What Pens Are You Using Today 2020

[chromantic]

Tonight at work, my new M320 Orange and M400 Brown Tortoise, with Stipula Saffron and Macassar, respectively.

I've had these bad boys a couple weeks now.

[Penman222]

Today I am using a Pilot Custom Heritage 912 with a Waverly (WA) nib. The pen is filled with Diamine Earl Grey. 

[basterma]

Micro Korea fountain pen. A south Korean pen from a company normally known for Roller Balls.

[WLSpec]

I'm using a Pelikan M1000, a Stipula Etruria, and a Lotus Vikrant. The Pelikan and Lotus inked with Kon-Peki, and the Etruria with Diamine Noel.

[Chiroptera121]

Currently in my daily rotation...

• Parker Vacumatic (1939 Emerald Pearl)
  • Flex nib, filled with Noodler's El Lawrence
• Visconti Homo Sapiens (Bronze Age)
  •  Broad nib, filled with Montblanc Irish Green
• Eversharp Skyline (Red, white (now brown/tortoise), blue "patriotic edition") (I've also heard this version referred to as the "army/navy pen").
  •  Fine nib, filled with Diamine Bloody Brexit
• Parker Vacumatic (1944 Golden Pearl) 
  • Extra fine nib, filled with Montblanc Homage to V. Hugo Sepia Brown 

[PAKMAN]

The Platinum CURIDAS in blue! Loving this pen!

[Mercian]

Pelikan M805F now ‘running on fumes’ of Pelikan Edelstein Star Ruby.
I would never have predicted that I would even ever buy a pink ink, let alone that I would actually like it 😮

 

LAMY 2000F loaded with Pelikan Edelstein Tanzanite.

[vivdunstan]

Finally started writing my long mused blog post on my experiences of school history classes, and their notable lack of Scottish history content. I will be praising one superb school history teacher, though I had extremely mixed experiences, even downright diabolical in one case. It may be just as well the pen has a good ink capacity! Visconti Homo Sapiens Midnight in Florence fine nib with Diamine Scribble Purple ink.

 

[Mercian]

17 minutes ago, vivdunstan said:

Finally started writing my long mused blog post on my experiences of school history classes, and their notable lack of Scottish history content.

 

My apologies for the Off-topic question, but:

 

What on Earth did your school history classes cover?

You & I are of a similar vintage, and my history classes at High School covered 20th century history initially then, for our ‘O’ Level ‘Social History’ course, in the area covered by my Education Board, we were taught the agricultural & industrial revolutions & the history of education in England up to the then-present-date. My contemporaries who chose the ‘Mediæval History’ course instead were taught the (political) history of that period in England, Scotland, and France.

 

Did you, like my schoolmates, cover wider-British & French mediæval history?

If you were studying more-recent history, how could your Board’s syllabus ignore Scotland? I mean, even if we only consider the philosophy & science that originated in the ‘Scottish Enlightment’, it was of great significance across all of Europe (& the Americas). Your political history is fascinating too, from the Wars of Religion, to the involvement of Scots in British Isles’ internecine wars of the 1640s, to the the attempted colony in Panama (whose failure led the ‘Edinburgh mercantile class’ to push for the union with England), there’s a load of really interesting topics to study.

[inkstainedruth]

Today it's been:

1) Noodler's Poseidon Pearl Konrad, flex nib, with somewhat diluted Noodler's Heart of Darkness.  The ink was seriously misbehaving in the pen, and I had been having issues with the flow and with a lot of gumming up of the ink on the underside of the nib.  The nib is a replacement for the original nib, which got somewhat borked a while back.  And I'm not sure I've got the nib and feed completely lined up together.  But diluting the ink has helped the flow immensely, and I don't have to clean my fingers with Ink Nix every twenty minutes....

2) Lamy Safari Violet, B nib, with an accidental mix of Birmingham Walnut Street Brown and a bit of Birmingham Waterfront Dusk because I grabbed the wrong bottle when I went to refill the pen.  I'll use up the fill and then flush the pen before refilling it (from the CORRECT bottle this time...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Estycollector]

I pickedup the wrong bottle myself recently. 

[vivdunstan]

3 hours ago, Mercian said:

What on Earth did your school history classes cover?

For O-Grade (equivalent to O-Level) early nineteenth century British history and World War 1. We had no choice in what we studied. And there was virtually no Scottish content for a Scottish school. We had more coverage of that - but still limited - in secondary years 1 and 2.

 

I’ve posted more detailed thoughts in my blog post:

 

https://vivsacademicblog.wordpress.com/2020/12/05/experiences-of-school-history-and-its-lack-of-scottish-history-content/ 

[Tweel]

• MB Starwalker, m -- Pelikan blue-black
• Snorkel Saratoga, f -- vintage Sheaffer permanent blue-black
• Waterman Harmonie, f -- Sailor sei-boku
• Cross Radiance, f -- Noodler's black
• 3rd gen. (flat-ended) Sheaffer cartridge pen, f -- Noodler's golden brown

 

[chromantic]

The green-stripe M300 with Musk Green tonight and the PaperMate stick with Take-sumi, for a change from the one with 1864.

[NumberSix]

Sheaffer Snorkel - Waterman Serenity Blue

 

I think this pen with its MF line may be the most perfect pen for my writing style that I have ever used. And it is gorgeous with this ink.

[Ink Stained Wretch]

Well, what I bought while FPN was down were 32 GB of RAM, three large [to me] hard drives, an adapter for a SSD and some cables.

 

What I did related to fountain pens was to continue testing out my new Stypen X-pen, which is different from, and better than, the Stypen X-pens I'd bought some years ago. So far it's toothy but writes pretty nicely.

 

Very glad to see FPN back !

[peterg]

My Christmas card writing pens this year

[inkfade]

Just cleaned and re-inked my Franklin-Christoph p66 in solid ice with L’Artisan Pastellier Encre Classique Lilas. 
 

 

[Estycollector]

Wing Sung 601 "flighter" with Waterman Serenity Blue

[welch]

Parker 51, midnight blue, US medium nib tuned, to perfection, by Greg Minuskin. I keep it filled with Parker Penman Sapphire. Still have two bottles, and no point hoarding it.