What Parker Are You Using This Day? 2018

[hari317]

 

 

Redacting....Hari..your photographs are very nice {happysmileyfacetimethingie}

thanks Freddy.

[MichieMiche]

Hello,

I am using a Parker 61 Flighter with a stub nib. My ink of choice is Diamine Bilberry.

 

[mitto]

Hello,

I am using a Parker 61 Flighter with a stub nib. My ink of choice is Diamine Bilberry.

 

MY PARKER 61- A.jpg

Is it a C/C 61?

[MichieMiche]

Is it a C/C 61?

Hi Mitto,

Yes, it is

 

You gave me advice about changing the nib in another thread (https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/331630-parker-61-nib-size-and-repairs/page-2)

 

Thanks!

[mitto]

Hi Mitto,

Yes, it is

 

You gave me advice about changing the nib in another thread (https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/331630-parker-61-nib-size-and-repairs/page-2)

 

Thanks!

Congrats. You have now got a good pen with a marvelous nib. Enjoy writing with it.

[MichieMiche]

Congrats. You have now got a good pen with a marvelous nib. Enjoy writing with it.

Thanks, Mitto! It is my first pen with a stub nib. I am enjoying it.

[Dip n Scratch]

Parker Reflex (UK) bought November 2005 in W H Smith. I have no idea of the true date the pen was made.

I don't know where this pen was placed in the Parker range at the time, probably pretty low.

It is nothing like the pens of the past that Parker made, it's mostly made of plastic.

 

Why don't the major players of the ink market do Parker compatible cartridges? There's enough of the pens around by now. I haven't got an empty Parker cartridge to refill with Diamine Majestic Blue. With the converter the pen seems to write rather wet & I wondered if the thing would be any different with a cartridge.

 

I won't be offended if the Reflex is a P.O.S. I have kept it for sentimental reasons.

I had been out of work for a very long and then bought the Parker with the money I made in my first pay.

I knew no better at the time & I have no firm memory of what pens I used at school.

 

I have no immediate plans to acquire a vintage Parker, but I do wonder about the true origin s of the Hero 616.......

[HoosierGeek]

My only Parker and my first vintage pen, a black Super 21 that I got for an amazing price on eBay. I'm in love and determined to eventually get a nice Parker 51 when my budget allows.

[inkstainedruth]

My first fountain pens (before I found my way into this little hobby) were a couple of Reflexes (not counting what I may have had when I was a kid). They're not bad for the money -- I bought mine new for $6.95 US in the early 2000s or so. The main issue is that the rubberized section will disintegrate eventually (I was using mine daily for journaling), leaving some rubber over a metal base.

I ended up giving mine away in a "pick a prize" raffle, when I upgraded to a Vector. (you buy raffle tickets and if your ticket gets drawn you get to pick whatever is on the table). So I assume they went to a good home. Wasn't sure I'd like the Vector at first (F nib vs. the M nibs on the two Reflexes) -- until I discovered how much further a cartridge went with the finer nib.

I remember liking the Reflexes other than the section issues. And if Staples had continued to carry them, I probably would have bought a third one.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

ETA: Today it's been the Plum Demi 51, still running diluted De Atramentis Aubergine.

Edited February 16, 2018 by inkstainedruth

[shamwari]

Today, tomorrow and the following workdays, my newly acquired 4th quarter of 1950 "51", black with a Custom cap. I received it on Monday and it came with some ink still in it, I flushed it yesterday evening and filled it this morning with Waterman Blue-Black and will be using it as much as possible every day at work to see how long a fill lasts.

 

Best

 

James

[mitto]

Sonnet (extra wide cap band) Fugere with two tone 18k nib and double section rings. Smooth writer and no nib drying out ailment. Ink is Scrip blue.

[Heldin]

A parker 50 falcon flighter, my current favorite parker pen . I'm using Blackstone Sydney Harbor Blue in it.

[mitto]

A early production P45 flighter with R nib. Love using this italic nibbed P45. Ink is Waterman serenity blue.

[thx1138]

New to me (and almost perfect) stirling silver cisele parker 75 with a very smooth and fairly wet broad nib.

[ajcoleman]

The last week or so I have been using a navy blue Parker 45 with a medium steel nib, filled with Diamine Registrar's ink, along with the matching Parker 45 pencil. The pen is doing wonderfully with this ink. I planned on switching to a Parker 51 set after a fill or two, but this pen is doing so well it has been hard to switch.

[mitto]

Inked today a flat tassie #66 nibbed sterling silver sicelé 75 with scrip blue. Love writing with my 75s.

[mariom]

1955 Burgundy 51 Aero with a rolled silver cap, Visconti blue.

 

c1925 black Duofold Junior, Blackstone Barrier Reef blue.

[JotterAddict62]

Just a P51 Aero desk pen today. [ hard starter ] needs a cleaning.

[Shaifnan]

I use the Parker Duofold Greenwich, and some ballpoints (2 Parker Duofolds and the Parker Sonnet Mono Chiselled Brown GT). I don't have a big collection pens these are all my pens.

[Raif79]

My new 1938 Vacumatic Senior Maxima in Silver Pearl.