What pen(s) are you using today?

[jandrew]

The Quiet Writing pen this morning...

[PAKMAN]

Cobalt Blue modern Estie

[Mark from Yorkshire]

For todays journal entry Monteverde Impressa medium nib Diamine Onyx Black ink

[ajoe]

2 minutes ago, Mark from Yorkshire said:

Black ink

 

And the gods smiled.

[inkstainedruth]

15 hours ago, USG said:

 

I was hoping to see the MB Great Characters Jimi Hendrix LE. 🙂 Which one do you have?

I don't have the pen.  Just the ink, which is a nice rich medium purple.  

Found an image online just now (look at the writing, not the swab).

(Sorry, for some reason it's not letting me type stuff after the image got imbedded...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

[essayfaire]

14 hours ago, amper said:

Teranishi Guitar Brand

So there are two Guitar lines of ink? Diamine has a Guitar line as well.

[AmandaW]

Today's journal pen is a Not-a-Lamy Bear pen because I was bowled over that it hadn't dried out along with several inked Lamy Safari. Not blaming Lamy, just pleasantly surprised. It's mid-summer here, so hot and dry we're getting almost daily notifications of Extreme Fire Danger and warnings to 'Action our bushfire survival plan.' Enough to have anyone on edge. And any pen without fantastic sealing dried out to powder. Cleaning the dried out pens, I discovered this one. Nice surprise. Very cute too. The ink is Van Dieman's Leatherwood Honey Amber.

 

[Runnin_Ute]

Pelikan M100, Robert Oster Astorquiza Rot 

[USG]

14 hours ago, ajoe said:

The dip pens weren't giving what I wanted so I broke out the ruling pens.

 

 

Never saw anything like that, had to watch a video to see how they were used.😀

Very cool !!!! 👍

 

8 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

I don't have the pen.  Just the ink, which is a nice rich medium purple.  

Found an image online just now (look at the writing, not the swab).

(Sorry, for some reason it's not letting me type stuff after the image got imbedded...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

 

Haha, CluelessMe.... 🤪

That's a very nice color.  I have vintage Waterman Violette in the violet pen below. 👍

 

Today:

Leonardo NIbs, New and Old

 

 

 

[Misfit]

On 1/27/2023 at 7:03 PM, mizgeorge said:

No, the 1.1 cost me the princely sum of 43p (about 50c) extra. Which didn't really worry me as the pen itself was only $3 to start with. I got a couple more of the new translucent colours - the pink and green, which I've mix/matched, and I rather like the result. 

A couple of questions. Did you buy the pen and the nib at the same place?  If so, or even if not, where did you buy the pen?  I haven’t bought a fountain pen this year (ha ha, all of 29 days), but I really like the looks of yours. 

[Tashi_Tsering]

Today: Louis Cartier and Must de Cartier (and Cartier lighter)

[Misfit]

7 hours ago, AmandaW said:

Today's journal pen is a Not-a-Lamy Bear pen because I was bowled over that it hadn't dried out along with several inked Lamy Safari. Not blaming Lamy, just pleasantly surprised. It's mid-summer here, so hot and dry we're getting almost daily notifications of Extreme Fire Danger and warnings to 'Action our bushfire survival plan.' Enough to have anyone on edge. And any pen without fantastic sealing dried out to powder. Cleaning the dried out pens, I discovered this one. Nice surprise. Very cute too. The ink is Van Dieman's Leatherwood Honey Amber.

 

I’m wishing you well, and hoping fires stay away from your area.  My Bear pen says great job to yours. Mine wants a brown tone ink next. I think I have a sample of the one you mentioned. 

[jandrew]

Sunday morning doodling with FC 20 and waterbrush...

[Bo Bo Olson]

Pelikan M 215 Black in M, with rhodanized lozenge pattern, and Pelikan Edelstein Apatiti, blue-turquoise-teal ink that does not shade by me.........there had been some in the review, or I'd not bought it. A very bright ink, one can get use to.

Another one of those pens I'd not used in a decade.

 

In the meanwhile I got a bit more use to Large pens, so the 215 is not as 'heavy in my hand as it once was.

 

From Pelikan Perch, have asked permission.

 

As a 'noobie' I was a bit of a gold nib snob...snob period.

A passed pal in England would order 200's nibs from Germany, and some of the sellers would not ship outside of Germany. So I trans-mailed them to England. I tried and was very impressed in those 200's tear drop tipped regular flex/Japanese soft nibs; as good as the 91-97 400's gold nibs.

