True Writer Pen Collection - So Far

[mge01park]

Great idea, thank you. With free shipping on pens which I keep forgetting as I’m stuck on when it used to be $6 and they were also charging for bottled ink back then, it’s a great idea to break up points and discount codes and buy more stuff. 😃. 

[Misfit]

Thank you @donnweinberg for the advice. I used my $20 reward to order the Midnight Spark with M nib. I also got a converter for a discontinued TW I bought on eBay. I love the way they describe the Midnight Spark pen:

 

 

I’ll save a Nemosine 1.1mm nib for this pen!

[mge01park]

It's a beautiful pen. If I didn't have so many in blue, i would buy it. 

[Misfit]

2 minutes ago, mge01park said:

It's a beautiful pen. If I didn't have so many in blue, i would buy it. 

“Deep blue resin barrel appears to be illuminated by an electrical current, like a lightning storm in the night sky….”  It’s on sale, 25% off works on it. 
 

ok, I’m not on the Levenger marketing team. If it looks as good in person, I’ll let you know. 

[Misfit]

I finally got the nib and feed pulled out of the original Sea Glass pen. It joins the Kyoto, Inspired Rose Bouquet, Silver Seas and the Elements Air in getting their nibs swapped with Nemosine 1.1mm stub nibs. I have five more. The Origins and Midnight Spark will get 1.1mm stubs, which leaves three. Once all the ordered TW are here, I’ll figure it out. 

[mge01park]

3 hours ago, Misfit said:

“Deep blue resin barrel appears to be illuminated by an electrical current, like a lightning storm in the night sky….”  It’s on sale, 25% off works on it. 
 

ok, I’m not on the Levenger marketing team. If it looks as good in person, I’ll let you know. 

Great writers for these scripts. 😃. This is one of my cherished blue pens which I have in the FP and RB. It’s a large pen.  https://ebay.us/m/CdSq7L.
It was a Levenger/ Stipula collaboration and has a white gold nib. They also did a Sunrise like it which I never was able to get but I still keep looking for. 

[mge01park]

2 hours ago, Misfit said:

I finally got the nib and feed pulled out of the original Sea Glass pen. It joins the Kyoto, Inspired Rose Bouquet, Silver Seas and the Elements Air in getting their nibs swapped with Nemosine 1.1mm stub nibs. I have five more. The Origins and Midnight Spark will get 1.1mm stubs, which leaves three. Once all the ordered TW are here, I’ll figure it out. 

You’re all in on stub nibs I see. Do you have any pens with a #6 stub nib, they’re much more pronounced and I prefer it over the #5. I’ve put them in some of my TW Select as replacements. 

[Misfit]

24 minutes ago, mge01park said:

Great writers for these scripts. 😃. This is one of my cherished blue pens which I have in the FP and RB. It’s a large pen.  https://ebay.us/m/CdSq7L.
It was a Levenger/ Stipula collaboration and has a white gold nib. They also did a Sunrise like it which I never was able to get but I still keep looking for. 

Very attractive pen 

[Misfit]

17 minutes ago, mge01park said:

You’re all in on stub nibs I see. Do you have any pens with a #6 stub nib, they’re much more pronounced and I prefer it over the #5. I’ve put them in some of my TW Select as replacements. 

Oh yes, I have pens with #6 stub nibs. I don’t have a TW Select. But yes, and I’ve bought #6 replacement nibs from several online pen sellers. 1.1mm stub or italic is my favorite nib. 
 

The F nib on the Sea Glass stabbed my finger. A stub nib has never done that. Made me see why pens are used as weapons in movies and on TV. 

[inkstainedruth]

On 10/16/2025 at 5:31 PM, Misfit said:

Here are the True Writers I received earlier. My brother came to visit for two weeks, so it’s late to get them out. I put them in sunlight. Chromatic is to the left, and the Elements Air is to the right. Chromatic gets lost in the sunlight on one side. The pens are back in the boxes for now. 
 

Elements Air is really pretty!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Misfit]

16 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

Elements Air is really pretty!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

I agree with you. It has a nice mixture of blue and white. 

