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Hi Folks

 

Now I know many of us have a collection of pens in our arsenal from the inexpensive to the insanely expensive, however I am curious to know do people have the 'one pen' that they carry on a daily basis no matter how many other's they carry, I mean the one that no matter what is always inked and they never leave home without said pen.

 

Just curious :D

 

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Izzy

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Pens: Caran d'Ache Leman Godron, Lamy Safari, Italix Parsons Essential, Mont Blanc LeGrande '90 years' Edition, Sigma Style, Italix Vipers Strike, Parker Sonnet, Omas 360, Parker Duofold (c.1950), Conway Stewart #286, Conway Stewart #24, Onoto Magna Classic in Chased Midnight Blue and SS Trim

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I usually will rotate what pen I carry in my shirt pocket based on mood and 9 out of 10 times it will be a FP... BUT, the one pen that always goes with me in my bag is a Cross Click in Chrome... It is discreet, reliable, durable and versatile enough for most situations.

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No.

 

I have preferred pens or those I would more readily replace directly, but nothing I must have with me daily. Those to me are different questions.

 

Edited to add:

I have more than one car but I don't take out "the one" every day.

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Don't really have the ONE but I always have a Kaweco sport in the front pocket of my jeans and usually carry my matte black VP everywhere I go.

 

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I'm carrying the same Lamy Safari in my pants pocket for three years now. Tough, reliable and with an EF nib suitable for correcting, signing and annotating in my calendar. It is always by hand. Others pens are carried in my backpack.

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No. My Custom Heritage 92 is inked much more often than not, and when inked, it's very likely to go where I go, but it's not always.

 

If, that is, you're talking fountain pens. I do always have my "just in case" pen with me, but it's a Fisher bullet style Space Pen, a ballpoint. I might go a couple of weeks without actually writing with it, but it's always there for an emergency.

"So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do."

 

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I rotate my pens, only keeping 1-3 inked at a time, but one of those is almost always a Pelikan of some sort.

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I used to use a Lamy Safari in Fine but, because I have others using the pen I carry to sign things, I carry with me a Cross Townsend rollerball in my pocket each day. However, in my desk, I currently have 3 Fountain pens: A Parker International in Fine using Noodlers #41 brown for notes and it gets used daily, a Pilot Vanishing Point with a XF nib (also filled with Noodlers #41 brown) which gets used 1-3 times per week when I need a lot of information on a small piece of tablet paper, and a Cross Townsend with an XF nib using Private Reserve Daphne Blue for editing (I like it much better than using a red ink to edit)... it gets used 2-3 times per week..

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Midnight blue Parker 51 aerometric. Always inked. I don't work any more, so I don't carry a pen around the house. I've had it for forty-six years. Carried it to work. Still the best.

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Not one pen I use regularly. I have too many pens and I only try to ink 3 or 4 at a time. I rotate pens and use them until they run dry.

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Always a black Kaweco Classic Sport in my front pocket with a blue-black ink

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Not the "One Pen", but an inky trinity (a fellowship?) of 51s. Initially, it was two mediums & a fine. Once I acquired enough 51s to have a three pen pouch of full size & another of demis, I split them as such. Then I had to get all practical & screw things up, deciding to carry a fine, a medium, & a 1mm stub, my current configuration.

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The closest would be an Ohto Tasche. I slip it into my pant pocket when I wear a shirt without a pocket.

 

When I have a shirt with a pocket, today I rotate my carry pen, so I may have a different pen each month.

In the past, pre Fountain Pen hobby, it might have been a Parker 180 or 45.

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Omas Ogiva Cocktail. It was a grail pen, and it's actually just as good as I dreamed it would be...

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