Most popular everyday user

[Glenn-SC]

Pelikan M800 if I'm going modern.

 

But then I currently have 3 Parker "51"s inked, the oldest from 1948.

[Srehman]

The VP, what else?

[DrPJM1]

My current favourite is a 1997 Sheaffer's Balance LE with a stub nib using FPN's own Galileo brown.

[meanwhile]

With 77 votes in...

 

I'm not surprised to see Pel in first place. Anything but first or a close second would have been a shock to anyone who uses this forum.

 

It is interesting to see Parker and Sheaffer combined at less than half the score of the Italians or Japanese (hail themighty Vanishing Point!) as they fight for second place.

 

As a Brit I had no idea how Bexley would do - people speak highly of their quality but they're not scoring well as EDC's. My guess is the sort of people who buy them use M800's as their main pens and Bexley's as "extras".

[bohan]

Pelikan! Pelikan! Pelikan!!!!!

 

Pelikan M600 is one of the most reliable fountain pens I have ever used. It's GREAT!!!

 

[sclt45]

Pelikan 800 and Waterman LeMan 100.

[BenPen]

I voted Pelikan, but it's really a toss-up between the Pel 200 and my VP with the Binder cursive italic nib.

 

 

[Opus104]

Indeed - Pelikan M215 and newly acquired M605 (both fine), and Black Carbonesque VP, medium.

[Dean]

Rarely leave home without a Pelikan. The 600 series suits me best.

 

Dean

[Abhik]

Pelikan M760 with M nib filled with Brilliant Black and M400(Honey) with F nib and filled with Brilliant Brown!

Abhik

[georges zaslavsky]

My 1959 parker aerometric

[Reisho]

My Black Fermo is my favourite and most used pen at the moment.

But I'm waiting for a M 805 with a binderized XF which may well take its place (I'm still a bit bothered by the Fermo's clip).

 

Reisho

 

 

[meanwhile]

At 115 votes Sailor/Pilot and Pel are dead level. I'm beginning to think that there are more VPs being used daily than M800's...

[dare_nova]

Sonnet, Carene and L'Etalon are always in my pocket

[Longwriter]

Bexley Submariner, followed by the Danitrio Cum Laude. Both excellent. Nothing else so far comes even close.

[hexyr]

Right now it is one of my Visconti Van Gogh Maxi.

They are my go to pens. Although I usually had a cross pen thrown in my purse

[HesNot]

It was a bit of a tossup between my Pilot VP and my Pelikan 400. But the VP won out as it really is an easy go to pen for jotting notes and what not around the office...

[Johnson]

Y'all know I love the birds, but in the daily user category, I gotta go with the VP. Can't beat the convenience factor, and with a Binderized nib, its about the best modern writer I've ever used.

 

Having said that, I'm also using Bexleys a heck of a lot on a daily basis.

[andyk]

I always have a plain black Pelikan M200 (plus BP and an M150 pencil) in my rucksack, also leave an old one at work for emergencies.

 

I then rotate another three fountain pens from my collection at work (plus at least 3 at home), the rotation will often include other Pelikans or whatever I feel like using at the time.

[penguinmaster]

I don't think a Rotring 600 and a Parker Vector belong in the same class, but at times, either has been my primary daily writer. Also a Pilot Knight, which I think would fall into the "good, mid-range" category" as would my Rotring 700, Initial, and Newton. Probably my only daily writer that escapes the "mid-range" label is my Namiki Bamboo.

 

How did I end up with so many daily writers? It looks like I have one for each day of the week!

 

I have to agree with Splicer, I don't think a Rotring 600 belongs in the class where you put it. Nonetheless that's my main carry pen with me. Bulletproof, smooth writer (after I wrote with it for a while), and good balance.