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http://www.jean-pierre-lepine.com/limited/img/graphyscaf/graphyscaph_08.jpg

 

http://www.jean-pierre-lepine.com/limited/img/graphyscaf/graphyscaph_07.jpg

http://www.jean-pierre-lepine.com/limited/img/titanicdna/b2.jpghttp://www.jean-pierre-lepine.com/limited/img/titanicdna/h.jpg

http://www.jean-pierre-lepine.com/limited/img/cybergraph/top.jpg

 

Some amazing designs, here. Before someone asks the question, no idea if the nib is made in-house. They look Bock to me, but....

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http://www.jean-pierre-lepine.com/limited/img/hedera/hedera.jpg

http://www.jean-pierre-lepine.com/limited/img/hongkong/hongkong.jpg

http://www.jean-pierre-lepine.com/catalogue/stylos/photos/ca45f.jpghttp://www.jean-pierre-lepine.com/catalogue/stylos/photos/ca41f.jpg

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I would buy these pens in a flash apart from that minor obstacle of price! They are so French and ironic.

 

 

Does anyone own one? How do they write?

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I have an Attila, with a steel nib which had been Binderized to a stub a couple of owners back (and subsequently repaired by Michael Masuyama when it did a dive straight down onto the kitchen floor). It's a cute, fun little pen.

 

My one objection to these pens is that there seems to be no converter that will fit in them, so one is stuck with cartridges. Even when the bodies are long enough for a short converter, there's not enough space in the interior for anything other than a cartridge. ):

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I came here for the pictures and stayed for the conversation.

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The Limited Editions have a deposit and are filled by a thingy called " Ink Pump"

 

http://www.jean-pierre-lepine.com/limited/img/cybergraph/cybergraph_ink.jpghttp://www.jean-pierre-lepine.com/limited/img/cybergraph/ink-pump.jpghttp://www.jean-pierre-lepine.com/limited/img/cybergraph/boite2.jpghttp://www.jean-pierre-lepine.com/limited/img/cybergraph/palladium.jpg

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what do these things cost? who sells them? I could not work this out on their website (i am a technofool).

 

needless to say they are the apex of kitch, but since i tend to like over-engineering they are compelling and attractive (in a somewhat horrifying way) - i mean, who needs a pen with 300 rivets holding it together? I might. moreover, whip one of these out in a meeting and everyone will remember the event even if they start calling one Captain Nemo.

"People build themselves a furnace when all they need is a lamp." Maulana Jalaludin Balkhi (Rumi)

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what do these things cost? who sells them? I could not work this out on their website (i am a technofool).

 

needless to say they are the apex of kitch, but since i tend to like over-engineering they are compelling and attractive (in a somewhat horrifying way) - i mean, who needs a pen with 300 rivets holding it together? I might. moreover, whip one of these out in a meeting and everyone will remember the event even if they start calling one Captain Nemo.

 

Prices are not published, as they seem to be in the range of "if you need to ask, you can't afford it". If you're interested in one, you will have to contact them through their web, I believe each pen, besides an LE, has custom work done for each customer. This link may give you a price range reference; http://www.penboutique.com/showproduct.aspx?ProductID=3633&SEName=jean-pierre-lepin-titanic-black-pink-gold-finish-fountain-pen

 

And I just saw Deirdre beated me and had a thread on them from some years back, where price is mentioned; https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?/topic/81994-jean-pierre-lepines-newest/

 

You know, I find them very attractive, specially (and like Deirdre), the Titanic, Graphiscaph and Cybergraph.

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Can't say I like very many of them, but that Cybergraph has a certain, odd appeal.

Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life, the one incorporeal entrance into the high world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. -Ludwig van Beethoven

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And I just saw Deirdre beated me and had a thread on them from some years back, where price is mentioned; https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?/topic/81994-jean-pierre-lepines-newest/

 

You know, I find them very attractive, specially (and like Deirdre), the Titanic, Graphiscaph and Cybergraph.

Dive! Dive!

 

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1215/1317667294_d167591748_z.jpg

Atlantis Submarine, Maui by Deirdre Saoirse Moen, on Flickr

deirdre.net

"Heck we fed a thousand dollar pen to a chicken because we could." -- FarmBoy, about Pen Posse

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http://www.jean-pierre-lepine.com/limited/img/cybergraph/top.jpg

 

And some people complain about the Safari grip... ;)

When you're good at it, it's really miserable.

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I cannot help but smile when I see a Lepine creation. I would not own one, in fact I do not think I could even afford one, but they are fun to look at. I have zero idea how they write.

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i wrote to the manufacturers and they replied swiftly - the ones that look like Captain Nemo's submarine, or the bridge of Admiral Dewey's flagship, cost 3-4.5 thousand euros. which seems a lot to spend on a joke. fun yes, flamboyant yes, kitch of course, but still a rather costly joke. (costing, say, eight urushi Nakayas).

"People build themselves a furnace when all they need is a lamp." Maulana Jalaludin Balkhi (Rumi)

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Saw these for the first time a few weeks ago. There so over-the-top and geeky, I have to find a way to get one.

 

Origami Ink in Asheville, NC has a few of the tamer ones. [no aff, etc.]

I came here for the pictures and stayed for the conversation.

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Saw these for the first time a few weeks ago. There so over-the-top and geeky, I have to find a way to get one.

 

Origami Ink in Asheville, NC has a few of the tamer ones. [no aff, etc.]

 

None of this tame stuff; if I find a way to afford it, I'll go for the geekiest one: the graphyscaf. wink.gif

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I have two of their lower-end pens. Both write beautifully. The point above, however, about them not taking converters... It's true, and just strange. Just can't find a converter tha will fit, *even though* two international cartrides will fit in if placed butt-to-butt (as normal). I always assumed that if you could fit two international cartridges in a pen, then you could fit a converter. Even measuring those two options side-by-side, by eye, it looks as if it should be dead equivalent. But can I get a converter to work in my big, chunky Lepine Winston? Nope.

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