What Pens Are You Using Today 2019

[chromantic]

Finally decided to ink up a blue Lyra Calypso rollerball I bought a couple years ago. I need a hard point for one NCR form at work and had stopped using the Herbin a while back. The Calypso is bigger and can use long cartridges if desired.

 

I went with Monteverde Sapphire. The color is lighter than it is in my Pelikan 140 but goes nicely with the (somewhat darker) pen color though it looks pretty much like standard ballpoint blue.

[ISW_Kaputnik]

Two vintage American pens, a little Sheaffer Flat Top with Pilot Blue Black ink, and a Parker Vacumatic with Pilot Blue.

 

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[Freddy]

Fred

2 plus 2 equal 5

[Misfit]

I’ve used Pelikan Cafe Creme, Faber-Castell Grip 2010, Pilot Plumix, and a DeLike dip pen.

[northstar]

Hello everyone,

 

Today using a Burgundy Sheaffer Snorkel Statesman inked with vintage Sheaffer Skrip Black:

 

[Noihvo]

 

[pkotrcka]

My Caran d'Ache Ecridor Retro, inked with R&K Verdigris

 

[northstar]

My Caran d'Ache Ecridor Retro, inked with R&K Verdigris

 

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Beautiful pen

[Freddy]

SixEightyNine

Fred

goin' for a late nite swim....Alpha Mike Foxtrot

[pkotrcka]

Beautiful pen

 

Thank you, yes it is. I also have it in "Variation" finish and in 2020, I am planning to buy a "Heritage" finish one :-) Also, a good writer, so..

[ENewton]

My Pelikan 140, not marked but probably F. I bought the pen about a year ago, with the idea that a Pelikan, being (stereotypically) wet, might be a good vehicle for Rohrer & Klingner Scabiosa, but in my hand, the pen is quite dry, with distinct feedback. Charged with Birmingham Boiler Steam Blue Black, it provides a reasonably smooth writing experience, but the Pelikan mystique continues to elude me.

 

My Pilot Prera F. This is an excellent pen for scribbling notes in the margins of a paperback book. I am using Birmingham Allegheny River Twilight, which will serve well for the application.

 

My Parker 51 Burgundy. This is the pen I will carry around with me for as long as it is inked. I have chosen Rohrer & Klingner Aubergine, an uncomplicated but solid dark purple, to mark the end of summer.

[inkstainedruth]

1. Purple Cosmos Sailor Pro-Gear Slim, zoom nib -- Diamine Earl Grey.

2. Forest Green 51 Aerometric, EF nib -- not sure but I *think* it might be Waterman Mysterious Blue (looked like a Waterman's bottle at the JJ Lax table at the Commonwealth Pen Show, when I was having the nib tuned this afternoon. Pen is now a WHOLE lot less scratchy, and Josh Lax also said that it didn't look as if it had seen much use before I got it (I've only inked it up once since getting it because of the nib issues).

3. Blue 1980s era Pelikan Pelikano, F (?) nib -- Noodler's Boson Brahmin Eye of the Porbeagle LE (the 2019 Commonwealth Show swag ink).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[silverlifter]

• L2K MCI - Diamine Registrars
• Conid Minimalistica HM - Iroshizuku Asa-Gao

 

[kulnet]

Moonman M2 with Sailor Irori

[pkotrcka]

Kaweco Special <M> + Sheaffer blue-black

Sheaffer Legacy Heritage <M> + Cross blue-black

 

[Freddy]

Bexley Simplicity Bronze C/C

Pair of Pelikan pens....

100N Green/Black Binde PIF

400NN Brown/Tortoise PIF

Fred

At the Purchaser's Option:

You can take my body

You can take my bones

You can take my blood

But not my soul

Rhiannon Gibbens/Joey Ryan

[cherylmarie]

I finally summoned the courage to attempt Sheaffer vacuum filler repairs, so today I am using four recently refurbished pens!

 

1. Gray pearl white-dot Balance - Lifetime nib

2. Golden brown military-clip Commandant - #33 nib

3. Black military clip Commandant (a little shorter?) - #33 nib

4. Golden brown Triumph with a solid 14k band - Lifetime Triumph nib

 

Just had to share my joy with some like-minded people!

[AL01]

Hello everyone,

 

Today using a Burgundy Sheaffer Snorkel Statesman inked with vintage Sheaffer Skrip Black:

 

 

What beautiful Arabic!

[Misfit]

TWSBI Eco Sunset Orange filled with Lamy Neon Coral, Esterbrook LJ filled with De Atramentis Sherlock Holmes, Pilot Plumix black fitted with the black ink cartridge it came with, Acme Studio Rocket Hero filled with a sample of Colorverse Saturn V, Retro 51 Zodiac filled with Nemosine Alpha Centauri,

Retro 51 frosted Aquamarine filled with Diamine Turquoise, and a Jinhao x750 Shimmering Sands filled from a sample of Iroshizuku Yama Budo.

[inkstainedruth]

So far today it's been the Parker Parkette (retrofitted with the no-name 14C music nib) using vintage Quink Permanent Blue Black, and the Pilot Decimo (F nib) currently sporting Iroshizuku Tsuyu-kusa (because that ink doesn't seem to get enough love around here).

But I'm sure that other pens will get used later in the day -- if nothing else because I've got the Steel City Nibs meeting to go to....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth