GT cap, if GT means gold trim (clip). I already have one of these with a fine nib. It is my third favorite pen, Lustraloy midnight blue aero with fine nib, owned 45 years and midnight blue aero with Minuskin stub being one and two.

 

 

 

Here is mine.

 

 

I've had it about 5 years now. I looked for one, the gold trim being the limiting issue, for about 2 years before I gave in and had

Bob Speer find this one for me. I paid way good money for it then but it was in exceptional shape. This isn't the orignal cap. I lost

that one. <Sobbing still> Ryan Roossnick refinished this cap. I will have to send the other pieces I have with gold trim to El Zorno to

have him do a more factory like finish for me. This one has a .6 mm Masuyama rounded CI in it.

 

It IS the one 51 I'd dive for in the burning house.

 

Bruce in Ocala, Fl

[perth]

I love the feel of the Flighter and prefer it to the normal colours. I also have just acquired a Burgundy with a GF cap which is among the best looking pens I have.

[inkstainedruth]

Bruce knows my answer...

 

 

Plum Demi with a Lustraloy cap with a gold clip.

My second favorite color is Burgundy and then I think Midnight Blue...or maybe Forest Green, or maybe... well that's why I got one of each Demi...LOL

My answer is pretty much the same as yours (including the part about Bruce knowing it already ). Except I'd probably pick Midnight Blue for second choice, since I don't have one of those; British Bloody Burgundy would be third.

I'm not a C-worder, so having First Years wouldn't be a feather in my cap -- pllus I already have 51 Vacs in both those colors now. And the Flighters just don't wow me somehow.

But if I could get a full-sized Plummer for not some huge outlay of cash (say, roughly what I paid for my Demi a couple of years ago? Sure! Of course -- that's a no-brainer....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[welch]

Most important is to have a nib that "writes right". My favorite is a midnight blue aero with US medium tuned by Greg Minuskin. Always have it, even when I have a different 51 in my pocket.

[Runnin_Ute]

Voted for the Bloody Brit Burgundy, if I had to rank?

Burgundy

Plum

Midnight Blue

Flighter

Cedar Blue Vac

 

Midnight and Flighter was close.