My Currently Inked Pens On Fountain Pen Day 2014

[Lou Erickson]

No time to take a picture, and way more than usual:

 

Two in my pocket:

Parker 51 Fine with Iroshizuku Yu-yake

Parker 21 Broad with Pilot Blue-Black

 

More at home:

 

Lamy 2000 Fine with Iroshizuku Tsuki-yo

Lamy 2000 Stainless Medium with Iroshizuku Tsuki-yo

Lamy 2000 Broad with Iroshizuku Tsuki-yo

Pilot 78g Broad with Iroshizuku Yu-yake

 

It's a Pilot ink kind of day, I guess.

 

Also: Yu-yake in a fine point is underwhelming.

[keo]

Newton Pens Orville F stub - J. Herbin Vert Empire

Kaweco Classic Sport F - Noodler's Lexington Grey

Pilot 78G F - Noodler's Zhivago 2:1 w/water

Baoer 388 M - Sailor Jentle Grenade

TWSBI 540 F - Noodler's Red Black

Pelikan M200 italic - Noodler's Apache Sunset

Parker 45 M - Parker Quink Black

Nemosine Singularity F - Nemosine Black

[blINK]

Here is what I have inked up today for FPD 2014. It is about 75% of my small collection. But I've used them all today. Apologies for the poor photos.

 

In the event that you cannot read my chicken scratch:

 

Cross Townsend - Iroshizuku Kon Peki

Cross ATX - Waterman Purple + Waterman Black

Cross Year of the Snake - Noodler's La Reine Mauve

Esterbrook Bell Systems J - Private Reserve Daphne Blue

Esterbrook Blue SJ - Diamine Teal

Parker 51 Demi Vac - Waterman Florida Blue + Waterman Black

Parker 51 Special - Diamine Poppy Red

Parker 51 Special - Parker Quink Washable Blue

Pilot VP - Noodler's Sequoia Green

Pilot Metro - Noodler's Baystate Blue

Sheaffer 100 - Montblanc Lavender Purple

Sheaffer Snorkel Admiral - Private Reserve Lake Placid Blue

Sheaffer Prelude - Diamine Coral

Montblanc Early 50s 342 - Montblanc Lavender Purple

Montblanc 144 - Diamine Presidential Blue

Montblanc 144R - Private Reserve Naples Blue

Montblanc 146R - Montblanc Midnight Blue

Edited November 7, 2014 by blINK

[French]

In my pencase:

Pilot/Namiki Bamboo - Shin-ryoku

Lamy 2000 - Noodlers Old Manhattan Black

Noodlers Ahab (Iroquois) - Noodlers Lexington Grey

 

My fountain pen day project was cleaning the Ahab's feed, heat setting the feed and making sure I am happy with the flow. I love how a $20 pen can be just as fun, if not more fun than a $200 pen.

[Icywolfe]

I have these pens "inked" if inked is a correct term for this.

 

Pilot Justus95 SF - Organic Studios Oscars Copper - A nice looking orange-brown ink that has some shading.

Pilot Custom Heritage 912 C - Sheaffer Skrip Peacock Blue - A vibrant light-highlighter blue color. I normally only use it on my Sheaffer Stateman with the Snorkle.

Pilot Custom 74 MS - Pilot Iro Konpeki - It has some weird shading on this nib especially on the curves that gives it some depth. The nib is more of 90 degree writer.

Namiki/Pilot Elabo SF - Noodler's GotA - Still no color changes but it's a dark green color that isn't overwhelming.

Pilot Elite 18k M - Pilot Iro Fuyu syogun - A weird gray color that makes your writing look slightly old and weathered.

Sheaffer Stateman Triumph - Sheaffer Skrip Peacock Blue - A vibrant light-highlighter blue color.

TWSBI Vac700 - KWZI Turquoise - The Smell is like peppermint candy and the color is less of a turquoise but more of a dark Konpeki.

 

The reason why the term "inked" wouldn't fully work is that.... all those pens are running on Fumes. My cleaning syringe broke so.... I won't be able to refill my pens as I like to clean them.

[Exlaminis]

Pilot Grance Italic - Iroshizuku Tsuki-yo

Parker 95 - Platinum Mix-Free Flame Red

 

I don't have many pens. T.T

[KBeezie]

Pilot Grance Italic - Iroshizuku Tsuki-yo

Parker 95 - Platinum Mix-Free Flame Red

 

I don't have many pens. T.T

 

But you have em, and they're not bad ones to have when you only got two.

[Exlaminis]

 

But you have em, and they're not bad ones to have when you only got two.

Well, not the best foray into fountain pens I would think. The Parker has a very shoddy converter that doesn't hold ink strangely enough. Either that or ink is evaporating at an alarming rate, which is unlikely because I tend to leave it sitting for weeks at a time. The Pilot couldn't write well at first, so I had to grind the nib myself.

[KBeezie]

Well, not the best foray into fountain pens I would think. The Parker has a very shoddy converter that doesn't hold ink strangely enough. Either that or ink is evaporating at an alarming rate, which is unlikely because I tend to leave it sitting for weeks at a time. The Pilot couldn't write well at first, so I had to grind the nib myself.

 

I started out with a multitude of $3-7 Chinese pens. (could have saved myself the hassle and just got the $2 Pilot Petit1 which gave me a problem, smooth, reliable, etc, had I known about it in the beginning).

