What Pens Are You Using Today 2018

[cattar]

That papermate sounds interesting.

 

I found a Platinum Preppy that's been hiding under the car's floor mat for the past 18 months. So two winters with freezing temps and one hot summer.

The ink is a deep dark reddish purple mix of the Platinum mixing inks.

Writes great. Those caps do seal.

Now, what to fill it with next...

[coinlvr]

Parker 51 vacumatic 1948.

[Jeje3325]

For work this week it will be a Lamy Aluminium All Star F and a Pilot custom heritage with a M nib. Both are really great daily writers. The pilot is inked with Iroshizuku Ku-Jaku and the Lamy with Yama-Budo.

Great flow and a real pleasure to write with. Writing basically exclusively with fountain pens adds a little extra pleasure to my daily routine

 

Have yourselves a great day.

 

[Jeje3325]

Double post sorry

Edited April 9, 2018 by Jeje3325

[southpaw]

Pilot Custom 823 Amber

Medium 14k nib - Smooth a butter

Diamine Ancient Copper

[Penman222]

New extra fine Lamy AL-Star in a greenie-yellow-ish color. I am really not a big fan of extra fine nibs or black ink, but that what is required for work. It writes pretty good for an extra fine nib however...

 

[MercianScribe]

It appears my Watermans 12 PSF, Watermans 55, Kenrick & Jefferson Superpen, Pilot Penmanship, and red Preppy 0.2 have fallen into EDCs (and EDUsers).

[inkstainedruth]

Today it was:

1. Parker Vector (stainless steel, M nib) with (diluted) R&K Alt-Goldgrun.

2. Noodler's Charlie (clear barrel, flex? nib) -- Noodler's Blue Ghost.

3. Lamy LX (Ruthenium, M nib) -- Lamy Blue cartridge (possibly diluted -- I forget)

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[mallymal1]

MB 254 with Diamine Sargasso Sea, and a PenBBS 323 with Cult Pen's Deep Dark Green.

 

[sub_bluesy]

My new Kaweco Liliput in copper BB. The finish on this pen is constantly changing! Its really much more interesting than I expected. I work with a lot of copper so its not new to me but this non heat treated copper ages much differently than Im used to.

[Retro-user]

Papermate 0.7 mm black gel pen, a blue Bic round stick grip, and a Lamy Vista with purple ink.

[Penntellr]

New to me Conklin Duragraph 1.1 Stub & a couple of (20's or 30's ?) Celluloid National plungers Ive restored with Durium nibs.

Inked w/ Quink & Pilot Iro's...

 

Edited April 13, 2018 by Penntellr

[praxim]

Ever so briefly, an Aurora 88K with EF nib, new to me.

 

Externally, the pen is in very fine condition. In use, the nib was starved of ink yet there was leakage around the end of the section. It needs a new piston seal for the second problem, more disassembly and cleaning for the first.

 

I take pens apart only to the extent shown to be needed. In this case a basic flush and greasing of the piston has proven insufficient so more will be done. Ink has been dumped into the Random Mix bottle.

 

The other five pens inked for the first time (by me) today are showing up as excellent, of which more anon.

[praxim]

The wonders a little maintenance will do: Aurora 88K now writing perfectly. It was sold as an EF nib. I think it is an F, that clogging in the feed channel reduced ink flow such that someone thought it dry and fine. Sonic bath, bulb flush, nib floss, new piston seal, silicone grease in all and only the places needed, and it is another brilliant vintage Aurora ready for reliable use anytime and anywhere.

[sdbruder]

Today I used 4 of the 5 inked pens:

 

TWSBI ECO-T Extra fine

TWSBI 580AL 1.1mm STUB

Knox Aristotle OBB

Ensso Piuma Broad

 

—

seriously no-more-pens now.

[ppdiaporama]

It's been a while since I've answered this question.

 

Today in my pen pouch...

 

Sheaffer Targa Medium with an old Sheaffer brown cartridge that I dug out from a drawer!

Edison Collier with a Sheaffer Extra Fine nib from a 1948 Sheaffer Valiant with Noodler's Black Swan in English Roses

Kaeigelu 316 with a Franklin Chrstoph Fine Nib with Diamine Graphite

 

Also lying about on my desk

Pilot Knight Medium with an almost empty cartridge of Pilot Mixable Green

Lamy Safari (All-Black) Extra Fine with the blue cartridge that came with it.

[praxim]

Montblanc 264 from the 50s. From reviews, I had expected a harder nib so have been pleasantly surprised. This one is slightly soft, very comfortable little pen.

[southpaw]

Please excuse the chickenscratch and cellphone camera.

[CraigR]

 

A 1920's Moore Lever Self-Fill, chased brown rubber, ring top, with a gold medium nib. Just a bit of flex. Filled with Visconti Bordeaux ink. The blotter is a reproduction. Plain copy paper background.

[Freddy]

 

Fred

....then all those cafe' ole girls in high heel shoes will really cure your blues

it seems they all just aim to please

Those women sway like wind in the banana trees

 

Then you know you're Down in ol' Brazil