Which Inks Are You Using Today?

[DilettanteG]

Mr. Dilettante's Christmas gift to me showed up today: a big box of Pelikan products.

 

My long awaited M/K 800 Brown Tortoise set arrived and is now inked up with beautifully matching Edelstein Smoky Quartz sitting in a two Pelikan leather case.

 

I emptied out my M400 White Tortoise and put Edelstein Olivine in it. I'm just waiting on a K400 White Tortoise to match my M/D 400 set and my Christmas haul will be complete. (It seems yo be at the post office waiting for me to sign for it. Yay!)

 

I know this is incredibly nerdy of me, but I'm so happy right now!

[ENewton]

I am still using Kobe Taisanji Yellow and J Herbin Poussiere de Lune.

 

It took Taisanji Yellow a very long time to evaporate in the pen to the degree that it is practical for writing, but now that it has reached that point, I am writing with it every day and will soon exhaust the fill.

[white_lotus]

I hadn't used my Sailor (FPH) 1911 Std. Butterscotch pen in a while, so when the Pelikan M205 ran dry it was time to ink the former up. This time with Sailor Rikyu-cha.

[GardenWeasel]

Diamine Eclipse. Quite a nice surprise how well it performs.

[Noihvo]

[Jadie]

Iroshizuku Yama-budo, Shin-kai, Nioi Sumire

Kyo no Oto Yamabukiiro

R&K Old Gold Green

 

Had a lot of Xmas notes to write.

[white_lotus]

Continuing with the Sailor Rikyu-cha in a Sailor 1911 Std.

Then two new fills this morning:

Noodler's Beaver in a Pelikan M400 Red (F)

KWZ Azure #4 in an Edison Beaumont pneumatic (F)

 

 

[inkstainedruth]

So far this morning it's been vintage Quink Microfilm Black (which has very nice blue undertones), in the recently rehabbed Vacumatic Green Shadow Wave. But I have five other inked pens with me on the holiday trip, plus one unlinked one in case I bought ink on my somewhat annual pilgrimage to Fountain Pen Hospital, and a vial of an ink I haven't tried in case I didn't (as it ended up that I did buy ink, but it was just a back up bottle of MB Beatles Psychedelic Purple LE, because FPH had the MB LE inks on sale yesterday).

Yesterday it was Nemosine Alpha Centauri, in the pink TWSBI 580-AL; and Sailor Sky High, in the Pro-Gear Slim Purple Cosmos.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

ETA: Tonight when we get back to our hotel room and I get a chance to (finally) wrap Christmas presents for my in-laws, it will be Straits Pens Storm Warning (one of the two LE inks made for the Central Ohio Pen Club's fundraiser at OPS last month), to address the labels.

Edited December 24, 2019 by inkstainedruth

[Noihvo]

[inkstainedruth]

So far today it's been (original version) Sailor Sky High in the Pro Gear Slim, zoom nib. Had forgotten just how much I like that shade of blue.

Later today it may be to do my test/review for myself of Nemosine Alpha Centauri, in the pink TWSBI-580AL, B nib. And maybe something else.... (finished the test of Storm Warning and then used it on Christmas stick on labels last night -- I THINK the ink has finally dried... ).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[brokenclay]

This is the first Christmas for which I have shared my new fountain pen obsession with my family. The family line up:

 

My husband received a Nemosine Singularity with De Atramentis Edgar Allen Poe (he requested an ink as close to some variation of British racing green as possible).

 

My eldest son received a red Metropolitan with Noodler's Saguaro Wine.

 

My daughter received a turquoise Metropolitan with De Atramentis Jane Austen (she didn't care about the color, but loves JA).

 

My younger son received an orange Metropolitan with Noodler's Black Swan in Australian Roses.

 

I'm currently writing with an Italix Parson's Essential with Organics Studio Nitrogen (which I am enjoying a lot - I am seeing a lot more color variation than I saw with Black Swan in Australian Roses).

[Intensity]

I had grand plans of sending holiday cards written in Graf von Faber-Castell Moss Green with a broad italic nib. However I only managed to write two that way, because most were co-authored by my significant other who does not use fountain pens. Using formal italic and getting the angle right is tricky.

 

Otherwise for the past few days I've been using:

 

- a light slightly teal-light green-leaning gray mix of Iroshizuku Fuyu-Syogun with a few drops of Chiku-Rin and Ku-Jaku into a test vial. Lovely, fresh color.

- KWZ Brown Pink

- GvFC Hazelnut Brown <3

- Iroshizuku Ku-Jaku

- Iroshizuku Tsuki-Yo

- Colorverse Brunch Date

Edited December 25, 2019 by Intensity

[Freddy]

 

Fred..

Freedom is a light for which many men have died in darkness.

[Misfit]

I used Iroshizuku Yama Budo in a TWSBI Eco, Kaweco Paradise Blue in an Eco. The new Levenger True Writer got Visconti Blue. Noodlers Dark Matter is in a Nemosine Singularity. I also used Iroshizuku Chiku-Rin in a Lamy Studio, and finally a Pilot Plumix with the black ink cartridge it came with. I have decided to refill Pilot cartridges instead of buying their converters.

 

Edited to correct an autocorrect of Budo which it called Buds.

Edited December 27, 2019 by Misfit

[EBGBs]

Many! As I have been doing some of my usual ink sheets.

Namely:

• Herbin Rouge Hematite
• Robert Oster Midnight Sapphire
• Robert Oster Heart of Gold
• Montblanc Beatles Psychedelic purple
• R&K Scabiosa
• Noodlers Bad Blue Heron

 

 

 

PS: Brokenclay: WOW, what a christmas gift list!

[northvandave]

- Edelstein Aquamarine in my Mont Blanc Classique, M nib

- Edelstein Smokey Quartz in my Visconti Vertigo, M nib

- Iroshizuku Bishamonten in my Mont Blanc Dostoyevsky, M nib

- Graf von Faber-Castell Moss Green in my Pineider Avatar, M nib

 

I am a sales rep and work from a home office. I like to use different colours in my note taking, no real theme as such, I just like to distinguish different thoughts, emotions and urgencies with different colours. When I am visiting with customers, I limit note taking to one pen. I don't necessarily want to draw too much attention to the fact that I am writing with a fountain pen to avoid the elitist stigma, though, when that has come up, I like to talk a little about how the fountain pen is the ultimate eco writing instrument, it generates zero waste (when bottled ink is used). I love this aspect.

[brokenclay]

Many! As I have been doing some of my usual ink sheets.

Namely:

• Herbin Rouge Hematite
• Robert Oster Midnight Sapphire
• Robert Oster Heart of Gold
• Montblanc Beatles Psychedelic purple
• R&K Scabiosa
• Noodlers Bad Blue Heron

 

 

 

PS: Brokenclay: WOW, what a christmas gift list!

 

:-). It was a big success, although there was some swapping of inks, bodies and nibs among the recipients.

 

That MontBlanc purple looks gorgeous!

[Misfit]

Visconti Sepia in a Nemosine Singularity Walnut brown pen.

I ordered 3 more Visconti inks at $12.60 each thanks to sale price and coupon code.

[brokenclay]

Lamy Azurite in a Waterman Phileas. I thought it was going to be blue, but it's a dark, sedate purple.

 

Katja

Edited January 1, 2020 by brokenclay

[chromantic]

KWZ Maroon and Pinkly!