What are your rock solid, always perform, always ready to write even after sitting for weeks fountain pens? These are the pens that form the "core" of your collection? These are the ones that get more use than the others. As we all know these pens are not dependent on price or nib material or looks.

Mine are:

New pens

Pelikan M605, M200, GO
Sheaffer Legacy 2
Sailor 1911
Waterman Kultur

Vintage pens

Merlin 33
Sheaffer Balance
Parker 51
Esterbrooks

Matt C.

Hi Matt,

My Watermans, Stipulas, my one Filcao, and my Pelikans. Less luck with my Lamys, although it isn't really bad, and the rest, well, just doesn't perform the same when they sit for longer periods of time .

Warm regards, Wim

Hi Wim,

I've heard really good things about Filcao pens. The Silvia is on my wish list.I have not tried Stipulas. It sounds like I should.

Thanks.

Matt C

Hi Matt,

You may only hear so much about Stipulas because I talk so much about them, though... That might be just a dangerous connection .

Of course, there is no harm in trying...

Warm regards, Wim

Pelikans, Sailors, Sheaffer Balance

Every one of my pens is a go-to pen. All fifty something.

Talk about having a tough decision in the morning...

That must be horrible! I don't think I could ever get myself to leave my house with that many good pens!

I only have four pens; not anything special. My Parker 51 desk set is slightly broken so it doesn't write as well as it once did I'm sure, but my Papermate is definitely a good 'go-to' pen.

Mine is a pelikan M215, and a Pilot VP

I have a green striated Sheaffer Balance vacuum-filler that I can leave inked for more than a month unused and it starts up without a skip. My Parker 51 is equally reliable.

John

My Bexley pens are my main go to pens along with my Stipulas and Pelikans

At least 3 P51s, four Pelikan M200s, a Parker Frontier and a Waterman Phileas.

Ray

Esties, Esties, Esties!

There are pens more beautiful. There are pens more technologically advanced. And there are certainly pens more expensive. But when I'm around the house and just need a pen that writes with a minimum of fussiness, I usually grab an Esterbrook.

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Lamy Safari has never let me down. Also both my Auroras, OMAS, and MB 146, MB 149 start right away and perform perfectly even if they have been sitting inked for a couple of weeks of even more.

Only a parker sonnet~

Of course, the rOtring Core. ALways starts up, every time. Also, the Parker frontier and the 21. The Online Starter. The Phileas(s) . :bunny1:

German pens : MB146, Pelikan (all models)

Dani Trio (c/c filler Tamenuri prototype, somehow their ED needs to "warm up" when stored at an extended time)