How Expensive Are Your Everyday Pens?

[dragondazd]

Just wondering how expensive of a pen people are comfortable carrying around both in terms of price and durability.

[Runnin_Ute]

Up to about $150. This includes all of my pens as my most expensive is at that price point. (Pelikan 140) It in fact is a daily carry/user many days.

Edited June 10, 2018 by Runnin_Ute

[Nanor]

Currently downgrading as I feel less and less comfortable exposing my vintage pens to daily wear and tear. While I understand it's important to enjoy my pens, it is less about the cost; I just can't shake the feeling that vintage pens are a finite resource, so I'm pressing a Metropolitan and Safari back into use.

[akrohn2010]

My everyday pens right now are my Lamy 2000, Parker Vacumatic, or Pilot Custom 91 depending on what ink/nib I want to have with me - so about $100-150 range at the most.

 

That being said, I only have one pen that's more expensive (a Franklin-Christoph) and I don't carry it around only because it's my dedicated pen for my Bible transcription because of the Masuyama italic I got with it, so it stays home.

[CraigR]

I am comfortable using all of my pens in public. In the past, I used commemorative and collector editions and some of those were priced over $1000. After selling most of my collection, most of my remaining pens are vintage with the most expensive pen I own being under $300. I use all of them in and out of the house.

[Steveg58]

Most of my pens are under $AU100 (about $US75) with a few near $AU200.

The only pens I have doubts about taking out are my Maki-E pens. On the basis of looks my cheap Jinhao pens are more likely to get nicked than my Sailor pens.

[alexwi]

Hi,

 

A few days ago my backpack had an Aurora Ipsilon Deluxe and a Parker 180 Torsade (there's one for sale on ebay for some $400). Wasn't uncomfortable, but I must add that when either's out of the bag, it never leaves my hand (this is true for any pen I carry, regardless of value).

 

alex

[praxim]

I rotate all of my pens so all get their opportunity to leave the house. Some of them have high replacement costs. I do not carry the same risks as people who work or are students.

[Jerome Tarshis]

All my pens were made after World War II. There's a concentration of pens made in the 1950s or early 1960s. Not likely to suffer from everyday use. In general I haven't been given to losing pens since childhood, when I did lose some.

 

I don't worry about having either a pen or any other possession stolen while it's with me; if a pen is at home and I'm not, I do understand that burglary is possible.

 

So, yes, my pens aren't what I think of as luxury items, but let us say European educated middle class items, and if I can leave the house at my age, so can they.

[flipper_gv]

The pen I carry to work that had the highest MSRP is my Montegrappa Desiderio. The most expensive pen I paid for that I still carry to work is my Pilot 823.

[PAKMAN]

What ever is inked up! I'll likely stick a $1600 pen in my pocket tomorrow when I head out.

[langere]

I don't take out my Pelikans very much because the caps tend to get loose and then I either lose the pen body or a have a mess in my shirt pocket.

 

Otherwise, my Nakayas don't go for walks.

 

Erick

[pajaro]

If I lose one, I have other pens.

[kestrel]

It varies from day to day. Current everyday users are an Edison Collier, Esterbrook J with a 9314-B nib, a 90 year old BCHR Eversharp, a vintage oversize jade Balance and an "anonymous" third tier pen from the 1930s that is a great writer. Like Pakman, I use my pens. Very few are limited to household duty and those only because they are very old and frail (1874 MacKinnon) or have historical value or historical provenance.

[DrDebG]

It really depends . . .

 

On where I am going:

• locally: any of my pens
• on a business trip domestically: any but those that have sentimental value
• on an international business trip: my least expensive pens (Platinum Preppys, Pilot Petits, etc)

What I am planning to do:

• take notes at church: 2-3 pens of different colors
• take notes at a client interview: one of my basic black pens (Lamy Aion, Lamy 2000)
• journaling at the local coffee shop: my favorite writing pens

[WaskiSquirrel]

It depends on my specific location. At home, I've been using a lovely Nakaya with black ink on a regular basis. But it never leaves the house. In a decent setting, a Lamy 2000 or a Pilot Custom 823 are my regular writing pens.

 

Somewhere I'm worried about losing a pen, having it stolen, or conditions, I'll use a cheaper pen.

[Studio97]

Sometimes I pack all six of my Montblanc pens: 2 FP,3 BP and 1 RB. But most days a Cross FP, Shaeffer FP,and Waterman FP. All between $20 to $50.

[Karmachanic]

$15 - $580

[SpecTP]

150-1200

[Pichak]

My EDC pens since last month are between $4 (Wing Sung 3008) to $400 (Pelikan M805) (approx.)