What Pens Are You Using Today 2019

[Helen350]

Esterbrook - M. nib. Ink: Chesterfield Night Sapphire

Fuliwen 016 - M. nib. Ink: Sheaffer Skrip Turquoise

[Marcwithac]

I think it is pretty cool to mark up documents using a vacumatic.

[inkstainedruth]

Today it's been:

1. TWSBI 580-AL, Pink (B nib) -- finishing up a diluted fill of Noodler's Suffragist Carmine, 2018 Commonwealth Pen Show LE/reissue (for most of my morning pages journal entry; now flushed out and draining)

2. Pelikan M400, Brown Tortoise (F nib) -- diluted vintage Skrip Brown (for the last paragraph of my morning pages journal entry, when the the TWSBI finally ran out...)

3. Noodler's FPC, Cosmic Cobalt flex nib -- Noodler's Heart of Darkness (needed to write some checks and do general banking

4. vintage Sheaffer Balance Oversize, Black -- diluted vintage Skrip Royal Blue

 

I may or may not try the partial bottle of what might be vintage Quink Blue-Black (might be something else -- it seems to have a turquoise/teal color when I swish the bottle around) that I picked up this afternoon while frolicking/adventuring/running screaming into the night before the next round of bad weather and ended up in an antiques mall north of Indiana, PA [didn't buy any pens -- a few junkers in a canister in one booth, and a red Estie J with a nib I already have (9668, in case someone's interested in making an excursion) in another]. Not a great price on the ink, but not horrible either. It's the old style bottle that I think dates to the 1940s, because it's the same type of bottle as the bottles of Microfilm Black I have. I've been trying to pare down the number of pens that are currently in rotation because it's gotten unwieldy again... but I'm also dying to see what this ink actually is like.... [so, should it be the Cedar Blue 51 Vac with the nicely writing EF nib, the red marble Parkette retrofitted with the 14C music nib harvested from a no-name lever filler, the black Duovac I found in an estate sale last spring, or something else? ]

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

ETA: Well, it turns out the new bottle of Quink is... Green. I know because apparently it was leaking slightly.... Fortunately it was wrapped in paper and then put inside a plastic shopping bag by the woman in the store -- and didn't even leak into the bag or on the receipt.

Don't know yet if it's Washable or Permanent Green yet. But it does mean that it's NOT going into the Cedar Blue Vac since I don't think I like the color all that much.... OTOH, while putting into the pen with the music nib would run through it faster, I'm not sure that I want to see that much green on the page.... So, thinking that the Black Duovac might be the way to go. That or the red button filler Laidtone Duofold with the #3 Sheaffer nib on it, because I think that nib is an F or EF.... [Yes, I know -- a Sheaffer nib on a Parker pen. It came that way -- it was in an antiques store northeast of here for ten bucks.... At that price I wasn't gonna hyperventilate about it being a frankenpen, especially since it seems to write well once it was repaired.... ]

Edited February 23, 2019 by inkstainedruth

[Helen350]

Nussbaum Phoenix Series - M. nib. Ink: Noodler's Ottoman Rose

Fuliwen 016 Koi - M. nib Ink: Sheafffer Skrip Turquoise

Baoer 8 Horses - M. nib Ink: deAtramentis Adular Blue

[drathbun]

Nussbaum Phoenix Series - M. nib. Ink: Noodler's Ottoman Rose

Fuliwen 016 Koi - M. nib Ink: Sheafffer Skrip Turquoise

Baoer 8 Horses - M. nib Ink: deAtramentis Adular Blue

 

What do you think of that Baoer 8 Horses Helen? I've had one in my saved list on eBay for a while. Is it the gold, silver or bronze?

[Helen350]

 

What do you think of that Baoer 8 Horses Helen? I've had one in my saved list on eBay for a while. Is it the gold, silver or bronze?

 

Mine is the antique gold. I swapped the nib for a Knox #5 medium nib. I have owned this pen for several years, and like the looks of the pen. With the Knox nib, and just a bit of micromesh, it writes pretty smoothly. Check my snap of the Baoer 8 Horses on What Chinese Pens Using Today.

[Pentode]

This morning it was an unbranded German piston filler from the late 30s or early 40s inked with Jentle Epinard.

 

This evening it was a Pilot 3A from the 70s inked with blue-black, but I cant remember which one.

[mallymal1]

Today it's been:

1. TWSBI 580-AL, Pink (B nib) -- finishing up a diluted fill of Noodler's Suffragist Carmine, 2018 Commonwealth Pen Show LE/reissue (for most of my morning pages journal entry; now flushed out and draining)

2. Pelikan M400, Brown Tortoise (F nib) -- diluted vintage Skrip Brown (for the last paragraph of my morning pages journal entry, when the the TWSBI finally ran out...)

