[Leica] And so it begins... now pens!

[sethrosner at nycap.rr.com (Seth Rosner)]

Mark, I haven't a Cross pen but the classic Cross mechanical pencil, the 
Century Classic introduced in 1946 to celebrate Cross' centennial, is in my 
experience, such as it is, the best pencil, slender, superbly balanced, for 
any long writing task. Fountain pens for a long, continuous writing stint 
have, at least for me, caused writer's cramp. A Cross pencil, never.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabinergroup.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] And so it begins... now pens!


> No one has mentioned Cross pens.
> That's the one pen name I don't see mentioned.
> I have one right here. Kinda heavy and metal.
> But it always works.
> Even after coming back from a vacation.
> Works first time every time.
>
> The other one I have right here is a ....
> Sheaffer. I got a bunch of those I think. Some cost 50 bucks..
> I take the cartridge out and use the thingie which uses ink instead.
> That's what I like about fountain pens. Cherry vanilla ink!
> Nope I like black ink. Or blue. Or blue black.
> Gertrude Stein said you should always use green ink.
> Not me any more.
> But I think its good to have some pens around which use red ink.
> To grade papers.
> And if they want you to write in blood.
>
> Like wearing a black suit instead of a tux.
>
>
> When I think of "fountain" I think of these:
>
> http://www.masterstech-home.com/The_Kitchen/Recipes/Reminiscent_Recipes/Soda
> FountainRecipes.html
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>> From: Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie@btinternet.com>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 10:06:01 +0000
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] And so it begins... now pens!
>>
>> I rather like pens. In 1964 I inherited a Mont Blanc propelling pencil
>> on my grandfather's death. Nobody had heard of the brand in the UK and
>> I could not get lead for it. When on a trip to Germany in 1978
>> glancing down an alleyway I saw a shop with a Mont Blanc sign, so I
>> went down to see if I could get some leads for my pencil.
>> Unfortunately MB no longer made anything like that pencil. All their
>> products were slim modern designs, except one, a cigar shaped old
>> fashioned looking pen, for the princely sum of ?58.00, which had an
>> interesting filler. It was the 149. I bought one and used it for many
>> years. It was some time later that they started selling all sorts of
>> other items based on that style.
>> It always had the extremely annoying habit of changing flow rate as
>> the reservoir ran down (perhaps I write too fast..).
>> My favourite fountain pens to use are Omas and Pelikan, with my Omas
>> celluloid being my preferred to "handle".
>> I used to only use fountain pens. Now I run almost completely paper
>> free I only use a keyboard:-(
>> Frank
>>
>> On 3 Jan, 2009, at 03:09, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
>>
>>> Gene,
>>> You are extremely lucky, see the pen lists and boards for any amount
>>> of
>>> horror stories. Compare the price of a 149 with its cheap plastic
>>> ('precious
>>> resin' in their marketing terminology), to a Platinum Celluloid Koi
>>> with a
>>> music nib, or a Sailor Ribbed Naginata Togi, or a Pelikan Souveran
>>> M800 (my
>>> three pens on rotation at the current time) and it is no contest,
>>> the 149 is
>>> more than double the price for half the quality. Try them out when
>>> you buy a
>>> pen next time. In a recent survey of pen lovers/collectors at
>>> Fountain Pen
>>> Network, only 5% said that they would use a Montblanc as their
>>> primary pen,
>>> compared to 20% each for Pelikan, Sailor and Pilot/Namiki. Other
>>> famous
>>> names fare as badly as Montblanc, namely Parker & Sheaffer, also
>>> reflecting
>>> the fall in quality.
>>> Cheers
>>> Jayanand
>>
>>
>>
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