What pen(s) are you using today?

[USG]

So probably like everyone else here, I'm sitting in front of 14 pens with five full pen cups around me and all of a sudden I have a "hankering" to write with my Pilot Art Flower pen.  Lately I've been caught up in large pens with big nibs but right now I find myself digging out this little pen with a Lamy size nib.  It's an important pen.  I bought it at Manash's store in the City.  The pen has a medium 14k nib stamped A392. It writes like a dream and is as smooth as silk.

 

Ink is Sailor Manyo Nadeshiko

Paper is Tome River 52gsm Notebook

Old Pics

[Lithium466]

4 hours ago, USG said:

So probably like everyone else here, I'm sitting in front of 14 pens with five full pen cups around me.

 

 

 

More seriously, what a lovely pen!

 

Today I inked a newly received red Rotring Rivette (M) with a cartridge of Visconti blue. Very disappointing to see it's just another of these washable royal blue, but it flow divinely well and with good lubrication!

The red Rotring is one pen I had as a kid, until it got stolen. I had bought a blue one last year but was yet to find a red one, this is now done!

[RedPie]

18 hours ago, Mark from Yorkshire said:

The Otto Hutt design 02

 

i had meant to put tlc not talc bloody predictive AI and spell check

LOL and thank you for your answer.

[Mark from Yorkshire]

@RedPie your welcome. 

[inkstainedruth]

Today it's been the Parker Silver Pearl Vac Major, F nib (I think), with vintage Quink Permanent Violet; and the Pelikan M205 Blue Marbled, EF nib, still with Pelikan 4001 Blue Black.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Baka1969]

Parker 51

[Andy1883]

Pelikan M150, M nib, Diamine Oxford Blue.  Small, but beautiful.

[RedPie]

My Waterman was not doing so good. I inspected the nib and corrected a small misalignment. I cleaned everything well and now it is back to writing very smooth. Will be using it a lot from now on!

 

IMG_5943.HEIC

[inkstainedruth]

Today it's been the Senator "calligraphy" pen, F nib (not sure what the ink is -- it's whatever started to flush out of it -- but given I bought a bottle of modern-ish Skrip Black, I'm guessing that's what it is); and the Pelikan M205 Blue Marbled, M nib, still with Pelikan 4001 Blue Black.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[USG]

Gave the Fuliwen 017 (M) a little attention.

INk:  Private Reserve DC SuperShow Blue.

Paper:  Fabriano, Medioevalis Card Stock

 

[USG]

On 10/13/2023 at 6:56 AM, Lithium466 said:

 

 

More seriously, what a lovely pen!

 

Today I inked a newly received red Rotring Rivette (M) with a cartridge of Visconti blue. Very disappointing to see it's just another of these washable royal blue, but it flow divinely well and with good lubrication!

The red Rotring is one pen I had as a kid, until it got stolen. I had bought a blue one last year but was yet to find a red one, this is now done!

 

Hi LTM

Another pen with a lovely name and an old friend.  Shool pens always have such a warm feeling. 🙂   Is it an all red one or red and black?

Do you have any shading with the ink from the Visconti ink cartridge?

[Baka1969]

Incoming!

[ruby.monkey]

Ooh, shiny!

 

Today my Pelikan M800 comes out to play.

[RedPie]

On 10/15/2023 at 4:06 AM, USG said:

Gave the Fuliwen 017 (M) a little attention.

INk:  Private Reserve DC SuperShow Blue.

Paper:  Fabriano, Medioevalis Card Stock

 

Great pen, color and snake. Looks nice!

[USG]

38 minutes ago, RedPie said:

Great pen, color and snake. Looks nice!

 

Hi RP

It's a very colorful pen with a lot of Chatoyancy.

This is a pic from Feb.

 

[ruby.monkey]

Last-minute change of plans - I was trying out a Speedball Auto-Feed pen with LC4 nib, and now that's today's workhorse.

[inkstainedruth]

Today it's been the Red Shadow Wave Vac, F nib, with its usual fill of Waterman Mysterious Blue.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Surlyprof]

I just changed nibs on my Gravitas delrin pocket pen.  Gave up on the flexible fine titanium nib and converted it to the fine nib that came on my first Gravitas titanium pocket pen.  Never liked the nib much but I've been practicing tuning and smoothing nibs and now it writes and draws like a champ.  Very exciting having success at tuning!  Even more excited that I now love using the delrin pocket pen.  It's such a fun color and a nice weight for sketching.  These may finally become my everyday carry after struggling with that titanium flex nib.  I guess lefties don't get to have fun with flex.  I may find my fun by trying one (or both) as an eyedropper pen next.

[langere]

Just inked up a Sailor Koshu Shirushi Tsuto Kosakura, with Birmingham "Firebox."  Insteand of an M/F, writes like an EF...

[USG]

 

Today I'm writing with a Sailor KOP (yellow tape) on the cream colored papers I have, View Corona and Iroful.

 

Each one of the Medium nibbed KOPs has its own personality but the one with the yellow tape has by far the softest, bounciest, wettest nib of the bunch.

 

 

 I find 52gsm View Corona to be an unfriendly toothy paper that doesn't display the outline sheen or deep color of the Nioi-Sumire ink and gives the normally wet medium Sailor nib a miserly line. YMMV but I don't like it.

 

75gsm Iroful OTOH is just the opposite.  Except for the cream color it is very much like Cosmo Snow. The writing surface has a soft smooth feel and the medium line from the nib was dark and of ample width.  It displays sheen and shimmer like Cosmo.  The only problem I have with it is that colors are slightly off. It's a very enjoyable paper to write on. 👍👍

 

 

The shading and outline sheen of Sailor Shikiori Nioi-Sumire is not as pronounced as Sailor Manyo Konagi.