What Pens Are You Using Today 2020

[greencobra]

rediscovered my wality while we were off line and used it exclusively during the black out. great pen, still burps ink once in a while but i noticed as the ink level gets lower, burping stops. but it holds a ton of ink so i can't resist filling it.

 

 

[CraigR]

Lamy Safari (?), medium nib, silver. Filled with Cross Black via converter.

[NumberSix]

1 hour ago, CraigR said:

Lamy Safari (?), medium nib, silver. Filled with Cross Black via converter.

 

If it's metal, then it would be a Lamy Al-Star ("Al" for aluminum). Looks really nice. How do you like the Cross ink?

[Chiroptera121]

1948 Parker 51 Aerometric (black) - Noodler's Liberty's Elysium

[Estycollector]

Today I carried a vintage Parker flighter BP with gel refill and a recent Wing Sung 601 matching flighter FP. I also grabbed the Lamy Al-Star with a black stainless fine point for something that escapes my memory.

[vivdunstan]

Lamy 2000 fine filled with Diamine Chocolate Brown. I started to scribble down a couple of ideas for a future blog post about a book I’m reading (“Alice in Wonderland” translated into Border Scots). And before I knew it I’d written a whole pages worth. Just have to finish reading the book now 😜

[sansenri]

quite odd, but only one pen inked today, a Leonardo Furore turquoise with a B nib.

[Tebe Margono]

Wing Sung 601 with Bobby Custom Nib, filled by Pilot Blue ink

Lamy Al-Star Black (M), filled by Noodler Black

Platinum Plaisir 0.5, filled by Pilot Iroshizuku Kon-Peki

TWSBI 700R (F), filled by Pilot Iroshizuku Ku-Jaku

[Freddy]

Williamson Junior Blue Pearl Celluloid BF Made in Turin, Italy '40s.

Fred

Smile all the While

~ Stan Laurel

Edited December 8, 2020 by Freddy

[GardenWeasel]

Nakaya Piccolo with Cobalt Jazz ink.  Fun pen!

[MikeH.]

I'm new here and this is my first post. That doesn't mean that that everyone has to be gentle, it's just an excuse on my part for when I say something out of context ore really dumb. I'm also new to fountain pens. My first pen is an Esterbrook Estie Maraschino (FP) and I throughly enjoy it.

 

With this being the Christmas season I'm interested in buying some Christmas cards that are fountain pen friendly. Does anyone know of any manufacture that uses a better quality card stock that would be more acceptable to fountain pen inks? And...while I'm being picky here, how about a manufacture with some very nice images on the cards too?  😀

[inkstainedruth]

Sorry, not offhand.  It would sort of be trial and error (there have been threads in the past about trying to find an ink that works on postcards as well).  But you might consider getting blotter paper (and even a rocker blotter) to help the ink dry on slick card stock.  
Not sure where you're located, MikeH, but I just did a quick check and both Anderson Pens and Goulet Pens have blotting paper and blotters (although the one on Anderson Pens might be a vintage one -- it looks a little ornate).  I would check other vendors' websites, and also possibly eBay or Etsy (I got a really pretty silver-plate topped glass one on eBay a few years ago from a seller in the UK).  If you have an old-time stationers near you, you might also be able to find them there (don't bother with big box office supply places like Staples or Office Max/Office Depot -- I just checked their websites as well....  But paper toweling will do in a pinch.

As for addressing envelopes, you probably will want an ink that is water resistant/waterproof but some people have had good luck rubbing white candle wax over the address to protect it from the elements (I wouldn't use a lot, because you don't want it flaking off and gumming up mail machines).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Freddy]

Pelikan M730 Set

 

   Fred

 

Edited December 9, 2020 by Freddy

[greencobra]

10 hours ago, MikeH. said:

I'm new here and this is my first post. That doesn't mean that that everyone has to be gentle, it's just an excuse on my part for when I say something out of context ore really dumb. I'm also new to fountain pens. My first pen is an Esterbrook Estie Maraschino (FP) and I throughly enjoy it.

 

With this being the Christmas season I'm interested in buying some Christmas cards that are fountain pen friendly. Does anyone know of any manufacture that uses a better quality card stock that would be more acceptable to fountain pen inks? And...while I'm being picky here, how about a manufacture with some very nice images on the cards too?  😀

you know, you'd think fountain pen friendly paper goods would be easy to find, but not so much. i've been on a quest for personal checks and besides printing my own larger business style checks on decent paper...no real luck.

 

i'm wondering why a major player in the business, like fountain pen hospital, and i'm sure others, never started a niche line to offer these products. writing paper is not the problem, just the specialized paper materials. i'm thinking out loud again. 

[MTHALL720]

Delike New Moon.  My only Fine nib I have ever had that wrote the way I wanted right out of the box with No tuning.  

[MTHALL720]

On 10/24/2020 at 7:41 PM, Helen350 said:

TWSBI Eco - M. nib. Ink: Iroshizuku Kon Peki

Love the pen color.  How does the M nib write?  Fairly smooth? Wet or more dry?  Thanks.

[sgphototn]

Yard-O-Led Viceroy Grand Victorian with broad nib and KWZ Iron Gall Blue #5.

[ENewton]

On 12/4/2020 at 9:34 PM, inkstainedruth said:

So I'll have to wait to do a complete test of Waterfront Dusk until after the Safari gets flushed out.... 

 

 

By complete test, do you mean a side-by-side comparison of the old and new versions?  Nick recently posted a photograph of the current formulation on Facebook, and I made a comment asking whether he has plans for anything close to the original version.  He hasn't replied.  

[Mercian]

On 12/9/2020 at 1:51 AM, MikeH. said:

I'm new here and this is my first post. That doesn't mean that that everyone has to be gentle, it's just an excuse on my part for when I say something out of context ore really dumb. I'm also new to fountain pens. My first pen is an Esterbrook Estie Maraschino (FP) and I throughly enjoy it.

 

With this being the Christmas season I'm interested in buying some Christmas cards that are fountain pen friendly. Does anyone know of any manufacture that uses a better quality card stock that would be more acceptable to fountain pen inks? And...while I'm being picky here, how about a manufacture with some very nice images on the cards too?  😀

Hello, and welcome! 👍

 

Wrt to Christmas cards, for the last few years I have resorted to glueing fountain-pen-friendly paper in to the ones that I send.

Most card manufacturers use the least-expensive card stock they can get away with, and the card is only going to last for a few days anyway. Glueing-in my own choice of paper makes it look more personal anyway IMO.

 

Either that, or it identifies me to my cards’ recipients as a crazy person 😉

[Mercian]

11 hours ago, sgphototn said:

Yard-O-Led Viceroy Grand Victorian with broad nib and KWZ Iron Gall Blue #5.

This is Off-topic, but:

 

That’s a nice bckground behind your Yard-o-Led, but I find it interesting that they’ve captioned their main artwork incorrectly.

Their text gives the specifications of the Hurricane Mk. I - it was armed with eight .303 calibre Browning machine guns. The Hurricane in the main artwork is armed with four 20mm Hispano-Suiza cannons mounted inside its wings. So it is one of the (slightly later) Hurricane Mk. II variants.

 

Now that I have my sad Plane Geekery out of the way, we can return to the regularly scheduled thread....