What pen(s) are you using today?

[amberleadavis]

[amberleadavis]

[AmandaW]

Today's journal pen is a Jinhao 82 with a fine nib and Noodler's X-Feather. It's very fine and rather dry, but that might be the ink - maybe X-Feather doesn't feather cos there's not enough ink on the page to feather... is that how it works?

 

[jandrew]

Midori MD pen this evening

[A Smug Dill]

1 hour ago, AmandaW said:

Today's journal pen is a Jinhao 82…

 

Ooh! Released from the Naughty Corner!

[AmandaW]

9 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

Ooh! Released from the Naughty Corner!

LOL. Yes. You won it a reprieve.

 

 

[Sinistral1]

3 hours ago, amberleadavis said:

Is this pen made from a Mutt blank - who made it?

[USG]

Pilot 743FA

Sailor Manyo Konagi  (had a hard to capture strange blurriness and reddish halo)

Cosmo Air Snow Paper

 

[Surlyprof]

On 4/17/2023 at 8:57 AM, dms525 said:

 

I dunno. That line of reasoning has never worked for me. 🤣

 

Now we know what you didn't buy in Italy. Did you buy other beautiful pens?

 

David

 

 

Even after trips to Cassa della Penna, Stilo e Stile and Novelli, I didn’t commit to any of the beautiful pens I tried (although I am clearer about what I do and don’t like).  I’m still struggling to commit to my first over $200 pen. 
 

I did pick up an impulse buy Olive Lamy Studio in the Frankfurt Airport.  Had an extra Lamy gold nib at home waiting for the right color Studio.  Since purple and red have been gone for years, olive will have to do.  It’s been my edc since getting home.  I may like it even more than my 2000.

[fireant]

6 hours ago, USG said:

Pilot 743FA

Sailor Manyo Konagi  (had a hard to capture strange blurriness and reddish halo)

Cosmo Air Snow Paper

 

 

Am I seeing a silver sheen?

[chromantic]

Used my Pelikan 140 yesterday when I bought a new car, signed my name probably 30+ times.

[Mark from Yorkshire]

Eversharp Skyline and various others including cross beverly and Monteverde Impressa.

[inkstainedruth]

17 hours ago, Misfit said:

I’m using a TWSBI Eco in Sunset Orange that was a Japan-only edition. It has a Nemosine 1.1mm stub nib. I filled it today with Robert Oster Orange Rumble. 
 

Wow -- that may actually be an orange ink I can stomach!  Thanks (my wallet of course is NOT thanking you, BTW...).

For me, today it's been the blue Cross Solo, B nib, with Diamine Blue Edition Gingerbread, and the burgundy Sheaffer Snorkel Special, EF-ish nib, still with modern Skrip Blue.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Gloucesterman]

TWSBI 580 (Demonstrator) (circ 2015 or so) with a "B" nib modified by Pendleton Brown into a stub nib. Iroshizuku, Yama Budo ink used.

One of the things I like about this pen that I like is that it still has tipping on it. To my knowledge, the 1.1 "stubs" available these days have no tipping. They are simply CI nibs (again with no tipping).

Please feel free to correct me with specific information if I am in error.

 

 

[DvdRiet]

Cross ATX in navy blue PVD with matching nib <M>

[northstar]

Hello everyone,

 

Sheaffer Snorkel Crest - Pastel Green loaded with Vintage Sheaffer skrip Deluxe Black #62

 

 

[PAKMAN]

Working crossword puzzles today with my GvFC chevron 

[USG]

10 hours ago, fireant said:

 

Am I seeing a silver sheen?

Hey fireant

I’m not sure what to call it.  It must be some type of sheen, but it’s not like a distinct border.  It presents as a reddish/pinkish “glow” around the blue.  I can see some silver dots in the periphery but the overall look is a blurry reddish/pink halo that surrounds the letters with a kind of blurry glow.  I’m not very good at describing it. 🤷‍♂️. I think Sailor Manyo Konagi is the only ink I have that does this “blurry-glow” trick (if you can call it that).

 

I’m sure some of our shading experts know exactly what it is. 🤷‍♂️

 

[AmandaW]

Today's journal pen is a blue Kakuno with a medium nib and a cartridge re-filled with Iroshizuku Syo-ro (my favourite of their teal-ish range). The ink has a tooth-pick drop of Kodak Photo-flo in it, not usually needed for an Iro ink, but added when trying to get the cartridge to work in an old Pilot Elite a few days ago. It didn't work, so I yanked the cartridge and put it in this Kakuno. Clearly there's no problem with the ink and the Clairefontaine paper. Must be the Elite... which is now working well with another cartridge of Basic Pilot Black. Sigh.

 

Actually a cause for celebration, cos it's autumn here which means the Kakuno can come out to play anyway. These and the Prera, MR/Metropolitan, Plumix etc (and Lamy and Parker 45s and... many others) do not seal well enough for the climate here so are only left inked during the cooler months of the year. Yay, it's that time. Time to swap to the winter pens.

 

 

 

[USG]

Platinum President

Sailor Manyo Sumire

Sanzen Tomoe River