What Was Your Last Impulsive Pen Acquisition?

[Arthur Pewty]

Montegrappa Ettore Bugatti M, Waterman Serenity Blue

Caran D'Ache Genève EF, Monteverde Azure Noir

[ruby.monkey]

Pilot Elabo with soft fine nib. These really are lovely pens.

[Misfit]

Late last night, after looking at the Pen Chalet April Fool’s Day offerings, I looked elsewhere.  I ordered the Monteverde Tools fountain pen with stub nib in the rainbow colorway.
 

Today, it was back to Pen Chalet, where I got one of their sale pens. It’s another Monteverde, this time the Invincia Vega in Starlight Yellow. I also got a stub nib unit for it. The 10% off coupon code worked on the sale item, so I’m justifying the spending that way. I had been expecting to get one of the Starlight pens, but it had not been a priority. 

[Penguincollector]

   I picked up another Parker 45, in one of the turquoise colors, with an Octanium nib of unknown width and a lustraloy CT cap. How auction pictures keep the same potato quality as they had in 2005 in one of the world’s great mysteries.

[PAKMAN]

Bought the Jinhao 80 Red wine xf and brown f on Amazon $9.99 each.  Lamy 2000 clones.  Pretty nice writers so far. 

[Penguincollector]

  I have those in brown and dark blue, @PAKMAN. They’re lovely, and the Lamy nibs fit perfectly. I had a Z55 EF on the brown one. 

[PAKMAN]

I have a Lamy Al-Star nib in 1.1 stub that isn't in a pen right now. Will probably try it in one of these.

[chromantic]

A Stipula da Vinci Caribbean. Sort of handsome, transparent red acrylic body and a metal outer sleeve with cross-bones cutouts to expose the red underneath. But the mechanism was super loose, almost rattle-y, not the smooth, solid thing one would expect from a $900 pen. Immediately requested to return it, didn't even have to wait for a reply - boom, here's an RA and shipping label, send it back. Dropped it off at Fed-Ex this morning.

[InkyProf]

A clipless Franklin-Christoph Model 20 in Tiger Red, a new batch of which has been released this week, apparently. I've been waiting for an acrylic that grabbed me. Went with an EF SIG.

[Penguincollector]

On 4/1/2025 at 7:10 PM, PAKMAN said:

I have a Lamy Al-Star nib in 1.1 stub that isn't in a pen right now. Will probably try it in one of these.

 That sounds like a nice pairing. 

[alarickc]

What will likely be my last new pen for the year (fingers crossed): A Schon Dsgn Titanium Shell pen with the new Cursive Monoc nib. I was going to try to pick up one last new Leonardo in celluloid, but decided to go with a somewhat cheaper pen and use the savings to stock up on imported paper and ink. 

[Doug C]

11 minutes ago, alarickc said:

What will likely be my last new pen for the year (fingers crossed): A Schon Dsgn Titanium Shell pen with the new Cursive Monoc nib. I was going to try to pick up one last new Leonardo in celluloid, but decided to go with a somewhat cheaper pen and use the savings to stock up on imported paper and ink. 

Gotta see pics!

[alarickc]

3 minutes ago, Doug C said:

Gotta see pics!

I’ll make sure to post some with a writing sample when I receive it. I’ve poked around and was surprised to see no reviews or impressions of these pens yet online. You’d think someone would have thoughts on a $900 pen they purchased.

[Doug C]

3 hours ago, alarickc said:

I’ll make sure to post some with a writing sample when I receive it. I’ve poked around and was surprised to see no reviews or impressions of these pens yet online. You’d think someone would have thoughts on a $900 pen they purchased.

I have a Monoc but on one of the 

[Doug C]

Just now, Doug C said:

I have a Monoc but on one of the faceted models.

 

[Penguincollector]

  I bought a black lacquer fine nibbed Cross Spire. 

[Pen Ffynnon]

Ordered another Diplomat Viper, in blue this time. I've been loving my brown one so much that I got another as an EDC because I'm protecting my brown one by leaving it at home. M nib, this time.

 

ETA: Forgot 2 that arrived - Lamy AL-Star Aubergine and Platinum 3776 "Shape of Heart--Bluebird), both in F nibs.

[A Smug Dill]

A Sailor TUZU ADJUST in (2025 new colour) light blue with M nib, because… discounted on Amazon.

[Misfit]

First I saw it on Reddit, then in a blogpost from Pen Boutique, that caused the impulsivity. It is a Pelikan Twist in Cold Alaska. It is on sale, so…. And there are two of the Field Notes Birds and Trees of North America in the order. 
 

I didn’t start the day or any day thinking I needed another Pelikan Twist. But it looks like a metallic green, and it will be cool with my current Twist in Candy apple red with lime grip. I looked at order history, and the red Twist is named Apple Candy red. 

[Armo]

A brace of Pelikans. An old style burgundy and black M150 which required nothing more than a good clean and a tortoise Frankenstein. I bought the barrel very cheaply but had to buy a new cap and nib so I think it started out as a 400 but is more of a 200 spec now. The barrel is an earlier translucent type and is very pretty.

I have to give a shout out to Proto Pens (I have no involvement) who were very quick and very good. They are an American Co. but also have a European branch.