/fa/ggot Writing Utensils

[Anonymous No.18037031]

What do my fellow /fa/tards write with when you aren't wageslaving or doomscrolling this shithole?

This is my Pen collection. I have been using fountain pens for about a decade now, since I was 13. The Montblanc Le Grand was a gift from my father.

My favorite inks are Montblanc Royal Blue, Pelikan Edelstein Jade and Platinum Forest Black

[Anonymous No.18037034]

>>18037031
This

[Anonymous No.18037054]

>>18037031
Based fountain pen Chad.
Here are mine. A Pilot Capless and an 823. Nothing super impressive but enjoyable to write with.

[Anonymous No.18037553]

>>18037054
Those are some beautiful nibs

[Anonymous No.18037577]

Bought this because I only like pilot converters and very fine flex nibs. I just wish it was transparent so I could see how much ink is left because it's plasticky and cheap anyway.

[Anonymous No.18037580]

>>18037577
nice pen, but doesn't Pilot make some of the worst converters?

[Anonymous No.18037582]

>>18037580
I use the CON-70. I've heard no complaints about it other than relative difficulty fully cleaning it if you switch ink frequently, which I don't do. I have no complaints. It's very easy to fill and relatively high capacity.

[Anonymous No.18037602]

>>18037031
some old schaeffer's and parker 51's. normalfags think they're fancy but they're just cheap pens.

[Anonymous No.18037663]

for me, it's the pilot G2.

[Anonymous No.18037713]

BIC 4 colours

[Anonymous No.18037723]

Parker Jotter with a Schmidt easyflow 9000

[Anonymous No.18037851]

>>18037580
Pilot makes a couple different ones. Neither are particularly great or bad. The only converters that I know of are Sailor’s. They are fragile, fit badly, and have a minuscule ink capacity.

[Ugly Boy Lalo No.18037855]

>>18037663
pilot g2 all the way mangtbhmanngl lalo mogging

[Anonymous No.18037872]

>>18037031

Armando Simoni Club Bologna in blue with brass trim. The ink is "The Count" from Paiper Plume of New Orleans

[Anonymous No.18038245]

>>18037031
older brother of your middle one, a 1950s Pelikan 400 with a DF nib.
its the only fountain pen i own, i dont collect but i love montblancs and pilots, am just too poor to actually live it as a hobby but i am considering buying a Lamy Safari just to fuck around with certain inks down the line but for now im perfectly content with this one.
I mainly use Montblanc Irish Green!

[Anonymous No.18038269]

>>18037577
It's made from resin, which is derived from plants. I honestly prefer resin, cellulose over the crappy metal body modern Parker and waterman make anyday (heavy, sharp burr, shrieky thread/joint)

[Anonymous No.18038316]

>>18037031
Platinum Century 3776.
It’s cheap. Maybe someday I can bring myself to spend on a luxury pen like you see ITT.

Do they actually write better?

[Anonymous No.18038770]

>>18038316
Isn't the Platinum Century pretty much a luxury pen too, especially in this day and age? It costs $200.

[Anonymous No.18038771]

>>18038245
beautiful pen. I would recommend a Platinum Preppy as it only costs $3-5 and writes really well.

[Anonymous No.18038779]

>>18037031
There can be only one. Though classic uniballs have the best writing feel for me.

[Anonymous No.18038790]

>>18037031
I use my Sailor Pro Gears and my Pilot Vanishing Point.

[Anonymous No.18038792]

>>18038316
Bro if you have a decent gold nib, you're good. Don't spend over $200 on a pen.

[Anonymous No.18038795]

>>18038316
I am the OP, I think I only paid 183 for the Pelikan M800 because I bought it from ebay but it was New Old Stock so never used. It was about 5-6 years ago but I think I got a good deal. It does write really well. You definitely shouldn't pay the retail price on it which is $672 lol

[Anonymous No.18038815]

I only use the Dollar Tree fountain pen

[Anonymous No.18038819]

>>18038779
At work I use a Parker Jotter, stainless steel. I leave my fountain pens at home.

[Anonymous No.18038820]

>>18037031
This thing. If I wanted to be extra fancy I'd get the Ecridor

[Anonymous No.18039951]

Nice to find a pens thread, for a change. I've been using fountain pens since university.
Picrel is one of mine, a Montblanc François Ier. Since I'm a lawyer and I can't go too crazy with colors, I normally fill it with Caran d'ache idilyc blue ink.

[Anonymous No.18039971]

>>18038792
>>18038795
That’s the thing, though. A cheap pen with a good nib is always going to be what you pick to write with over a super-lux pen with a poor nib.

Modern Montblancs, for example, write like crap. (Vintage ones are sweet, though.)

The Platinum Century is one of the best deals around. The nibs are identical to what goes into 1000 dollar Nakaya pens.

[Anonymous No.18039973]

>>18037031
I use Graf von Faber-Castell pens and pencils.

I also use various flex nibs, but I'm not sure I'd recommend those on a day-to-day basis because you'd have to travel with an inkwell.

[Anonymous No.18039974]

>>18039951
Welcome, Mort. Haven’t seen you around. /wt/ a little too toxic for you these days?

[Anonymous No.18039986]

>>18038770
>Isn't the Platinum Century pretty much a luxury pen too, especially in this day and age? It costs $200.

