What Pens Are You Using Today 2018

[sub_bluesy]

Jinhao X450 in red ice. Love this pen. I think I have 5 of them now in red ice lol

[MercianScribe]

I'm using a Dasi Superflex at work.

Dasi are an Australian brand and stopped making pens in 1976... yet I bought mine from a local pen shop in 2003. An email from the son of the bloke who started Dasi suggests it might have been NOS. Nice pen though.

 

Nice! Never heard of it! Show us! (Too demanding...? )

[MercianScribe]

So far today... Unknown vintage broad italic noodle with Iroshizuku Shin Ryoku for lesson plans.

Platinum Preppy 0.2 and 0.3 in red for marking.

Arnold Combo with Diamine Red Dragon for longer terms plans.

 

Hope to be using my Watermans Safety pen this evening, which is arriving from the UK, but I think it's a bit of a vain hope as I don't know what condition it's in, and almost certainly not ready to go... and ditto Watermans W2 (though if anything that probably just needs a resack to get going so that's not a problem)

 

Yesterday was a great FP day...

Pilot Penmanship with B italic and Shin Ryoku mixed with bog standard Pilot Blue.

Daiso reground cursive italic with Manuscript Turquoise cartridge.

 

Did a good bit of calligraphy practice with my trusty Watermans 12PSF and 55.

Remembered a few old faithfuls were inked...! Watermans 502 semi-flex stub with vintage Watermans Tropical Green, Cameron 74 with a Hindoo nib with Red Dragon, Watermans 3J with broad superflex stub and Pilot Black, Cadillac Big Red with Kanwrite flex nib and Pilot Blue-Black...

[MercianScribe]

Jinhao X450 in red ice. Love this pen. I think I have 5 of them now in red ice lol

 

That's a lovely colour scheme, innit? I have an x750 in the same, didn't know there was an x450 in it too.

[Oldtimer]

Esterbrook J with Parker Quink ink

 

Wing Sung 698 - suer fine (~0.38) with Diamine Oxblood

[ENewton]

Sailor Pro Gear Slim with Birmingham Waterfront Dusk

 

Monteverde Invincia Deluxe with Birmingham Lilac Wind

[sub_bluesy]

 

That's a lovely colour scheme, innit? I have an x750 in the same, didn't know there was an x450 in it too.

I didn’t know they made a 750 version. Got to find one now!

[inkstainedruth]

Parker 51 Aero Demi (Plum), M nib -- diluted De Atramentis Aubergine

Parker Vacumatic Debutante (?) Speedline filler (Azure Blue Pearl) M? nib -- vintage Quink Microfilm Black

TWSBI 580-AL (pink), B nib -- Diamine Tudor Blue

Scheaffer Balance Oversize, F nib -- Birmingham Schenley Park Thicket Green.

 

Yeah, today my usage was kinda all over the map....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Edited February 7, 2018 by inkstainedruth

[Inky_paws]

I'm using a Dasi Superflex at work.

Dasi are an Australian brand and stopped making pens in 1976... yet I bought mine from a local pen shop in 2003. An email from the son of the bloke who started Dasi suggests it might have been NOS. Nice pen though.

 

 

 

Nice! Never heard of it! Show us! (Too demanding...? )

 

Not at all demanding, I just have to remember to take a photo at work

[Freddy]

Filled with the Blues.......................

 

Fred

 

...I say that dog's busier than a centipede at a toe countin' contest...

 

~ Foghorn Leghorn...Plop Goes the Weasel

[chromantic]

Pastel blue Sheaffer Cadet Touchdown with Yama-guri.

[inkstainedruth]

Parker 61, M nib, with diluted Birmingham Smithfield Street Bridge Truss Blue.

Sheaffer Balance Oversize, F nib, with Birmingham Schneley Park Thicket Green.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[danielzchang]

Lamy Safari in the office, and a Parker Sonnet in the backpack.

Edited February 8, 2018 by danielzchang

[Bookman]

Today's lineup, including my most recent purchase, a Hero Century Pioneer.

The Hero Century Pioneer has a slender profile. At its widest spot on the barrel, it's 10mm in diameter.

The grip tapers from 9mm down to 8mm. The hooded nib is smooth and on the wet side.

And use any conspiracy theory that suits you to explain the presence of a bar code on the barrel.

[pajaro]

Pastel blue Sheaffer Cadet Touchdown with Yama-guri.

 

I love those Touchdown Cadets.

[mehandiratta]

Just inked my new pen :

 

Lotus Shikhar

 

You can check more images: here

 

 

 

[sub_bluesy]

Just inked my new pen :

 

Lotus Shikhar

 

You can check more images: here

 

 

 

I like it!

[BaaadSheepie]

Today used my Sailor Nagasawa Apricot to journal at home.

 

Also used a Centropen 1409 and a 1970's Sheaffer clear demonstrator cartridge pen (used as an eyedropper) at work.

 

Problem with the Sheaffer... filled it up with J.Herbin Orange indien ink... only realised later that it totally looks like I'm carrying around a pen filled with blood...

[ParramattaPaul]

A 1940s vintage Mentmore Supreme lever fill with a very smooth writing medium nib.

[praxim]

Aurora 88K some, but mostly an Onoto 3050.