I got this pen today

[A Smug Dill]

4 hours ago, DvdRiet said:

What a difference a few decades make! 😂

 

Tell that to middle-aged husbands who married their high school sweethearts before turning 20...

[DvdRiet]

59 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

Tell that to middle-aged husbands who married their high school sweethearts before turning 20...

I think that probably goes both ways... even early 20s and just graduated college 😉

[Penguincollector]

Slim pen summer continues: my new Sheaffer Fashion. This one is NOS with a working slim converter. 

[PithyProlix]

As Maxwell Smart might say, "It's the old secret-teensy-weensy-pen-covertly-hiding-inside-a-larger-pen trick!"

 

Nothing found that identifies the pen but thought to be Japanese. The main part of the pen has a sac that is necessarily short due to space occupied by the inserted teeny pen. There is no filling system to it so it must be filled by squeezing the sac directly. The teeny pen is filled with an eye dropper, presumably.

 

  

 

Edited July 9, 2022 by PithyProlix
Added photo of sample writing and with the pen assembled for writing with the 'child' pen.

[DvdRiet]

2 hours ago, PithyProlix said:

As Maxwell Smart might say, "It's the old secret-teensy-weensy-pen-covertly-hiding-inside-a-larger-pen trick!"

 

Whaaaat??? I... I... don't understand! Are the nibs two different sizes? What is the purpose of this amazing contraption??

[chromantic]

3 hours ago, DvdRiet said:

 

Whaaaat??? I... I... don't understand! Are the nibs two different sizes? What is the purpose of this amazing contraption??

 

Possibly for accountants, black in one and red in the other.

[chromantic]

15 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

Slim pen summer continues: my new Sheaffer Fashion. This one is NOS with a working slim converter. 

 

OMG, I had one delivered yesterday, too, though mine was advertised as a slim Targa. I've been having a slim summer, as well. Small world.

[Number99]

7 hours ago, PithyProlix said:

As Maxwell Smart might say, "It's the old secret-teensy-weensy-pen-covertly-hiding-inside-a-larger-pen trick!"

 

Nothing found that identifies the pen but thought to be Japanese. The main part of the pen has a sac that is necessarily short due to space occupied by the inserted teeny pen. There is no filling system to it so it must be filled by squeezing the sac directly. The teeny pen is filled with an eye dropper, presumably.

 

  

If it is a Japanese pen, it is a parent and child fountain pen（親子万年筆）.

 Use different colors of ink.

 The small fountain pen attaches to the barrel of the parent fountain pen in the opposite direction. And use it.

 Normally, both fountain pen filling methods of this type are eye dropper.

 

 

 

[Paul-in-SF]

1 hour ago, Number99 said:

 The small fountain pen attaches to the barrel of the parent fountain pen in the opposite direction.

 

You mean you sort of post the open end of the barrel over the short pen when you want to use it? I'm wondering how they make it feel secure when you're writing with it. Also that looks like a fairly uncomfortable step-down on the short pen. But ideally, if it's the red ink and you're an accountant, you won't be using it very often. 

[OldTravelingShoe]

Not really a pen, but today I received the second half of Max Davis and Gary Lehrer's Waterman: Past and Present - The First Six Decades. The blue book covers pens, the teal book inks and inkpots.  

 

Many thanks, Myrna!

 

[Number99]

1 hour ago, Paul-in-SF said:

 

You mean you sort of post the open end of the barrel over the short pen when you want to use it? I'm wondering how they make it feel secure when you're writing with it. Also that looks like a fairly uncomfortable step-down on the short pen. But ideally, if it's the red ink and you're an accountant, you won't be using it very often. 

A normal Japanese parent-child fountain pen has a thread inside the parent's barrel.

 The thread on the barrel end of the child fountain pen fits there.

If you zoom in on the image, there is also a thread on the barrel end of the child fountain pen for that pen.

 

 It is an image of the demonstrator model.

 

 * Quoted from the sales site.

Edited July 8, 2022 by Number99

[DvdRiet]

37 minutes ago, Number99 said:

A normal Japanese parent-child fountain pen has a thread inside the parent's barrel.

 The thread on the barrel end of the child fountain pen fits there.

 

 It is an image of the demonstrator model.

 

 * Quoted from the sales site.

 

That's a really neat pen!! Thanks for all the info. It looks like it would be a fun pen to use!! Bit jealous of @PithyProlix right about now...  

[Number99]

The trouble is that the ink retention is so high that if you don't use both all the time, the pen will dry out.

 

 Japanese teachers use red ink to set an example on student answer sheets and reports. I think that the edition was made because of the demand around that.

 The teacher then imposes daily exams on the students.

 

[Number99]

Known as Myu-25 Black.

 

 However, the Pilot's commentary is as follows.

 "Myu Black M-250BS-B-F

  Sale time: 1975-1981

 The barrel of this product is made of resin with a black satin finish. The cap is made of aluminum with a black satin finish."

 

 Why did it get the name Myu-25?

 

 The details of the logo are unknown.

 

[OldTravelingShoe]

5 hours ago, Number99 said:

Known as Myu-25 Black.

 

 However, the Pilot's commentary is as follows.

 "Myu Black M-250BS-B-F

  Sale time: 1975-1981

 The barrel of this product is made of resin with a black satin finish. The cap is made of aluminum with a black satin finish."

 

 Why did it get the name Myu-25?

 

 The details of the logo are unknown.

 

Very nice pen, @Number99, and in excellent condition too! Thank you for sharing.

 

Would you mind also sharing a writing sample? I'm trying to place the capabilities of this nib between the Volex and Myu nibs. 

[Paul-in-SF]

Yesterday, but who's counting? A Parker Vacumatic Junior in Grey Pearl Shadow Wave pattern and a lockdown filler, and I have determined (using alleged 60x magnification on the very worn date imprint) that it is from 2nd quarter 1933. That is the earliest Vacumatic I own, and everything works. It does have a lot of surface scratches, and it has brassing, and one of the two cap rings is missing. At that, it's in better shape than I am. EF nib is very nice. 

[OldTravelingShoe]

TL;DR: This Pilot Custom Urushi in vermillion red just arrived, sporting an 18k two-tone, gold, Pilot size 30 nib, with M tip. I inked it with Noodler's X-Feather black ink and prepared to get surprised. I was, very positively indeed. (Thanks also to pisuke2005, who shipped it very fast and reliably.)

 

Figures 1-4 try to give visual praise to this pen. 

 

Figure 1. This pen. 

 

Figure 2. The nib leaves the sea. Towels, please. 

 

Figure 3. Nib and stroke. 

 

Figure 4. The nib can write, sketch, and cross-hatch. Wielder beware! 

 

Comments are welcome. 

 

Enjoy the weekend! 

 

[A Smug Dill]

17 minutes ago, OldTravelingShoe said:

Pilot Custom Urushi in vermillion red just arrived

 

Wow!

[OldTravelingShoe]

9 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

Wow!

Thank you the kind wow, @A Smug Dill! 😄

 

I bought this pen to celebrate my first professional book deal. (On computer systems.) There's a lot left to do and we'll see how it goes but I plan to do at least the planning and content-design in pen on paper. 

 

Now I have no excuse left - I should really learn some calligraphy, to do this wonderful pen justice. 

[A Smug Dill]

5 minutes ago, OldTravelingShoe said:

Now I have no excuse left - I should really learn some calligraphy, to do this wonderful pen justice. 

 

This pen, or the Montblanc Meisterstück 149 Calligraphy pen?

 

Or do you mean the type of calligraphic writing demonstrated in the video below with a Pilot pen?