What Pens Are You Using Today 2020

[sgphototn]

44 minutes ago, Mercian said:

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....

Thanks for the information.

 

That's from the 1943 Aircraft Spotters' Handbook used by civilian watch groups, military service personnel, and others during WW2. The pen is my mother's Eversharp Skyline from that time. 

[cullercoats]

I am using a Mont Blanc 334½ with an OB nib and it is filled with Diamine Imperial Blue ink. I love the dialogue (above) about the armament on the Hawker Hurricane. There is a biography of the aircraft written by Paul Gallico entitled 'The Hurricane Story' which I warmly recommend.

[sgphototn]

2 minutes ago, cullercoats said:

I am using a Mont Blanc 334½ with an OB nib and it is filled with Diamine Imperial Blue ink. I love the dialogue (above) about the armament on the Hawker Hurricane. There is a biography of the aircraft written by Paul Gallico entitled 'The Hurricane Story' which I warmly recommend.

One of the greatest stories in modern history is how England and the Commonwealth fought alone for so long during WW2. The world owes a debt of gratitude to that determination and Sir Winston Churchill that has sadly been forgotten. 

[DonLeone]

Pilot Custom 912 with FA nib on factory feed and Lamy blue with added distilled water. Seems to flow a bit better.

[sansenri]

I'm using this Corsani Fantasia in verde variegato celluloid.

The pen is a limited edition by Corsani, a well know pen shop in Rome.

The pen is made by Delta and is based on the Delta The Journal model

 

[inkstainedruth]

20 hours ago, ENewton said:

 

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.  

No, I only have the original version of Waterfront Dusk.  I bought it when they still had the brick and mortar store in Pittsburgh, in the hopes that it would be close in color to Noodler's Kung Te Cheng without having KTC's bad behavior of clogging and nib creep.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Calabria]

24 minutes ago, sansenri said:

I'm using this Corsani Fantasia in verde variegato celluloid.

The pen is a limited edition by Corsani, a well know pen shop in Rome.

The pen is made by Delta and is based on the Delta The Journal model

 

That really does look very much like the Leonardo MZ - beautiful material!

[Freddy]

Astra Nova Faceted Dodecagon Sr Size Button Fill c.1930s

 

    Fred

Edited December 12, 2020 by Freddy

[sgphototn]

28 minutes ago, sansenri said:

I'm using this Corsani Fantasia in verde variegato celluloid.

The pen is a limited edition by Corsani, a well know pen shop in Rome.

The pen is made by Delta and is based on the Delta The Journal model

 

Not only is the pen a beauty, the gentleman knows how to stage it as well.

[inkstainedruth]

21 hours ago, sgphototn said:

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

Gorgeous pen!

The Grand Victorian is too big and heavy for my hand -- but a Viceroy Victorian Standard is my "grail pen"/"when I win the lottery" pen.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[silverlifter]

Lamy 2000 with a medium cursive italic by Mark Bacas, inked with Sailor Seiboku. All the shading.

[Freddy]

Leonardo Messenger Caramel C/C  LE  XXX/366

Stipula made for Rebecca Moss Ag trim Sleeve Fill LE  XXX/100

 

   Fred

[fphilipp]

Franklin Christoph Model 20 (SIG medium nib) in tiger red, filled with Diamine Oxford Blue. Been a while sine I used this pen. Every time I do, I realize it has the perfect size, shape, feel, weight and nib for me. Aesthetically I wish I had chosen the black version. 

[irrigger]

Pelikan M200 Fine filled with 4001 Turquoise and a Red V-Pen

[Helen350]

On 12/9/2020 at 8:09 PM, MTHALL720 said:

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

 

The medium nib is a pretty smooth writer.  Required just a bit of smoothing.  Neither wet

nor dry, however, a nice ink flow.  

[sansenri]

17 hours ago, Calabria said:

That really does look very much like the Leonardo MZ - beautiful material!

Yes, you're right.

The Delta the Journal was designed by Salvatore Matrone, the son of Ciro Matrone one of the founders of Delta, when he was working for his father.  In Delta, Salvatore was working as a consultant but has designed several of the later Delta pens.

He then founded Leonardo Officina together with his sister (who also worked at Delta in the Admin).
It is clear he has taken some of the good aspects of the Journal (with full rights, being his own design...) and updated it to the MZ.
The MZ has notably a different shaped section, which looks a bit odd, but on the other hand solves the section/barrel step issue, which is small on the Journal, but is there.

[sansenri]

18 hours ago, sgphototn said:

Not only is the pen a beauty, the gentleman knows how to stage it as well.

thanks!

[ISW_Kaputnik]

Two pens which I actually have used today, and one other which I have every intention of using later.  A Pilot Custom Heritage 91 and an older Pilot Elite flanking a Waterman's 12 PSF.  The inks, left to right, are De Atramentis Fog Grey Document ink, Akkerman's #5 Shocking Blue, and Pilot Blue Black.

 

 

[Helen350]

TWSI Eco - M. nib.  Ink:  Chesterfield Antique Yankee

Jinhao 51a - F. nib.  Ink:  Sheaffer Black

[chromantic]

Ruby M320 with Levenger Pinkly!