What Pen Are You Using Today in 2021/22?

[GardenWeasel]

Pilot 823 w FA nib and inked w Sailor Studio 740 

[inkstainedruth]

1 hour ago, bestillmysoul said:

 

why, if i may ask?

I'm guessing that it's because the Platinum Blue Black might be an iron gall ink; and Emerald of Chivor is a shimmer ink -- the shimmer particles can clog up a nib and feed if you're not careful.

 

Today's pens of choice are the Pastel Blue Sheaffer Snorkel Statesman, EF nib, with diluted/reconstitututed J Herbin Bleu des Profundeurs; and the French Blue Lamy Safari, F nib, with Lamy Crystal Benetoite.  And if I get energetic, I'll finally get around to finishing up the test of Birmingham Pens Herbert Simon Cranberry Nobel, which is in one of the Parker Vector Geometrics, F nib....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

[readytotalk]

Geha 705, flexible OM nib, with Pelikan 4001 Violet ink (this pen prefers "dry" ink).

 

[InesF]

This week it is my 2007 Parker Sonnet Iridescent Blue 1 mm stub (self ground) with a self made blue ink, based on Waterman Serenity Blue with minor amounts of red and black inks added.

@readytotalk: This is a beautiful writing sample!

[mizgeorge]

3 hours ago, readytotalk said:

Geha 705, flexible OM nib, with Pelikan 4001 Violet ink (this pen prefers "dry" ink).

 

That's a lovely pen, and the writing sample is just beautiful.

[Teterman2005]

2 hours ago, mizgeorge said:

That's a lovely pen, and the writing sample is just beautiful.

Yeah, what he said, just wow!  

[Geslina]

20 hours ago, bestillmysoul said:

 

why, if i may ask?

Iron gall inks are supposedly acidic, and can damage pens, there are some horror stories out there - but then many love them, and have no issues at all....and I’ve read that today’s iron gall inks aren’t as dangerous, and that you should just clean your pens more frequently.  If they are so bad, I don’t understand why Platinum includes a blue black ink iron gall cartridge with every pen.  
 

Shimmer inks, because of the little glitter particles, can clog up the feed - but so far, I’ve had no problems with them doing that.  I really don’t care about shimmer, bought them sort of on a whim, and because I had just gotten a clear pen that I was planning on eyedropper-ing, and thought it would be pretty to be able to see the shimmer thru the clear barrel. 

[Geslina]

7 hours ago, readytotalk said:

Geha 705, flexible OM nib, with Pelikan 4001 Violet ink (this pen prefers "dry" ink).

 

That’s a very elegant looking pen, and your handwriting is beautiful!

[Geslina]

On 4/23/2021 at 2:47 PM, Marcwithac said:

Near pristine example of a Waterman’s 52 in ripple hard rubber, with a buttery smooth semi-flexible nib.  Filled with Waterman Mysterious Blue ink.

I took a walk down Main St in my town on Saturday, and checked every antique store looking for vintage pens, with no luck....getting up really early and going to go to a local flea market on Thursday.  On weekends they have a lot of newer items but on Thursday’s it’s antiques/vintage.  I would love to be able to find pens like this without going online!

[PAKMAN]

MB 146 Bordeaux 

[brokenclay]

Yesterday I decided that there are Too Many Pens inked, so I separated them into categories then picked one from each bunch and put the rest away. No getting any of those out until I've written these dry.

 

 

 

[Nyoko]

I'm using two German pens today - Pelikan 120 Merz & Krell, steel medium nib and Soennecken 222 Lady with 14k fine semi-flex nib. 

 

 

[inkstainedruth]

On 4/26/2021 at 4:25 AM, readytotalk said:

Geha 705, flexible OM nib, with Pelikan 4001 Violet ink (this pen prefers "dry" ink).

 

Oh wow.  Lovely handwriting you've got there!

Reminds me that I haven't used that ink for a while....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

[inkstainedruth]

Today for me it's been:

Pelikan M405 Stresemann, B nib -- Pelikan 4001 Briliant Black.

Lamy Safari, French Blue, F nib -- Lamy Crystal Benetoite.

Parker Vector Geometric, F nib -- Birmingham Pens Herbert Simon Cranberry Nobel.

 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[sansenri]

1 hour ago, Nyoko said:

I'm using two German pens today - Pelikan 120 Merz & Krell, steel medium nib and Soennecken 222 Lady with 14k fine semi-flex nib. 

 

 

I'm loving your Soennecken!
(and the 120 is a great pen of course, I learned to write on that one!)

[M@rtin]

Parker 45 GT (Made in USA) F nib , with a squeeze converter, inked with black Quink. A very very very good writer (my first american 45 )

[mizgeorge]

3 hours ago, Nyoko said:

I'm using two German pens today - Pelikan 120 Merz & Krell, steel medium nib and Soennecken 222 Lady with 14k fine semi-flex nib. 

 

 

I absolutely love that Soennecken  - beautiful pen

 

(and that's a great old bottle too!)

[ParramattaPaul]

A new Conway Stewart Churchill loaded with Mabie Todd Kingfisher blue ink.

[jandrew]

This one just came in (from PeytonStreetPens) so I've been trying it out today with a couple different nibs.

[readytotalk]

@brokenclay, nice italics!

@sansenri, Soennecken 222 - very attractive!

@inkstainedruth, @mizgeorge, @Geslina thanks for the praise) Glad to!