What Parker Are You Using This Day?

[mdrawde]

A black and rolled gold P51 in medium.

[inkstainedruth]

 

What brilliant color combos! i bet you really enjoy using those Vectors.

 

People sneer at them for being school pens, but I find that they're little workhorses. I was really sad when the barrel on my first one cracked at the threads a year or two back -- and then discovered that cobalt blue was an uncommon color.... I got a translucent rollerball for a buck to harvest the barrel in the meantime, but I really wish I could find another one in the right color. It was my first "good" pen (after a couple of Parker Reflexes where the rubberized grip disintegrated on me), and I've always had a soft spot for Vectors ever since the blue one sat in my brother-in-law's house for a month, then in the bottom of my husband's car in 20°F Massachusetts weather for a week -- and then the day after my husband got home I pulled it out and it started right up....

I may have as many Vectors as Parker 51s.... And more than Vacumatics. Because they're great little tester pens, and are especially good for iron gall inks in particular. I even have one that's a 4 nib unit calligraphy set (although I've only used the IF nib on it).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Le Vieux]

Parker Vac pre-war, stub italic.

[mitto]

A grey VS with gold filled cap and gold washed clutch ring. The pen has a juicy Vacumatic Major nib in it. The pen has very crisp marking on the barrel with 7. as the datecode.

[Jerome Tarshis]

Midnight blue 51 Demi Special, medium alloy nib, Waterman black. To my surprise the nib has gotten wetter and all-round more voluptuous after only a short period of use. (By me.)

[AL01]

Probably just clogged up ink that gets watered down....

 

Or bits and stuff that's starting to come out....

 

or the pen just feels like to?

[mitto]

A forest green aero 51 that I picked up lately. When I disassembled the pen I found out the sac nipple had softened just like the sac. I prepared another sac nipple and attached it to the connector and resacked it. The silver breather tube had also disintegerated. The pen came with a lustraloy cap and long gold filled clip.

 

After complete restoration the pen is now inked with Waterman serenity blue.

Edited August 4, 2017 by mitto

[Mike 59]

Hi, Trying out Waterman 'Blue-Black' ( Encre Bleu-Noir) in this 2016 Vector, seems to suit it well.

 

[Le Vieux]

parker vacumatic emerald, lockdown model (1934), fine nib, waterman encre vert

 

 

Edited August 17, 2017 by PenThing

[mitto]

A Rolled Siver capped English Parker 51 fountain and ballpont pen (yes ballpoint pen and not MP ) set that I picked up among seven other 51s on the eve of 70th Independece Anniversary of my homeland on August 14.

[inkstainedruth]

Well, since it's after midnight here, technically yesterday I used:

Parker Vector, Green, F nib -- Robert Oster Purple Soul

Parker Vector, Multicolor, F nib -- Robert Oster Blue Water Ice

Parker 51 Midnight Blue, M(?) nib -- Lamy Pacific Blue.

 

[Why yesterday? Because I've just spent an a hour and a half fighting first with the Verizon/FIOS website to get a contact phone #, then being on the phone with their tech support having them remotely reboot my box and router -- to no avail -- then sending a message to Music Channel complaining about *their* tech support (and lack thereof), and can they please remove the automatic widget option when people change channels, because it's annoying and useless (not to mention a complete lack of response -- or action -- because something they list as one song is actually TWO and they're clearly idiots...).]

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[newkid12]

Today, an English made Flighter from the 1980's.

 

 

[Penman222]

Burgundy Parker "51" Special

 

 

[Eccles]

Silver Lustre Sonnet from Q3 2007 with excellent monotone 18k M nib and none of the allegedly common Sonnet problems; it's smooth & moist without being too wet, and no starting or skipping problems... a joy to use.

Glenn.

[mitto]

A few days ago I bought a lot of parker 51 parts - barrels, hoods, connectors, filler shrouds, collectors, feeds and caps (some with jewels but broken clips and others complete) for Rs 4000 ($38 approx). No nibs, however. I was able to assemble/complete 5 pens using the parts and others from my parts' box.

 

I am now using two of the so completed 51s. A teal blue and a Bloody Brit Burgundy. Both are smooth and extra wet writers. The way I like my 51s. The nibs on both the pens are English made.

[ENewton]

I just inked the Duofold Junior I recently bought at the San Francisco pen show. It's a nice little pen for a person with small hands. I like that it's short without being slim.

 

My other Parkers--two Parker 51s and a Victory--are wet writers, but this is the wettest! I must be careful about paper.

[Eccles]

Honey White & GT Parker 100. A lovely pen, and a great writer.

I'd have more of them, but the availability has gone down and the prices way up!

I guess other people like them too!

Glenn.

[mitto]

As usual Parker 51s and 75s.

[Freddy]

 

Fred

[Jerome Tarshis]

A UK Duofold Junior of the 1960s and a 51 Demi Special, both with medium nibs and filled with Pelikan brilliant black.