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It shows a great deal of "personality". Looks like it continues to serve you well, glad to see a pens that get to live to it's potential!

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It takes a licking and keeps on ticking, or writing as the case might be.

May we live, not by our fears but by our hopes; not by our words but by our deeds; not by our disappointments but by our dreams.

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I've never liked metal pens, this weathered one must be the exception. Scratched plastic would never look so nice ... like old leather

"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live."

– Lin Yu-T'ang

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It shows a great deal of "personality". Looks like it continues to serve you well, glad to see a pens that get to live to it's potential!

 

This pen is definitely "tough" enough for the job.

 

You don't baby your pens. :D

 

I do not but this one likes to show off its scars.

 

This pleases me . . . a lot.

 

How beautiful :wub:

Thank you so much for sharing.

 

You are mighty welcome!

 

It takes a licking and keeps on ticking, or writing as the case might be.

 

It is truly an survivor.

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You could strip the remaining coating on put on your own custom coating.

 

I think that would ruin the aura of it.

 

Patina...

 

I wouldn't call it that. It has just been scrapped off instead of being developed.

 

I like it. I've one equal which is just starting to peel, your photos are encouraging.

Alfredo

 

At first it did bother me, because I do have older Pilot Vanishing Points (which have also been on constant rotation, with three in total) and I was expecting this one to have a durable finish like the others but it has grown on me and it is now has my favorite finish.

 

Well-loved!

Read The Velveteen Rabbit

 

Yes, it is.

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Love well-made and well-used tools. Lovely pen.

 

This one is made to last. I can't imagine my collection without it.

 

Thank you.

 

I've never liked metal pens, this weathered one must be the exception. Scratched plastic would never look so nice ... like old leather

 

I really do like the look of this one. The metal also reminds me that it doesn't have to be babied and that it could survive in a pocket, which is of great importance to me.

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