3. Noodler's FPC, Cosmic Cobalt flex nib -- Noodler's Heart of Darkness (needed to write some checks and do general banking

4. vintage Sheaffer Balance Oversize, Black -- diluted vintage Skrip Royal Blue

 

I may or may not try the partial bottle of what might be vintage Quink Blue-Black (might be something else -- it seems to have a turquoise/teal color when I swish the bottle around) that I picked up this afternoon while frolicking/adventuring/running screaming into the night before the next round of bad weather and ended up in an antiques mall north of Indiana, PA [didn't buy any pens -- a few junkers in a canister in one booth, and a red Estie J with a nib I already have (9668, in case someone's interested in making an excursion) in another]. Not a great price on the ink, but not horrible either. It's the old style bottle that I think dates to the 1940s, because it's the same type of bottle as the bottles of Microfilm Black I have. I've been trying to pare down the number of pens that are currently in rotation because it's gotten unwieldy again... but I'm also dying to see what this ink actually is like.... [so, should it be the Cedar Blue 51 Vac with the nicely writing EF nib, the red marble Parkette retrofitted with the 14C music nib harvested from a no-name lever filler, the black Duovac I found in an estate sale last spring, or something else? ]

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

ETA: Well, it turns out the new bottle of Quink is... Green. I know because apparently it was leaking slightly.... Fortunately it was wrapped in paper and then put inside a plastic shopping bag by the woman in the store -- and didn't even leak into the bag or on the receipt.

Don't know yet if it's Washable or Permanent Green yet. But it does mean that it's NOT going into the Cedar Blue Vac since I don't think I like the color all that much.... OTOH, while putting into the pen with the music nib would run through it faster, I'm not sure that I want to see that much green on the page.... So, thinking that the Black Duovac might be the way to go. That or the red button filler Laidtone Duofold with the #3 Sheaffer nib on it, because I think that nib is an F or EF.... [Yes, I know -- a Sheaffer nib on a Parker pen. It came that way -- it was in an antiques store northeast of here for ten bucks.... At that price I wasn't gonna hyperventilate about it being a frankenpen, especially since it seems to write well once it was repaired.... ]

 

Decisions, decisions.

 

A great, little piece, Ruth. The simple pleasures of fountain penning.

 

[minassamy]

Nemosine Singularity Coral acrylic

medium nib

[Ted A]

Kaweco Stonewashed Blue with a stub nib and Private Reserve Purple Mojo.

[northstar]

Hello everyone,

 

Today is a Parker 51 with Parker Black ink:

 

 

[Freddy]

From left to right

Pelikan M800 PIF

Visconti Kaledio Voyager C/C

Bexley 5th Anniversary Amber Agate HR C/C

Pelikan M620 City Series San Francisco PIF

Wahl { Olypmpian } Black HR LF

New Diamond Point LF

Pens are filled with the Blues

Fred

and all have sweet nibs.

Edited February 25, 2019 by Freddy

[OCArt]

A sweet little Parker slimfold. (should be called slim-hold but I guess they wanted to keep the fold from Duo-fold.) A small, "ladies" pen but nimble and quick to write with.

Edited February 25, 2019 by OCArt

[biancitwo]

I had 4 Pelikans, a 100 with an EF, a 400NN with an EF, an M600 with a Pendleton Brown M CI, and a B M800 with a PB CI. All of them are wonderful. However, I reached first my Omas Old Style Paragon with a B Mottishaw CI. I hadn’t used it in a while. It was so nice, I used it all day. It is a gusher, it’s filled with Pelikan 4001 Konigsblau.

[drathbun]

Kaigelu 316 Amber. Arrived in the mail this morning. I've been recording a video and testing it all day. After a small tine adjustment, it is smooth, wet and very broad for a medium nib. Beautiful pen.

 

[inkstainedruth]

So far today it's been the Green Shadow Wave Vacumatic Speedline filler, F nib, with De Atramentis Tchaikovsky, and the Cobalt FPC, flex nib, with Noodler's Heart of Darkness. And if I could unearth myself from underneath the cat I'd run upstairs to grab the Noodler's Charlie which is inked up with Noodler's Blue Ghost -- I need to update my password notebook....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[northstar]

Hello everyone,

 

 

Pen: Sheaffer 300

Ink: Vintage Sheaffer Skrip Black

Paper: TR White

[Helen350]

Pilot Metropolitan Tiger - M. nib. Ink: Sheaffer Skrip Turquoise

Jinhao Li Bai - M. nib. Ink: deAtramentis Blue

[inkstainedruth]

Vintage Pelikan 400, OB nib -- finishing a fill of diluted Edelstein Olivine (the pen is now flushed out and draining).

Parker Laidtone Duofold Vac filler, F? nib -- vintage Quink (Permanent?) Green.

Pilot Decimo, F nib -- dilute Iroshizuku Take-sumi.

 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Helen350]

Hero 6155 - F/M nib. Ink: Sheaffer Skrip Green