If you had $500 to spend on pens

[Jared]

Would you spend your money on more expensive pens, or more pens?

Edited February 26, 2007 by Jared

[Phthalo]

1 - another Nakaya.

[rroossinck]

With $500, you could purchase a goodly portion of the all-stars of the hobby. A VP, a Lamy 2000, a Pelikan or two, and probably a nice user-grade 51.

[goodyear]

If you were to hand me $500, I'd take it as a sign that I should buy that Nakaya...

[maryannemoll]

I voted 2. I'd buy a VP and an Aurora. If wishes were horses...

[auscan]

1 - Conway Stewart Churchill black ebonite. Oh yeah! if you had a spare $500 to spend on pens, you might as well make the most of it. If I had $350 to spend I would get a Pelikan M1000, Spare $100 Lamy Studio.

 

 

Then again, 10 Parker 25's sounds nice.

[sonia_simone]

I'm another who would buy a Nakaya.

[Johnson]

If I was just handed $500 and told to spend it on FPs somehow, it would probably be either one Nakaya or one really nice Omas. Probably a Nakaya though.

[errantmarginalia]

Well, I've acquired an unfortunate taste for Italian celluloid (preferably blue), so I'd probably buy anywhere from 1 to 2 pens, depending on the price of the pens. Or perhaps just one pen and a nib customizaton. Best,

David

[dwmatteson]

I think for me, given where I am right now, I'd pick up two pens that I've had on my wish list since the beginning of the year:

 

Sailor 1911, burgundy, with a fine-medium nib, and

Sheaffer PFM III, black, with a fine-medium nib

 

That should run just a touch under $500 if the former is purchased from Oscar Braun Pens and the latter from Sherrell Tyree. The rest gets used for ink, no?

 

Don M.

[goodguy]

I believe I would go for 4-5 pens.

 

I would buy few Parker 75 maybe a Snorkel or two and a VP,Parker VP that is (and NOT Namiki VP )

Edited February 26, 2007 by goodguy

[Bill]

Today's answer: Throw in a few more bucks for an Omas Arco Brown Classic Celluloid.

 

Bill

[DennisU]

I'd go for two pens: one Pelikan M600 series and one Pilot VP. Both would have customized nibs: one Binder, one Mottishaw.

Edited February 26, 2007 by DennisU

[sheafferkid]

I voted 5-7. I'd try and find some good user Sheaffer's (a PFM III or V, some Snorkels, etc) and a nice Parker 51. Ahh..if only it were real....

 

 

Evan

[Ben]

I could probably reduce the number of pens on my wish list by three or four (or get a Nakaya plus one other).

[Armchop]

 

What's a Nakaya?

 

Armchop

 

(I would go a good pen shop waft my £250 at the nice lady and ask her to surprise me!)

 

 

 

 

 

[Ray-Vigo]

I'd spring for 3-4 nice pens, vintage and modern mixture.

[goodguy]

Maybe a Delta Dolce Vita Oversize of course!!!

[sonia_simone]

Armchop, check out the pens at http://www.nakaya.org/eindex.html. Click the "Product" button to browse their offerings.

 

Kuro-temenuri urushi Cigar for me, if you please. Portable length, I think. I do have a hankering for the red urushi, too, though.

[goodyear]

QUOTE (sonia_simone @ Feb 26 2007, 09:27 PM)

Armchop, check out the pens at http://www.nakaya.org/eindex.html. Click the "Product" button to browse their offerings. Kuro-temenuri urushi Cigar for me, if you please. Portable length, I think. I do have a hankering for the red urushi, too, though.

At the minute I'm dreaming of the same kuro-tamenuri cigar (probably in the portable size, although I'm undecided) AND a Piccolo.

 

Because you surely can't have too much of a good thing.

 

But the Piccolo would be black, in the interests of economics, and be bought first to try them out first hand.

 

When I dream, I dream in style