What pen(s) are you using today?

[Penguincollector]

17 hours ago, USG said:

I FOUND IT, I FOUND IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Syringed some water into the dried Mocha cartridge, put a drop on the nib and it writes !!!!!

The Parker 45 is back !

 

Yay to both 45s and rediscovering old pens!

[inkstainedruth]

So far today, it's been the red Cross Solo, F nib, with Birmingham Pens Herr's Island Ultramarine.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Bo Bo Olson]

A P-75 with a no sheen Penman Sapphire cartridge in it. This was the 3rd of 4 Sapphire cartridge, there has been no sheen, and it is a nice blue....but today not out of the ordinary.

 

A Safari Joy....long shanked Safari. 1.5 stubb, and Lamy blue-black.

 

A pre-war Osmia 222 button filler with a very nice maxi-semi-flex steel nib....and it is a small diamond nib.

The rest of my Osmia maxi-semi-flex nibs are large Diamond and or with Supra on them.

A couple of posters with 30 and 50 Osmia's (compared to my 9-10) informed me it was only mostly that the maxi was a Supra or Large Diamond nib; not always and this is one of the small diamond maxi nibs.

The way the pen saw before Francis restored it.

[shamwari]

[OldTravelingShoe]

14 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

A P-75 with a no sheen Penman Sapphire cartridge in it. This was the 3rd of 4 Sapphire cartridge, there has been no sheen, and it is a nice blue....but today not out of the ordinary.

 

A Safari Joy....long shanked Safari. 1.5 stubb, and Lamy blue-black.

 

A pre-war Osmia 222 button filler with a very nice maxi-semi-flex steel nib....and it is a small diamond nib.

The rest of my Osmia maxi-semi-flex nibs are large Diamond and or with Supra on them.

A couple of posters with 30 and 50 Osmia's (compared to my 9-10) informed me it was only mostly that the maxi was a Supra or Large Diamond nib; not always and this is one of the small diamond maxi nibs.

The way the pen saw before Francis restored it.

Lovely, @Bo Bo Olson, thanks for sharing!

 

Merry Christmas and best wishes, everyone. 

[Mjdh1957]

My Xmas present to myself was a Waterman Carène Marine Amber. My first gold nib pen. I inked it up today with Diamine Oxblood.

[DiveDr]

30 minutes ago, Mjdh1957 said:

My Xmas present to myself was a Waterman Carène Marine Amber. My first gold nib pen. I inked it up today with Diamine Oxblood.

I remember those, baby Edsons...

[Misfit]

I’m using a Christmas present which is a Monteverde Mountains of the World Blue Mountains pen with. 1.1mm stub nib. I filled it with another gift Kobe #77 Himalayan flower. 
 

[jandrew]

Franklin Christoph 20

[OldTravelingShoe]

19 minutes ago, jandrew said:

Franklin Christoph 20

Excellent, @jandrew, that nib needs a daily pic. Thanks for sharing 😄

[OldTravelingShoe]

Cleaning day with the 1970s-1980s Parkers 😄

(Took a break from reading Olga Tokarczuk's Books of Jacob.) 

 

Figure 1. The Parkers are back in town! Top to bottom: Parker 45 Flighter Deluxe GT black tassie w extra fine X nib (late-1960s), Parker 45 Flighter Deluxe CT chrome tassie w medium nib (1970s), Parker 75 Sterling Silver Cisélé with empty-front band and suburned top (dish) tassie w 14k extra fine nib (1974-75), Parker 75 Sterling Silver Cisélé with PARKER engraved on wide front band and dish tassie w 14k extra fine nib (1974-75). 

 

Figure 2. Parker 75 Cisélé, likely 1974-75.

 

Figure 3. And that Parker converter. 

 

Enjoy and have a great day! 

 

Edited December 27, 2022 by OldTravelingShoe
Context added. Pens listed.

[Waverly]

Today I filled my Pelikan M405 Sliver Striped with Iroshizuku Yama Guri for a month-long rotation.

