What Parker Are You Using This Day?

[mitto]

Quite surprisingly, a Parker Sonnet in Sterling Silver Cisele. And it writes superbly and doesn't dry up if unused for a week (haven't tried longer). Haven't had such good luck with a modern Parker before.

What a good luck you have !

[LWJ2]

Test run of the new scanner:

 

And it appears to have the brightness off. It'll do for now, however.

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[mallymal1]

A P45 White Circles Harlequin. Nice.

[Eccles]

Blue lacquer Insignia with GP fluted cap and GP steel nib that is smooth as any and, amazingly, flexes from F to M.

It is delightful to use to the point of deliberately finding things to write with it.

Glenn.

[cambookpro]

Parker Sonnet red lacquer GT with Sheaffer Skrip turquoise. Love it.

Edited July 23, 2015 by cambookpro

[jkingrph]

I just received a Duofold special edition(orange) Centennial pen pencil set. I loaded the pen with Diamine Pumpkin and am giving it a try.

[Manalto]

My freshly-restored (Danny Fudge) 51 Blue Diamond in Dove Gray with 14K fine nib, inked up with Rohrer & Klingner Alt-Goldgrün. To my eye, Lustraloy, gold and gray makes for an understated, elegant combination and the spring-green ink is so soothing I'm having trouble staying awake!

 

This is the first 51 I've used since I was a child (back when 51s were everyday pens) and the combination of nostalgia and quality has me hooked!

Edited July 23, 2015 by Manalto

[j1020]

My late '40s Parker 51 desk pen, which I use everyday that I am home.

[inkstainedruth]

Parker 61 (not sure of the nib width, but probably an F) with J Herbin Eclat de Saphir.

This will be the first time that I've actually tried filling it since I got it last summer (I spent several months just running distilled water through the pen until I started getting ink flow, and then writing with whatever had been in it until the point where it was so light it was getting illegible). I had a bit of trouble getting it started, so I tried the same trick -- a drop or two of distilled water from the back of the capillary filler, with the pen facing downwards. We'll see what sort of capacity it really has (it was hard to tell how much the capillary system took in).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Eduardo]

Parker 51 Demi Aerometric

[mitto]

English Aerometric Duofold Major. A semi flex nib. Super smooth writer.

[dojocho]

Parker Duofold Millennium Greenwich that I was able to buy NOS, with a poster and a cardboard commercial pancarte (the ones you see on the counter). A stunning beauty with a dito nib.

[Ted F]

A Parker Duofold International Black-&-Pearl (1st qtr. 1994) with a bold nib adjusted by Pendleton Brown.

[Boston Brian]

Parker International with BB nib, filled with Aurora blue ink.

[richardandtracy]

A very nice P51 Aero Custom in black with a brownish cap jewel. There is a noticeable foot on the nib, but as it's almost at my normal angle, I'll leave it be. It's a bit fine to be a UK Medium, so probably a US medium.

 

Regards,

 

Richard.

[TeaHive]

I'm using a FrankenParker 51.. Navy Grey barrel and shell, and the guts are Parker, but the cap is a gold-tone Hero 616. Currently loaded with Diamine Grey, but there was residue of some green ink from its last use, and it makes an interesting green-grey. Kind of forest-like.

[Romagno]

Today I am using my Parker 100 - Cobalt Black, gold trim, fine point.

 

This is a very nice pen, and it makes me wonder why I don't use it more often!

[migo984]

Lovely nib on this pen.....

 

 

[nysouthpaw]

I am using a pre WWII Parker Duofold that was my father's. Of all the Pens I have, it is still my favorite to write with. There is also something very satisfying about unscrewing the cap and laying nib to paper that I can't explain to anyone in my family. This pen stays in my office and when I'm interviewing a student, it is the pen I go to. I have some new Parkers that I carry with me, but my old Duofold has a distinctively different feel to it.

[Mookli]

I am using a pre WWII Parker Duofold that was my father's. Of all the Pens I have, it is still my favorite to write with. There is also something very satisfying about unscrewing the cap and laying nib to paper that I can't explain to anyone in my family. This pen stays in my office and when I'm interviewing a student, it is the pen I go to. I have some new Parkers that I carry with me, but my old Duofold has a distinctively different feel to it.

This family knows exactly what you're talking about, and I'd love to see it if you have a picture.

I too have a few pens with history, sentimental connections to a time, place, love one......

Pens with soul, from a time when writing was a craft and your mark said something about you,

 

M