What if.

[purerockfury]

... you were stuck on a deserted island and could only have one pen, bottle of ink and pad to write your help messages with. Don't forget enough bottles and cork stoppers to fill with all your messages. What would you want to have?

I guess I will kick it off.

I love my Lamy Safari but since this is a fantasy thing, I think a Waterman or Parker they both have some really nice pens.

I think Diamine ink (only one I have tried at the moment) something from the music set I really like the colours in the set.

A Rhodia pad like I currently have will be fine to write my messages on.

 

[syngent]

I'd send a message in a bottle telling them to send the rest of my pens inks and paper... as well as some drinks and bbq sauce, and tell them to stop looking for me

 

[jzuzphreek]

I'd need 1 pen, one ink, one stationery/envelope type, one blotter, one seal, one wax,

I'd probably still never send them off... Better just fill all the bottles with rum.

 

[Doc4]

... you were stuck on a deserted island and could only have one pen, bottle of ink and pad to write your help messages with.

Well, if it's "help messages" I'm writing, it's going to have to be a really waterproof ink. One that I know won't smudge or fade away on the long journey to civilisation.

Noodler's Kung Te-cheng.

Assuming I can take a small tub of silicone grease, I'd take as my pen a Kaweco sport, probably with a "M" nib. (I have pens I like better, but I could see life on a desert island being rough, and potentially having to leave everything behind, so ... something durable, reliable, and replaceable.)

 

[cursethis]

If we're going with "what will survive and get me off of the island"?
- Kaweco Sport: Indestructible and eyedropper-able
- Noodler's Manjiro Nakahama Whaleman's Sepia: Never used it... but it seems rather fitting, no?

If we're going with "I'm never leaving so let's enjoy it"?
- Waterman Ideal: I'll flex out the rest of my days to my heart's content
- Pilot Iroshizuku Yama-guri: Nice old fashiony ink... and I'm on a brown kick

 

[Wil]

Rotring Fountain Pen in silver FP, Cranes extra heavy, and Noodler's Bernanke Black

Pen can be used as a waepon if needed, once paper and ink are gone of course, and paper will take up all the ink I lay down, and the ink is not goinging anywhere, even if i skip using a bottle to send notes....

 

[Boro62]

Its going to have to be a Visconti Homo Sapien (Mostly because its the pen that I have been lusting over for awhile). Ink would have to be MB Toffee Brown.

 

[rickcharles606]

I'd send a message in a bottle telling them to send the rest of my pens inks and paper... as well as some drinks and bbq sauce, and tell them to stop looking for me

yeah, but what pen would you write the message with??

I'd write mine with my Pelikan M200 OB nib and hope that it reached someone that owns a boat or sea plane.

 

[brianw]

I don't ever know how I could get stuck on a desert island with 1 pen..... I travel with at least 10

 

[jzuzphreek]

I don't ever know how I could get stuck on a desert island with 1 pen..... I travel with at least 10

Well, heck! Sounds like you'd be able to fashion yourself a pretty good raft!

 

[Andy]

Parker Vacumatic Major
Parker blue/black ink
Clairefontaine Triomphe tablet

 

[Slivovitz]

Given the actual reason why I'm supposed to want to write with this one pen, I'd go heretical and want a Fisher Space Pen (they last a long time) with the blue or black ink, which I know is nicely water resistant, and a couple of notebooks full of "Rite in the Rain" paper, which is totally unusable with a fountain pen.

I'd also want a GPS with a battery that would last long enough so that I could get a latitude and longitude for the notes. I'd want the notes to say something more helpful than, "it's rocky, and there are FedEx packages all over."

 

[purerockfury]

I don't ever know how I could get stuck on a desert island with 1 pen..... I travel with at least 10

Well let's say 9 of those pens got lost when you had to jump ship. Which would be the last pen standing?

Given the actual reason why I'm supposed to want to write with this one pen, I'd go heretical and want a Fisher Space Pen (they last a long time) with the blue or black ink, which I know is nicely water resistant, and a couple of notebooks full of "Rite in the Rain" paper, which is totally unusable with a fountain pen.

I'd also want a GPS with a battery that would last long enough so that I could get a latitude and longitude for the notes. I'd want the notes to say something more helpful than, "it's rocky, and there are FedEx packages all over."

We will assume that the ship we were on had a gps and we all noted the coordinates. Also if you have blue ink you could just draw the ocean with an arrow pointing to the area you are with "I am here" come and save me.

 

[brianw]

Well let's say 9 of those pens got lost when you had to jump ship. Which would be the last pen standing?


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Never happen.... my wife would go to the bottom of the ocean floor before I loosened my grip on the pen case

 

[jzuzphreek]

Never happen.... my wife would go to the bottom of the ocean floor before I loosened my grip on the pen case

Is the pen case buoyant? Cause that would be a terrific idea.

 

[syngent]

Never happen.... my wife would go to the bottom of the ocean floor before I loosened my grip on the pen case

In that case... you can only sign her divorce papers with one pen should she see this post...

What pen and ink would it be

 

[jzuzphreek]

In that case... you can only sign her divorce papers with one pen should she see this post...

What pen and ink would it be

Incorrect. To my knowledge, there are several signatures required on multiple papers. A different pen for each, perhaps?

 

[rickcharles606]

Incorrect. To my knowledge, there are several signatures required on multiple papers. A different pen for each, perhaps?

not to mention the ONGOING checks that would need his signature, it's that whole "until death do you part" thing. Even though you divorce them, they're still connected to you via the checkbook. Trust me, lol

 

[brianw]

But she would be at the bottom of the ocean

 

[Doc4]

But she would be at the bottom of the ocean

That hasn't stopped many ex-wives in the past.


Just pick one pen, or they'll end up having you pay alimony in vacumatics.