What Parker Are You Using This Day?

[marcello252]

translucent green Parker Frontier with schmidt refill

[mitto]

A P51 with a broad nib taken out of a English made P61. Ink is Waterman serenity blue.

[Mike 59]

Hi, I found and bought these 2 'Frontiers' in a charity shop.

Both had been used, yet really almost 'as new'.

Both have a T.III datecode, yet the nib patterns are different, both write very smoothly.

I think they are an economy version of the Sonnet, nibs are interchangeable too.

 

[inkstainedruth]

Today it's been the (avocado?) green Vector, F nib with (diluted) Robert Oster Purple Soul, and the Red Shadow Wave Vac Junior, F-ish nib, with its usual diet of Waterman Mysterious Blue.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[mitto]

A pair of English made P51 R Silver capped FP and BP. Ink is Skrip blue.

[ENewton]

Today it's been the (avocado?) green Vector, F nib with (diluted) Robert Oster Purple Soul, and the Red Shadow Wave Vac Junior, F-ish nib, with its usual diet of Waterman Mysterious Blue.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Ruth, are you finding Purple Soul to be purple or green? I've been using Purple Rock in my plum demi, but it looks distinctly green on some papers.

[inkstainedruth]

 

Ruth, are you finding Purple Soul to be purple or green? I've been using Purple Rock in my plum demi, but it looks distinctly green on some papers.

 

Purple Soul is definitely a blue-y purple. Purple Rock is a grey-ish purple -- my bottle is definitely not green....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[ENewton]

 

Purple Soul is definitely a blue-y purple. Purple Rock is a grey-ish purple -- my bottle is definitely not green....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Thank you.

[mitto]

An early production very clean R. Gold cap Engnish Parker 51 that I received yesterday alongwith some other vintage pens (a MB 24, a NOS P45 Arrow with 14k M nib, a Conway Stewart 85 and a Targa 1005) from my supplier in antique market in karachi. I restored the 51 today and now it is test filled with Waterman Serinity Blue. It Has a broadish Medium nib and write quite beautifly.

Edited November 3, 2017 by mitto

[RocketRyan]

I used 3 today, duofold centennial with a juicy medium, a duofold international with an oblique nib and a chinese lacquer sonnet with a fine nib. All brilliant.

[Runnin_Ute]

Burgundy Parker 45 A nib

[Mike 59]

Hi, Trying out this USA made '45', with Cross blue ink, but must be some black ink still in the feed as it's writing very dark blue, which I don't dislike for a change.

The nib is a very nail-like steel 'fine', which was NOS, and it took a fair amount of tuning/tweaking to get the tine gap as it is now, and also I had to very slightly open the feed channels as it wrote very dryly.

[Freddy]

Parker "51" Vacumatic Cedar Blue Gold-Filled Cap Clusters of 4 Lines Pattern Medium Nib

1943 .3. Filled with Seitz-Kreuznach Navy Blau

 

Fred

[inkstainedruth]

Parker Vector (pink) F nib -- with Noodler's Shah Rose (I don't normally match pen and ink colors, but it worked).

Parker 51 (Midnight Blue), M-ish nib -- with (diluted) Lamy Pacific Blue.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Glen1981]

I bought 5 different 45s on eBay last weekend so I've been playing with them this week. Today I've been using a red arrow with xf nib and Quink blue and a CT flighter with a steel fine nib and Yama Dori.

[inkstainedruth]

New to me Parker 61 (M-ish nib) which has some unknown black ink in it (I started flushing the pen last night and ink started coming out so I'm using it -- much as I did with my first 61 (which ran for nearly four months, just with what was in the capillary filler when I bought it, until it was so diluted as to be illegible... ).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[pajaro]

Parker 51 Plum full size.

[mitto]

A 1948 Plum 51 full size and a 1950 British Burgundy 51. Both with gold caps. Filled with Waterman Serenity Blue and Palikan Royal Blue.

[BillH]

A 1945 Vac Major Golden Pearl with Lie de The, and an undated later model Burgundy "51" Special with a nice little 14k nib. Filled with Fire and Ice it writes fat fine.

[Gerd W]

Duofold Centennial Marbled Red, approx. 1990, M-nibbed. Very pleasurable.