What Pens Are You Using Today 2020

[antarmukhee]

 

Sheesh, in the scanned image above you can hardly even tell which part of the text is written with each pen and each ink!

Nice penmanship

[antarmukhee]

The pen I am using today is a Sheaffer NNP. It was a kind gift from a fellow FPN member.

[Freddy]

The pen I am using today is a Sheaffer NNP. It was a kind gift from a fellow FPN member.

Pray tell what is a Sheaffer NNP?

 

Thanks.

 

Fred

...too much smoke to not look for fire...

[A-xy]

Today it is a sailor 1911L with H-F nib.

[A Smug Dill]

Nice penmanship

 

 

Thank you

[Penman222]

Sheaffer Snorkel Statesman with a medium nib.

[JotterAddict62]

Just an old Parker Jotter GT ridge ball clip [ without the ball ]with a burgundy barrel with a GT metal barrel protector for keeping notes on the old video game I play.

 

I believe this pen was the first pen I bought at my first auction in Janesville WI way back when.

[maclink]

Faber-Castell Ondoro (wood finish) with F nib - CultPens Ink - Deep brown.

[loganrah]

Inked up today:

 

 

 

Not pictured: a trusty Wahl ringtop I keep permanently inked in my wallet for when I'm out and don't have another pen with me.

[Freddy]

Keeping other pens company...............................

FosFor: Flat-Top Wood Grain HR Ag washer clip C/C currently usin' a Parker Centennial section w/a # 89 nib.

ROWI: Rodi & Wienberger Gold Filled PIF w/a sweet expressive nib.....

Pens are filled with the blues

 

Fred

[Freddy]

Keeping other pens company...............................

FosFor: Flat-Top Wood Grain HR Ag washer clip C/C currently usin' a Parker Centennial section w/a # 89 nib.

ROWI: Rodi & Wienberger Gold Filled PIF w/a sweet expressive nib.....

Pens are filled with the blues

 

Fred

[antarmukhee]

Pray tell what is a Sheaffer NNP?

 

Thanks.

 

Fred

...too much smoke to not look for fire...

Sheaffer NNP model, NNP stands for "no nonsense pen"...

[picautomaton]

MB 146, M nib, MB Midnight Blue

Lamy Alstar Turmaline, EF nib, Lamy blue cartridge

Platinum Preppy 0,2nib, Platinum dyestuff violet

Kaweco Sport, B nib, Diamine Saphire blue

[seimodern]

Wildfire smoke and ash everywhere (happily no imminent danger to my lucky self), when then amidst a general gloom, both literal and figurative, appeared suddenly the slender rhodium gleam of a Caran d'Ache Varius streaked through with black laque de chine.

 

Not the pen for everyone, certainly, what with its slender metal section, heaviness (ca. 54 grams), and lacquer-on-metal construction. But for me it is perfection.

 

 

[seimodern]

Nice penmanship

I second that!

And am ordering a mini-toga presently....

[ENewton]

Sailor 1911S, Wicked Witch of the West M. So far it has been inked since I received it, and I suspect it will always be.

 

Kaweco Sport, Burgundy F. I hadn't used this pen since some sometime in 2018. I have had it for about 5 years, and until its previous use in 2018, I had considered it to have a very dry nib with a tendency to skip even after adjustment. In 2018, as I recall, I decided to try it as an eyedropper, which helped, and to use wet (Birmingham pen company) inks, which helped more. Then a colleague gave me a bottle of De Atramentis Brilliant Violet with Copper, which produced a surprisingly broad, wet line in the Sport, too broad and wet for me to use for general writing. I surmised at the time that the De A ink, with its prodigious load of copper glitter, must contain a commensurate load of surfactant. Now, about two years later, I have the pen inked with Birmingham Waterfront Dusk and am getting the same broad, wet line. I am baffled by the idea that a pen that, for years, I considered my most abstemious has come to exhibit the opposite character. I look forward to experimenting to discover whether the pen has really changed, which seems so doubtful. I still suspect that the De Atramentis ink is especially lubricated, but I am wondering whether, in the case of Waterfront Dusk, the recent heatwave in my area (causing indoor temperatures around 85 degrees Fahrenheit) caused the ink in my sample bottle of Waterfront Dusk to evaporate enough to make the ink more lubricated and wetter.

[PAKMAN]

Platinum Curidas

[ISW_Kaputnik]

Pictured, Delta Serena with Namiki Blue Ink. Not pictured, a Pilot MYU with De Atramentis Document Brown, and a Parker 180 with Pilot Blue-Black.

 

Before Delta went out of business, I'd sent this pen back to them, as the plating on the nib was flaking off after very light use. They either sent me the same pen back with a different nib, or another Serena entirely, I'm not sure which. But the "flaky" nib had actually been writing quite nicely, while the replacement was dry and scratchy. It was not worth sending it back again, as they charged a flat rate for return postage. I just got around to taking the pen out after a few years and doing some minor tweakage, and it now writes very smoothly with a nice flow. But Delta is still out of business.

[inkstainedruth]

Wildfire smoke and ash everywhere (happily no imminent danger to my lucky self), when then amidst a general gloom, both literal and figurative, appeared suddenly the slender rhodium gleam of a Caran d'Ache Varius streaked through with black laque de chine.

 

Not the pen for everyone, certainly, what with its slender metal section, heaviness (ca. 54 grams), and lacquer-on-metal construction. But for me it is perfection.

 

 

54 grams? Yikes! WAY too heavy for me. That's nearly twice the weight (capped/posted) of my TWSBI 580-AL and 580-ALR....

 

For me, so far today, it's been the Pilot Decimo, F nib, still with Iroshizuku Tsuyu-kusa. A very underrated ink around here, but I love it.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[brokenclay]

Wildfire smoke and ash everywhere (happily no imminent danger to my lucky self), when then amidst a general gloom, both literal and figurative, appeared suddenly the slender rhodium gleam of a Caran d'Ache Varius streaked through with black laque de chine.

 

Not the pen for everyone, certainly, what with its slender metal section, heaviness (ca. 54 grams), and lacquer-on-metal construction. But for me it is perfection.

 

 

 

Word.

 

Congratulations on your happy rhodium gleam. After contemplating fire/heat/smoke/the fact that my brother in Medford OR has decided not to evacuate/etc, I turned to pens yesterday afternoon. All summer I had been trying to reduce the number of pens and inks I had going at once, and I just abandoned that yesterday, inking up pens with abandon. I feel much better now.:-).