What Parker Are You Using This Day?

[fountainpagan]

Parker Duofold, 50's, Made in England

 

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[The Blue Knight]

Parker Frontier GT

[Runnin_Ute]

Today? A late 1960's era 45 Flighter with 14K Medium nib.Pelikan 4001 Blue Black.

[lisadan]

Parker 75 thuya, later version with Hero blue washable ink.

[2feetplanted]

Duofold International navy pinstripe

[Gerd W]

P75 Flighter with M nib, Parker Quink Black

Classic Flighter BP

[Funkmon]

Parker Frontier GT

Those Frontier flighters don't get enough respect. They look like a Sonnet without the gold cap trim, and they write like a dream.

[The Blue Knight]

Those Frontier flighters don't get enough respect. They look like a Sonnet without the gold cap trim, and they write like a dream.

 

I know you mean! I got in the post on Monday and have been using ever since I really a nice smooth pen. It just surprises what you can get for the cost of 2 lunches.

[Funkmon]

 

I know you mean! I got in the post on Monday and have been using ever since I really a nice smooth pen. It just surprises what you can get for the cost of 2 lunches.

I'd used them before, but after not getting one in a PIF I resolved to eat spaghetti for a week to save enough money to buy one. (Spaghetti costs about $1.00 a day to eat.) I did.

 

I got a demonstrator for novelty and the included broad nib. I love fat lines. Great pen.

[lisadan]

Parker 25 mark II flighter with F nib and black trim, filled with Hero blue washable ink no. 233.

[Jerome Tarshis]

Parker Duofold Junior, manufactured in the UK in 1968 to judge from the dating on the nib. Fine/medium nib. Bought in 2002, rarely an entirely likable pen because it took months of use to become the lush writer I was expecting in the first place. (Having read about Aerometric Duofolds on David Nishimura's site www.vintagepens.com.) Then I'd put it away and it would take a further six months at the next attempt.

 

Am now in the land of heartsease about this pen, because when I showed it to FarmBoy at the most recent San Francisco Bay Area Pen Posse gathering, he did the pen-hobbyist's equivalent of an end run in American football, or cutting the Gordian knot, and instead of discussing what ink I was using or what was my experience with hard-rubber feeds, just spread the tines a little, in a few seconds. It is, in this interim report at least, a whole new pen.

[kulindi]

Parker 51 Burgundy...If you asked me this question back in 1970, my answer would have been the same....

[ethernautrix]

This one, an Ariel Kullock P51:

 

Ariel Kullock Parker 51 by ethernautrix, on Flickr

 

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Ariel Kullock Parker 51 by ethernautrix, on Flickr

 

 

I have two P51s; the other is a Special. Yesterday, I wanted to swap the nibs between them (finer steel for the broader gold), so the hood section is dark teal and the filler is the Special, making this P51 Extra Special.

[greatorg]

It's my lovely 75 Cisele Sterling Silver. Inked with Pelikan 4001.

I love it.

 

Gero

[Funkmon]

This one, an Ariel Kullock P51:

 

Ariel Kullock Parker 51 by ethernautrix, on Flickr

 

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Ariel Kullock Parker 51 by ethernautrix, on Flickr

 

 

I have two P51s; the other is a Special. Yesterday, I wanted to swap the nibs between them (finer steel for the broader gold), so the hood section is dark teal and the filler is the Special, making this P51 Extra Special.

What. The Heck. I want one of those.

[lisadan]

Today I'm using Parker 25 (fine nib), together with a Parker IM (medium), black with GT.

[calhoun tubbs]

Black Duofold Junior, permanite, two-band cap. So, smooth

[fountainpagan]

What. The Heck. I want one of those.

 

 

Ethernautix - so do I.

Beautiful!!!

[camoAU]

Current Parker in usage is a Duofold Geometric in black with regular Blue Quink.

 

It's only a very recent acquisition,and I'm only a recent fountain pen user / collector, but it's probably my favourite pen to use at the moment.

[Runnin_Ute]

45 Flighter with 14K Medium nib with Noodler's 54th Massachusetts.