Here’s a place to cross your t’s and dot your i’s as you jot down some bon mots about your pen, pal.
Or you could just wax poetic about which ink-tastic quill draws you to its feathery bosom.
PenBuzz hell yes.
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these and nothing but these:
Lamy safari fountain pens, F tip, black ink and only black ink.
Staedler pigment liner 0.3mm.
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Lamy safari fountain pens are great. Affordable, come in lots of different colours, and the nibs are swappable. If something happens to the nib, we can just buy new ones. It is also a great way to try different kinds of nibs. I like a lot their stub nib. I have a 1.1 stub nib, if I remember correctly. It writes beautifully!
I took photos of my fountain pens, but I’ll post them later (it’s dinner time here).
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I loved this when I was at school! Thinking of it, I liked it the most as a fidget toy. 
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I unironically used those 4-colour pens to take notes in university. I was in engineering, and being able to draw graphs and diagrams and label everything in different colours made my notes so much more readable.
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I go through a couple of this a month simply it got stolen 
. My wife and sister love these now my kids love them too. All metal.
Growing up I used this size 0.60 to write my note on staff sheets. You don’t really see rOtring here in the US much.
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The Big A has this.
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I took some photos of my favourite fountain pens, so here we go.
Firstly, my black translucent Pilot Custom 823 fountain pen, “my precious” 
(as Gollum would say). It is my favourite pen of all. So smooth, so nice. It is a vacuum filler pen, it carries a lot of ink, and it is well sealed, so the ink doesn’t dry. It has a 14k gold M nib that is so nice to write with. If I could only keep one pen, this would be it.
Here’s my Pilot Custom 823 together with its younger sibling, a Pilot Custom 74 in Forest Green colour, with a F nib. Compared to the 823, the 74 is kind of scratchy while writing, maybe because the nib is too fine. But it is perfect for writing small text, or on paper that is not too ink friendly. (The box is from a Gallen Leather notebook).
In the next photo, from left to right:
- Pelikan Classic M200 Brown Marbled Fountain pen
- Pelikan Souverän M600 Violet White fountain pen (this is my “girly” pen)
- Pelikan Souverän M600 Vibrant Orange Fountain pen (this is my second favourite pen of all, so beautiful, how it reflects the light like the sun! It reminds me of the sun’s surface. It writes so smoothly! )
- Leonardo Momento Zero Sea Stone GT Fountain pen
- and my precious Pilot Custom 823 again
In the next 2 photos, from left to right, photographed over a Gallen Leather notebook:
- my husband’s Visconti Homo Sapiens Bronze Age Fountain pen, with a 23k palladium nib (I bought it to him for his 50th birthday). It is probably the best pen of all. My Pilot Custom 823 is almost as good, but his Visconti is incredibly smooth.
- my Lamy 2000 Black Fountain pen with a M nib (so juicy and smooth, one of my favourite pens)
Next, left to right:
- Lamy Studio Olive Green
- Lamy Studio Terracotta (I also have one in dark blue, but these 2 are my favourites). Lamy Studio pens look more beautiful than the cheaper Lamy Safaris, but ergonomically the Safaris are much better to write with!
- TWSBI ECO Smoke Rose Gold (my husband’s pen)
- TWSBI Diamond 580 AL Emerald green
Then, the Kawecos:
- Kaweco Collection Sport Vibrant Violet fountain pen, aluminium
- Kaweco Skyline Sport Mint Fountain Pen
- Kaweco Frosted Sport Lime fountain pen
I have also Lamy Safaris and an Al-star, a Waterman, a Crown (I have to check, I don’t remember the name, I got it when I was 15 as a birthday gift), also a cheap Noodler’s fountain pen with a bad flexy nib, two cheap Platinum Prefounte pens, and I’m probably forgetting something. I think I have a TWSBI Eco that’s not here.
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Yeah, that’s where I’ve been ordering from for the last year. They feel super awesome. Pricey but great.
Here’s the little pocket Leuchtturm notebook I use to take notes of songs I’m practicing with the bass. I write down with the Mint Kaweco Sport, and I chose an ink with similar colour to the notebook’s cover (Diamine cool mint). And my Boss Katana Go headphone amp.
Then, ink! I know people with much bigger collections of ink, but I think I have much more than I need . These are just the bottles; I also have cartridges, and I bought lots of samples to try (I have a box full of samples elsewhere).
I love this ink swab card ring. All the inks I bought as bottles have their swabs here:
And I keep a Rhodia notebook containing test pages for each ink I have bought either as a sample or as a bottle/cartridges, so I can later compare colours, and choose inks based on their features. Some inks I tested in Tomoe River, Leuchtturm or Clairefontaine paper, and then I glued a tiny piece of the paper with an ink swab onto the page, so I can see how each ink behaves on different papers. Some inks will have more sheen on Tomoe River and Clairefontaine paper. Sometimes when I use an ink with a different pen, I write down on the ink’s file, for comparison.
The notebook also contains an index with all the ink names, a small swab and page number.
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The red rings look great! I have a large collection of metal mechanical pencils, love them. My favorites are the Platinum Pro-Use I posted in the other thread. I also have numerous metal and wooden Pilots and Pentels. You would probably dig the Pentel GraphGear.
Big fan of 0.5/HB for pencils.
For pens I have a nice Pilot wooden ballpoint and then also my little Pilot Kakuno fountain pen. I think these are my next GAS.
Lamy are super good for the price.
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Okay now that’s funny.
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agreed - cheap enough not to freak out if i lose one, expensive enough to try and pay attention to where i put it.
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Very nice collection! I think I have the somewhat-larger-cousin to that Leuchtturm
Also here are a few Pilot Metropolitans, a disposable Pilot that is a super accessible entry point, and a Lamy Studio which is about is nice as I go for fountain pens. Had to include a pen a colleague turned for me from cocobolo. And lastly, I’ve been writing more with this sweet mechanical pencil lately. With a super soft lead, it just glides across the page and is super dark. Its the Mark Three from Studio Neat. I have both 0.5 and 0.7 mechanisms I can swap in to this perfectly weighted body. Love it!
EDIT: Noodler’s Baystate Blue. Love it but it doesn’t always play nice with other inks.
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I’ll probably be buying one of these soon (the local name is Cocoon but its the same pen). Though a Platinum Procyon is tempting too.
I absolutely love Leuchtturm dot-ruled notebooks. I think it might have been @mgoldst who turned me on to them.
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Get 'em honeys away from my son, he loves peeling the label off the crayons. I’m not going to be responsible. 
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You would love the reason this is funny about Marines then
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