I'm there; thanks for the recommendations. These will be inside my MB Fountain Pen soon...well, as soon as I find them; the search begins.
Visconti Blue is amazing. I haven't tried many blues, but it is my favourite at the moment. It flows extremely well out of my MB. Which MB do you have BTW?
One tiny step down from your Pelikans is the Cross Ion:
I've had that thing for five years, and it's never failed me. Its small size is very convenient - I keep it in my pocket 24/7. Uses ink like an SUV uses gas, though, and refills are $5 apiece. My miraculous story is that one time I went to Office Depot and they had the refills mismarked at $0.25 apiece, so I bought out their entire inventory. That had me covered for several years.
Can anyone recommend a similarly-sized upgrade?
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You had better go to ebay, Swisherpens or other pen stores and get another Ion or 2. They are discontinuing the Ions and selling them for $10 a piece. I have one and it is great. I use the little ring that it comes with and hook it on my lanyard and badge at work.
Something else that is nice and small that you can always carry with you is the Fisher Bullet space pen. The ballpoint ink isn't as nice as cross' gel ink, but it does write anywhere and will last forever. It is the same length as the ion closed, but when you put the cap on the back to write, it is full size. It is also thinner than the Ion.
Nice pen ilovesocks! It writes BEAUTIFULLY Swisherpens.com is great and so is pengallery.com
Oh, and I've got a confession to make, I just bought a Pelikan Souveran M600 (green/black) and a Lamy Safari Blue Red Special Edition.:veryevil: My parents are going to kill me when they see my credit card bill!
Wow, I am jealous:blink:
I am a broke college student using a Parker Frontier: light and durable, and surprisingly smooth. But it would be nice to see some upper echelon Parkers.
My favorite old school pen is my Lamy (can't remember which model). It's the one that the "architect" from the Matrix Reloaded uses as a remote control.
-Ed
The pen that the architect uses is the Lamy Swift.
The pen that the architect uses is the Lamy Swift.
That's the name! Yeah.
I really like it, with the retracting clip. But too bad the nickel plating suffers from pitting corrosion. I kept it in a nice leather pen case too. I guess it needed a humidity controlled vault or something.
Visconti Blue is amazing. I haven't tried many blues, but it is my favourite at the moment. It flows extremely well out of my MB. Which MB do you have BTW?
Which one? Well, I've got a few
MEISTERSTÜCK LE GRAND
Jules Verne Ballpoint
MEISTERSTÜCK SOLITAIRE SILVER FIBRE GUILLOCHE
BOHÈME ROUGE
BOHÈME BLEU
MEISTERSTÜCK SOLITAIRE DOUÉ SIGNUM
Milkpowder, I want you to know that I took the time to put this stuff up here just for you, because I know you are a MB lover
Three of the above are housed in a well worn but very nice Piquadro 3 Pen Case and the 'lil guy stays in my Passport Wallet.
Perhaps we should have a Pen meet after the Cigar and Flashlight meet!
And people think I'm crazy for buying a $100 keyboard...at least I can type faster than I write...and more legibly!
Oh who am I kidding! Even though I've yet to own a truly nice pen, I've always been obsessed with anything I can, flashlights, lasers, pens, headphones, computer mice, etc etc etc...
That had me covered for several years.
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