What Parker Are You Using This Day? 2018

[AreBeeBee]

1945 1stQ Vacumatic in azure with a VS medium nib; 1960s blue-black Quink (blue diamond bottle).

[mitto]

A Canada made first generation (lockdown filler) Vacumatic Standard with full flex nib. Inked with Sheaffer Scrip blue.

[mitto]

Enjoying these two 51s with broad stub nibs. Waterman serenity blue and Pelikan royal blue.

 

 

Edited October 4, 2018 by mitto

[hari317]

very nice nibs!

 

I am using a Std English Duofold in Black with a Broad nib.

[mitto]

very nice nibs!

 

I am using a Std English Duofold in Black with a Broad nib.

 

Hi hari

I too have two UK aero Duofolds inked with very wet nibs that look medium to broad. A black Maxima and a sea green Senior.

 

 

Edited October 4, 2018 by mitto

[hari317]

lovely pens! Love the Maxima.

[jchch1950]

Parker 15 made in France with Parker blue ink. A small take-everywhere pen.

[mitto]

Recently restored Duofold Senior big red (single vide raised band). Parker Qink blue.

[tamiya]

What Parker Are You Using This Day? 2018

Today? I scribbled few words, only used 2 Jotters

[thx1138]

Inked today my sterling silver sonnet, parker 75 and parker 75 Premier. All with broad nibs.

Also used my lapis lazuli Duofold ball pen to take notes during a long phone conversation.

[pajaro]

51 ballpoint, midnight blue, broad refill.

[hodgedunkin]

A Parker 51 with a fine/ medium nib using Waterman Intense Black ink

[mitto]

Using today my flat top big red orange SPECIAL. I found the pen in the wild (in an antique store) for a good price but cap lips had visible cracks. Later, while cleaning it, it just crumbled and two pieces around the cap lips fell away. After much search I was able to find a parts pen with a good cap, nib and section but with broken barrel. Restored it a few days ago and is now good to go. Nib has some flex or better say springiness to it.

[AreBeeBee]

Gray vintage Jotter (sword clip, dome button) with, however, a Schmidt EasyFlow 9000 bold refill in blue.

[inkstainedruth]

The vintage Parkette retrofitted with the music nib from a no-name lever filler, filled with diluted vintage Quink Royal Blue.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[vicpen123]

SS with chrome trim Sonnet, medium nib and Quink black.

[azbobcat]

This is the 2018 version of the topic

What Parker are you using this day?

 

The last post of the old topic can be found here:

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/251764-what-parker-are-you-using-this-day/page-117?p=3973139&do=findComment&comment=3973139

 

 

 

Enjoy

 

 

D.ick

Moderator

 

While this is just a personal preference, I am using a best pen Parker ever came out with: The Parker 45!

[inkstainedruth]

I like my 45s well enough (my first one, with the 14K M nib, has a small sweet spot -- but when you hit that, and have the right ink in the pen, it's like dancing on ice across the page....

But if I have to do a lot of writing at one sitting, they're a little on the skinny side for my hand. And then I'm going to want something with a little more girth -- one of my 51s or larger sized Vacumatics.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Yohaanrods]

Today I inked my Parker 45 classic CT in medium nib with Parker quink blue.

I so hope that the new school notes books are better quality so that I can write with it...

[stu1ritter]

Just received my new to me Parker 51 Mark II Aerometric (that's what the repairman called it) back from having a broad nib installed. Filled it from an unopened bottle of Super Quink with Solv..X (found in my house when I moved in 35 years ago) and now I'm back to memory lane of note taking in high school and college. What a treat to have one again. I don't think anything quite fits the hand so well.

 

Stu