What Pens Are You Using Today 2020

[Helen350]

Pilot Varsity Disposable Fountain Pens. Friends of mine gave me a wideruled notebook, which is

definitely NOT fountain pen friendly. The FPs which I have inked today have medium and stub nibs

which do not work well with this 20 lb. weight paper. Setting this notebook aside to do a study

on the framework of the inner man.

 

[inkstainedruth]

Robert Oster Carbon Fire, in the Lamy al-Star, 1,1 mm stub. It's a great color, but tends to get get cloggy and have nib creep if not a daily user ink.

J Herbin (scented) Lavender, in a Parker 61, F (?) nib. I thought that since some of my other Herbin inks do well in capillary fillers, this would work as well, only not so much.... I had to take a bulb syringe to the back end to force a little distilled water through, and it's still not really behaving....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

ETA: Sorry, read the thread title wrong. I'm not running on all cylinders today....

Edited June 9, 2020 by inkstainedruth

[AmandaW]

Today I'm writing with a Delike New Moon 2 Deep Rose with a mini fude nib. It is filled with Diamine Triple Chocolate.

 

[Runnin_Ute]

A little of this and a little of that. Couple of M200'S, a 140, and a Vacumatic.

[langere]

I am presently splitting my three pens into these categories: 1) a European pen 2) a Chinese pen and 3) a Japanese pen. That means a Visconti, a Moonman, and a Pilot.

 

More than three and then it takes forever to use up the ink in each pen.

 

And now that I have to do a lot of corrections and editing online, I have less occasion to use my pens.

 

Erick

[A Smug Dill]

Pilot Varsity Disposable Fountain Pens.

Oh, my order of the 7-pen set from Amazon just arrived yesterday (all the way from the faraway land of the US). They were originally intended as a package of presents, along with some Paperblanks journals in which to draw, for a couple of little girls among family friends; but, after reading some reviews on the pens — specifically how some of them, particularly the ones with black and purple inks, may be subject to hard starts and other ailments — I'm not sure they would make a good and enticing introduction to fountain pens for the girls. So, at this point, the plan is my wife and I to use those pens ourselves, and if they're actually any good I might order another set. In the meantime, I do have brand new Platinum Prefounte pens (in every colour) from which the girls can choose, but it's just more of a pain for their parents even if I give them compatible converters and a few bottles of ink.

[Helen350]

Oh, my order of the 7-pen set from Amazon just arrived yesterday (all the way from the faraway land of the US). They were originally intended as a package of presents, along with some Paperblanks journals in which to draw, for a couple of little girls among family friends; but, after reading some reviews on the pens — specifically how some of them, particularly the ones with black and purple inks, may be subject to hard starts and other ailments — I'm not sure they would make a good and enticing introduction to fountain pens for the girls. So, at this point, the plan is my wife and I to use those pens ourselves, and if they're actually any good I might order another set. In the meantime, I do have brand new Platinum Prefounte pens (in every colour) from which the girls can choose, but it's just more of a pain for their parents even if I give them compatible converters and a few bottles of ink.

 

Not one of the pens in this set had a hard start problem - thank goodness. For the cheap paper I am using for

this study (can't tell a gift giver that their gift is not fountain pen friendly - LOL), these pens do the job. Apart

from bleed through on the back, there is no problem with ink feathering on the front. Located three videos on

YouTube on how to refill them. This video showed the "no fuss way" to refill them::

[PAKMAN]

Platinum Curidas

[Karmachanic]

Soennecken S26, MB Midnight Blue

MB 235 1/2, Diamine Grey diluted 3:5

[Helen350]

Jinhao 3000 - 1.1 Goulet stub. Ink" Chesterfield Antique Yankee

 

[A Smug Dill]

@LizEF's review of Platinum Classic Ink Lavender Black this week inspired me to put it — something other than Diamine Oxblood! — in my EF-nibbed deep red Pilot Elite 95S for a change, and as an intermediate step while I have a Pilot converter freshly filled with the ink, check out what it looks like on the page coming out of a Pilot Penmanship EF nib:

[vivdunstan]

Finally trying glass dip pen bought in Venice! Great fun, though neuro illness hands make constant refills a bit of a challenge. Surprisingly smooth writer with second ink (red lid bottle). Look forward to trying with my usual Diamine Chocolate Brown and Diamine Scribble Purple.

[PAKMAN]

Lamy Marron XL

[Noihvo]

[Helen350]

Picasso 916 - M. nib. & Noodler's - M. Huashilai nib

 

[silverlifter]

1937 Sheaffer OS Balance "Premier"

 

[Helen350]

Gama - F/M nib. Ink mixture of Noodler's Walnut Brown & Chesterfield Archival Vault Black

[BaronWulfraed]

In fortuitous timing, a Benu Supreme Black Opal was delivered today... and my Benu Scepter VI was down to the last drop so...

 

Scepter VI/Levenger Regal is out

 

Supreme Black Opal/Colorverse Office Navy Permanent is in

[N1003U]

Yesterday and today, I am using a Pelikan M600 Violet-White with Pelikan 4001 Violet ink.

 

I was motivated to pull it out again after a lengthy discussion over in the Pelikan forum about the posting problems of this particular model which, based on my crude analysis, seems to be a cap geometry issue.

 

(NB: the photo below is cross posted in the Pelikan forum for illustrative purposes only to show what an M600 looks like when normally posted--here it is posted just because folks seem to like to post actual pictures of the pens they are using today)

 

[Helen350]

My beautiful bottle of Akkerman Ink arrived today. Inked up my Noodler's Konrad Ebonite, with a

1.1 Goulet nib.