What Pens Are You Using Today 2020

[Nayomimira]

And environmentally responsible too - since they're not disposable and using bottled ink aren't adding to the plastic waste of the world. You have a beautiful collection.

Hi, Amanda! :-) Thank you for your kind comment. And you are absolutely right: since many years ago I don't buy cartridges. When there was no converter available I just refilled the old cartridge using a small syringe. I live in Chile and there were not many places dedicated to fountain pens until Santiago Penshop appeared (www.penshop.cl). Now that converters are more available, I buy one along with the pen. And that's one of the reasons I appreciate Twisbi more and more: the Eco line is quite close in price to Lamy's but the piston system included make them far more valuable to me. :-)

[A-xy]

A recently purchased pre-owned Modern Wahl Eversharp Decoband. Still trying to get used to how the pens writes

[Helen350]

 

 

My new Picasso 918 arrived today. M. #5 nib. Ink: Thornton's Purple

[silverlifter]

Two Sheaffers:

 

[inkstainedruth]

So far today, it's been the Pilot Decimo, F nib, with Iroshizuku Tsuyu-kusa.

Interestingly enough, on some paper the ink is much more vibrant a blue, even with that nib, than I think of Tsuyu-kusa being (I had to use it the other day when signing paperwork at the dentist's office, including an affidavit saying "No, I don't believe I've been in contact with anyone with COVID-19". And it wasn't the sort of wispy light blue with lots of shading I remember, but was a lot saturated (closer to my bottle of Noodler's Liberty's Elysium). Which made me wonder even more why Tsuyu-kusa doesn't get the love other Iroshizuku inks get. Oh, yeah, I absolutely love Kon-peki, too, mind you. But there is something sort of serene about Tsuyu-kusa. And this is with it coming out of a Japanese fine nib.

Nothing boring about that ink....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[N1003U]

For me today it was a Lamy Safari (red, white cap, blue body) with Edelstein Topaz, a Pelikan M205 Olivine, with Edelstein Olivine, and (gasp) a Burnt Orange Pelikan Ballpoint in blue fine.

[stephanf3]

The last few days I used a vintage Pelikan 400NN with Organics Studio Barkley Teal Blue, a Wing Sung 699 with Blackstone Sydney Harbor Blue and a vintage Rotring Rapidograph no. 00 with Pelikan Brilliant-Schwarz. The Rapidograph is more intended for technical drawing but you also can easily write with it and with the no.00 you can make very tiny annotations.

[Freddy]

Bexley: C/C

Gama: Ezhuthani desk pen w/a Waterman nib ED

Wahl: Greek Key pattern LF

Opus 88: Bela ED

 

Fred

[ENewton]

Today I used a Pilot Metropolitan, with Robert Oster Purple Rock.

 

 

[antarmukhee]

I am using Beena V'Sign Stride pen today. With Bril black ink.

[Helen350]

TWSBI Eco Yellow - M. nib. Ink: Chesterfield Antique Yankee

Monteverde Prima Green - B. nib. Ink: Chesterfield Emerald Green

 

[Freddy]

Taccia- MOP Stained Glass 2-T 18k nib C/C Fill c.'05

 

Fred,

take nothing for granted as nothing is permanent and anything

 

can disappear in the blink of an eye........................

[Freddy]

 

Fred

Rhtythm of the Rain...The Cascades '63

Burning Love....Elvis Garden Party..Nelson....

Alex what is 1972.................................................

[A Smug Dill]

After yesterday's disaster of my own making, surprisingly I managed to straighten the tines on the wrecked nib and get it writing again, but of course now it can't be used in my PenBSS 355 as originally intended, so:

[Freddy]

Bexley: Flat-Top Jungle Usin' blue ink...

 

 

Fred

Nihil sequitur geminis ex particularibus unquam

[NumberSix]

Parker 21 (F) - Quink Blue-Black

Parker 51 Demi (F) - Noodler's Air Corps Blue-Black

Parker 51 Aero (F) - J Herbin Perle Noire

 

The first two are pretty wet writers, so they're a little broader lines than the usual fine Parkers. The Aero 51 is quite fine. All three are terrific writers.

Edited August 14, 2020 by NumberSix

[Freddy]

Uhlmann Eterno Safety

 

Pelikan 400 Green PIF

 

Filled with the Blues

 

Fred

[Runnin_Ute]

Today has mostly been my newest acquisition. A Newton Townsend in dark purple ripple ebonite with fine nib.

 

I have my Pelikan 140 and M400 White Tortoise with me as well, but haven't yet used them. But haven't done much writing today.

[ENewton]

My recently acquired Sailor 1911S Wicked Witch of the West with medium nib.

 

My Parker 51 plum demi is also inked, but I haven't used it today.

[GardenWeasel]

Just out of storage, a FC #66 with a steel medium stub by Masuyama. I’d forgotten how much I enjoy writing when using it with Emerald of Chivor ink!