…but I find myself only using one - my CF nib Pilot Metropolitan.
It’s the only stub nib I’ve found which is fine enough for my handwriting size - yep it burps on occasion when I fill it, but I only want to use this pen.
Anyone else have far more expensive pens sitting around doing nothing while they use a cheap/mid range pen?
I have probably 15 or 16 pens and purchased them all within the space of a couple of years during the early pandemic. Many of them have swapable nibs too and I purchased the complete range of nib sizes for them. Honestly the end result of all of these options turning up in a short amount of time is that I can’t tell you a favorite. That doesn’t mean I love them all the same. That would be great! What it means is that I never gave myself the chance to get to know a pen/nib long enough to know I loved it.
All my pens are boxed away right now but when I open the box again I’m going to be very regimented in just removing one or two pens at at time and using them exclusively for a few months. It will be like New Pen Day’s all over again for a couple of years and I hope to enjoy them and get to know them this time rather than using them for a week and then chasing the next pretty thing.
Yup. I love my TWSBI Ecos, though my Lamy 2000 is also a workhorse. I have a few Pilot Capless pens but I haven’t had much luck with the nibs - pretty disappointing given the cost. I also appreciate that I don’t worry about the cheaper pens and feel more comfortable using them as tools.
Too bad about your feeling in the Capless pens. I have 3 myself and love all of them (my favorite is my red wood one). They’re not the everyone, but if be very upset if they were to vanish.
My most expensive pens went years ago, an old “faceted” VP, a Platinum 3776, Rotring 600, and a Pelikan M200 upgraded with a gold BB stub. Of the four, the Pelikan is the only one I regret selling.
Currently inked are a Hero 330 (ground down to a soft BB italic), an XF Cross Solo (steel nib made my namiki/Pilot), and a M Pelikan Jazz cartridge pen. The most expensive pens I have left are a mid-range Sheaffer Triumph lever-fill (I re-sacced it myself, so I kept it), a Parker 51 “special” (i.e. steel, but they promised it was nice!), and I guess my Aurora Style is considered slightly more high end than it used to be (or maybe I’ve just repressed how much I paid for it umpteen years ago).
My collection has grown, but I still like to use my inexpensive pens. My Pilot Metropolitan (fine) is among my favorites, although I find it dries out fairly quickly.
All my early pens are snap caps. I’ve come to understand screw caps seal better. I guess I better get writing so that ink doesn’t dry up!