Vintage Parker 45 Fountain Pen 

Thanks for the mention. Glad you enjoyed my videos. I echo comments on Iroshizuku inks, I had a sac in a Watermans dissolve from the ink. The 45 is one of Parker's iconic pens. They stick with a model for a long time. From my view great engineering, function over form design.

Thank you for the disassembly info, I had you playing along as I took my 1971 apart to have a good look at the nib... I even got it back together so thank you for the excellent advice!

You gave that pen a happy restore, it’s back in action. Nice work. I have a Parker 45 in black with silver or chrome cap, I think mine is newer than this one. I enjoyed the history about the 45 being named that due to the popularity of the westerns. Interesting! I look forward to seeing what’s up next.

I have a number of 45s and have to say they are among my all time favourites. The ones I have were via eBay, all but one being second hand and one being New Old Stock. Every one of them is outstanding.

I enjoyed the history of the 45. I also assumed that it was a much older pen. I usually gloss over videos about vintage pens because I'm not interested in filling systems that involve latex sacs. I'm glad to hear that this is a cartridge/converter pen. If I ever decide to dip my toes into the world of vintage pens, the Parker 45 looks like a good place to start.

Love me some 45's,and this was a great review! Nice Parker history recap, and especially enjoyed the disassembly. I'm on the lookout for a new section, to restore a dark green 45 with steel cap and gold clip, clutch ring, and nib. The sections of these pens seem a bit fragile, I've seen several with distortion. Great writing pens (even the steel nibbed ones) and an affordable way to try out vintage pens, which a lot of the time offer superior balance and engineering (much lower tolerances) to modern pens.

Love those caps. Beautiful 45s

Learned a lot... Please keep making...

Wonderful tutorial on Parker 45 fountain pen and lead pencil set.

1 year later.. I came across a Parker 45 Flighter Pen set from a Vintage store here in India.. It’s a 1979 model with a Steel body, Gold trims and 14K Fine nib..Waiting for it to be shipped !

Hey Douglas, thanks for the review. I actually have one of these on its way to me in the next while; I got a killer bid price on one kitted out with a 14k nib, 10k gold filled cap version. Hopefully it will be in writing shape when it arrives. Look forward to the next review.

Based on the cap, the converter was a replacement. The pen was from the 1960s (conical indent was only made for the 1960s ones), and the converter style is definitely later (not sure, but probably 1970s, or even later.) Like many of the period, quite a slim pen, but IMO nicer than the 51 to write with (I know, heresy. 😁) The collector is difficult to get clean. As they're not a material easily damaged, I resort to an ultrasonic cleaner for them. I have several I've redone (waiting for slide converters to arrive for 2, as that's a later type used, and the squeeze/aerometric type are insanely priced. I might get a regular modern Parker piston converter if I planned to keep them, but they're going to friends.) Not all are being given away. I have, currently, a burgundy plastic from the 1970s with a steel nib, and I'm currently using a flighter with a gold nib from the 1960s. (Of course I have the probably original aerometric converter!😉) Great history, overview and review of a lovely pen! Thanks, Doug!

The gold/grey combination is really handsome....Pens look great.

I have one of those. As the differences go, mine has "Made in France" text on the cap and "M" stamped on the bottom side of that thingamajig you unscrew to extract the nib. Lovely pen with lovely feeling when being capped. Thanks for the video, Doug!

nice video

After so many many years but doubt......how did the Hero pens looks like Parkers ...during school days we have Hero n save to buy a Parker that was a trend becos it looks alike......guess many famous American products could be doing the same...from Guitars etc etc.....but I really understood now...Great videos.

I wonder if a 1964 parker 45 will take a moden parker converter?

Hello friend, I have seen several videos from your channel because I have problems with a parker pencil 45 that I bought. They told me it was useless but apparently they deceived me because it seems that they have modified part of the place where the mines are loaded. I have seen in this video that you have next to the pen that you clean a mechanical pencil, I would like to know if you can make a video showing its operation and its mechanisms so that I can compare with mine and see what is wrong with it. Thanks and greetings from Argentina.

Nice review. No the original converters were the design you showed, but not marked Japan. As you say that one could be be third party. Nice refurb. The plastic barrel has no scratches. Did you polishit? If so how? TIA.

Hi Doug, I've just sent you an email asking you help about this pen, I hope you can check it out. Thank You!

Dude, I love your reviews, really I do, but any chance you can trim those fingernails ?? Way too long.