I've never wanted to collect pens until now

Thanatos0320
Thanatos0320 Posts: 577 ✭✭✭
I've never needed a pen collection until now. These are amazing looking! The first pen has a tobacco leaf in it too.




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  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,406 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No, no, that's just mean.
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  • dirtdude
    dirtdude Posts: 6,199 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Those are badass.
    A little dirt never hurt
  • ForMud
    ForMud Posts: 2,468 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Now someone needs to make a cigar that looks like pen.......
  • Hawkeye
    Hawkeye Posts: 246 ✭✭✭✭
    I actually do have a collection of fountain pens and inks... might be time to add a new one!
    Despite the high cost of living, it remains popular.
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,504 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like my flat grey Cross ballpoint best.
  • Thanatos0320
    Thanatos0320 Posts: 577 ✭✭✭
    Hawkeye said:
    I actually do have a collection of fountain pens and inks... might be time to add a new one!
    I recently got a Montblanc fountain pen as a gift for Christmas (I think it's fake). If I can find a few cigar fountain pens, then I'll definitely buy 1 or 2, as I'd like to have a few nice pens to carry around.
  • Diver43
    Diver43 Posts: 2,213 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hawkeye said:
    I actually do have a collection of fountain pens and inks... might be time to add a new one!
    @Hawkeye , I thought I was the only one here that collects Fine Writing Instruments


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  • deadman
    deadman Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Is there an online store? When I searched it only showed a Facebook page
  • Diver43
    Diver43 Posts: 2,213 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Those are really neat looking pens.  Would really ad to the ambience of a smoking room or cigar bar.

    From one of the comments on the facebook page, they are made from pen kits.
    Not quite an original from Mont Blanc or Montegrappa
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  • Thanatos0320
    Thanatos0320 Posts: 577 ✭✭✭
    These pens can be found on Etsy. Search "cigar pen" in the search bar there.
  • Hawkeye
    Hawkeye Posts: 246 ✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2019
    That is all I saw as well @deadman, and it looks like they do custom orders which is cool.

    @Diver43 - what are some of your favorites?  Lately I have bought a few from karas kustoms.  I have one of their Boly V2 ballpoints machined from solid brass and solid copper, an ink fountain, and their special decograph with a titanium nib they just released. http://karaskustoms.com/signature-pens/decograph-ultra-black.html

    I have a few cheaper ones and one from a local shop (also handmade) but always dreading the day another catches my eye :lol:
    Despite the high cost of living, it remains popular.
  • jd50ae
    jd50ae Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2019
    I used to collect fountain pens, did so for years. Lost over $15,000 worth during the tornado. A bunch were looted.
    There is something reminiscent of a more gentlemanly and honest times when using a fountain pen, and every once in awhile I pick one up to remind me.
    Shame of it is, today kids can't even talk in complete sentences much less pen one.

    Better to do a search for "pens that look like cigars" then cigar pens. There is a style of pens that are called cigar pens that other then shape have nothing to do with cigars.
  • genareddog
    genareddog Posts: 4,442 ✭✭✭✭✭
    May have to see if I can do this like the coasters.
  • Diver43
    Diver43 Posts: 2,213 ✭✭✭✭✭
    jd50ae said:
    I used to collect fountain pens, did so for years. Lost over $15,000 worth during the tornado. A bunch were looted.
    There is something reminiscent of a more gentlemanly and honest times when using a fountain pen, and every once in awhile I pick one up to remind me.
    Shame of it is, today kids can't even talk in complete sentences much less pen one.

    Better to do a search for "pens that look like cigars" then cigar pens. There is a style of pens that are called cigar pens that other then shape Well
    Well said

    Sorry to hear of your loss of pens.  Looters are the lowest level of scum.
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  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,406 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have a few entry-level fountain pens and ink, but haven't kept up with using them.  It's amazing how much easier it is to write with a fountain pen than a ballpoint pen, at least for me.
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