 

In I had 400's saw no reason then to order a 200; and the English pal had a brass body 215 which I got instead of a regular 200. I got it for the 200 nib. Those 200 tear drop tipped nibs before they became double ball were great.

Back then, I didn't have any 200's, now I have a whole slew of them; some LE...7 or 8 total; not counting the 215; including two W.Germany ones.

I got half the inks that came with the LE 200's; not always matching the pen.

[USG]

In an attempt to get the flowoutum under control on my Pelikan M1000 I bought a couple of Edelstein inks which were supposed to be dry. Sapphire and Topaz. The boxes say "Extra Soft Ink".  I don't know what that means but the ink is Dry.  Just what I was looking for, so I did a clean out job on the M1000 and filled about 1/3 of the tank with Sapphire to see how it performed and if I liked the color.  I tested the Topaz with a Keiglelu M nib on a dip pen, but it was a little too Ama-Iro for the M1000... at least today it was.

 

Anyway the M1000 did a lot better with the Edelstein ink than it had done with Aurora Blue but I noticed a couple of things.  On Kokuyo paper it initially would write a fine line, that took so long to dry that it would spread out to a fine-medium.  OK not the end of the world but there was a little feathering where the ink was particularly heavy, so I switched to 52gms Tomoe River paper to see if it feathered or spread there.  What a surprise, the line was fine without spreading but it unexpectedly feathered a bit on the Tomoe River Paper. 

 

I looked down at the ink and thought, are you feathering on my Tomoe River paper, and the ink looked back with a, Not Feathering Everywhere, But Definitely Feathering.  😠

 

But I liked the color of the Edelstein Sapphire ink, so the M1000 was not going to be the end of it.  OCDMe had to clean two other pens, a Blue M800 with a fine nib and a violet Momento Majohn also with a fine nib and loaded my "new" ink into them...  And I couldn't stop there, a Sand Momento Zero with the new style fine nib got into in the fray.  So now I have four pens, with fine nibs, inked up with the same Edelstien Sapphire ink.  Am I happy now ?  Not sure.  I think the ink is a little too dry for all but the Pelikan M1000. 

 

But I really like the color and I'm getting some shading with the M1000....

 

Sometimes I remind myself of a Paul Simon Song, "Still Crazy After All These Years."

 

Here's a couple of cellphone closeups of the M1000 on Tomoe River Paper (I didn't adjust  for the color of the paper)

 

 

 

[AmandaW]

Today's journal pen is a fine TWSBI Royal Jade filled with Pelikan Edelstein Olivine. The pen arrived needing work - misaligned and way too wet. This is the third ink - Iroshizuku Shin-ryoku and R&K Deep Pine were too wet for it - wrote like a B. After adjusting and the ink change it's still a medium to my eye, but at least it's smooth. Might order another drier ink some day, but for now this will work.

 

[amper]

On 1/28/2023 at 7:48 PM, essayfaire said:

So there are two Guitar lines of ink? Diamine has a Guitar line as well.

Teranishi Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. began manufacturing fountain pen ink under the "Guitar" brand in 1916.

 

 

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

12 hours ago, USG said:

Edelstein Sapphire ink

Originally everyone and his brother hoped for the vivid Parker Sapphire*, and were very, very focal in their dislike that it wasn't.

Bak then I was almost 'noobie' so what experienced said, had more weight....so the experienced can be wrong, when they expect different than offered.

So it took me some 12 years or more to get Edelstein Sapphire ink. It was OK, not something to throw under the train.......but actually at that time it was a 'gee you got that ink' at my B&M  in I wasn't into blue ink then. I'm sure many others have different expectations....now, than then in what is a good blue ink. It's adequate, and helps clean out piston pens. That is damming with faint praise....but I should have bought that ink when it came out, back when I was into blue ink.

If a 'noobie' it is a nice enough blue ink. It does shade a bit with good to better paper.

The question is how many blue inks you have....me only some 8-12 so, it worked for me, if I want to use it.

*I have this ink in cartridge gifts, but it don't sheen for me.

 

[Just J]

3 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

The question is how many blue inks you have....me only some 8-12 so, it worked for me,

Ya, I'm a 'Blues Man" too, so I'd say somewhere around that.

But if ya add in all the samples I don't think this page will hold that number! We'd have to go into scientific notation!  

 

It's a sickness. 

 

[essayfaire]

@amperLooks like Diamine didn't do their due diligence before naming that line!