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Very nice pen. Parkers are...well...timeless.

 

Best of luck with it.

 

So what will your first ink color be?

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Thank you so much, Peter. It's Pelikan 4001 Violet but I'm thinking Persimmon or Deep Green from Pilot's Iroshizuku inks.

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You're welcome. Use it well.

 

I have three iroshizuku inks myself, but no greens yet [only take-sumi (black), yama-guri (brown), and yama-budo (crimson)]. As for my "greens", I have a Noodler's Gruene Cactus which I've tried in my Parker 51 vacumatic with a fine nib, and I like that ink/pen combo quite a lot. I also just got a bottle of Pelikan aventurine, but I haven't inked any pens up with that one yet. I'll let you know how it works out.

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Yes, please let me know about the aventurine. Sounds scrumptious, if one can say that about ink. I also want the Yama Budo. I love, love, love my 51. It was one of the pens in an $8 bag of pens. It's a perfect pen in every way.

 

Thank you, NABodie. I'm looking forward to polishing it up.

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Well, that's a wonderful pen, I personally love Vacumatics, they are amazing pens and great writers, you will have a great time with that.

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Thank you, AeRoberto! I think I want to collect all of the Vacumatics!

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Thank you, AeRoberto! I think I want to collect all of the Vacumatics!

 

Now that would be a feat. All the colors is certainly doable but all the variations would blow your mind!

just the different colors in the three styles as pictured below makes for a nice set!

 

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4076/4851049487_99266e3eaf_o.jpg

 

And then there are the Imperials!

 

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4068/4371111141_c4933947e8_o.jpg

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NABodie, are you trying to make me jealous? It worked! Beautiful collection!

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Very true! How long has it taken you to acquire that collection?

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I'd better slow down because since joining, now two weeks ago, I've acquired 10 pens! I need to be more discriminating and more selective but I tend to just buy what I like, what looks pretty.

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lol... It's appropriate for me. I do all my own stunts. ;)

(I broke my fifth metatarsal in karate a few years ago and then shattered my ankle in our garden this past November.)

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I learned not to slide at third base on the softball field.

 

All those pens started with one pretty vacumatic, then another and another............

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