What Pens Are You Using Today 2020

[NumberSix]

6 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

TWSBI 580-AL (Pink, B nib)

 

 

That's the newest one, Punch Pink? How do you like the color? I was eyeing that one on Vanness last night. . .

[Chiroptera121]

Cross Calais with Noodler's Liberty's Elysium 

[sansenri]

I put my Ranga Abhimanyu back into rotation immediately after it was empty (only changed ink) as it's so nice to hold.

 

[inkstainedruth]

27 minutes ago, NumberSix said:

 

That's the newest one, Punch Pink? How do you like the color? I was eyeing that one on Vanness last night. . .

No, that's the pink one from a few years ago.  I picked it up when Birmingham Pens still had the brick and mortar store.  I had gone in to eyeball the Lamy al-Star Pacific Blue pen (which I liked but not enough).  And Nick had just gotten a shipment of De Atramentis inks in...  And I decided to see what else he had in stock, and discovered that he still had a few of the TWSBI 580AL pink in stock and said "Oooh, what nibs you got on those?"  

So instead of buying a $35 pen, I ended up buying a $60 pen and 3 bottles of De Atramentis ink.  

My husband, who had dropped me off and was picking me up, just sort of rolled his eyes....

One bad thing about the pen (besides that what I think is a design flaw of the piston not extending all the way to the back of the feed) is that when I flushed the pen the first time, and soaked it, nib down, in ammonia solution, the ammonia solution removed some of the color from the aluminum section.  I don't know if the Purple 580-ALR has the same issue, because I've barely used it (I need to take a good look at the stub nib on that pen because it wrote better upside down and I want to know if it's a super wet writer, it was that ink I used was super wet, a combination of the two, or the nib is weird somehow.  (Also of course, it has the same issue with the piston not extending as far as I think it should -- if I'm not careful I get air bubbles blocking the feed when the ink is low; and, in addition, the ribbing on the section traps ink when you're filling the pen).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[NumberSix]

2 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

No, that's the pink one from a few years ago.  I picked it up when Birmingham Pens still had the brick and mortar store.  I had gone in to eyeball the Lamy al-Star Pacific Blue pen (which I liked but not enough).  And Nick had just gotten a shipment of De Atramentis inks in...  And I decided to see what else he had in stock, and discovered that he still had a few of the TWSBI 580AL pink in stock and said "Oooh, what nibs you got on those?"  

So instead of buying a $35 pen, I ended up buying a $60 pen and 3 bottles of De Atramentis ink.  

My husband, who had dropped me off and was picking me up, just sort of rolled his eyes....

One bad thing about the pen (besides that what I think is a design flaw of the piston not extending all the way to the back of the feed) is that when I flushed the pen the first time, and soaked it, nib down, in ammonia solution, the ammonia solution removed some of the color from the aluminum section.  I don't know if the Purple 580-ALR has the same issue, because I've barely used it (I need to take a good look at the stub nib on that pen because it wrote better upside down and I want to know if it's a super wet writer, it was that ink I used was super wet, a combination of the two, or the nib is weird somehow.  (Also of course, it has the same issue with the piston not extending as far as I think it should -- if I'm not careful I get air bubbles blocking the feed when the ink is low; and, in addition, the ribbing on the section traps ink when you're filling the pen).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Excellent detailed response, as usual.🥰

 

I don't ever need to use ammonia or bleach (knock on wood)- if I need something a little stronger, dish soap does the trick. 

[silverlifter]

Sheaffer OS Balance "Premier" from 1936 with a fine nib. Inked with KWZ IG Blue #3

 

[sansenri]

very nice pen, does not look it's age...

[mizgeorge]

Christmas writing - a TWSBI Go 1.1mm stub with Herbin Vert Atlantide. Very shimmery

[PAKMAN]

Blue Platinum Curidas today for me.

[Helen350]

Sheaffer Viewpoint - M. Calligraphy nib.  Ink:  Sheaffer Black ink cartridge

Jinhao 100 Centennial (Ivory) - M. nib.     Ink:  Diamine Sargasso Sea

 

[Freddy]

Astra Nova Snr. size dodecagon  BF Made by S.A.F.I.S. in the 1930s

   Fred

 

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[KingsCountyWriter]

My trusty Pilot Custom Sterling Silver and Custom Black Stripe. Both inlaid nibs date from the 1970s. I am hooked on these. 

[MarcoA63]

Wing Sung 699 Translucent Brown, two tone F nib, Waterman Harmonious Green.

It is a fine writer. You have to leave the end-knob a bit unscrewed so that ink can reach the section. This is normal for plunger fillers, apparently

[Dione]

Today I've only written with a Lamy Al-Star. 

[ENewton]

My broadest and narrowest nibs:

• Shaeffer Viewpoint F calligraphy nib, with J Herbin Amethyste de l'Oural
• Pilot desk pen, older model, XF, with Pilot black cartridge

[inkstainedruth]

So far it's been the Light Grey Pilot Decimo, F nib, with Iroshizuku Tsutsuji, and a black Parker Vector, IF nib (from the calligraphy set), with diluted Colorverse Stars and Stripes. Still up will be another Vector (the French re-issued purple one, M nib) to finish testing KWZI IG Violet #2.

And I suspect that I will be filling some other pens in the next day or two, since I've done a bunch of flushing of emptied out pens this week....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[NumberSix]

Sheaffer School Pens, with refilled cartridges!

• Blue (M) - Lamy Blue-Black
• Clear (F) - J Herbin Perle Noire

 

Gorgeous little writers. The Perle Noire makes the fine nib a little bit wider. And the dry Lamy makes the medium nib a little narrower -- now they both write about the same size line on Clairefontaine paper.

 

 

[Estycollector]

Conway Stewart, Parker 52 circa '42, Wing Sung "flighter", Parker 45 Flighter

[GardenWeasel]

Pilot 912 w/ FA nib and ebonite 3 slit feed.  Perfection w/ Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Black ink. 😍

[vivdunstan]

Another future blog post sketched out. Due online probably either late December or early January. That’s my Visconti Homo Sapiens Midnight in Florence fine nib, with Diamine Scribble Purple ink. I adore this pen. It feels so comfortable for me to hold, and writes like a dream. It is very much my grail pen, and was accordingly expensive! My only slight niggle is the double reservoir mechanism, which I find slightly more hassle than benefit. But that’s my only slight critique. Otherwise it’s a gem, and I was extremely happy writing umpteen pages of new blog post with it tonight.