What Pens Are You Using Today 2018

[Actor-out-on-loan]

A little inexpensive workhorse

 

[JayKay3000]

Cherry Red retro 51 tornado with screw cap.

[limt]

Mb 149 with Waterman Havana Blue

[inkstainedruth]

Pink Parker Vector, F nib, with Diamine Flower Marigold (yeah, I know, it's a weird color combination -- pink with light orange, but I put ink into the wrong pen...).

I hadn't tried all of the Flower Collection inks before now (some I like, some I don't). Marigold is well behaved, but is not exactly easy on the eyes. And, well, orange... (I HAD been hoping for it to be yellow -- it's been a couple of years since I got the set for Christmas, and forgot to recheck old reviews).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[mtbradley]

Blue Esterbrook J 9668 with Noodler's Ottoman Azure.

Edited August 27, 2018 by mtbradley

[ENewton]

Waterman Gentleman with J Herbin Poussiere de Lune

 

Sailor Pro Gear Slim Purple Cosmos with Sailor Shigure

[stephanos]

TWSBI Precision with a Medium nib and Lamy's Blue-black ink.

[praxim]

Not long ago I bought a few Soenneckens. Today I brought the first of them into action, a 116. It is said to have a medium nib although, as seems to happen with vintage pens, it is more medium-fine. The nib is soft, somewhat flexible, very smooth, a true delight to use. However, being smaller than the 507 it is barely long enough unposted, absurdly long posted, with the cap sitting very high. A keeper pen, one of a few wonderful older pens in action at the moment. Ink in use is Graf von Faber Castell Moss Green, one of my favourite greens.

[mtbradley]

Blue Lamy AL Star with M nib loaded with DCSSB.

[Inkyways]

Pilot Falcon fine with Diamine Red dragon ink

[Retro-user]

At the moment, my go-to FPs are the Pilot Metro and the Pelikano.

[Freddy]

Accompanying others..........

Ancora..Narcissus..F/M nib.

Pelikan M800 West Germany..BB nib.

Pens are filled with the blues.........

 

Fred

It takes all kinds of meat to make a good sauce

~ Vincent Smith aka Rory Calhoun

[Kyoto28]

Pilot Custom 74 EF with Mont Blanc Royal Blue.

 

And a Lamy Safari with the same ink in F when I want something more basic.

[Marcwithac]

After years of reading about Indian-made ebonite pens, I recently took the plunge and acquired this beautiful Lotus Vamza. So far, I have been extremely pleased with its appearance and performance.

[inkstainedruth]

Lamy LX (Ruthenium), M nib, with diluted Randall Blue Black.

Parker 51 Aerometric (Forest Green), EF (I think) nib, with vintage Quink Permanent Violet.

 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[ISW_Kaputnik]

These two pens. Most will recognize the make and model of the one on the right, no doubt, but how many can identify the one on the left? Not an extraordinarily hard question, just a little obscure. And of course there are many "everybody knows that" things about fountain pens which I don't know.

 

The gray pen has a gray ink, De Atramentis Gaius Julius Caesar. The other has De Atramentis Document Blue.

 

[VRI39C]

Currently using Montblanc 149 with Montblanc Midnight Blue, and a Noodler's Boston Safety Pen inked with Noodler's Dragon's Napalm.

[praxim]

Trying a Montblanc 14 with fine to extra fine nib, filled with GvFC Hazelnut Brown.

 

On first testing, the pen had a small stress crack in the middle underside of the section, not extending to either end. It seems I have filled that successfully. There is still a little surface residue to polish away.

 

The pen works perfectly, and the slip cap design is handy in that it has pretty much two phases of operation, the first position sealing off the nib for practical purposes which still removing easily, and the second gripping the pen very firmly to put safely in a pocket. This makes the pen excellent for intermittent use.

[Freddy]

Accompanying others..............

Fred

Are you machine or being?

Captain J.T.Kirk

I am both...and neither. I am my own beginning, my own ending.

Guardian of Forever

The City on the Edge of Forever

[Shannon]

Lovely little Montblanc Classic.