They’re about a hundred dollars or so brand new on eBay.

[Anonymous No.18039993]

>>18039974
Hey, m8. More like too fast recently. I supouse, because of its toxicity, wt goes thru two threads a day sometimes. By the time I get to come back to answer some posts, the thread has already reached +300 and another has been created. I just don't have the time to keep myself stuck to the monitor for two-three continuous hours.

[Anonymous No.18040171]

>>18039973
that's a beautiful picture. My next pen is definitely going to be a GVFC Classic in Ebony.

[Anonymous No.18040736]

I have a few pens. Left to right is a Karas Kustom Render K, TWSBI Diamond, Muji fountain pen and a chinkshit moonman.

First 2 are obv the favourites. The Karas is machined aluminium that takes pilot g2 ink refills. Got a bunch of nice inks too and some tomoe river paper notebooks.

[Anonymous No.18040742]

all a nigga need

[Anonymous No.18040959]

>>18037031
Majohn C4. An eyedropper with a seal is amazing because you can leave it alone for a long time and it won't dry up, the ink capacity is huge, and even though you need a syringe it guarantees you get the ink at the bottom of the bottle. I might get a namiki emperor with this same setup one day.

[Anonymous No.18041258]

>>18037663
Zebra sarasa mogs the g2

[Anonymous No.18041270]

[Anonymous No.18041551]

>>18041270
soulless.

[Anonymous No.18041951]

>>18037663
These are unironically sick. The 0.7 has such a heavy ink flow and it’s so satisfying to doodle with. The 0.5 is shit though. Also, with either width I’ve noticed they can get fucked up if you’re not writing on a pad of paper but directly on your desk with only 1 sheet of paper.

[Anonymous No.18041955]

>>18041951
The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.

[Anonymous No.18042055]

>>18039951
Based pen and nicely coordinated set.

[Anonymous No.18042549]

>>18040736
Which one's your favorite?

[Anonymous No.18042553]

>>18041551
it's literally modern art chud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2Fr3ns_iy4

[Anonymous No.18042592]

I used to carry a TWSBI eco before I got over demonstrators. My current daily, a Kaweco Brass Sport with a fine tip nib. I love it, just wish it had better ink capacity. Been really enjoying this Herbin ink in it, really a nice winter-y gray/green

For pencils I alternate between a Rotring 800 and a Pentel Uni Switch

[Anonymous No.18042679]

>>18037031

[Anonymous No.18042756]

>>18037034
Those things used to be ten dollars at the art store. Great first fountain pen.

[Anonymous No.18042774]

>>18042756
You can still find them for around 20 USD. I agree though, they’re great first pens.
They’re also good daily carry pens, it’s not like they write badly.

[Anonymous No.18042801]

>>18038269
It still feels like plastic no matter what is it. I love Platinum Procyon's aluminum body. The best thing about them is that the threads are the same as on the Century, so you can easily replace the nib with a gold one.

[Anonymous No.18042809]

Has anyone tried g-pen for calligraphy?

[Anonymous No.18042835]

For me, it's the Muji gel ink 0.5

[Anonymous No.18042847]

>>18042756
Too big for my hand

[Anonymous No.18043995]

>>18042847
Post tits.

[Anonymous No.18044072]

Sigma micron .08 / .03 and precise v5 RT

[Anonymous No.18044674]

For me its chink fountain pens
These wingsung pens with piston fill and a big fat #8 size nib are just fantastic for $24
They even have some demonstrators now apparently. Big chunky cigar sized pen, nib is way nicer then it has any businesses being.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/3256805659714298.html

[Anonymous No.18045042]

>>18044674
Get off my cantonese basket weaving forum with your chinkshit faggot.

[Anonymous No.18045263]

>>18037031
This has been the most insightful /fa/ thread in a while.

[Anonymous No.18045659]

>>18045042
I am NOT paying 300€ for a plastic montblanc with .25 micron silver plated hardware.

[Anonymous No.18045665]

>>18045659
Lololol $1,000 for a plastic pen with gold plated hardware and a nib made of $40 worth of gold.

[Anonymous No.18045691]

>>18045659
>>18045665
Luxury goods’ prices have never been connected to the value of the materials and labor.

[Anonymous No.18045695]

NATHAN TARDIFF DID NOTHING WRONG

[Anonymous No.18045705]

>>18045691
Not defending it but it’s true.
Like another anon said, modern MBs have pretty poor nibs (over polished and way too stiff) but being good writers is not the point. They are 100% about flexing wealth, a la >>18039951
He’s a lawyer, he has to project a certain image.

[Anonymous No.18045727]

>>18037580
the con 40 has a bad rep and ships with most of their pens but the others they make are fine
>>18038316
just hunt for used ones. there's no shortage of things like montblanc 149s for example. also import japanese ones because they mark them way up

[Anonymous No.18045733]

>>18045727
Yeah, Vintage Montblancs, especially before 1990 are great writers.

[Anonymous No.18045760]

>>18045665
as someone who does calligraphy prefessional, mont blanc is fucking terrible.

[Anonymous No.18046150]

>>18045760
Not true. Their calligraphy nibs are still world class.

[Anonymous No.18047227]

>>18045733
I have one from 1994