[mge01park]

10 hours ago, Misfit said:

Very attractive pen 

These are my two darlings from 2005. Back then a gold nib was reasonable in the $400s not $4,000s. 😊. 
 

 

 

[Misfit]

Those are gorgeous pens. 

[Ceramicist]

9 hours ago, mge01park said:

These are my two darlings from 2005. Back then a gold nib was reasonable in the $400s not $4,000s. 😊. 
 

 

 

Wait, are these True Writers as well? I agree with Misfit; they're gorgeous!

[mge01park]

1 hour ago, Misfit said:

Those are gorgeous pens. 

Thank you. 🙏 

[mge01park]

6 minutes ago, Ceramicist said:

Wait, are these True Writers as well? I agree with Misfit; they're gorgeous!

Thank you. I cloned them improperly as such as they’re a Levenger Pen in collaboration with Stipula 😀 but not really. I do consider the two groups of Select pens they sold to be TWs as they’re just larger models of it. 

[Ceramicist]

2 minutes ago, mge01park said:

Thank you. I cloned them improperly as such as they’re a Levenger Pen in collaboration with Stipula 😀 but not really. I do consider the two groups of Select pens they sold to be TWs as they’re just larger models of it. 

They're amazing. I have an early 1990s Levenger/Stipula that I love. 

[Misfit]

I contacted Speerbob on eBay about True Writer sections. The Rose pen’s section remains an issue for me. He said that unfortunately happens with older True Writers (gasp!). He also indicated the sections he had earlier on eBay were from a large lot he bought from Levenger, and didn’t think he would have anymore again. 
 

The section still has an area with the housing inside. I used a drill yesterday, but didn’t want to hurt the section. Darn, the pen is a pretty color, but unusable unless I share a section from another TW with it. Like the gold tone sections on some TWs. 

[taimdala]

Wow ...!

I have only a few TWs myself, all with fine nibs:

* Sapphire Mosaic FP
* Classic Ivory/Rose Gold FP
* Larimar FP (and RB)
* Kyoto Gold FP
* Golden Dark Tortoise FP (and RB)
* Carrara FP (and RB)

* Create Herringbone, Black/Gold trim

* Obsidian Select FP
* Classic Red FP

* There may be a few more, but i'm in the middle of reorganizing my notes and spreadsheets ...

I regret not getting the Wintergreen FP when it was available. It had just the right amount of blue-leaning green in it that all the currently available green Levenger pens simply can't match.

ETA: I generally wait for the sales before buying. At the moment, Levenger seems to be shedding its FPs in favor of their RBs and BPs. In the past 12 months, there have been roughly 3 - 4 "Retiring Pens" sales, with the FPs going for really attractive prices. For instance, I picked up some FPs for anywhere from 30% - 50% off. Sometimes more.

Edit: I looked up the Classic White, as the name didn't sit right with me, and discovered it was actually the Ivory/Rose Gold FP. Now, most TW nib are pretty stiff, but this one is rather soft and in the initial days of my taking ownership, it "sang" when I wrote with it. It was just this side of musical, so it avoided being labeled a nib that "squeaks".

[mge01park]

11 hours ago, Misfit said:

I contacted Speerbob on eBay about True Writer sections. The Rose pen’s section remains an issue for me. He said that unfortunately happens with older True Writers (gasp!). He also indicated the sections he had earlier on eBay were from a large lot he bought from Levenger, and didn’t think he would have anymore again. 
 

The section still has an area with the housing inside. I used a drill yesterday, but didn’t want to hurt the section. Darn, the pen is a pretty color, but unusable unless I share a section from another TW with it. Like the gold tone sections on some TWs. 

I’m surprised with the plastic type material of the TWs that it would be so stubborn. 
 

The section can also crack from the screwing and unscrewing in of the nib assembly. I have a few like that so you don’t tighten it too much because it’s stripped from the crack. 
 

I had a big thing with them on some of the true writer select because the nib assembly would not screw out perhaps it rusted in to the metal or on some of the pens you just cannot remove it, but they did a lot of things for me to take care of it.