Don't Just Tell Us About The Pen You're Using, *show* Us!

[Uncle Red]

 

Thanks! As far as I know it's factory. It's an older West Germany model and I got it from fleabay from a person who was actually selling it as an M600. It wasn't until I got it in the mail that I started to think "this is heavier and bigger than it should be…".

 

Kind of like the time I though I was getting a woodgrain Waterman 52 and it turned out to be a 55.

 

I'm fixing up some pens for a wife's friend and just finished getting what I'm convinced was dried India ink out of a Pelikan M200. I compared it to my M405.

 

http://i1315.photobucket.com/albums/t595/fivecatpenagerie/29A7A2F8-51B9-4CFE-95AD-820EC7F3F9CC-14669-0000025FCB79672A_zps88bdd506.jpg

Are you sure that's an M200 and not an M250?

[Pterodactylus]

http://imageshack.us/a/img835/6254/ldu7.jpg

 

(Waterman 45 BCHR ..... Mont Blanc Mystery Black)

[KrazyIvan]

 

You should do a paper review and show those results.

 

Yes, I am working on it.

[akustyk]

http://i1297.photobucket.com/albums/ag32/akustyk/IMG_6733_zps82b42e29.jpg

 

[Pterodactylus]

http://imageshack.us/a/img19/2789/ti4j.jpg

 

(Pelikan M215 - B CI ..... Noodler´s Apache Sunset)

[Pterodactylus]

http://imageshack.us/a/img33/2114/zsp1.jpg

 

http://imageshack.us/a/img580/4619/3mqa.jpg

 

(Faber Castell Osmia 883 - OF ..... Rohrer & Klingner Blau Permanent)

 

hmmmmm.... I love the shading of Apache Sunset but it does not dry for ages and smears a long time.

Even I used a blotter paper carefully to dry it before scanning is my scanner full of it again.

 

You can find a review of my Waterman 45 here:

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php/topic/241390-waterman-45-bchr-safety-pen/?p=2620398

Edited September 10, 2013 by Pterodactylus

[mhphoto]

Are you sure that's an M200 and not an M250?

 

Might be. Honestly I'm not that knowledgeable about Pelikans' models.

[Nashten]

http://i.imgur.com/etBZjvi.jpg

 

 

(Concord Grape for the top purple and Imperial Purple for the bottom bits of writing. Widow Maker and OxBlood in between.)

[Pterodactylus]

http://imageshack.us/a/img547/6721/dnu1.jpg

 

(Pelikan 140 - OF ..... Rohrer & Klingner Alt-Goldgrün)

[Pterodactylus]

http://imageshack.us/a/img194/7798/qkt9.jpg

 

http://imageshack.us/a/img17/2049/y769.jpg

 

(Mont Blanc 344 - OB ..... Rohrer & Klingner Helianthus)

Edited September 11, 2013 by Pterodactylus

[Occipital Lobe]

http://i1160.photobucket.com/albums/q485/Occipital_Lobe/Pens/Inked/Billede001_zps34ef02fd.jpg

 

http://i1160.photobucket.com/albums/q485/Occipital_Lobe/Pens/Inked/Billede002_zps5a655a6b.jpg

 

[pankaj]

Using MB WE Jules Verne with gorgeous PR Plum. Chicken scrawl ... in place of chicken soup for the soul

[pankaj]

My favorite MB WE Jules Verne with the cute girlish PR Plum

 

[Pterodactylus]

http://imageshack.us/a/img15/9130/58xu.jpg

 

(Mabie Todd Swan 4660 Leverless ..... Pelikan Blue Black)

[Pterodactylus]

http://imageshack.us/a/img849/5320/v4p3.jpg

 

(Mabie Todd Swan 4660 Leverless ..... ESS Registrars Blue/Black)

 

Direct Comparison of Pelikan Blue Black and ESS Registrars Blue/Black.

Pelikan on the left side, ESS on the right side.

 

http://imageshack.us/a/img585/2941/1uk8.jpg

Edited September 11, 2013 by Pterodactylus

[LWJ2]

Hastily posted before I must begin to commit baking for SWMBO. Oremus. Ave Maria ...

 

 

 

Today's trio:

 

And a closer view of the pen I've abused ...

[tringle]

 

 

@Nashten - I may have a 52 nib, I will let you know.

Edited September 11, 2013 by tringle

[Preacher8]

[Pterodactylus]

http://imageshack.us/a/img854/6890/jgss.jpg

 

http://imageshack.us/a/img829/6404/hn6o.jpg

 

http://imageshack.us/a/img24/8911/4r9v.jpg

 

(Faber Castell Osmia 223 - F ..... Rohrer & Klingner Smaragdgrün)

[LWJ2]

Pterodactylus -- it seems to work okay. I tried using Bad Black Moccasin and it was horrible, it was runny and blotchy. As I recall, India ink is made with carbon, I know it clogged a Rapidograph like nobody's business -- half the ink we used in the art department went down the drain when we flushed the 'graphs. The Bay State needed a new dip about every third word. Mind, this is the second or third time I've used a dip nib, prior to that the closest I came were draughtsman's ruling pens with India ink, dropper filled. A four-point rule with no screwups was an achievement. And we hated to do them.

 

And now, ladies and gentlemen, my Conway Stewart No. 475, inked with Private Reserve 'Tanzanite':