[jandrew]

Just playing around with the Quiet Writing pen and a mix of Diamine Salamander and Monteverde Fireopal ...

[TitoThePencilPimp]

my first new gold nib fountain pen I purchased about 13 years ago. A Sailor Pomenade? F in red. Not sure what the exact model is, but the F has the same line width as my EF Black Luster.

 

It still wrote after being unused for 1 year.

 

[inkstainedruth]

Today it's been the red Cross Solo, F nib, with Birmingham Pens Herr's Island Ultramarine.  Yesterday (mostly a travel day, and didn't have internet access) it was the pink Parker Vector, F nib, with Van Dieman Night Series Moonflower.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[chromantic]

Today, for the first time, the brown Falcon 50 FP/BP set I got a few years back. Fresh MV blue-black gel refill for the BP and Diamine Kopi O Kaw in the FP. Perfect match. The M nib is smooth with a hint of feedback. Quite pleased.

[inkstainedruth]

Today (because I slept in and have been a slug for most of the rest of the day, it's been the Sheaffer Star Wars Pop BB-8 pen, M nib, with Robert Oster NYC Pen Show 2022 (although I'm not sure WHY they designate the ink as "sky blue" when I would call the color turquoise.  I've NEVER seen the sky that color in NYC and I spent nearly the first 30 years of my life (including college) basically living within a fifty mile radius of the city line....  

Okay, I was wrong -- Bridgeport, CT is further to Manhattan; but was still roughly an hour by train from downtown to Times Square in non-rush hour....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[DiveDr]

50 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

Today (because I slept in and have been a slug for most of the rest of the day, it's been the Sheaffer Star Wars Pop BB-8 pen, M nib, with Robert Oster NYC Pen Show 2022 (although I'm not sure WHY they designate the ink as "sky blue" when I would call the color turquoise.  I've NEVER seen the sky that color in NYC and I spent nearly the first 30 years of my life (including college) basically living within a fifty mile radius of the city line....  

Okay, I was wrong -- Bridgeport, CT is further to Manhattan; but was still roughly an hour by train from downtown to Times Square in non-rush hour....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Hmm... have seen some really blue sky in NYC, some maybe even turquoise... 😁

[inkstainedruth]

12 minutes ago, DiveDr said:

Hmm... have seen some really blue skys in NYC, some maybe even turquoise... 😁

Oh, the sky yesterday afternoon was definitely blue -- particularly when I was in lower Manhattan and Soho -- but it was not "turquoise" by *any* stretch of the imagination....  A number of years ago someone on here was looking for a "sky blue" ink and someone recommended, IIRC Diamine China Blue -- but even that wasn't the color the sky was yesterday.

A quick Google image search suggests that a good match for the sky color yesterday might be J Herbin Bleu Azure -- I was trying to find written example, not just a swab.  http://reviews.shopwritersbloc.com/tag/aurora (it's a little turquoise, but not nearly as green leaning as the RO ink is.  
Mind you, I like the RO ink -- I just don't think they've accurately described the color...

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[DiveDr]

23 minutes ago, inkstainedruth said:

Oh, the sky yesterday afternoon was definitely blue -- particularly when I was in lower Manhattan and Soho -- but it was not "turquoise" by *any* stretch of the imagination....  A number of years ago someone on here was looking for a "sky blue" ink and someone recommended, IIRC Diamine China Blue -- but even that wasn't the color the sky was yesterday.

A quick Google image search suggests that a good match for the sky color yesterday might be J Herbin Bleu Azure -- I was trying to find written example, not just a swab.  http://reviews.shopwritersbloc.com/tag/aurora (it's a little turquoise, but not nearly as green leaning as the RO ink is.  
Mind you, I like the RO ink -- I just don't think they've accurately described the color...

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

I've taken to making my own inks these days.  Liking the control and variety of colors that can be produced as well as characteristics like shading, etc.  Been doing golds and browns lately...