What Pens Are You Using Today 2020

[Helen350]

Lamy Al-Star Bronze - M. nib. Ink: Blue ink cartridge

Jinhao 599 Al. - Lime Green - M. Nib. Ink: Mix - Purple

[Freddy]

Pelikan: 100N pif

 

German: Unknown w/a Degussa nib pif {new cork}

 

Pelikan: SE M101N Tortoiseshell/Red pif

 

All pens are dealing with the Blues

 

Fred

always depend on the kindness of strangers .........B.D.

Tennessee Williams

Edited July 28, 2020 by Freddy

[Keyless Works]

Sheaffer Legacy Black lacquer with gold cap - M and Sailor Shikiori Yodaki.

[I-am-not-really-here]

Today's pen was a CS Dinky LE with Caran D'Ache Divine Pink.

[ggrosjean]

Black Waterman Serenite' with MB James Purdy & Sons Cigar, Wahl-Eversharp Decoband Sedona with Edelstein Smokey Quartz

[PAKMAN]

Visconti Ti Skelton

[dms525]

 

 

[br549]

A 1950 burgundy Sheaffer Touchdown Sentinel, currently filled with J. Hebrin black. It's my favorite FP in my collection so far.

[NumberSix]

Lamy Safari, USA Edition (EF) - Noodler's Baystate Blue

 

Great match. This nib really needs a wetter ink, and the BSB ink needs a narrower nib to keep it behaving. Plus, the Red, White, and Blue pen screams for a great blue (or red).

[ENewton]

For the most part, I used a Pilot Metropolitan M with Robert Oster Purple Rock, but I wanted to make some notes in the pages of a paperback novel, so for that I used a Shaeffer school pen F with Rohrer & Klingner Scabiosa.

[mallymal1]

Black Waterman Serenite' with MB James Purdy & Sons Cigar, Wahl-Eversharp Decoband Sedona with Edelstein Smokey Quartz

 

Nice to see that someone is using a Serenite'.

[Penman222]

Still in my ‘50’s mood, so I’m writing with these three guys for a while longer.

Edited July 29, 2020 by bhbarto

[mongrelnomad]

About to head off for a month. Reliability and ink capacity, obviously, main priorities.

 

These should hopefully tie me over.

 

[inkstainedruth]

So far today it's been the Silver Pearl Vac Major, F (I think) nib, with vintage Quink Microfilm Black; and the Plum Demi 51, M nib, with Diamine Tudor Blue.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[A Smug Dill]

My Moonman M600S in brown has not been getting much love from me, since I received it a year ago; I'm not crazy about how it handles, but I also found no aspect of the output of the nib particularly pleasing or inspiring.

Given that I've been in a nib-swapping mood this week, and rediscovering that I have a Jinhao X750 nib that I actually worked on a while back but completely forgotten about, I tried to swap it into a Wing Sung 699; but, no dice, the curvature is wrong and it wouldn't sit flush with the feed. However, that nib seems to fit the Moonman M600S pretty well, so I've decided to give it a shot, and see if my feelings for my brown pen will change.

In the meantime, even though my wife has previously declined my offer of letting her have her pick between the two Moonman nibs than came fitted on our M600S pens respectively — strangely, hers was monotone and mine two-tone — after seeing my writing samples, she'd opted to pick a third option, and now the Moonman nib taken from the M6 (in writing sample number two below) will go into her teal pen.

 

(Oops, writing sample number three is from a Jinhao X750 nib and not a X450 nib.)

[como]

1. Nakaya Long Cigar Heki-Tamenuri, soft fine 14k nib;

2. Leonardo Speranza, 14k elastic nib;

3. Vintage German safety pen from 1920s, medium glass nib;

4. Vintage German safety pen from 1920s, medium 14k nib;

5. Vintage Montblanc 232 with telescopic piston, medium stubbish 14k nib.

 

[N1003U]

1. Nakaya Long Cigar Heki-Tamenuri, soft fine 14k nib;

2. Leonardo Speranza, 14k elastic nib;

3. Vintage German safety pen from 1920s, medium glass nib;

4. Vintage German safety pen from 1920s, medium 14k nib;

5. Vintage Montblanc 232 with telescopic piston, medium stubbish 14k nib.

 

That is a lovely set of toys writing tools. It is a nice mix of modern and vintage.

 

I have never used a glass nib in a fountain pen before (only as a dip pen). How does it perform?

[como]

N1003U: Thank you! The glass nib is surprisingly smooth. It’s not soft or flexible, but it doesn’t feel stiff because the flow is good and I only need to write with minimum pressure (no pressure, just gliding). I also like that I don’t need to repeatedly dip the pen. As the nib is submerged in ink when not in use, the pen always starts right away. Safety pens are fun to play with, study and restore.

 

...I have never used a glass nib in a fountain pen before (only as a dip pen). How does it perform?

[Helen350]

Piper Empire Heart of Spring - M. nib. Ink: Thornton's Oxblood

Huashilai Bookman - M. nib. Diamine Ancient Copper

[Misfit]

A Platinum Plaisir in Nova Orange with a fine nib, and the black ink cartridge it came with, and a Franklin-Christoph model 31 Omnis in Italian Ice with broad SIG nib filled with Kaweco Summer Purple.

 

Edited July 31, 2020 by Misfit