Friend of the Vacumatic

[GoldenArrow]

Greetings Everyone,

 

As you might gather from my nick and the title of this post, I consider the Paker Vacumatic the ultimate pen (especially first and second gen.).

 

I got into fountain pens seriously around 1985 and for the last 10-12 years have taken an interest in Vintage pens. When I came across my first Vacumatic (a green third gen. Canadian) I knew I had "come home". I now own representative examples of all generations, including a "Vacuum Filler" pre Vacumatic. What I consider missing is a Golden Arrow and a Star Clip, although I found the latter hard to find in original condition. A Golden Arrow I have yet to see.

 

Besides pens I like leather accessories and special inks of all kind, and, of course, nice paper of all sorts, especially notebooks and calenders, currently using a Hobonichi with Arts&Science leather cover and a yellow GvFC Guilloche filled with Herbin Ambre de Birmanie living inside it.

 

Anyhow, happy to be here and looking forward to interesting exchanges.

[Wahl]

[PAKMAN]

Hello and Welcome to FPN!! So glad to have you as a member!! Love those Vacs! Do you have one of these?

 

[GoldenArrow]

Desk top Vac - absolutely sterling! But no, mine are all fillers. Havn´t gotten into desktops yet...

[PAKMAN]

I know, right!  Yet!

They are soo addictive!

[northstar]

Hello and welcome to FPN.

[OCArt]

[inkstainedruth]

Greetings from Pittsburgh! 

After getting a couple of Parker 51s, I wrote to Tony Fischier, the guy at Parkercollector.com (my first source for all things Parker) with some questions, and after answering them, Tony said "And now you'll start looking at Vacumatics" and I said "Naah, don't like that Art Deco styling...."  And then someone in my local pen club brought in an Azure Blue Pearl Maxima one night.... and it was ALL OVER.  I now have almost as many Vacs as 51s, I think -- including two different Azure Blues a 3rd Generation Sub-Debutante and a 2nd Generation Speedline filler in what I think is a Slender (because once I found out that color wasn't ONLY a 3rd Gen color I knew I had to have one...).  Although my favorite one is probably the Red Shadow Wave lockdown one: ran that pen for over three years without any sort of flushing, nib flossing anything -- just filled it with Waterman Mysterious Blue when it got low....  I do need to do a little work on the the cap jewel threading on the blind cap, and really should flush it out (It's probably "most sincerely dead" at this point ).  But it it's such a beatiful pen (I'm a sucker for the Shadow Waves).

Of course Tony Fischier is probably laughing himself sick for being such an enabler.... 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[mizgeorge]

Hello and welcome

[es9]

Welcome!  I have always respected vacs, but have only recently began to revere them.  They are remarkable pens. 

[Dedalus4]

Welcome! I got my first Vac a few months ago. Love it!