Looking for a goto everyday pen.

[txomsy]

True, but it may be the same user... 🙂

 

Anyway, yes, the user chooses the pen... but the pen also chooses the user. Just read the forum and you'll find plenty of users saying "this pen is/was not for me", either because of the looks,or the way it writes.

 

Some will (wrongly) say some brands, designs or models only appeal to some kinds of users. That I find too simplistic, for it ignores the variety of human beings, their tastes and their situations, which mean you'll always find plenty of "exceptions". But, specially on some distinctive situations, the pen also chooses (calls/appeals to) the owner.

 

[Arkanabar]

A Pelikan M200 is an excellent choice.  My first Pen of a Lifetime was an M200, which I still have over 20 years later.  I didn't think of it as within your price range, and I suppose I projected my preference for slightly more girth than an M200 has onto you.  I prefer the M200's steel nib to the gold nib (and extra gold trim rings, especially on the section) of the M400.  The celluloid binde doesn't actually mean anything to me.

[Bo Bo Olson]

A 200's steel or gold plated nib is a nice springy regular flex....more than likely the same as Japanese 'soft' nibs. (Don't have nor will get japanese pens, in I have enough German pens in regular flex.)

Semi-nail gold nibs on the 400&600, gold nib on the nail 800, and regular flex gold on the 1000.

 

So it depend on what you want your nib to do......but at $150 only the 200 is there, unless you chase old 400's and 140's on German Ebay.....which is no longer the bargain it was before the Used Pen Cartel took over.....offering a hugely US over priced pen, as Buy Now Idiot, because for only E-10 less, they let you bid on the exact same pen.

So folks find out Gramp's pen is not worth E-100, but the US price of $285.

It is still worth while looking in German Ebay.....look for ships out of Germany in some are paranoid about even sending a pen to Holland, and must take Paypal..........or it costs $35.00 for a bank wire.

In the EU bank wires are as cheap as checks are in the US.

 

If you wish to believe in the Gold Myth.....

You might luck out with a semi-flex gold 400-400nn-140 or a '82-97 regular flex 400......at still E100-120.  You have to hunt hard.

200's run cheaper.

[Matthew Lee 1959]

The reason I jumped on the offer was that Goulet had it for $125.00.  This was $50 less than I saw it at other places.  I've been using it for a couple of days and I love it.  It has checked all the boxes, I like its looks, it writes on everything I've tried it on and it feels good in the hand.  I have to say, this is my second purchase from Goulet and I am pleased, I especially like the personal touch to the shipping.

 

For those who are not Harry Potter fans, when Harry shops for his first wand, the shop keeper points out that the wand chooses the wizard, the wizard doesn't choose the wand.  My college age daughter is a huge Potter fan and I have learned enough so that we have a common interest.  My comment about the pen choosing the writer was a poor attempt to reference that story element.

[txomsy]

Oh! I understood. But, you see, pens are a bit more complex than wands.

[AL01]

 

 I think wands are more confusing!

 

 (They don't use capillary action to work!?)

 

 😛

[Bo Bo Olson]

That is a fine looking pen, a 200 as you mention is a light and nimble pen, with great balance posted. So you can write all day and into next week.

 

I really love the great balance of standard sized pens (200/400/Esties/P-75) or medium-large pens (400nn/600/P-51)

The only Large pen that has great balance IMO is the thin Snorkel and perhaps the long bodied P-45. Both post well.

 

If you worry about mars, wax the pen.