What Parker Are You Using This Day? 2018

[ENewton]

This morning it was the newly reissued French-made Parker Vector, M nib, and Robert Oster Black Violet.

Love the pen, but the ink is very dry.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Oster purples always look tempting in swabs. I'd love to hear of one that is wet, or at least not notably dry.

[mitto]

A UK aero Duofold Maxima and a Senior. Both in red. The Maxima has a fine nib while the senior has a broad nib. It is a pleasure to write with these pens.

[pajaro]

Parker Sonnet Moonbeam, fine nib, bright variation as opposed to the darker variation.

[artart]

45 flighter with Y nib (oblique medium)

the barrel lost its chrome end years ago so it is now sort of a "demi" size

[hari317]

An English C/C 61 Flighter GT with a B nib and a hood missing the arrow.

[inkstainedruth]

 

Oster purples always look tempting in swabs. I'd love to hear of one that is wet, or at least not notably dry.

 

Well, in the (newly reissued) French-made Parker Vector it's in, it's bone dry.... I would not give it whirl in my Platinum Plaisir or the Poseidon Pearl Noodler's Konrad, because those are dry pens.

Too bad, because it's an interesting color -- think Diamine Eclipse or Noodler's Ellis Island but with a blue-purple undertone instead of being an almost black blue-black.

I have RO Midnight Sapphire in the ebonite Konrad at the moment, and it was a much wetter and more lubricated ink (and sufficiently saturated than when refilling the pen with distilled water, it makes for a nice medium/dark blue that is somewhat darker than Iroshizuku Tsuyu-kusa or Lamy Blue. And of course RO Moss is a fabulous green that leans ever so slightly yellow without being a yellow green.... So, it's like every other brand of ink I've tried, pretty much: some colors I would never want to be without and some you couldn't pay me enough to use again...

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[mitto]

A cedar blue 51 vac with gold filled blue diamond cap from 1946. Good medium wet nib.

[thx1138]

Black and anthracite Parker 100 with broad maybe stub nib. Diamine sapphire.

[oregano]

My Parker Big Red International (2015) in red with a juicy medium nib and a few others. Sorry I don't have a pic!

[Penman222]

Burgundy Parker "51" Special with a very smooth medium octanium nib. The pen is filled with Diamine Syrah, which matches the pen very nicely.

[coinlvr]

1945 Parker 51 USA made. Amazing.

[M@rtin]

Parker 51 Industria Argentina

[grasshopper]

Accompanying the 75 for this week is my Royal Challenger.

 

 

 

[hari317]

Lady Insignia with OM nib.

[ctt1wbw]

I can't ever decide but I use both a lot. A 1924 hard rubber Senior and a new Centennial.

 

 

[Boz]

Parker 51 with a huge steel stub; amazing writer.

Using J Herbin sapphire blue ink.

[mitto]

A 1924 big red (orange) flat top senior Duofold and a green earometric senior Duofold.

[hari317]

A worn but lovely writing BHR flat top Duofold Jr.

[pajaro]

Parker 51 Industria Argentina

I have one of these. It is red and its red is the prettiest carmine like red. It writes superbly.

[Nyoko]

Two recently acquired Parker 180s - one in red and the other in blue lacquer. I have many vintage Parkers but was never interested in the 180; this model seemed so thin and small and the nib is odd. But now I can't stop using them. They are beautifully made and well designed pens, as well as excellent writers (one is a M/XF, the other a B/F). They have perfect flow and are very responsive with just the right amount of feedback (like so many of that era's Parkers). Still a bit of a thin pen but even that is part of the charm!