Following on from binners’ Rotring “perfection“, can we have a posh pen and pencil thread?

What have you got?
What’s your favourite piece?

C’mon Mickey luv, start us off….

Subtle off white colouring…the tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God! It even has a watermark!

Flashy – I didn’t know you were a Huey Lewis & The News fan!

I got given one of these (sans the little jewel on the clip) for my 40th. It’s a very nice thing to own but I rarely get to use it

I admit, I’m a bit of a ponce on this. I had 5 different fountain pens on the go, but I wasn’t writing enough to use them all enough to stop the ink from drying out.

I’ve consolidated down to one fountain pen and a pencil – a Pilot Capless Fermo with black ink and a Pilot S20

I use a Rhodia webnotebook too, nicer than my old Moleskine

i love my stapler, it’s a Rexel Optima 40.

and hows about this for a pencil sharpener?

it’s an Alessi don’t you know…

You could have hours of fun prodding your pencil into that shiny beaver

I have a Rotring 800, but it’s started sticking after a year when you wind the point in. Bit annoyed tbh.

Great pencil tho

I have a 3D printed Aerospace grade titanium pen which I designed and built myself.

Technically, given the time required to complete the design+build, it cost around £3k 😳

Penis land.

Sounds like a bargain

I’ve got another awesome office gadget, a Swiss Business Tool! (stapler, (single!?) hole punch, scissors, staple remover, knife)

My two Porsches. The only ones I’ll every have.

I have this as a rollerball

and this pencil

Penis land.

I clicked, the first thing I read is “We specialise in wood”. 😀

More seriously,

Everyday pens are Cross Townsends, black with bold trim.
I then have some vintage Pelikans, Conway Stewart lacquers, and Parkers.
Dirty, guilty secret….Pilot G2.

Moleskin (work logo) or Black & Red notepads.

Oh, and all the paperclips I want! Free! Yay! 😉

Oh, and all the paperclip I want! Free! Yay!

Can you still get the massive plastic ones? No practical usage but they looked cool…

DP.

My job means quite a bit of note writing and logbook filling. Day to day I can’t do without my Lamy Vista. Certainly not a posh pen, but £10 for a plastic ballpoint retractable means I always look after it. Can’t stand the cheap nasty pens that are bought for us.

I have a nice Mont Blanc too. Somewhere!

My current pen of choice is a TWSBI diamond 580al. It’s great, the cap screws on so doesn’t go rattly and is airtight so the nib doesn’t dry out. The reservoir is huge and lasts a few days. I write a lot at work.

My pilot capless usually is the favourite but I dropped it again and need to buy a new nib. Ouch.

The lamy studio is relegated to spare as the lid went slack and doesn’t stay on.

There’s a kaweco sport somewhere which is a really nice compact pen but it doesn’t have the optional clip so isn’t getting used.

I’m not brave enough to buy anything more expensive, it might get dropped or lost as I don’t work at a desk.

Settled on one of these made in UK. A joy to use Parker 51

Coupled with a Staedler Mars Technio 780.

Shame moved into an office which is paperless 🙁

Leuchterm notebooks (A5, dotted) FTW

I :heart: Parker 51s.

So elegant.

Couple of Mont Blanc fountain pens in daily use, one is a retractable like flashinthepans, good excuse for blotting paper, although some Moleskines have a sheet included (nice). What colour ink do similar “old farts” use, I have one blue-black (gentleman’s colour choice) and one red just because

Lamy 2000 Extra Fine fountain pen is the finest writing instrument on earth. I love mine and my equally pen geek daughter uses hers every day for her A-levels. To be fair all Lamy stuff is good.
Moleskine notebooks are the best I have found, but with a little stick on pen holder.

Use Mont Blanc roller ball pen at work, fountain pens are too much faffage for me. I use lilac ink as we are supposed to only use black and I like to be a pita.

Notebooks and pads from Fabriano for a bit of style

Lamy Dialog 3 for writing, and a Leuchturm or Atoma leather notebook

Never mind Penisland, Cu*t Pens is a website full of shiny, pretty things.

Oooh lilac ink. Must try

Kaweco summer purple is good for annoying colleagues

……..as we are supposed to only use black and I like to be a pita

My new personal hero and example to us all. I salute you, Sir!

Just ordered some Lavender Purple for the MB.

‘For delight – Sweeping fields of Lavender Purple bring beauty and lightness to the heart’

So says their website 😯

Parker flighter 45 GT, I use the ball point and pencil daily, the fountain pen is in my office at home but might be going into work soon.

Nice enough that they’re nice to write with, cheap enough (circa £20 each) that they get used daily.

Had all the big FP names in past corporate life as part of the uniform – now disposed of. If I was paying with my own money today it would be the TWSBI – Great writer, looks and value for the fountain pen lover over all models.

Current favourite is a Pilot Custom Heritage 92. Lovely springy and smooth writer. Currently wondering if I can in any way justify a Custom 823…

P.S. If anyone wants a TWSBI 580 AL Fine let me know. I don’t really get on with mine and I have plenty of other pens.

Carpenter’s pencil for me, sharpened with a knife.

My everyday, I bought it because its bright so I wouldn’t lose it, tbh its far to noticeable but I’m to scarred to tell my colleagues it was a mistake internet pen purchase…

To much time spent on Cult pens

Bah, I quite fancy pencil version now!

Also have an OHTO Tasche which I need to buy more refills for

My everyday writer is a cheap fine nib Pilot I got off ebay years ago, I can’t remember the name of it G something or other I think.

Edit- Pilot 78G

Lovely to write with, need to get myself a vanishing point when I can spare the cash, the clicky would make it perfect.