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Oh I have written with both the Ondoro and it's more expensive cousin the GvFC. The nibs are amazing to write with, and I even like both the visual aspects and the balance on these pens.

 

If I were not focusing on vintage, these will definitely be in my collection already.

 

I have a list of things I want to see at the Dallas Pen Show and some GvFC pens are on it. The Ondoro just got added to that list. I'm also hoping to see a Visconti Homo Sapiens Bronze. I've been considering that pen for two years now. If I have enough by Christmas time, it will be my present to myself! And then I think I need to stop buying and just use what I have...maybe even sell one or two...

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m200 smokey quartz, classic brown, blue marbled, they all fit the budget and are different from the more common green marbled/black versions, mind you even a black M200 is always a nice pen if you don't own one yet

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m200 smokey quartz, classic brown, blue marbled, they all fit the budget and are different from the more common green marbled/black versions, mind you even a black M200 is always a nice pen if you don't own one yet

All good choices. I've owned two M205's, two M200's and three M400's. I eventually sold them all because they were just too small. The M800 size is perfect for me. I have no complaints about the pens though. I have a soft spot for Pelikans.

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m200 smokey quartz, classic brown, blue marbled, they all fit the budget and are different from the more common green marbled/black versions, mind you even a black M200 is always a nice pen if you don't own one yet

 

 

I have put the 200 Smoky quartz in my cart so many times, but have never bought it. I have another 200 that I like, which I have bought a second nib for, but the Smoky is just so pretty. But I don't need a second version of the same pen....But it is so pretty!

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I have put the 200 Smoky quartz in my cart so many times, but have never bought it. I have another 200 that I like, which I have bought a second nib for, but the Smoky is just so pretty. But I don't need a second version of the same pen....But it is so pretty!

 

Need? Since when was that a criteria for this hobby? You could always spring for the M800 Renaissance Brown. Then you'd have a gorgeous brown pen that's also not an M200, LOL.

 

I hope you've tried the Smoky Quartz ink at least. If you like brown, you really need to try it. I've bought three bottles of it and really hope it just gets added to the standard lineup of inks so I never run out...

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Need? Since when was that a criteria for this hobby?

Haha, that's kinda odd given what you've written in the other thread in which I just replied!

 

You could always spring for the M800 Renaissance Brown. Then you'd have a gorgeous brown pen that's also not an M200, LOL.

I've ordered a M400 Tortoiseshell-Brown, but it's waiting for a gold EF nib to be installed as a replacement for the M nib with which it was originally listed, before the retailer sends it to me. Saves me from having to go through the Pelikan nib exchange programme myself after receiving the pen. :)

 

I hope you've tried the Smoky Quartz ink at least. If you like brown, you really need to try it.

Now that, I haven't, even though I have a bottle here — as part of a still-wrapped M200 Smoky Quartz gift set I acquired, and originally intended as a present for a close friend. (I already have a M200 SQ that I've been using for months.)

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Haha, that's kinda odd given what you've written in the other thread in which I just replied!

 

 

I've ordered a M400 Tortoiseshell-Brown, but it's waiting for a gold EF nib to be installed as a replacement for the M nib with which it was originally listed, before the retailer sends it to me. Saves me from having to go through the Pelikan nib exchange programme myself after receiving the pen. :)

 

 

Now that, I haven't, even though I have a bottle here — as part of a still-wrapped M200 Smoky Quartz gift set I acquired, and originally intended as a present for a close friend. (I already have a M200 SQ that I've been using for months.)

 

Busted! Yes, playing devil's advocate is fun sometimes. I just ordered a pen I don't need, so I have no room to talk! I really AM trying to keep the collection small, but it's hard when free money falls in my lap like that...

 

That is a gorgeous M400, and if the size worked for me, I would have snapped that one up in a heartbeat. I really wish Pelikan would make another tortoise M800...

 

Well, you have the ink, so if you aren't still planning to gift it, you should try it. It is by far my favorite brown ink....but I need to try more. There's still so many I want to try...

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Well, you have the ink, so if you aren't still planning to gift it, you should should try it.

No, but I'm now "planning" to sell the unopened gift set. I'm surprising myself in starting to sell off pens, although I'm still trying to keep up the pretence of being true to what I said elsewhere, so I'm only getting rid of pens with nibs I don't want to use again (e.g. Pilot Custom 74 with a 14K gold #5 Music nib, Platinum #3776 Century with a 14K gold SM nib) and pens with nibs I have "excessive" number of duplicates (e.g. Platinum #3776 14K gold SF nib).

 

It is by far my favorite brown ink....but I need to try more. There's still so many I want to try...

