What Was Your Last Impulsive Pen Acquisition?

[lamarax]

...I just couldn't resist 😂 

 

[USG]

5 hours ago, Gloucesterman said:

Just jumped onboard the Sailor Pen Wagon (my first Sailor pen) from Endless Pens. Stacked my discounts on both the pen and a brown (knurled twist) converter so the price was good. The specifics: Sailor Fountain Pen - Shikiori "Kusa Asobi" - Tsurubami (Autumn Brown) / Fine.

Will probably get it mid to late next week. I really liked the look of the material.

 

Looks very nice...😀👍  Good for you !!  👍😀

I hope you'll post pics when it arrives....

[USG]

27 minutes ago, lamarax said:

...I just couldn't resist 😂 

 

 

LOL, Oh No, What did you do? 😀👍

[Gloucesterman]

10 hours ago, USG said:

...I just couldn't resist 😂 

I'm not THAT impulsive...YET! LOL

[Penguincollector]

18 hours ago, Gloucesterman said:

Just jumped onboard the Sailor Pen Wagon (my first Sailor pen) from Endless Pens. Stacked my discounts on both the pen and a brown (knurled twist) converter so the price was good. The specifics: Sailor Fountain Pen - Shikiori "Kusa Asobi" - Tsurubami (Autumn Brown) / Fine.

Will probably get it mid to late next week. I really liked the look of the material.

 

    I’m so excited for you! That’s a beautiful pen. I hope you like it. 

[inkstainedruth]

3 hours ago, Gloucesterman said:

I'm not THAT impulsive...YET! LOL

As opposed to me, who would NEVER be that impulsive.... Even if I DID had that much money to throw around....   

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Gloucesterman]

3 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

As opposed to me, who would NEVER be that impulsive.... Even if I DID had that much money to throw around....   

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Ruth, if a person has THAT much money for a fountain pen, any fountain pen, I doubt very much that they are subject to impulse buying anything!

[lamarax]

6 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

As opposed to me, who would NEVER be that impulsive.... Even if I DID had that much money to throw around....   

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Honestly, I can't fathom even a filthy rich person dropping that kind of money on a fountain pen, other than for laundering purposes, pure & simple. Alarms should go off. This "business" has nothing to do with genuine art collecting by any definition.

 

3 hours ago, Gloucesterman said:

Ruth, if a person has THAT much money for a fountain pen, any fountain pen, I doubt very much that they are subject to impulse buying anything!

 

Exactly.

[Grayfeather]

Today's impulse buy. Got it on a hella deal, paid less than $10USD.

 

Monteverde Aldo Domani Italia EF.

 

 

[A Smug Dill]

Umpteen A dozen Profuture Lab model FP0029 fountain pens in various colourways, all with rose gold-plated(?) trim:

 

(and a few of their first cousins outside this seemingly disconnected Forest collection of colourways).

 

[ruby.monkey]

On 3/21/2025 at 7:21 PM, Gloucesterman said:

Ruth, if a person has THAT much money for a fountain pen, any fountain pen, I doubt very much that they are subject to impulse buying anything!

If they've had to earn it, no, but think about the people who are born into and surrounded by massive wealth and don't have to have any concept of thinking about cost. There'll be someone out there who will buy such a pen just because he can.

[Gloucesterman]

13 hours ago, ruby.monkey said:

If they've had to earn it, no, but think about the people who are born into and surrounded by massive wealth and don't have to have any concept of thinking about cost. There'll be someone out there who will buy such a pen just because he can.

"Frankly ,sir, I'd rather not!" - Moi aussi!

( see: Bartleby the Scrivener, by Herman Melville)

[PAKMAN]

Impulsive pen buying from this last weekend. This is my haul from the Little Rock pen show! 3 pen cases and huge knife, Robert Oster Hickory Afire ink, Pens ( Montblanc Masterpiece 144 in gray stripe from the 1950's, Over Size Jade Sheaffer Balance from the 30's, refurbish on my Parker Vacumatic gray 1935 pen, Over Size Red Vein Sheaffer Balance from the 30's and a modern Porsche Design Tec Flex P3100 by Faber Castel. )

[inkstainedruth]

There's a card shop/stationery store/novelty shop in Pittsburgh that carries a lot of The Unemployed Philosopher's Guild stuff and I bought my husband one of those Starfleet Engineering Notebooks a while back (I have a number of the "Passport" ones I bought for myself, and last Christmas my brother got the "Cthulhu" Finger Puppet because, well, he's a horror fan...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[chromantic]

^^ Ruth - Checked Amazon for the finger puppet, "only 1 left, order soon".  Will be here on April Fool's Day.   Thanks.

[Tashi_Tsering]

Yesterday, the S.T. Dupont Olympio (medium) silver plated arrived.

I really like the Olympio series, I have several pens from this line.

 

This model has a black plastic grip section, which ends with a gold-plated ring and a two-tone 18k nib. The gold-plated ring refers us to the design of old S.T. Dupont lighters: early models were made of silver-plated brass, and the flint feed mechanism was gold-plated (in the photo one of the early models of the S.T. Dupont lighter, mid-1940s)

[jchch1950]

A nice fountain pen, congratulations on your acquisition. Which nib does it have?

[Tashi_Tsering]

6 minutes ago, jchch1950 said:

A nice fountain pen, congratulations on your acquisition. Which nib does it have?

Medium. As usual with S.T. Dupont -- very smooth, stiff and wet.

 

As far as I know, the nibs for S.T. Dupont were made by Bock. I also saw references in the documentation that the nibs were of different sizes: F, M, B, etc., but all the Dupont pens that I saw had M nibs

[A Smug Dill]

Hmmm, I just ordered a Wing Sung (or Jun Lai) 630 variant… J14, I think, even though the seller's product option image (clobbered together from Jun Lai's marketing images) says J17 — translucent turquoise barrel with opaque turquoise cap and end finial on a cigar-shaped pen. The thing is,

1. I don't like pen bodies of large physical girth, and especially not fat grip sections (as opposed to something like a Platinum Izumo, with girthy body but nicely tapered grip section down to a precise-writing nib)
2. To me, a physically large nib is a negative trait, not looking better for it in any way (but possibly seeming oversized, clunky, perhaps clumsy) and apt to perform poorly in terms of writing precisely and/or with a suitable amount of feedback to make fine-grained control of the large nib (and pen) easier for the user
3. I don't particularly favour piston-fillers, even though it isn't automatically a negative
4. I'm not big on see-through barrels as ink reservoirs

and I only bought it because the effective cost of acquisition, taxed and delivered (presumably by air, not slow boat from China) to Australia, was under US$19.

[AmandaW]

Oops. Wrong thread. And no new pens either.