What pen(s) are you using today?

[amberleadavis]

MB 220 inked with Winter Spice.

[AmandaW]

Today's journal pen is a Lamy Safari White with Black Clip SE - recently release in Australia (and elsewhere but not everywhere?). I have it inked with a Lamy Black cartridge cos, straight out of the box, if it doesn't write with that: it's the pen. Stormtrooper!

 

[USG]

On 4/23/2023 at 9:07 PM, TrueBlue719 said:

Thank you very much! They say you learn something new every day! I didn't know that's how they were differentiated! I can clearly see through the barrel more towards the back (the filling mechanism area). I put a dark ink in it this morning so I'm not sure if I can see through the top by the section, but I presume it would be the same throughout the barrel, so I guess I have NOS (I very well could be wrong as this is my first Pelikan). Thanks! Is there any way I can narrow down a date further?

 

I'm not up on Pelikan dating but if you look at the bottom, the older ones have a gold colored disk on the piston knob ('87-'97).  There's also been changes in the caps.

 

 

Lots of information here:  https://thepelikansperch.com/2020/11/15/pelikan-m800-history-explored/

 

10 hours ago, dms525 said:

Nakaya Portable Writer in Aka-tamenuri.

 

David

 

CuriousMe was wondering:  Which clip and which nib???

[Misfit]

3 hours ago, AmandaW said:

Today's journal pen is a Lamy Safari White with Black Clip SE - recently release in Australia (and elsewhere but not everywhere?). I have it inked with a Lamy Black cartridge cos, straight out of the box, if it doesn't write with that: it's the pen. Stormtrooper!

 

Oh, you’re going to make me want one of these.  

[TrueBlue719]

On 4/24/2023 at 10:33 PM, USG said:

 

I'm not up on Pelikan dating but if you look at the bottom, the older ones have a gold colored disk on the piston knob ('87-'97).  There's also been changes in the caps.

 

 

Lots of information here:  https://thepelikansperch.com/2020/11/15/pelikan-m800-history-explored/

 

 

CuriousMe was wondering:  Which clip and which nib???

Thank you very much! Based on all of that informationI was able to narrow down a date range to somewhere in the 1990-1991 range! Thanks again!

[USG]

 

Took the smaller Japanese nibs out for a spin today.  I got some interesting shading on Cosmo Snow Paper.  (Not pictured is the Pilot Elite)

 

 

[Penguincollector]

Gorgeous nibs, @USG! 
 

Today’s pen is a LAMY cp1 z56 EF, inked with Diamine Golden Ivy. My Timbers are playing tonight in a domestic cup competition and their colors are green and gold. 

[dms525]

On 4/24/2023 at 7:33 PM, USG said:

 

CuriousMe was wondering:  Which clip and which nib???

 

All my Nakayas with clips have the regular yellow gold clip. All but one have BB nibs with various CI grinds.

 

David

[dms525]

Today, I'm carrying a Sailor Burgundy PG Realo. It has a MS (Music) nib ground to a crisp cursive italic by Mike Masuyama.

 

David

[51ISH]

My Chinese Dolce-Vita Narjanja (Jinhao?) with Aurora Black... that has sat unloved....unused, for probably a couple of weeks now. It performed like a champ as it always has, even though I recently had to replace it's 'IPG Germany' nib with a Chinese one .....🤣  🤣  🤣 🤣   I'm just kidding...let's not go there again....  I couldn't resist a 'The quick brown fox....' with the 2 Sheaffer No Nonsense....as they 'punch above their weight' even more than Billy Joel did with Christine Brinkley ....🤣  🤣...just kidding....

[inkstainedruth]

Today it's been the Parker Vac Red Shadow Wave, F nib, with Waterman Mysterious Blue; and the Noodler's acrylic Konrad "Forbidden City", freshly inked up with Noodler's Heart of Darkness.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Helen350]

Jinhao 82 - F nib - Transparent Coffee with sparkles.  Writes more like a fine/med. 

