What Parker Are You Using This Day?

[eliweisz]

Greetings all,

I am very excited about this pen, I think it is gorgeous!

It is in the style of the Parker 51 Vacumatic, made by Ariel Kullock.

The workmanship is outstanding and motive, a giant squid squirting black ink is charming.

It also is engraved with "Black Pen Society". Age unknown.

I filled it with Diamine Onix Black; any other color would have been inappropriate.

It writes with good flow and will make a great daily user.

 

 

 

A treasure! Happy writing with this exceptional P51!

[moylek]

 

That's too bad. I have a couple of 61s (both with the original capillary filler) and I like them a lot -- easy peasy to fill.

I found that the trick to flushing them is to flush just enough distilled water through them from the back until the ink starts flowing. Write with it, repeat when it goes dry. I ran my first one for four months -- just doing that repeatedly -- before the ink got so diluted as to be illegible on the page.... Then I flushed it out really well. Oh, and don't use a super saturated ink in them because of the capillary system. I suppose you should also have the nib checked out for stuff like alignment issues.

I should put one or both of them back into rotation. Last year the black 61 ran Eclat de Saphir, just refilling as needed, for a good long time. The other one (turquoise) ran De Atramentis Apple Blossom, until I got bored with the color.

 

I almost gave up on this pen ... but decided that maybe what it wanted was Mother's milk.

 

So, with more than thirty bottles of ink in my desk drawer, off to the big-box office-supply store I did go, and bought a bottle of the one and only ink that they carry ...

 

 

I've not used Quink since the 1990s: too boring, too bland. But I'd forgotten how fast it dries on the page: it's fabulous for annotating the margins of glossy-papered text books, for example.

 

I was going to use the Quink just until I thought that the 61 was in fine fettle again, but the combination of quick-drying ink with a hooded nib which doesn't dry out is pretty appealing.

Edited February 28, 2017 by KennethMoyle

[Darkbulb]

Parker 25

 

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[parkerwasmyfirstlove]

One of my Parker 25 in fine with a blue quink cartidge, bretty basic, for the last InCoWriMoLetter plus a small doodle - skyskraper or cloudgrabber...? Lol

[eliweisz]

Parker 75, inked with Diamine Twilight

[Le Vieux]

A beautiful Parkette, with a Swan no.1 italic stub. Excellent writer, excellent pen.

 

 

 

[Mercian]

An English aerometric "51" in Navy Grey that was made in 1954, with a 'fine' nib.

The ink in it is Noodler's ('bulletproof') Black.

Edited March 4, 2017 by Mercian

[newkid12]

This one today. A maroon Parker 51 Special with a fine nib from 1950.

[Manalto]

Beautiful maroon 51, newkid. It looks almost cocoa brown on my monitor. I think that might be the golden glow of the sun.

Edited March 4, 2017 by Manalto

[Vespagirl]

My Parker 21 Super with Waterman Mysterious Blue

[eliweisz]

My Parker 21 Super with Waterman Mysterious Blue

Nice pen/ink combo!

[Vespagirl]

Nice pen/ink combo!

Thank you.

[AL01]

My Parker 21 Super with Waterman Mysterious Blue

They write wonderfully. The nibs are dreams. I hope you have good luck with yours.

[Vespagirl]

They write wonderfully. The nibs are dreams. I hope you have good luck with yours.

So far, it has been a dream.

[eliweisz]

Parker 65 Flighter, repaired by Pablo Carrasco of FPnibs (no affiliation, just a happy customer), ubersmooth Bold nib. Inked with Sailor Rikyu-Cha.

[Darkbulb]

My trusted Parker 25

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[parkerwasmyfirstlove]

Again it's my Parker Ellipse with Sailor miruai this time around.

[mitto]

I have 9 Parkers inked right now. Two 61 Insignias (a capilliary fill and an aero), two 75s (a flat top cislè and an Imperial), one 45 Insignia (with broad stub nib), two Duofolds (a NS and a AF) and two 51 with stub nibs (one medium and one broad).

[eliweisz]

Parker 51 Vac (UK), inked with De Atramentis Thomas Alva Edison

[Manalto]

I took my Parker 51 with me on a plane and it drooled some ink upon arrival but now it's working just fine. I thought I had filled it completely and purged the feed but who can tell with a 51? (Not me.) Traveling with my vintage pen makes me feel like a true devotee.

 

ETA: Filled (presumably) with good ol' Aurora black.

Edited March 13, 2017 by Manalto