I don't think I did a particularly good or diligent job of categorising the inks I have by colour, but my fiancée just happened to ask me if blue is the colour family of which I have the most shades in my collection, so I made a pivot table on my spreadsheet, and it counted 29 brown inks (compared to 42 blue inks).

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No, but I'm now "planning" to sell the unopened gift set. I'm surprising myself in starting to sell off pens, although I'm still trying to keep up the pretence of being true to what I said elsewhere, so I'm only getting rid of pens with nibs I don't want to use again (e.g. Pilot Custom 74 with a 14K gold #5 Music nib, Platinum #3776 Century with a 14K gold SM nib) and pens with nibs I have "excessive" number of duplicates (e.g. Platinum #3776 14K gold SF nib).

 

 

I don't think I did a particularly good or diligent job of categorising the inks I have by colour, but my fiancée just happened to ask me if blue is the colour family of which I have the most shades in my collection, so I made a pivot table on my spreadsheet, and it counted 29 brown inks (compared to 42 blue inks).

 

 

Man, I love pivot tables. I know that sounds weird, but I'm in accounting as a profession and I just love sorting a pile of data into something organized and coherent.

 

Blue is definitely my favorite color. Seven of my eleven inks are blue -- eight if you count Pilot Blue Black as a "blue". Then I have one brown, one black and whatever color you classify Sailor Shikiori Yamadori as. I consider it a hue of green...I'm not counting the dozen or so samples I have.

 

I'd love to buy more, but I've largely committed to dedicating one ink to each pen. I like the organization of it, I guess. Trying to decide what to fill the incoming Diplomat Aero with. Pretty sure it will be a blue ink, lol.

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The colour of the Goulet shop-exclusive Diplomat Aero makes me think of Diamine Marine, although something like Sailor Shikiori Yamadori, Sailor Kujukuri Coast hakkakuao (which is very similar to yamadori), or Kobe INK Story #44 Sumaura Seaside Blue probably won't go too far astray.

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Some out-of-date information there, in that I haven't excluded the nine bottles I've given away. That summary doesn't account for multiple bottles of the same ink colour, but then it shouldn't in the first place.

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Thanks for the ink mentions, A Smug Dill. I'm going to look those inks up and see if any of them interest me.

 

When the pen arrives tomorrow I will ink it with Sailor Hatsukoi, Yamadori or possibly Iroshizuku Kon Peki. I'll have to see what it looks like in person and go from there...marketing pics can be deceiving at times.

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I have put the 200 Smoky quartz in my cart so many times, but have never bought it. I have another 200 that I like, which I have bought a second nib for, but the Smoky is just so pretty. But I don't need a second version of the same pen....But it is so pretty!

Don't tell me... I love the m200 so much I not only have far too many, I also have two of the same colour...

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Don't tell me... I love the m200 so much I not only have far too many, I also have two of the same colour...

 

But they have different nibs, right? ;)

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One would hope, but around this forum, you never know :lol:

 

LOL. Well, even if they are of the same color and have the same nibs, you can still fill them with different inks to get more "utility" out of them... :)

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One would hope, but around this forum, you never know :lol:

I have two Pelikan M200 Smoky Quartz pens (nominally with different nibs, but I do have a spare M200 EF nib that would make them sport "identical" nibs). One of them is still inside the gift set that has been gift-wrapped.

I endeavour to be frank and truthful in what I write, show or otherwise present, when I relate my first-hand experiences that are not independently verifiable; and link to third-party content where I can, when I make a claim or refute a statement of fact in a thread. If there is something you can verify for yourself, I entreat you to do so, and judge for yourself what is right, correct, and valid. I may be wrong, and my position or say-so is no more authoritative and carries no more weight than anyone else's here.

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I have two Pelikan M200 Smoky Quartz pens (nominally with different nibs, but I do have a spare M200 EF nib that would make them sport "identical" nibs). One of them is still inside the gift set that has been gift-wrapped.

 

 

You should "gift" it to your fiancee! Then you can keep it (within the household) and it fulfilled it's intended purpose as a gift! Sneaky...

 

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You should "gift" it to your fiancee! Then you can keep it (within the household) and it fulfilled it's intended purpose as a gift!

Haha, I'd already given her the M205 Olivine which I also ordered alongside my "first" M200 Smoky Quartz. (I let her choose one when there were both here for her to see in person.) The M200 SQ gift set was intended to be a present for my best man after the wedding, but I don't think I'll give it to him after all, since I don't think he knows how to handle a fountain pen. (He's staying with us this week, and he's had a go at using some of my pens last time — under close supervision!) Maybe a Montblanc rollerball instead...

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I don't think he knows how to handle a fountain pen. (snip) Maybe a Montblanc rollerball instead...

 

A wise choice. And a very generous one!

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