What Indian Pens Are You Using Today - 2021 ?

[Prof Drew]

On 4/19/2024 at 4:32 PM, tommym said:

Yeah, I wore plastic pocket protectors for decades. I don't have a clue where I got them from. Tommy

Thanks @tommym, I saw quite a few of them when I was at Purdue University back when slide rules were part of the look. My partner might sue for divorce if I wore one. She already warned me about my bow ties.

 

And thanks @inkstainedruth for the Amodex suggestion. I have some handy next to the detergent. I had mixed results with it. Yes, elbow grease was essential, as was catching it in time. I think a lot depends on the ink too.

 

Don't let me get started on the memory of a day when a lovely bottle of some lovely blue ink from Birmingham pens flipped off my desk and created a puddle on white carpet. That was not a fun weekend. I was on my knees all weekend. Used Amodex and the wet vac quite a few times.

 

Have a good writing weekend. Keep the controlled leak on the page

[tommym]

1 hour ago, Prof Drew said:

Thanks @tommym, I saw quite a few of them when I was at Purdue University back when slide rules were part of the look. My partner might sue for divorce if I wore one. She already warned me about my bow ties.

 

Yeah, my bow ties are stored in a small cardboard box out in the garden shed next to the weed killers.

 

Tommy

[Prof Drew]

I liked wearing bow-ties when I worked as a librarian or bookseller. Sometimes wearing a tie just seems a bit more professional... but in Hawai'i we never wear them perhaps except commencement or in the service industry. Now ties have a worse rap with a certain former president with his long red or blue ties. Oh well.

 

Hope the garden is going well. I enjoyed gardening at first, but then realized that I was mostly successful at raising weeds. Living in a condo, I don't mind weed whacking

[RideAround]

PLP (model unknown) small green ebonite clipless pen with Noodlers El Lawrence ink.

[Harish N V]

Nice pen. What nib is this?

[RideAround]

The nib is a jowo #6, 1.1 , 18k

[K Singh]

Currently inked pens: 

 

Kim ACR Jumbo

Woodex 39

Ratnamson Supreme

 

All inked with Krishna Lyrebird Blue/Blueblack inks.

 

 

 

[Karmachanic]

Custom Black and Red Ranga Majestic, (no clip, no ring, shorter barrel), Montblanc 149 late 80s 14k F nib.

[Harish N V]

On 6/14/2024 at 11:43 AM, K Singh said:

Currently inked pens: 

 

Kim ACR Jumbo

Woodex 39

Ratnamson Supreme

 

All inked with Krishna Lyrebird Blue/Blueblack inks.

 

 

 

Great. Gentle giants you have☺️

[Harish N V]

23 hours ago, Karmachanic said:

Custom Black and Red Ranga Majestic, (no clip, no ring, shorter barrel), Montblanc 149 late 80s 14k F nib.

Can you share the Ranga pictures if possible

[Harish N V]

On 6/14/2024 at 11:43 AM, K Singh said:

Currently inked pens: 

 

Kim ACR Jumbo

Woodex 39

Ratnamson Supreme

 

All inked with Krishna Lyrebird Blue/Blueblack inks.

 

 

 

What feeder does the Kim have?

[K Singh]

1 hour ago, Harish N V said:

What feeder does the Kim have?

Thank you. It has that Sheaffer-like feed. I made a comparison post between this old version and the newer Jumbo version in this thread:

 

 

[K Singh]

Inked this old Deccan Masterpiece pen today

 

 

[Harish N V]

What lovely matte finishing. Lovely clip too. Enjoy writing. 

[Harish N V]

I have switched back to my m1000 after a long singular phase with Indian pens

[hari317]

1 hour ago, Harish N V said:

I have switched back to my m1000 after a long singular phase with Indian pens

it's about time...

[hari317]

On 7/1/2024 at 3:04 PM, K Singh said:

Inked this old Deccan Masterpiece pen today

 

 

even Deccan can't recreate this masterpiece today. The Woodex 39 used to be a good substitute but even that has been killed by the tweaks to its design. 

[Harish N V]

7 hours ago, hari317 said:

it's about time...

☺️

 

7 hours ago, hari317 said:

even Deccan can't recreate this masterpiece today. The Woodex 39 used to be a good substitute but even that has been killed by the tweaks to its design. 

Totally agree. I feel they should have stuck with the eye dropper. And the Deccan mp has a straight writing section instead of the hour glass on 39. I hope woodex start offering their eye dropper version

[kareth]

woodex 61

vulcanised hard rubber material 

ink dropped straight barell fill 

Indian type #8 size nib; Ricoh (ambitious?) fine nibwidth

constructor specs - pen:162mm, 143mm (without cap), section:11 mm, 3ml ink hold

 

thanks..

[K Singh]

9 hours ago, Harish N V said:

What lovely matte finishing. Lovely clip too. Enjoy writing. 

Thanks. The Clip is also of better quality than my Woodex 39, which has already started to turn yellowish.

 

9 hours ago, Harish N V said:

I have switched back to my m1000 after a long singular phase with Indian pens

Cool 👍