What pen(s) are you using today?

[Mark from Yorkshire]

My waterman ideal serenity blue ink and the large Alibi Rollerball with the Monteverde G22 standard rollerball refill 

[inkstainedruth]

Today it was a couple of Pelikan pens:

1) M405 [Anthracite] Stresemann, B nib -- Edelstein Ink of the Year Rose Quartz, for today's journal entry.

2) M405 Blue/Black, EF nib -- Pelikan 4001 Blue Black, to write in the memorial book for a guy who used to be in the amateur madrigal choir I'm in, who died very suddenly (we have yet to hear a cause, but someone today said that because it was so sudden (and he was I think only in his 30s), apparently toxicology tests were done (but not a full autopsy).  The memorial book will be given to the guy's mother.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[ZeroDukE]

[Helen350]

Waterman Phileas - M. nib - Red   Ink: Iroshizuku Ama-Iro

HongDian D5.  Black/Silver - F. nib.  Ink:. Diamine Oxford Blue 

 

 

 

 

[georgeb]

Cross Solo with medium nib and some black ink of some kind.

[Mark from Yorkshire]

Cross Calais Diamine Presidential blue ink

[Vintage_BE]

[lionelc]

conklin nozac word gauge, pelikan edelstein tanzanite

[Penguincollector]

I’m using a generic Chinese piston filler with a wet Fine nib, inked with Dominant Industry Pearl Series Lapis Lazuli. I highly recommend this ink to anyone looking at it.

[DrPlush]

25 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

I’m using a generic Chinese piston filler with a wet Fine nib, inked with Dominant Industry Pearl Series Lapis Lazuli. I highly recommend this ink to anyone looking at it.

I just finished my fill of Dominant Industry Pearl Series Sunset (in a Pilot Custom 912 Music nib, to stay on point with the topic 😅) and that’s also a great ink. I’m keen to try some more of this series!

[Baka1969]

[Penguincollector]

I have to check out the rest of the Pearl Series, @DrPlush.  The Sunset is pretty! The Mirror Series also looks interesting.

[Gloucesterman]

Kaco "Sky", EF nib. w/ included black cartridge. $7.50 (inc. tax) w/ free shipping Amazon, just arrived today.

[Irelaand]

Montblanc 22 with Robert Oster Thunderstorm! 

 

[Lithium466]

57 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

I have to check out the rest of the Pearl Series, @DrPlush.  The Sunset is pretty! The Mirror Series also looks interesting.

 

1 hour ago, Penguincollector said:

I’m using a generic Chinese piston filler with a wet Fine nib, inked with Dominant Industry Pearl Series Lapis Lazuli. I highly recommend this ink to anyone looking at it.

 

1 hour ago, DrPlush said:

I just finished my fill of Dominant Industry Pearl Series Sunset (in a Pilot Custom 912 Music nib, to stay on point with the topic 😅) and that’s also a great ink. I’m keen to try some more of this series!

I've read some of the Dominant Industry were quite dry and/or unlubricated. I only have the Lapis Lazuli and like it a lot, but they have many other tempting inks that I'd like to try...

[Penguincollector]

4 hours ago, Lithium466 said:

 

 

I've read some of the Dominant Industry were quite dry and/or unlubricated. I only have the Lapis Lazuli and like it a lot, but they have many other tempting inks that I'd like to try...

  I just read that, and also read on one retailer’s website (Yoseka) that some of their inks are intended for dip pens. However, that was the only one with that information. I’m going to have to look through my collection for an inexpensive wet pen to try the dry ones that shimmer.

 

 ETA: The Mirror Series is for dip pens only.  Mountain of Ink didn’t rate them. 

[USG]

8 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

I’m using a generic Chinese piston filler with a wet Fine nib, inked with Dominant Industry Pearl Series Lapis Lazuli. I highly recommend this ink to anyone looking at it.

 Hi PGC

How would you compare the Dominant Industry Pearl Series Lapis Lazuli to Organics Studio's Nitrogen?

 

I'm using two Wing Sung 630s, one with Diamine Majestic Blue and the other with Pelikan 4001 Blau-Schwarz.

[Misfit]

I used a Pilot Elite deep red and gold with M nib, and a Pilot cartridge of black ink, a Retro 51/Fahrney’s Cherry Blossom 2023 with 1.1mm stub nib filled with De Atramentis Franklin D. Roosevelt ink, and a DeLike New Moon green marble pen with fude nib filled with Diamine Eau de Nil ink. 

[Lithium466]

4 hours ago, USG said:

 Hi PGC

How would you compare the Dominant Industry Pearl Series Lapis Lazuli to Organics Studio's Nitrogen?

I don't have Nitrogen anymore to compare, but DI Lapis Lazuli will actually dry.
It seems thicker than Nitrogen (their marketing litterature says something about oil base? I need to reread that), but flows well, maybe a little less easily than Nitrogen, but I would certainly not qualify it as dry. I think Nitrogen lubricates a little better, but that's maybe the side effect of the shimmer particules in Lapis Lazuli, that you can feel under the nib.
Nitrogen dries faster on the nib, but as you know is very prone to smudging once on paper. Lapis Lazuli is too, but less, way less. You can actually write with it and handle the paper without getting blue hands!

Apart from that well Lapis Lazuli as I already mentioned has some shimmer particules, but not overly so.

 

In the end, after having used the two for almost a year, I gave away Nitrogen at the Pelikan hub and kept the Dominant Industry.

[RedPie]

...with Pelikan Edelstein Mandarin.