The Perfect 5 Fountain Pen Collection - How? 

If I ever have a daughter, I'll tell her to find a man who loves her the way HJ loves the Montblanc 149.

My top 5 are the ones I have time to grab and run before the alarm goes off at the Montblanc store :)

Hello HJ. Trying to determine your 5 top pens is probably like trying to choose your favorite child. You love each in its own special way and never give up on any of them.

Hi Hemingway. A great choice of five. Thankfully we don't have to slim our collection down to this number of pens. It would kill me to only have five pens! 🤣

I'm a Catholic, so much happier with 15 or more 'children.' Can't see myself having only five. Thanks for a very interesting view of your choices and of your wife's pens.

Please ask your beautiful daughter to choose her favourite fountain five pens from the total collection and ask for her reasons . Just for extra fun ask her to chose a different ink for each and then publish her answers in another programme . Don’t forget to video her as she makes her innocent decisions for inclusion in the edited version !

Oh I can't pick five, unless you narrow the choice to; top five most attractive, top five easiest to write with, top five most economical, etc. My most recent, best to write with, is the Narwhal Key West. The way it rests comfortably in my hand, the nib size, everything, is perfect for me. Bought; on sale; for $40. So it's also one of my most economical.

Might not be my best pens, but the 5 I should have first if I needed to start over: 1) Pilot Custom 823 (this would be my one pen collection), 2) Lamy 2000, 3) Wahl Eversharp Skyline 4) Sheaffer Imperial or PFM (with gold nib) 5) Schön Dsgn ultem pocket pen (love that thing and is almost undestructible)…

The Chinese pen is cloisone - a form of enamel on brass, a Chinese technique.

- Tss! 🤪 - As if I would choose only 5 pens. Nah, I don't thinks so. 😁

Great choices Hemingway! Really enjoyed this video. Fun to see your wife's collection too!

Lovely list of pens, i loved the Waterman 5 looks like a fun pen and rightfully worthy of being in this list.

Nice choices! I certainly agree with you last three…those would make my list, too. I have never written with your first two but imagine they are splendid.

Ahhhh, all great picks and so glad to see that my grail fountain pen was one of your top 5. Thanks for sharing.

I absolutely fell in love with your waterman choice. The Lamie though was absolutely too cool, especially in the ox blood. My next pen will be the mount blanc 149 and I’m really enjoying some of my new pens. Loving your channel.

Oh this was so much fun!!! I would really have to think and ponder what my 5 would be at this point. It brings to mind the way I feel when embarking on a flight home to Vermont ... and deciding what to take for fountain pens. Except I know I'm coming back to my entire collection. Which has grown a lot dine the last voyage! As a permanent down size I'd be super into pens I could easily replace the nibs for real versatility. But I'm primarily an ink person where I think (just in the short time I've been here) that pens are priority above inks for you? Am I right? Oh wow this is such a fun topic!!! I'd love to do a video on this if I could figure out which 5 pens I'd choose ... that might take me awhile!!!! 🤔

I love this video idea! Your choices were so well thought out

I love your choices! My 5 are:

I’ve really enjoyed your videos for some time. Big thanks for all your generous efforts! This is my first comment, actually.

I'll never argue with anyone about their favorite pens or their perfect five, even if I don't like some of them (I really don't like the Lamy Safari!). My pens are tools, but they also represent my taste, and there's no accounting for tastes. My own Perfect 5 collection, using your categories, would include: