Let's look at Pelikans.

[fflo]

Like any of these?

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

(f)

Me, I don't much like the last two (actively dislike the last). Like the first 3 best.

Comments

[vjsmom.livejournal.com]

(b) is beautiful! (That's my fave of the group.)

[aabassplayer.livejournal.com]

I'm torn between the blue and the orange....Love blue...but I love the burl of the orange.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

No. I would like the orange if only it were some other color than orange, but since it's orange, it's the most hideous of them all. The others are all varying degrees of boring.

[paperkingdoms]

I really like (a), (c) and (e) would be distant seconds for me.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Did I miss a post explaining this sudden interest in fancy fountain pens? I'm curious about the inspiration for these posts.

[sprig5.livejournal.com]

fflo-- is this just part of the decades (life?) -long office supplies fetish you've had? Or is this something different? I'm not into any of 'em, because, since they're all too think for me to comfotably use (or at least look like it in the pictures), I can't get interested.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Maybe it has something to do with the article I just happened to read in the February Ann Arbor Observer last night, about fountain pen collecting.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I like fountain pens in particular. Don't think of them as an office supply per se. Also, S, they're not all so thick. (b) and (d) above, in particular, have a thinner barrel than many.

Does barrell have 2 Ls?

I think I saw that article, Peter. Didn't read it through.

That nice fountain pens get so ridiculously dear and involved rich people throwing around money you could feel families with for many a moon is the fly in the ointment of my love for them. With these posts, I think I'm just wondering who likes such pens at all, and which of 'em people like.

p.s.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

here's a pen for you:
http://www.nexternal.com/swisher/images/rocket.jpg

(yeah, it's a pen)

Re: p.s.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I remember playing with regular Bic ballpoints as rocketships.

And vacuum tubes, too.

Re: p.s.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

My brother and I would put ballpoint pens in our paper airplanes, which would drop the payload mid-flight. Ah, childhood bombing fantasies--- didn't we all have those?

b) and d) by far

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

black is fine and plain; orange is a bit too orange and plasticky. the last one is just ugly. i've thought about the pinstripes for a while now. i'd say the green looks more retro, although i'm sure they've had the blue for a while. the green just looks more real.

i love that you can also choose the nib grade with the pelikan and they can build it for you. one could have a gorgeous pen that also wrote perfectly.