▲ 24 r/machinedpens
MCM 375 Timascus / Zirc
As usual love the machined clip on mcms and the machining/finishing is amazing
u/lyfl — 4 days ago
▲ 2 r/Pen_Swap
WTS Franklin-Christoph Model 02 Fountain Pen - Smoke & Ice
Great condition body. No stains or scratches I can see.
No nib
Condition D because of missing nib
Price : 120 USD
Shipping only in CONUS
Will ship in 3 business days
u/lyfl — 22 days ago
▲ 2 r/Pen_Swap
WTS Schon DSGN PEEK Smoltem
Second owner.
No nib.
I have eye dropped it once. It got some ink staining on threads and possibly inside the barrel. Since it’s PEEK it’s good for eyedropper.
Price : 175 USD
Condition D because of missing nib.
Only shipping in CONUS
Will ship in 3 business days.
u/lyfl — 22 days ago
[Announcement] Posts Flairs Have Arrived
For too long, the selling/ purchasing side of our secondary market has been shielded by generic "Want To Buy" and "In Search Of" tags. We are rolling out a highly specialized set of BST flairs designed to capture the spirit of this sub. Some of the sample fares below.
- Rare Opportunity: Charging double retail for a standard titanium model that is currently sitting in stock on the maker's website.
- Curating The Collection: You drained your checking account on a custom drop and are now panic-selling to make rent.
- Partner Made Me List This: Intentionally priced five hundred dollars over market value so you can shrug and report back that the market is just completely dead right now.
- Lottery Winner Privilege : For the seller who won the right to purchase a limited drop and is immediately letting other members in the community have it for double the price.
- Includes Custom Anodizing Fee : For the seller who took a hardware store blowtorch to a titanium barrel and expects the community to pay a premium for the ruined finish
These mandatory flairs are now active The floor is now open to the community. What other deeply specific, highly neurotic purchasing behaviors need their own official labels? Drop your best flair pitches in the comments below, and the most painfully accurate suggestions will be added to the official automated moderator rules.
u/lyfl — 1 month ago
▲ 13 r/machinedpens
Spoke Roady’s
One of the best budget machined pens.
Fits gelion plus with no tip wiggle
u/lyfl — 1 month ago
WTS : Billetspin Damasteel Soul
SOLD SOLD SOLD
3000 USDShipping extra
This one is not as rare as mokume but I will just stick with already established price of 3000.
I think this will be a great investment
u/lyfl — 1 month ago
▲ 20 r/machinedpens
Weekly Rotation
This week I got some of my favs.
Among these, I think Autmog 55 deserves a special mention. I use it as desk pen for small notes and it became one of my fav autmog model. It’s my second fav mog behind the 40 KVR.
Checkout second pic for more details about the pens in the pic.
u/lyfl — 1 month ago
▲ 6 r/machinedpens
Makar Titan FP
Make sure to chek out the video to see all the intricate details of this one.
The Timascus accent act as a roll stop. The milling is smooth and pleasant to hold.
u/lyfl — 2 months ago
[ANNOUNCEMENT] We are implementing a SUPERIOR Vouch System
Listen up, entrepreneurs. The other sub rolled out a revolutionary new "vouch" system to protect their community, and frankly, we are embarrassed that we didn't think of requiring common-core algebra and a multi-page user guide just to sell metal tubes first.
In the spirit of their incredible innovation, we are breaking down how trust is now calculated in the machined pen world, straight from their freshly edited Wiki. At the end we will go though how our SUPERIOR vouch system differs.
The Mathematical Gymnastics
To buy or sell a pen, you must now calculate your inherent human worth using the following elegant equation:
>^(Trusted = (swaps + (vouches / 2)) >= 10)
But wait, there are caveats. You can only give a vouch if you are already trusted. Unless, of course, you are a Moderator. Their official guide literally states that Mods can vouch with "no requirements," because nothing screams "fair and equal community" quite like the ruling class exempting themselves from their own arbitrary math problems.
The Bureaucracy of Trust
If you do manage to decipher the equation, you have to follow the instructions exactly. You must leave a top-level comment containing the magic word !vouch on someone else's post, and it only applies to the original poster. Did you build a strong, trustworthy relationship with a buyer in the comments? Too bad. They can't be vouched for. Did you want to vouch for someone a second time after multiple flawless transactions? Their rulebook explicitly states a repeat vouch "does nothing." Your trust has a strict, one-time quota.
My personal favorite line from their manual is that vouches are "one-directional but can be mutual." We aren't entirely sure if they are running a marketplace or writing a high school romance novel.
