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Recent Japanese Pens Haul (Mostly Pilots)


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The past couple of years were very dry ones in my pen-collecting. Towards last Christmas, though, the wish to get a retractable FP for fast office note-taking kicked off a covet-fest for the Pilot VP.

 

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My first choice was the blue carbonesque, but the chrome one was selling for a much lower price for some reason (it still had the gold nib). So that went in the shopping cart. After I bought that one, it occurred to me that Amazon Japan would have the Decimos, and since those were selling for a good price because of the recent exchange rate, the pearl white Decimo also went into the cart. Whoo!

 

The last pen in that photo is actually a not-so-recent purchase, but it took me until now to get the refills for it so I'll include it here. It is a Platinum multifunction pen, so it's not FP but has two roller or ballpoint ink colors plus a mechanical pencil. I got it when I saw it because it is the closest that I can get to the Nakaya chingin housoge!

 

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These are my daily carry right now. The Pelikans and the Auroras are staying home on desk duty.

 

Oh, I almost forgot: When I was at a stationery store in Japan, I passed by the Pilot Iroshizuku display. It had a bunch of the inks loaded onto sampler pens that had these marvelous italic nibs on them. "Never mind the inks, I want this pen!" But it seemed that the pens were only for display purposes. After hunting around the store, the closest I found was the Prera with a calligraphy (CM) nib. The nib's smoothness is very pleasing.

 

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All of these pens have rekindled in my senses that wonderful sensation that happens when pen nib puts ink on paper. Time to write some snail mail...

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Is the CM Nib in your Prera the same as the one in the Pilot Plumix?

 

I bought a Plumix specifically to swap that nib into my Prera and I loved it. It was my EDC until I bought my 3776.

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