(SPAM: ?) Re: [Leica] And so it begins... now pens!

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Yes I think I have a sterling silver with gold trim.
Its so heavy I think its made out of uranium.

Mark William Rabiner



> From: <grduprey@mchsi.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:19:32 +0000
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] And so it begins... now pens!
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> 
>  
> OK Mark,
> 
> 
> I have several Cross pens, but all ball point, their fountain pens have 
> always
> leaked on me and been very scratchy. ?They have a great service ethic, 
> send it
> in and they will either fix or replace for free. ?I have the gold filled 
> and
> sterling silver Cross pens. ?I have had the chrome also but they slip in my
> hand, so I dumped them. ?The gold filled and sterling silver are great.
> 
> 
> Gene -------------- Original message from Mark Rabiner
> <mark@rabinergroup.com>: --------------
> 
> 
>> 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
>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group
>>> Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 10:06:01 +0000
>>> To: Leica Users Group
>>> 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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