The Flawless Technology
Don't worry if the arbitrary rules are confusing; they have a custom bot to track everything and inject it right into your user flair! Just ignore the fact that the bot has absolutely no idea what is actually going on. Over on their sub, a Moderator walks around with a flair proudly proclaiming they have "5 Swaps and 6 Vouches." Meanwhile, their very own highly-praised tech bot replies directly beneath them stating: "u/g-baby37 (Mod) has 0 swaps and 3 vouches on record." This is the kind of flawless, dedicated technological implementation we should all strive for. We especially love when users blindly type !vouch into the void, only to get instantly rejected by the bot because they didn't read the fine print.
The SUPERIOR Vouch system
Obviously, we aren't implementing any of this bureaucratic nonsense. We don't need a convoluted algebraic equation, one-directional romantic endorsements, or a fundamentally broken bot to figure out who to trust. We have the ultimate, universally recognized vouch system already in place: Capital.
Does the buyer have the funds to pay our mandatory 300% markup? Yes? Then they are a highly trusted, deeply respected member of this community. Does the seller have a 17-4 PH steel pen listed for $650? Yes? Then they are doing the critical work of value capture, and we endorse them 1000%. We don't need to create a special icon so you know they were "vouched for from the highest level."
You don't need to beg a moderator with zero requirements to type magic words on your post to prove your worth here, and you certainly don't need to consult a Wiki. You just need to respect the free market. Put the calculators away, stop pretending a broken Reddit bot is the pinnacle of community safety, and let's get back to capturing all the excess value they leave on the table.
u/lyfl — 2 months ago
[ANNOUNCEMENT] Why We Exist: Weak Moderation and the Unacceptable $650 FeeBay Sale of a Confounded Machine Pen.
Let’s set the record straight on why this community was actually built. We didn't create this space just to flex our titanium collections. We created this sub for the makers.
The other self-proclaimed "official" swap sub isn't exactly preaching "community spirit," but what they are doing is almost worse. They try to encourage flipping, but they just don't go far enough. They are running a cowardly half-measure.
The Knife Swap Illusion & Weak Moderation
Let's call out the elephant in the room: the other sub lacks conviction. They looked at the legendary Knife Swap, saw their famous, "Price Policing Welcome" rule, and intentionally left it out of their own rulebook—assuming absolutely no one would notice.
Yes, they technically delete price-policing comments in the background, but they do it quietly, almost apologetically. They lack the forceful, aggressive enforcement needed to make true entrepreneurs feel celebrated. They want the high-dollar secondary market, but they don't have the backbone to proudly stand by it with an official rule.
When you run a market that timidly tiptoes around capitalism, you create an environment where entrepreneurs don't feel entirely safe maximizing their margins.
When we started this sub, we built it on absolute, unapologetic transparency. The entrepreneurial spirit isn’t just "tolerated" here—it is the law. We don't just delete price complaints; we ban the complainers and pin the high prices to the top of the feed. Why? Because aggressive value capture benefits the makers. Pumping the secondary market turns their humble machining projects into high-yield, prestige asset classes. We do the dirty work of elevating their brand value out in the open, with our chests out.
The Unacceptable FeeBay Betrayal (And The Unspoken Hypocrisy)
This wishy-washy, half-hearted moderation on the other sub has real-world consequences, and it is driving behavior that we simply will not tolerate.
Just look at the recent FeeBay sales. A flawless Confounded Machine just sold for an astonishing $650. While we fully support the 300% markup, the fact that this transaction happened on FeeBay is completely unacceptable.
Giving 15% of that hard-earned profit to FeeBay's corporate fee structure is a sickening waste of capital that should have stayed within our community. Why on earth would an entrepreneur take that massive financial hit? Why wouldn't they just post it on the other swap sub?
Because the other sub hasn't made its true intentions clear enough. They haven't built a strong enough culture of unapologetic profit. The seller clearly felt that posting a $650 CM over there wouldn't get the respect it deserved, because the environment simply isn't forceful enough in its defense of the free market. They were forced to flee to a mainstream auction site just to do business.
But here is the absolute best part—the twist of the century:
We aren't going to name names. But if you connect the dots on who exactly pocketed that $650 payout, you will find it’s a very familiar, highly active face from that other subreddit.
Let that sink in.
Imagine spending your time in a marketplace, but the environment is so timid and unsupportive of true capitalism that you have to run to FeeBay, hide behind an anonymous handle, and pay an unacceptable 15% fee just to flip a pen in peace. It tells you everything you need to know when their own regulars don't even trust the market they hang out in.
Our Promise
To the makers: We will continue to loudly and proudly inflate your market value. To the entrepreneurs: Selling on FeeBay is unacceptable. Stop settling for a sub that only half-supports you, and stop bleeding our capital to tech giants. Bring your 300% markups here. We won't just delete the haters; we will destroy them.
Welcome to the TRUE AND SUPERIOR Official Machined Pens Swap. We know exactly what we are, and we are proud of it.
