What Pens Are You Using Today 2020

[ISW_Kaputnik]

Visconti Rembrandt "Special Ops" with Waterman Blue-Black ink. That specific Waterman ink may no longer be available. I use it now and then as a "testing" ink.

 

Parker 180 with a black Quink cartridge.

 

I'd given up on the Visconti a while ago, as it was a horribly dry and skippy writer. I tried many of the usually recommended solutions, not forgetting a very thorough flushing before I did anything to the nib. Just a couple of days ago, I took another look, and tried a more radical solution to tweaking the nib, figuring that if it didn't work I had wasted my money in any case. It wasn't worth sending it to a nibmeister. Surprisingly, my inexpert ministrations seem to have fixed it; it's writing beautifully now.

 

My first fountain pen was a Parker IM, which was no good at all. I realized that I still had two of the Parker cartridges I'd bought for it some nine years ago or more, and decided to use them up in this pen. There had been some evaporation, but they still work perfectly well. I've used up one, and will go back to the converter once this one is emptied. Yes, I know that they could be refilled, but since I have no intention of buying more cartridges anyway, I won't worry about it.

[Freddy]

CMII

Inked the other day.........................

 

Fred

[loganrah]

Delta branded safety with very lovely flex nib and gold filled overlay. Testing out, and enjoying, some Noodler's Golden Brown in it. Which is playing surprisingly well with this terrible printer paper.

 

[como]

Thank you! I had a look at nibs.com, true that they are all c/c now. That's too bad, although c/c has its advantage of easy maintenance.

'Tis my understanding they are no longer being made.

 

Fred

[jchch1950]

Waterman Emblem with cartridge provided.

[NumberSix]

Noodler's Neponset (Edison Medium nib) - Parker Superchrome Blue-Black

 

Edison Pearlette (EF) - Aurora Black

[inkstainedruth]

Today's it's been:

1) Pelikan M400 Brown Tortoise, F nib, with diluted Birmingham Pens Shadyside Walnut Street Brown.

2) Parker Vacumatic Major (3rd Gen Silver Pearl), F nib, with vintage Quink Microfilm Black.

3) Pelikan M600 Violet and White, EF nib, with Akkerman Laan van Nieuw Oost-Indigo.

 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[m53al]

A few different Waterman Gentlemans, Med nibs different inks.

And a couple of hemispheres, one with Bay State Blue and one with Noodlers Marine green.

[N1003U]

Today I am using a Pelikan M800 in Brown-Black (M) with Smoky Quartz, and for highlights an Edison Premier in Cappuccino (M) with Iroshizuku Yama-guri.

[pajaro]

Parker 75 sterling silver cisele, fine nib. MB Irish Green ink.

MB 163R red rollerball, green refill.

[inkstainedruth]

Stainless steel Parker Vector, M nib, with Birmingham Pens Madame C. J. Walker Elegant Fuchsia.

Plum Demi Parker 51, M nib, with diluted Diamine Tudor Blue.

Grey Pilot Decimo, F nib, with Iroshizuku Tsuyu-kusa.

 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Freddy]

Pelikan: 140 Black with white trim and 400NN Tortiseshell / Brown 1958

 

Montblanc: 344...All are usin' blue inks and sportin' expressive nibs

 

Fred

Como....Eboya Kyouka large with ink shut off valve is very easy to clean....{And $400 USD more than C/C fill }

Remove section..flush barrel ........till water is clear...using ear syringe flush section....

Personally find it to be the same as a C/C to clean...............YMMV

 

[loganrah]

This Plum Parker 51 just arrived. And immediately started up with a red/brown/plum ink. I guess I know it doesn't dry out fast! The eraser in the matching pencil still seems to be good too, just need to get some leads.

 

Edited August 24, 2020 by loganrah

[Helen350]

 

Jinhao 100 Centennial (Deep orange & Koi) - M. nib.

[NumberSix]

Parker 51 Aerometic - Montblanc Midnight Blue

MB 146 - Iroshizuku Take-sumi

 

Excellent matches for both pens.

[NumberSix]

This Plum Parker 51 just arrived. And immediately started up with a red/brown/plum ink. I guess I know it doesn't dry out fast! The eraser in the matching pencil still seems to be good too, just need to get some leads.

 

 

I once bought a Parker 45 on ebay, and it arrived with a half-full cartridge in it. So I just kept writing with it. LOL

 

If your pencil is a 0.9mm, like my Parker 21 pencil, then I recommend Pentel Ain Stein

https://www.jetpens.com/Pentel-Ain-Stein-Lead-0.9-mm-2B/pd/5944

 

Lovely, lovely lead.

 

Also, that Plum 51, tho

[Freddy]

Parker 61 Flighter with gold filled trim a c/c filler w/a juicy wet expressive nib which

was made in the UK c.1970........................

 

Fred

NYC Taxi Cab 25¢ First 1/Mile

5¢ each addition Mile 5 Telephone Booths

 

Farbenfabriken vorm FrieDR. Bayer & Co Elberfeld Heroin

 

Lucky Strike Old Gold Chesterfield Coca Cola Snuff

Hong Kong Flu

Is UnAmerican!

Catch Something Made in the U.S.A.

Texaco Shave Haircut

Happy Days

Are Beer Again

[inkstainedruth]

Hmmm. I wonder if they ever made a capillary filler 61 as a Flighter. I have all sorts of cracks in the hood on my grey one (there's a hairline crack in the barrel of the red one, but it doesn't affect the writing; the grey one, OTOH, was a total mess, every time I used it. (So far, the black one, and the teal/aqua one with the missing arrow, seem to both be okay in that regard).

Okay to answer my own question, I just checked Tony Fischier's site -- and they DID make capillary fill 61 Flighters! Now the trick is to find an AFFORDABLE one....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[psfred]

Today was an all Sheaffer day, specifically all Snorkel. My standard work pen, a Burgundy Statesman I think, with AgPd nib and Noodler's black ink, an Admiral in Pastel Blue (I think, white dot cap but I may have swapped that) with Skrip Blue-black and a newly installed nib (the section cracked and had to be replaced), another blue Statesman with a very nice fine Triumph nib filled with Noodler's Green, and a black Statesman filled with Starry Night.

 

A nice day at work, not much to do so I spent some time writing.

[PAKMAN]

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