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

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

.......and I still have the Sheaffer 'snorkel' fountain pen for which I 
scratched together a few extra dollars and extravagantly bought myself as a 
gift when I was in law school

----- 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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