If you don't believe us checkout posts on our SUPERIOR SUB. OG Rota listed for 12000 USD of higher and everyone encouraged the spirit.
u/lyfl — 2 months ago
▲ 21 r/machinedpens
NPD and NSD : Autmog Juice UP and More
NPD : Autmog 38 Juice Up
NSD : New Sub Day. Not afflicted with this sub in any way as the values are vastly different. Take some time to read the intro post. This sub is by the community and for the community.
u/lyfl — 2 months ago
▲ 10 r/machined_pens_swap
Announcing the TRUE Official Machined Pens Swap !
Welcome to the True Official Machined Pens Swap (Self Proclaimed)
This is yet another completely self-proclaimed "official" machined pens swap sub. Unlike other places, there is absolutely zero confusion about our rules. We believe in total transparency, zero censorship, and aggressively judging your financial decisions.
Our Ironclad Rules
- Mandatory Price Policing: We don't just allow price policing; we require it. Every listing is heavily monitored to ensure it is priced optimally. By "optimally," we mean we look for max comp on eBay and Reddit in past 3 years. If there is no comp, we default to twice the retail. We call it "knowing your worth."
- Max Profit: Any comments hating on the grind will be immediately nuked. However, we highly encourage artificially inflating the hype with thinly veiled comments like, "Wow, super rare!" or "Absolute steal of a price!"
- Free Market Rules: The maker's original MSRP is irrelevant. Leave your warm and fuzzy "community spirit" at the door. This is a free market, so pay up. $500 is the new floor for an Autmog—if you're priced out, that sounds like a personal problem. Does this aggressive price-gouging help the actual makers? No. But it successfully pumps the resale value of our own collections, which is the entire point. We are planning to make a mandatory course about free market, until then everyone here is expected to understand what Free Market is and how it benefits us.
- Total Freedom of Speech (T&C Apply): We will absolutely never censor you. Unless, of course, you make fun of these rules. In that case, you will be permanently banned with absolutely zero explanation.
- Zero Feedback Tolerated: Keep your suggestions to yourself. We already have very strong opinions, and frankly, we don't care about yours. We will not be reading, acknowledging, or considering any community feedback. Don't like how we run things? Feel free to go create yet another self-proclaimed official machined pens BST. We dare you.
- AI-Generated Governance: All of these rules were 100% AI-generated. Because an AI hallucinating rules is still way more consistent than the mods over other self proclaimed official swap.
Come, JOIN the mission. MORE to COME. This is not a BST SUB. ITS BEYOND THAT !!!!
u/lyfl — 2 months ago
▲ 52 r/machinedpens
NPD - Mog 55 KVR
The 40 energel KVR is my fav color scheme among all KVRs. And the new 55 KVR got same colors which pairs well with 40. Thanks Brian for the opportunity to buy this one.
u/lyfl — 2 months ago
▲ 4 r/Pen_Swap
WTS Autmog 38 Clipless Titanium Ohto C305
US only.
Price : 200 USD
More details about the pen : https://imgur.com/a/852HdCY
Will ship through ground advantage within 3 days of payment.
Condition : C (conservative). Second owner. May have minor stretches.
u/lyfl — 2 months ago
▲ 24 r/machinedpens
Weekly Rotation
Checkout 3rd pic for details of the pens in the pic.
u/lyfl — 2 months ago
▲ 14 r/machinedpens
NPD Post BST Ban : Umburry Expressor FP
Thanks to the seller for giving me the opp to buy this pen. One of the pen I was looking for quite a while and I love it.
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u/lyfl — 2 months ago
▲ 31 r/machinedpens
Here's your friendly machined pens BST.
Yesterday it was announced in this sub about a new BST for machined pens called r/Machinedpens_Swap here. I raised some concerns about censoring by not allowing to comment on prices. To see how this works I created a post this morning in the sub and got permanent banned in 5 mins after the post.
Here are the screenshots of the post and ban notification.
To people who didn’t get it it’s a satire post to prove my point that censoring comment about pricing discussion is a bad idea.
But while doing this I found few more issues wrt the new BST.
- Any new posts require mod approval. For a BST for in demand pens it's easy for mods grab them. This is not a theory.. I know about an incident where pen_swap mod grabbed spp zirc for 250 an year ago. Remember pen_swap dont even require mod approval.. just the edge of mods monitoring the sub helped them. Here in the new BST your friendly mod needs to approve the post.
- Perma banned for what ? TBH I don't care about the ban but community needs to know about how mods there mod the sub.
The new BST sub is a an opinionated version of BST with benefits for mods. Unlike this sub where discussion is encouraged even if we disagree. I will not be using this sub..I will use pen_swap, edcexchange or discord. I made this post to make everyone aware of how new sub works.
Ref:
announcement post here : https://www.reddit.com/r/machinedpens/comments/1vizglq/introducing_rmachinedpens_swap_a_new_buyselltrade/
u/lyfl — 2 months ago