Ink:  Diamine Sargasso Sea.

[AmandaW]

Today's journal pen was again the recently arrived teal/green Pilot Elite with a Script nib, this time filled with a Pilot Blue cartridge. After disappointing ink flow with Iroshizuku Syo-ro, I put in  a Pilot Black cartridge and it wrote perfectly for a few days. Then today the Blue is dry. Horrible dry.  WAAAAHHHH. I don't want to write with black ink.

[USG]

Messing around with some Chinese #6s    [Cosmo Snow & Sanzen Tomoe River Paper]

• JinHao Century Black, M ( Writes Broad), Quink Blue Black Changed to Diamine Florida Blue
• PENBBS 480 Blue, F,  Mix, Monteverde Horizon blue + Kon Peki
• Moonman P136 Blue, F, Waterman Blue  (black tape so cap posts securely)
• Kaigelu 356 Blue, Long Knife tuned (writes Broad), Private Reserve Tropical Blue
• Kaigelu 356 Teal, F tuned,  Iroshizuku Kon - Peki
• JInHao 100  Blue, M (Writes Broad),  Diamine Asa Blue
• Kaigelu 316A White,  Moonman F, (writes EF),  Iroshizuku Ajisai

[USG]

14 hours ago, dms525 said:

Today, I'm carrying a Sailor Burgundy PG Realo. It has a MS (Music) nib ground to a crisp cursive italic by Mike Masuyama.

 

David

 

That's an interesting nib grind.  What ink did you pair it with?

[USG]

16 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

Gorgeous nibs, @USG! 
 

Today’s pen is a LAMY cp1 z56 EF, inked with Diamine Golden Ivy. My Timbers are playing tonight in a domestic cup competition and their colors are green and gold. 

Bold move PGC, a Z56 on a CP1 👍😀

I keep thinking about doing that but then some other pen gets in the way... 🤷‍♂️

I haven't used my CP1 in a while, I'll have to dig it out... 😀

[DvdRiet]

On 4/24/2023 at 4:48 PM, amberleadavis said:

 

The accordion sac was a cool concept. How is it in practice?

 

It's pretty simple, got a good capacity and flow, and works just like any other sac pen, although I don't quite get how. The sac itself is sturdier than a regular latex sac. The section of this pen I have can be unscrewed easily from the barrel (I was quite surprised), so I've been able to take a look at it. There's a simple but long plastic button fitted into a hole in the end of the barrel and that pushes the sac down to squish the folds. It gets a nice fill after pushing the button two or three times.

 

I just don't quite understand how it works. It all looked very simple: unsquishing the accordion folds sucks ink into the sac. But I had to tweak the nib on this one and ended up pulling the nib and feed out, and to my surprise, there was a long, thin plastic tube attached to the feed that extends most of the way up into the sac. So, how does the ink go from the sac into the tube to go back down into the feed? Or does it work another way? I couldn't really tell because I couldn't see into the section and the sac is shellacked on, but the feed itself is also very different from a modern feed. It has weird holes on the sides at the top that look like they could possibly be positioned inside the sac when the feed is pushed in all the way, but it was very hard to tell. 

 

This is also clearly a pen that's going to have to go to a specialist if I ever need to replace the sac or the feed!! Not anything like the levers and buttons I can do myself!

[Nellie]

So far I've only written a few notes with my Majohn C1, with my usual Noodler's Green & Diamine Kelly mix, but I'm now going to use this little Creeks pen - an exceptionally good writer -  with Noodler's Fox:

[dms525]

8 hours ago, USG said:

 

That's an interesting nib grind.  What ink did you pair it with?

Sorry to say, I failed to document it. It's a sky blue ink. I'm thinking it is Rbt. Oster "Blue Sky." That was the special ink for the 2022 Dutch Pen Show. It could be Iroshizuku Shin-kai, though.

 

David

[essayfaire]

7 hours ago, dms525 said:

Sorry to say, I failed to document it.

Happens to us all.  Ironic, isn't it?