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I know there are a few pen companies out there that have a tendency to create ugly or gaudy pens.
I want to see your gaudy or ugly pens! Pens that are so ugly they might be beautiful to you!
Maybe they're so completely scratched up and wrecked but still are your favourite! Or maybe you hate the pen haha

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I know there are a few pen companies out there that have a tendency to create ugly or gaudy pens.

I want to see your gaudy or ugly pens! Pens that are so ugly they might be beautiful to you!

Maybe they're so completely scratched up and wrecked but still are your favourite! Or maybe you hate the pen haha

 

 

 

I thought you might have wanted to start us off. ;)

 

Ian

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Dude I don't buy ugly pens! lol

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Bought a Sheaffer Ferrari 100 Rosso Corsa that sees no use. Perhaps if I had a car to match...

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I've been told that my Dolcevita demonstrator is gaudy but I don't think so:

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I don't like "gaudy" in general. Simplicity and quiet good taste are more desirable, although I do have some vintage pens with the kind of beautiful celluloid patterns that you don't see with modern materials.

 

But this Jinhao was cheap, and it makes me smile. I like that the cap screws on in both the capped and posted positions (it's in this picture if that isn't obvious). And it writes well enough, nothing exceptional, but nice enough. Not the most comfortable pen to hold, though, with that dragon in relief.

 

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I thought you might have wanted to start us off. ;)

 

Ian

 

Sorry Ian! I don't have any pens yet, I am waiting for my first in the mail. I have found though that I really do have

terrible taste in pens, I like lots of the sort of flashy, less business looking pens when I browse through!

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Some folks mistake "colorful" for gaudy, and would therefore think that about these three.

Wouldn't give these three up without a fight.

 

http://www.gergyor.com/images/gaudy-pens.jpg

 

Best Regards, greg

Don't feel bad. I'm old; I'm meh about most things.

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Some folks mistake "colorful" for gaudy, and would therefore think that about these three.

Wouldn't give these three up without a fight.

 

http://www.gergyor.com/images/gaudy-pens.jpg

 

Best Regards, greg

 

The Arlecchino..Pompeii..Red veined pearl Leboeuf..sleeve filler{?}

 

Beautiful.

 

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The Arlecchino..Pompeii..Red veined pearl Leboeuf..sleeve filler{?}

 

Beautiful.

 

Fred

who never met a pen he didn't like

 

Right, right and right!

Thanks, greg

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Now there is a difference between "gaudy" and "colorful" and "bold and experimental". It is called "taste" and damned if I can define that.

Love all, trust a few, do harm to none. Shakespeare

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Sorry Ian! I don't have any pens yet, I am waiting for my first in the mail. I have found though that I really do have

terrible taste in pens, I like lots of the sort of flashy, less business looking pens when I browse through!

A little bit off topic. But which pen will be your first?

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Anyone owns a Montegrappa Chaos?

 

If this is the Sylvester Stallone pen, I agree. I saw this pen at a paradise pen location and thought it was very gaudy.

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A little bit off topic. But which pen will be your first?

A Pilot Metro in the plain gold haha! I also ordered some very inexpensive ones from amazon,

all Jinhao- So there's guaranteed to be one in the bunch, when they arrive I'll be sure to

pick out the one that's the "best" for this topic and show!

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Right, right and right!

Thanks, greg

 

When I was down at Triangle Pen Show in June, a guy at one of the tables was showing me a Lebouef pen and said that in his opinion that company did the most innovative things with celluloid. And if that little pen in your picture is an example, I'm not sure he was wrong. :puddle:

As for me, I'm with Pakman -- I don't buy gaudy pens (preferring understated colors and patterns for the most part -- I held off for a long time on getting a Vacumatic for a long time because I thought they were a little too Art Deco for my taste -- until I saw the Azure Blue Pearl color, and then of course the Shadow Waves). The closest might be the Morrison ringtop with the gold-filled filigree overlay (I'd love to get a sterling silver one in the same pattern, but the sterling ones are a lot more expensive).

After that, the only one that comes to mind would maybe be the Jinhao 599 someone gave me a couple of years ago. It's not a bad writer, and it taught me that maybe I *could* get used to the triangular grip on a real Lamy Safari. But the color? Blecch. It's apparently called "Champagne Gold" but for some reason it makes me think of the old Fizzies tablets from when I was a kid, only covered in the Wilton Gold Pearl Dust (edible metallic looking dust for cake decorating... cheaper but also cheaper *looking* than Lustre Dust). Which is sad, because I LOVED Fizzies....

But then I also don't like stuff like a lot of the marbled and "cracked ice" celluloids, either (shrug) which people seem to go "ooh, ah" over.... And a lot of modern acrylic pen blanks leave me cold as well.

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Bought a Sheaffer Ferrari 100 Rosso Corsa that sees no use. Perhaps if I had a car to match...

0040812_sheaffer-ferrari-100-rosso-corsa

 

 

 

I've seen it here and in the flesh - it's a truly beautiful pen, IMO. :thumbup:

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I'm not sure what would qualify as "gaudy". The Montegrappa Chaos pen was mentioned yet it is really simply an exercise is detailed casting. As such it is fantastic and since it also includes high relief engraving might even be considered a tour de force.

 

What is meant by gaudy in relation to fountain pens? If it means extravagantly bright and showy then any of the Montegrappa red cellulose pens might qualify. If it means showy then the Yard-o-Led Grand Victorian Viceroy would certainly be a possible candidate. If we are thinking ostentatious then most any Montblanc might be fitting.

 

What about many of the Asian Maki-e pens, particularly those using Kanazawa-Haku?

 

What about pens made from precious metals?

 

 

 

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