[Exlaminis]

 

I started out with a multitude of $3-7 Chinese pens. (could have saved myself the hassle and just got the $2 Pilot Petit1 which gave me a problem, smooth, reliable, etc, had I known about it in the beginning).

That's an interesting place to start. What happened to those Chinese pens? I'm guessing that you don't use them, judging from your currently inked pens.

[Anirban4u]

I did post this on facebook I suppose (but not on fpn's page).

 

Used the red Rotring to post the note yesterday. (India, different TZs).

I left my camera at home when I returned from vacation.

[ISW_Kaputnik]

Recently I've been keeping more pens inked than I really mean to. Today, it's:

 

1. Montblanc Noblesse with Sailor Jentle Doyou
2. Namiki Falcon with Sailor Tokiwa-matsu
3. Pilot Vanishing Point with Sailor Oku-yama
4. Pilot Custom Heritage 92 with Pilot Blue-Black
5. Lamy 2000 with Sailor Jentle Shigure
6. Vintage Conklin Crescent with Pilot Iroshizuku Yama-Guri

[KBeezie]

That's an interesting place to start. What happened to those Chinese pens? I'm guessing that you don't use them, judging from your currently inked pens.

 

Well I was on a stupid binge since a friend of mine who kept showing off his pens online said I could get started pretty cheaply with something like a Jinhao X450 or X750, my first two being a Jinhao X750 with a Goulet EF nib and a X450 with a Goulet 1.5 (found the goulet nibs to be much nicer than the Jinhao stock ones). That quickly grew into about 40 or 50 chinese pens over time. 95% of them I ended up giving away on FPN and FPGeeks as PIFs after I adjusted them the best I could so they were in writing condition (for the most part they worked ok if it was the only pen you used and you used it most of the day).

 

Initially thinking I'd be more into heavier pens a lot of them were slightly heavier and I eventually started finding my personal preference in nibs and pen shape/balance etc.

 

I only have two left that I'm trying to sell off, one of which was one I got early on a Uranus 1000 which is ok, but I don't like the metal cap scraping onto metal pen body when capping and uncapping. The other being a Hero 6062 which I never intended to get, but came with my Pilot Elite Lady as a gift because the ebay seller knew me from FPN and knew I liked Asian pens (mainly Japanese but ya).

 

But yea, most of them were cheap enough (ie: less than $8-10 a pop) that I considered their cost sort of a 'rental' to try and get a feel for it and gain some experience with them, and was just passing it on to the next person at the cost of shipping. Also about 12 of them were review samples from Pens N' More which I PIF'd after giving them a go and reviewing them.

 

Currently I have 26 pens. (will try to link pics as I have em to the name).

 

Inked you see from the list.

 

Uninked :

Platinum Century 3776 Bourgogne w/ 14K Medium

Pelikan M250 ('92-'96) w/ 14K Medium

Pilot Vanishing Point (Blue Carbonesque) w/ 14K Fine

Pilot Elite, Black Colored (~70s/Short) w/ 18K Posting Nib

Pilot Elite, Black Colored (~70s/Short) w/ 18K Soft Fine

Pilot Elite Lady Taupe with Coral Section (~70s/80s Short) w/ 18K Fine

Eversharp Skyline (full size, 1940s) Burgundy body with black/green striated celluloid cap and 14K firm fine

Parker 51 Vacumatic (Cordovan Brown, Gold Filled Cap, 1948 body), w/ a Fine~Medium 14K Nib dated 1950.

Sheaffer Snorkel Admiral (Burgundy) w/ 14K Fine Nib

Sheaffer Touchdown Statesman (Persian Blue) w/ 14K Fine Nib

Sheaffer Touchdown Admiral (Evergreen) w/ 14K 2-tone Feathertouch Accounting Nib

Sheaffer MiLady Balance (Striated Carmine) w/ 14K 2-tone Feathertouch Extra-fine Nib

 

Uninked but listed for sale:

Bexley Jitterbug! in Jukebox Red with a 2-tone Bexley Fine nib

Kaweco AL Sport (Raw Aluminum) w/ Kaweco Medium Nib

Faber-Castell BASIC (Leather) w/ Fine Nib

Uranus 1000 (Blue/Silver with Gold Trim) w/ gold plated F~M semi-hooded nib

Hero 6062 (Black with Golf Clubs) w/ ~M nib.

 

... I have too many yet at the same time I don't have enough pens. And considering trading some of my currently uninked ones to venture into maybe some broader nibs or perhaps a cursive italic (which is crisper than just a stub), but I could just hold out and get a cursive italic for the vanishing point, except I'm not a huge fan of the clip on the VP.

 

 

Recently I've been keeping more pens inked than I really mean to. Today, it's:

 

1. Montblanc Noblesse with Sailor Jentle Doyou
2. Namiki Falcon with Sailor Tokiwa-matsu
3. Pilot Vanishing Point with Sailor Oku-yama
4. Pilot Custom Heritage 92 with Pilot Blue-Black
5. Lamy 2000 with Sailor Jentle Shigure
6. Vintage Conklin Crescent with Pilot Iroshizuku Yama-Guri

 

Yea I been trying to keep it 6 or less (ideally 4 or less).... but it doesn't stay that way for long.

Edited November 8, 2014 by KBeezie

[volkswagenfox21]

Strangely enough, I usually have all my pens inked all the time, but not for today.

[MontPelikan]

Hello,

 

a short video review of the Baoer 388 here:

 

 

Thank you for watching and sharing!

 

MontPelikan