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I am "waiting" for a Jinhao 51A ! I can not find a U. S. dealer who plans to carry this pen. Don't like to order from over seas dealers. Can you help?

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I'm still waiting for:

from La Couronne du Comte which has a habit of listing, and (fortunately) accepting orders for, items that it does not have in stock when there is some 20%-off site-wide promotion going on, which it then (unfortunately) cannot fill for many weeks. I've been advised that these will arrive in stock late® in January, but whether that happens awaits to be seen.

Then there are these, which have yet to be shipped by Pen Chalet.

 

And a bunch of cheap(er) Chinese pens I bought on eBay and AliExpress.

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pilot custom 74 demonstrator F, pilot stella 95 in pearl white F, and a sailor vermillion 1911 realo F nib.

Selling a boatload of restored, fairly rare, vintage Japanese gold nib pens, click here to see (more added as I finish restoring them)

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@Honeybadgers, vermillion (as in some Limited Edition model), or the standard maroon colour option for the Sailor?

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oh man! I already wrote all this in another post lol

 

 

ok seeing as you asked.....

My name's Ned and I'm a Penaholic!

2 X Hero 590's black and gold trim

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Parker Sonnet intense red lacquer

Monteverde Impressa rose gold/black trim

Monteverde Impressa gunmetal/red trim

Blackstone Maxim Carbon Fibre and titanium trim

14 Jinhao X 450's that were too cheap to pass up on Aliexpress lol

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14 Jinhao X 450's that were too cheap to pass up on Aliexpress lol

 

 

I bought (and have received) six of those from AliExpress, when it was doing the 11.11 thing, but frankly I find the only-nib-size-available of 0.5mm to be too broad for my tastes. It's OK for some lighter colours, but that's about it.

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I have a Faber-Castell Ondoro in the graphite finish with a B nib coming on Wednesday. I also ordered a PenBBS 355 bulk filler with M nib demonstrator. Not sure when that will show up from China.

Laguna Niguel, California.

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@Honeybadgers, vermillion (as in some Limited Edition model), or the standard maroon colour option for the Sailor?

 

the standard dark red - I was under the impression it was called vermillion, but correct me if I'm wrong, as you're much more in the know with regards to Japanese naming.

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Selling a boatload of restored, fairly rare, vintage Japanese gold nib pens, click here to see (more added as I finish restoring them)

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the standard dark red - I was under the impression it was called vermillion, but correct me if I'm wrong,

Maroon, then, if the model number is 11-3924-something.

 

http://sailorpen.co.uk/collection/1911-series/

 

Model name: 1911 REALO

Number: 11-3924

Colors: Black and Maroon

http://www.sailor.co.jp/lineup/fountainpen/11-3924-2

 

プロフィット レアロ 万年筆 [マルン]

(Purofittorearo man'nenhitsu [maru n] = Profit Realo fountain pen [maroon])

These are what I'd say have barrel colours closer to vermillion, even though Sailor may not name them for that:

http://www.sailor.co.jp/lineup/fountainpen/10-3360

http://www.sailor.co.jp/lineup/fountainpen/11-1201-3

http://www.sailor.co.jp/lineup/fountainpen/11-1222

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I have a few on their way: Lamy Dialog 3 mate black, Noodlers Ahab, Montblanc 342 and a no brand wood fountain pen.

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ok seeing as you asked.....

 

My name's Ned and I'm a Penaholic!

 

2 X Hero 590's black and gold trim

Conklin Duragraph amber and chrome trim

Conklin Duragraph Purple nights

Conklin Duragraph cracked ice and chrome trim

Parker Sonnet intense red lacquer

Monteverde Impressa rose gold/black trim

Monteverde Impressa gunmetal/red trim

Blackstone Maxim Carbon Fibre and titanium trim

14 Jinhao X 450's that were too cheap to pass up on Aliexpress lol

 

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My New Year’s gift to me is a Visconti Lava Bronze Age Oversized, with a 1.5 stub. I wrote with one having a broad nib at Columbus pen show. It haunted me since.

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I just received a back order of MB 149 EF..

The pen writes super wet... Its my first MB.. is that usual? I wouldn't call it abnormal, just wet...

 

Quite rare for an EF to be so "flowy"

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I'm currently waiting on my Lizard Gold Metro to come back from a certain pen company. I asked for a medium pt. and received a fine so I had to RMA it.

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