What pen(s) are you using today?

[Sinistral1]

Montblanc 146 Calligraphy inked with Colorverse NASA Blue.

[AmandaW]

Today's pen is a Jinhao 992 with a 0.7mm stub nib filled with Van Dieman's Tassie Salmon. It's a bit scratchy: working on it between sentences.

[amberleadavis]

6 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

What's the second one from the right?  That's a really pretty color -- and is that a music nib I'm seeing there?

 

For me, today, it's been: the Sailor 1911S Loch Ness Monster, MF nib, with old version Sailor Jentle Sky High; the Parker 45 Arrow (I think the color is Aqua Blue), M(?) nib, with vintage Quink Permanent Royal Blue; and the Noodler's FPC, Cobalt, flex nib, with KWZI Brown Pink (which sadly is not a good ink for this pen, in that it seems to dry out -- or evaporate [not sure which] -- WAY too fast).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

edited for typos

 

The pen was a custom pen that I bought used from a fellow FPNer.  The pen was made by @dougscott of Kairo's pens.  

 

Here was how he described it: The trim rings and finial are gold plated (over nickel plating over brass) and might be brought back to a shine with a jewelry cloth, lightly applied. The plating is very thin, so don't use an abrasive. The widest center band was supposed to be reminiscent of a caduceus and the finial represented the edelweiss, the lady in question being Austrian. 

 

The nib is a Franklin-Christoph 1.9 Music nib. I have some comparisons a few posts ago  in the Show Us Your Stubs thread.

 

We'd love to see your pretty pens!

[amberleadavis]

3 hours ago, Sinistral1 said:

Montblanc 146 Calligraphy inked with Colorverse NASA Blue.

 

Proof Proof Proof!!!

[amberleadavis]

4 hours ago, brokenclay said:

Montblanc 342 OM with Fritz Schimpf gelassenheit 

 Esterbrook SJ 9968 with Colorverse Black Hole 

 

3 hours ago, ParramattaPaul said:

Onoto Magna.  Apparently, I need to re-ink my other pens tonight.

 

 

We would love to see pictures!

[Sinistral1]

Here’s the proof!

[amberleadavis]

2 minutes ago, Sinistral1 said:

Here’s the proof!

 

WOW WOW WOW that is impressive!

[Sinistral1]

Both the pen and I thank you!

[ParramattaPaul]

55 minutes ago, amberleadavis said:

 

We would love to see pictures!

'Ask, and it will be given to you.'

 

[amberleadavis]

15 minutes ago, ParramattaPaul said:

'Ask, and it will be given to you.'

 

 

Circa notebook?

[ParramattaPaul]

52 minutes ago, amberleadavis said:

 

Circa notebook?

It's a William Hannah A5.

 

LINK: William Hannah Leather Notebooks – William Hannah Limited

[Helen350]

12 hours ago, Sinistral1 said:

Here’s the proof!

 

Beautiful cursive handwriting!!

[brokenclay]

12 hours ago, amberleadavis said:

We would love to see pictures!

A sus órdenes:

 

[N1003U]

37 minutes ago, brokenclay said:

A sus órdenes:

 

I love especially that first quote. I may have to appropriate it and hang it in my office.

[flodoc]

Platinum 3776 Maki-e "Pines" w/14K fine nib and Noodler's Zhivago. This is a very dark green, high solids ink that is very saturated even with a fine nib.

[flodoc]

Parker Duofold International in Green marble acrylic w/18K fine italic nib and Noodler's Zhivago ink.

[CXC]

Guider ebonite desk pen.  Trying to diagnose the leak.

[OldTravelingShoe]

On 1/25/2022 at 6:17 AM, A Smug Dill said:

Compared to the Parker Duofold Centennial shown above

@A Smug Dill, I add my voice (writing) about your excellent and beautiful handwriting. 

 

But I am equally inspired by your approach. I particularly like how you use so many scripts (hands?) to see how the pen behaves and how you count the strokes to evaluate the details the nib can create. Thank you for all these ideas on how to understand a nib. 

[Recursion]

Today I’m using my Sailor 1911 Large with a Medium-Fine (MF) nib, inked with Diamine Sapphire Blue.

 

[A Smug Dill]

5 minutes ago, OldTravelingShoe said:

@A Smug Dill, I add my voice (writing) about your excellent and beautiful handwriting. 

 

Thank you very much! I try, but then I must confess I'm awfully slack at actually practising daily to develop and maintain the level of fine-grained motor control and hand-eye coordination required.

 

6 minutes ago, OldTravelingShoe said:

But I am equally inspired by your approach. I particularly like how you use so many scripts (hands?) to see how the pen behaves and how you count the strokes to evaluate the details the nib can create.

 

I've written up my brain-fart of the idea here:

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/343846-objectively-how-thin-or-thick-a-line-do-you-require-your-nibs-to-produce/

although I'm sure I saw someone else do parallel lines (with or without committing the final count on paper) before that; and I apologise (to nobody in particular, sorry, since I can't identify them) for taking their idea and not giving them due credit.