Jump to content

What Is Your Personal Preference On This?

YeOlCaptain

By YeOlCaptain
in Pelikan

 Share

Recommended Posts

Pennata Penna Rare

Pennata Penna

Posted
Posted (edited)

Right comes with responsibility. Could you help someone fix a broken piston after your 'vintage' eBay recommendation?

 

I guess it's easier to shame than "try to live in peace with your neighbor" huh. Yes, the real world is full of hater, indeed.

Edited by Pennata Penna

Pie pellicane Iesu Domine, me immundum munda tuo Sanguine – St Thomas Aquinas

"ON THE PLEASURE OF TAKING UP ONE'S PEN", Hilaire Belloc

Link to comment
Share on other sites
  • Replies 25
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

  • Pennata Penna

    7

  • proton007

    7

  • Pterodactylus

    5

  • RitchieMac

    1

Popular Days

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

proton007 Vintage

proton007

Posted
Posted (edited)

Right comes with responsibility. Could you help someone fix a broken piston after your 'vintage' eBay recommendation?

I wouldn't mind.

Some points to make:

-- I didn't make any reference to fleabay. There are other places as well.

--Out of all the pens I've purchased off the bay, only one had a piston problem which the seller mentioned up front. The pen still holds a generous amount of ink.

-- Its pretty common to find old damaged Pelikans being sold for repair. The Parker 51 is perhaps even more common.

Edited by proton007

In a world where there are no eyes the sun would not be light, and in a world where there were no soft skins rocks would not be hard, nor in a world where there were no muscles would they be heavy. Existence is relationship and you're smack in the middle of it.

- Alan Watts

Link to comment
Share on other sites
proton007 Vintage

proton007

Posted
Posted

I guess it's easier to shame than "try to live in peace with your neighbor" huh. Yes, the real world is full of hater, indeed.

 

Well, when your neighbor tries to sell you a sub standard product at above standard prices, there isn't much cause for peace.

In a world where there are no eyes the sun would not be light, and in a world where there were no soft skins rocks would not be hard, nor in a world where there were no muscles would they be heavy. Existence is relationship and you're smack in the middle of it.

- Alan Watts

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Pennata Penna Rare

Pennata Penna

Posted
Posted

Fair enough. Just a final point from me. Life is hard enough for a manufacturer like Pelikan to stay afloat nowadays, and to have them tank just because of loud unkind internet hearsays would be tragic. That's all.

 

Seriously, others got banned on the 'other' brand sub forum for a fraction of shaming like what you did here.

 

OP, buy either that will make you happy and may it brings you that.

 

Tony Rex

Pie pellicane Iesu Domine, me immundum munda tuo Sanguine – St Thomas Aquinas

"ON THE PLEASURE OF TAKING UP ONE'S PEN", Hilaire Belloc

Link to comment
Share on other sites
proton007 Vintage

proton007

Posted
Posted (edited)

Fair enough. Just a final point from me. Life is hard enough for a manufacturer like Pelikan to stay afloat nowadays, and to have them tank just because of loud unkind internet hearsays would be tragic. That's all.

 

 

I sympathize with Pelikan and agree on your point.

My final point is that its not my or your standard they'll be measured against. They set the standards themselves, and have been struggling to meet them in the past 15 years or so.

Given the level of technology available today, achieving consistency and precision should be far cheaper and easier than it was 50 years ago. Perhaps they can learn from their Japanese counterparts, who make a far wider variety of pens, sell them at a cheaper price and still achieve a good level of consistency. If Pelikan can come up with pens that perform upto the standards, I'd be glad to purchase their modern offerings just like I've purchased their pre-97 Souverans and 50s era pens.

 

And as a final recommendation to the OP, a pre-97 Souveran would be the perfect balance between good performance and reliability. They're still relatively new and very easy to find mint/nos.

Edited by proton007

In a world where there are no eyes the sun would not be light, and in a world where there were no soft skins rocks would not be hard, nor in a world where there were no muscles would they be heavy. Existence is relationship and you're smack in the middle of it.

- Alan Watts

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Pterodactylus Collectors Item

Pterodactylus

Posted
Posted

http://imageshack.us/a/img62/4518/1lfy.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img826/3209/sl9o.jpg

(Pelikan M200 Demonstrator - M CI ..... Rohrer & Klingner Verdigris)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Most Contributions

    1. amberleadavis
      amberleadavis
      43844
    2. PAKMAN
      PAKMAN
      33584
    3. Ghost Plane
      Ghost Plane
      28220
    4. inkstainedruth
      inkstainedruth
      26772
    5. jar
      jar
      26105

  • Upcoming Events

  • Blog Comments

    • Shanghai Knife Dude
      Links to web pages or articles about Chinese typesetting, signwriting, etc.

      By Shanghai Knife Dude · Posted

      I have the Sailor Naginata and some fancy blade nibs coming after 2022 by a number of new workshop from China.  With all my respect, IMHO, they are all (bleep) in doing chinese characters.  Go use a bush, or at least a bush pen. 
    • A Smug Dill
      Skeleton of a primer for a budding hobbyist

      By A Smug Dill · Posted

      It is the reason why I'm so keen on the idea of a personal library — of pens, nibs, inks, paper products, etc. — and spent so much money, as well as time and effort, to “build” it for myself (because I can't simply remember everything, especially as I'm getting older fast) and my wife, so that we can “know”; and, instead of just disposing of what displeased us, or even just not good enough to be “given the time of day” against competition from >500 other pens and >500 other inks for our at
    • adamselene
      Skeleton of a primer for a budding hobbyist

      By adamselene · Posted

      Agreed.  And I think it’s good to be aware of this early on and think about at the point of buying rather than rationalizing a purchase..
    • A Smug Dill
      Skeleton of a primer for a budding hobbyist

      By A Smug Dill · Posted

      Alas, one cannot know “good” without some idea of “bad” against which to contrast; and, as one of my former bosses (back when I was in my twenties) used to say, “on the scale of good to bad…”, it's a spectrum, not a dichotomy. Whereas subjectively acceptable (or tolerable) and unacceptable may well be a dichotomy to someone, and finding whether the threshold or cusp between them lies takes experiencing many degrees of less-than-ideal, especially if the decision is somehow influenced by factors o
    • adamselene
      Skeleton of a primer for a budding hobbyist

      By adamselene · Posted

      I got my first real fountain pen on my 60th birthday and many hundreds of pens later I’ve often thought of what I should’ve known in the beginning. I have many pens, the majority of which have some objectionable feature. If they are too delicate, or can’t be posted, or they are too precious to face losing , still they are users, but only in very limited environments..  I have a big disliking for pens that have the cap jump into the air and fly off. I object to Pens that dry out, or leave blobs o

  • Chatbox

    You don't have permission to chat.
    Load More

  • Files






×
×
  • Create New...