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patrick_y
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Funny thing...

All of my most expensive and coveted pens have never been inked. It's odd. With seven or eight pens already inked (none of them over $1500 USD in price, I just never really need to ink anymore. Also, these beautiful pens don't necessarily write better than their counterparts. A lot of the value in this $6400 pen is in the design and the exclusivity and craftsmanship. But the $1325 Graf Von Faber Castell Wooden-Barreled Magnum fountain pen writes almost identically as it has the same nib and feed mechanism. The Wooden Barreled Magnum pen is also lighter in weight. It's not as impressive as this Ancient Egypt pen from a looks perspective - but it's an equivalent pen at 1/5th the price! This is the beauty of fountain pens. The core parts that make a pen great (the nib and the feed) can be had for around $1000 to $1500 USD. Imagine a Ferrari at $300,000 that comes with all the necessary options (front nose lift, parking sensors, etc.). But some people can get that Ferrari to $900,000 simply by adding gold stitching, special paint, carbon fiber with woven gold thread, etc. After this $1000-$1500 in the pen world, everything else is just mostly aesthetics! And since it's aesthetics, I can just not ink them and admire them visually.