New Pilot (Namiki) Vanishing Point (Capless) Limited Edition Fountain Pen
It’s “Ice Blue” in color, comes with an 18k gold medium nib (only) and has just been released for sale. Only 2,000 are available worldwide.
They retail for $200 but I’ve seen them for $150. In 2-3 years they’ll go for $400-$500. Yeah, I know I don’t need one but I really want one. Sort of.
I guess it was ineveitable. I got one for myself for Christmas. So that makes five Vanishing Points in which to keep the ink flowing, which, as it turns out, is a hard thing to do. Most writing at work gets done with a cheap (but excellent) plastic Pilot G2 07 gel-type ballpoint pen. So it’s not unusual to whip out a VP only to find the pen’s ink feed dried up. It then takes a bit of shaking and gentle ink-less scribbling to get the flow going again. So, more fountain pens can equal a bit more frustration.
You’d think I’d know by now that less is more.
Comment by Rob — February 9, 2007 @ 7:05 pm