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Pens, inks and related.....

I have four fountain pens.
Three Pilot Metros (fine, medium, italic).
Love the italic lines...just a bit too wide for my liking. Thinking of grinding it down to make a narrower line.
Then I have a varsity. Wanted to start off with a disposable to see if I liked it

Have a couple of neighbors who also like fountain pens and we have been swapping inks around.

Have really enjoyed the Pilot Iroshizuku inks. Recently picked up an orange sailor ink that is really smooth.
 
Love all the wonderful pens. I was inspired to pick some up myself, ended up with a relative POS and a nice Pilot I enjoy very much. I burned through the sample ink and bought a jar to fill the refillable thingy. My writing still stinks but now it stinks with a little more class. I’ll snap a photo of my stuff soon
 
Just ordered a few Hero and Jinhao pens from eBay. $0.89 each shipped.
They may take a while to get here, but I am okay with that.
 
I have another en route. About 10 days ago, I came into some money I didn't know I was going to have. Of the total took $150 and then put a little more with it and ordered Saturday night a Pelikan M400 White Tortoise with a B nib from The Writing Desk in the UK. As of about 2:30 this afternoon it was on its way to my local post office. I expect I will probably have it in Monday's mail. Once I have it in hand I will post photos.
 
Runnin_Ute said:
I have another en route. About 10 days ago, I came into some money I didn't know I was going to have. Of the total took $150 and then put a little more with it and ordered Saturday night a Pelikan M400 White Tortoise with a B nib from The Writing Desk in the UK. As of about 2:30 this afternoon it was on its way to my local post office. I expect I will probably have it in Monday's mail. Once I have it in hand I will post photos.
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You definitely will have to show us pics!
 
I got a Pilot Metropolitan with a fine nib about a month ago. I am using it with Noodler's Navajo Turquoise. It has become my everyday pen at work. I will try to refill the Varsity at some point.
 
Since my previous post the following has arrived:
Two Pelikan Jazz Elegance M nib- one black, one white with 6 cartridges each from Massdrop @ $14.99 each
A Lamy Al Star Pacific (F) from Goulet Pens

Girologio 12 pen case
Colo-ring swab book
Three different packs of Field Notes notebooks (Three Missions, Clandestine and Utility) Direct from Field Notes
en route:
Leather cover for the Field Notes notebooks. (amazon)

All but the Pelikan Jazz Elegance pens ordered and arrived in March.
 
Now that I have landed a job after graduation, I can buy myself the "reward" FP that I have been thinking about for a year or so: a green Pelikan M200. It's not a giant splurge by any means and I even think that my wife will not berate me for more than 2 hours for buying another pen 🤪. Note: I have a Lamy 2000 EF, cheap Wing-Sung (Parker 51 clone), Pilot Decimo (out on loan to a friend for the past 6 months or so), and a Kaweco Sport with multiple nibs.

My question is: F or EF nib?

Based on my research, it seems like the Pelikan-F is about the same as my Lamy-EF, but I thought I would ask opinions on the Pelikan F-vs-EF (steel) nibs.
 
I can't answer your question but I had somehow previously missed this thread!

I use a lammy EF at work every day since we keep handwritten logs. I also own a kaweco sport but it always seems to dry up between uses(I kept it on me but after about 2 days of minimal use it was dry.)
 
Now that's a graduation plan :) It seems al your nibs are on finer side. Pelikan tends to be broader than most, especially with gold nibs so EF would compare with F Lamy, but with tad better flow.
I would recommend F nib (comparable with M nibs), so you can have that one pen for more special inks, and who knows, maybe you like it eventually;)
 
I'm a Sailor guy, but started with Lamy's and a Pelikan M200. The Fine on a Pelican is practically a bold on a Japanese pen so if you like to keep line width down, or write on copy paper, the EF won't be too fine at all.
 
I've always wanted to get into using a fountain pen but never knew where to begin. I guess there's no excuse now that we live in the age of the interweb!
 
SteveChuckFrank said:
I've always wanted to get into using a fountain pen but never knew where to begin. I guess there's no excuse now that we live in the age of the interweb!
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Pilot Metropolitan is a great place to start. Can be had for around $20. Takes cartridges and also has 2 styles of converter available to use bottled inks.
 
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