What Pens Are You Using Today 2020

[NumberSix]

Currently inked:

• Parker 45 (14k M) - Aurora Black cartridge
• Parker 51 Special (F) - Waterman Serenity Blue
• Platinum Preppy Crystal (03) - Quink Washable Blue, eyedroppered
• Shaeffer School/Cartridge Pen (M) - Skrip Green cartridge

 

 

I also just rec'd bottles of Waterman Inspired Blue from endlesspens and Waterman Audacious Red from Vanness. So I will end up inking some things with those - probably a Broad Parker 45 and a Fine Shaeffer Prelude or Fine Parker 45.

[Freddy]

Went with my buddy to visit his son at Calverton National Cemetery in Suffolk County, New York....

 

In my jacket pocket was a pair of Sheaffer fountain pens.....OS Balance / black lever filler..

and Intrigue /Seal c/c filler....Both are filled with Sheaffer's Skrip #22....................................

 

Fred

[Helen350]

Jinhao 159 Rose Gold - M. nib. Ink: Waterman Inspired Blue

Jinhao 599 Metal - Rose Gold - M. nib. Ink: MontBlanc Black

 

[PAKMAN]

Blue Platinum Curidas!

[inkstainedruth]

So far today it's been the M600 Violet and White, EF nib, still with diluted Edelstein Topaz; and the Safari Violet SE, B nib, with Robert Oster Grey Seas.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Zookie]

A Hero 565 and Hero blue/black ink.

[Helen350]

Monteverde Napa - M. nib. Ink: Chesterfield Capri

Wearever - Pennant - M. nib. Ink: Dryden Designs Luscious Pink

Jinhao 599 Metal Rose Gold - M. nib. Ink: MontBlanc Black

Jinhao X750 Rose Gold - M. nib. Ink: Diamine Syrah

(Going to write with these 4 for the next few days while pen cleaning)

[Freddy]

FiveEighty8

Keepin' other pens company...................

 

LL1

 

Fred

[MusterMark]

Leonardo Furore Blue Galaxy with a medium stub by Dan Smith

• ink: Robert Oster Fire on Fire

Pilot Vanishing Point with a medium nib

• ink: KWZ Grapefruit

Edison Collier Antique Marble with an EF nib

• ink: Standard Bindery Canyon Walk

[Helen350]

Was on a row today and cleaned 39 pens, including the ones I thought

I was going to be using for the next few days. So busy cleaning, I had

to order dinner. Just completed cleaning my pens an hour ago, and

decided to ink up my Fosfor Maharaja - Schmidt Med. nib for journaling

this evening.. Ink: Diamine Syrah.

[Freddy]

DaniTrio Cumlaude Blue-Gray C/C Filler

Filcao Atlantica Oro Lapis Button Filler

Bexley Poseidon Magnum II Piston Filler

Edison Collier Antique C/C Filler

 

Fred

[gmathio]

This one...

[NumberSix]

• Parker 45 (F) - Aurora Blue cartridge
• Parker 17 "Lady" ( - Quink Washable Blue

 

The Jotter has a Parker blue gel refill, but it's in the pic just for scale on the 17.

 

My Preppy (03) continues to be eyedroppered with Quink Blue. I am fighting with myself about whether to put something else in it (I have Baystate Blue on the way, for one) or to leave it until I run at least low enough to burp ink. At the rate it lays out ink and gets used as one of my rotation, it'll be awhile.

 

Edited May 29, 2020 by NumberSix

[Black Spot]

I try to have only one pen inked at a time, and at the moment I am using my vintage Pelican.

Pelican !

[Helen350]

I try to have only one pen inked at a time, and at the moment I am using my vintage Pelican.

Pelican !

 

Only one! Oh my. Even with all the pen cleaning done yesterday, today I have 6 inked:

Fosfor Maharajah; (3) Metropolitans, Wearever Pennant & Jinhao 159. I've tried to

be disciplined with just one pen inked, but I tend to like multiple colors on my journaling

pages.

[Black Spot]

Helen350, I found that some times pens would dry up if I left them to long, I tend to hover around one to three pens. I do not have many ink colors. For work I can only use black. I underline things with the red pen and that is it.

[Mercian]

 

Only one! Oh my. Even with all the pen cleaning done yesterday, today I have 6 inked:

Fosfor Maharajah; (3) Metropolitans, Wearever Pennant & Jinhao 159. I've tried to

be disciplined with just one pen inked, but I tend to like multiple colors on my journaling

pages.

I agree that one pen is unconscionably austere, but I do limit myself to only ever having two pens inked at any one time. Because I know that if I didn’t do that I would soon find that all my pens had become clogged with dried-out ink

 

I came to this decision after I once let an iron-gall ink dry out in a Parker “51”.

The very slow and very lengthy process of fill with cleaning solution, stand, flush; fill, stand, flush; fill, stand, flush; etc to clean that out was one that I wish to never need to repeat

[Penman222]

I am using a Shaffer Statesman Touchdown, the fat open nibbled model only made in 1949-50 before the thin model was introduced in 1951. It is a fine nib and I filled it with Lamy Blue

[Helen350]

I agree that one pen is unconscionably austere, but I do limit myself to only ever having two pens inked at any one time. Because I know that if I didn’t do that I would soon find that all my pens had become clogged with dried-out ink

 

I came to this decision after I once let an iron-gall ink dry out in a Parker “51”.

The very slow and very lengthy process of fill with cleaning solution, stand, flush; fill, stand, flush; fill, stand, flush; etc to clean that out was one that I wish to never need to repeat

 

I only own two iron gall inks (MontBlanc Midnight Blue and a Registrar's ink), and use them rarely. I do

remember when I first began collecting pens, I did not understand the importance of keeping them

clean. Had a pen inked with an iron-gall, and learned that hard lesson. I could not afford to take that

class again either!

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[Helen350]

Helen350, I found that some times pens would dry up if I left them to long, I tend to hover around one to three pens. I do not have many ink colors. For work I can only use black. I underline things with the red pen and that is it.

I've already used (3) pens this morning in my journal/writing time (Fosfor Maharaja, Jinhao 159 and Jinhao

Centennial). I have quite a bit of writing left for today, and will be using my Monteverde Napa & Jinhao 599

(metal version). I have about 35 bottles of ink left in my collection. Partial to blues, greens, some browns,

some purples and burgundy reds, Just recently purchased my first bottle of Oxblood. The more bottles of

ink you have, the more pens some of us tend to ink.