Model Fs holding pens

[Scarpia]

A photo thread for those who enjoy the finer things in life: capacitive buckling springs and great writing instruments.

Other fine keyboards are welcome here too, like Model Ms, beamers, and the like.

No headphones allowed though, this isn’t r/mechanicalheadpens.

I will go first, with a selection of my daily drivers (too many to all fit on the pen rest I’m afraid):



Keyboard: New Model F77

Pens, left to right:

1. Montblanc Meisterstück FP
2. Helix Oxford Premium rollerball (bought it as a body for Signo 207 refills but its own refill is very nice)
3. Signo 207 gel refill in Sheaffer VFM rollerball body
4. Sarasa Clip refill in Hi-Tec-C Cavalier body
5. Pentel EnerGel alloy body
6. Pentel Tradio EnerGel
7. Lamy Safari FP
8. Pilot V-Pen erasable FP
9. Vision Elite rollerball

[Findecanor]

When I clicked on the thread, I had expected you to exhibit the use of pencil trays.

[ddrfraser1]

Same. Seems like a glaring oversight

[ddrfraser1]

That's more like it

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[feltel]

Where else to put the pencil if not on top of your keyboard. Atm an Unicomp Ultra Classic at my office desk.

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[Gunsight1]

Oh I'm definitely getting in on this!
Scarpia, is that an MB149 or 146? Either one, awesome!

Here's my quick pic with pens on hand!



top row: Pelikan 805 Blue Dunes, Sailor King of Pen, Aurora Optima
middle row: Omas Paragon, Pilot Vanishing Point
lower row: Visconti Homosapiens, Lamy 2000

[Scarpia]

Wow @Gunsight1 - that’s a classyglorious set of instruments!! The Pelikan, the Sailor 1911, a Visconti, and the Vanishing Point?! Holy crap dude.

My MB is a 146, bought it used many years ago but I hate to admit that I never used it much since the nib it came with is far too stiff for me, and I’m not brave enough to try to replace it. TBH I should just sell it and buy another with the right nib.

[Inxie]

Here's mine.

Apple pen is from when I worked at Apple some time ago. they gave them to us as gifts and I just held on to it..

[Darkshado]

Another submission, that pen was given in a little promo kit many years ago:

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[beepbloop]

Two of my favorite things

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[Scarpia]

@beepbloop amazing, I want a Rotring...

[beepbloop]

@beepbloop amazing, I want a Rotring...

The one on my F77 is the new green color 600 released last year. Here are some of my other ones, subjected to various levels of abuse hah..

[HKG]

Spoiler:

A photo thread for those who enjoy the finer things in life: capacitive buckling springs and great writing instruments.

Other fine keyboards are welcome here too, like Model Ms, beamers, and the like.

No headphones allowed though, this isn’t r/mechanicalheadpens.

I will go first, with a selection of my daily drivers (too many to all fit on the pen rest I’m afraid):



Keyboard: New Model F77

Pens, left to right:

1. Montblanc Meisterstück FP
2. Helix Oxford Premium rollerball (bought it as a body for Signo 207 refills but its own refill is very nice)
3. Signo 207 gel refill in Sheaffer VFM rollerball body
4. Sarasa Clip refill in Hi-Tec-C Cavalier body
5. Pentel EnerGel alloy body
6. Pentel Tradio EnerGel
7. Lamy Safari FP
8. Pilot V-Pen erasable FP
9. Vision Elite rollerball

What is that custom IBM badge with raised lettering you got there? And more importantly, where can I get one?

[Scarpia]

What is that custom IBM badge with raised lettering you got there? And more importantly, where can I get one?

It is a laser cut acrylic badge/decal with a metal/mirror coating. It really looks the part, though it’s probably not authentic/licensed.

I bought it on eBay from a seller in Poland; unfortunately the listing is gone so I don’t know how to get any more.

[Tritian]

Before I fixed my F9 broken barrel

[dcopellino]

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There's pen and pen. This comes from the British museum. The black one is just a souvenir....I let you decide which is which

[Muirium]

The museum is loaning out polished Looooongkishavers now? GIMME THAT TOUR!

[Yasu0]

I guess I'm ordering a rotring to see what its about. My 4 seems to be drooping.

[raoulduke-esq]

I just wish Pilot would bring back the P700. Best Target-stocked pen ever.

[ironicmoustache]

Neither are particularly special pens, but I only really use them when I need to roughly outline articles or solve videogame puzzles, so yeah.

[Scarpia]

Neither are particularly special pens, but I only really use them when I need to roughly outline articles or solve videogame puzzles, so yeah.

Don’t short sell yourself, that’s a Jetstream and a Signo 307, two of the nicest feeling writers ever made. Two of my favorite pens are just fancier pen bodies for the Signo refills, and I bought a 10-pack of the Jetstreams the year I discovered them. You have fine taste, my friend.

Oh and the keyboard is nice too

[Tritian]

Got a monitor swing arm today to free up some space for my F122

[Muirium]

The original Space Spending Keyboard.

[ironicmoustache]

Don’t short sell yourself, that’s a Jetstream and a Signo 307, two of the nicest feeling writers ever made. Two of my favorite pens are just fancier pen bodies for the Signo refills, and I bought a 10-pack of the Jetstreams the year I discovered them. You have fine taste, my friend.

Oh and the keyboard is nice too

Thanks! The Jetstream is genuinely amazing; I have the Signo on hand for those moments I don't feel like taking a cap off but I almost always just reach for the Jetstream anyway since it's so good.

The F is a brilliant keyboard and pen holder. What's not to love? Hahaha.

[wobbled]

No Parkers?

[an_achronism]

Got a monitor swing arm today to free up some space for my F122

Is that a pen or a bovine impregnation device?


EDIT:

No Parkers?

Don't have any of my ordered model Fs yet (that F122 looks v nice) but I do at least have a couple of Parkers, one of which is indeed sitting on my 2021 Model M:

[Polecat]

No Parkers?

Oh what the hell.

[an_achronism]

Oh what the hell.

Oh, huh! I've never seen those stepped key flattener things, I take it they attach over the top of the stock keycaps?

[Polecat]

Oh what the hell.

Oh, huh! I've never seen those stepped key flattener things, I take it they attach over the top of the stock keycaps?

Yes, the stock caps (I think...) are underneath. These were an aftermarket add-on, or at least some of them were:

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Mine look more IBM-ish than some of the others, but that doesn't prove anything. I saved this keyboard back in the day because it was an oddball. Far as I know it's a standard PC/XT Model F, but the plain badge and the odd caps threw me. Unfortunately if it had a label originally it's gone now.

[an_achronism]

Yes, the stock caps (I think...) are underneath. These were an aftermarket add-on, or at least some of them were

I'm guessing that hitting one of those keys off-axis might make them a tad bindey? I always assumed that was why they stepped them, to force you to hit them dead centre!