What pen(s) are you using today?

[Penguincollector]

4 hours ago, Misfit said:

Well that sounds so cool. I wonder if there are two. I’d like one, and I’m sure my brother might as well.

 

Edit: looked at eBay. The one I saw costs more than the pen I bought. Yikes!

  😮 I didn’t see how expensive that was! Wow. 
 

2 hours ago, USG said:

 

Very nice PGC...  👍😀

 

  Thanks! 

[ParramattaPaul]

Duro ... again.

[Misfit]

I used a TWSBI Diamond Mini AL in Mint Blue filled with J Herbin Violette Pensee in my Log book. I numbered it wrong, going from 172 to 193. I found the issue, and renumbered the pages. Now this notebook will run out of pages in the first week or two of November. 

[ak47]

Today i use my mark twain with M nib

[torstar]

And again I dug out the Lucky Curve Duofold (push-button filler) with a banking pen tailfin attached, and I enjoy it for a month and then put it back in storage until I discover it all over again.

 

Some day I might find a fancy mount for the pen, but the desk is much too messy for this.

 

 

 

 

 

[Penguincollector]

  I’m using a Cross/Franklin Covey Lexington M nib inked with Diamine Autumn Oak. People keep saying this is an orange, but my bottle is caramel colored, with no real hint of any orange or red. 

[Misfit]

I used a Conklin Duragraph Voyager with a 1.1mm stub nib filled with Diamine Salamander in my Log book entry of the day. 

[Andy1883]

Cross Bailey, Diamine Oxford Blue.  This pen was stuck in a draw for a couple of years and the ink had dried.  I gave it a flush and refilled with the Diamine and it's now working well.  I like this pen, it's a good size and weight for me.  

[inkstainedruth]

Parker Vector "Looney Toons Tasmanian Devil" reboot (with the dark pink background), F nib -- Platinum Classic Forest Black.

Oh, and a black Sharpie to cross out our address and the bar code to toss some political email back at the post office as "Refused -- Return to Sender".....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Baka1969]

Gotta love that silver!

 

[Mark from Yorkshire]

Tonight’s journal pen is once again the waterman expert and the blue mystery cartridge. I suspect, that it may be a Florida blue as I have had it that long. That and, in the Leuchtturm B6+ notebook that I’m using as my journal it is quite a light blue not so much a dark blue black.

[inkstainedruth]

1 hour ago, Baka1969 said:

Gotta love that silver!

 

Yeah, I'm a total sucker for silver.  I blame Pakman.  Early on in my journey through this forum, I found a thread called "Show Us Your Silver Pens" and found myself just DROOLING over the photo he posted of his YoL Viceroy Victorian Grande.  
I have a few sterling pens now -- a couple of Morrison ringtops with sterling overlays (one of which has the same filigree overlay that I've seen on other vintage brands, including Waterman) and a Parker 75 Ciselé (got outbid on one with an F nib a few years ago on eBay, but then got mine (with a B nib) for the minimum because NOBODY was watching that listing but ME (go figure).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Baka1969]

8 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Yeah, I'm a total sucker for silver.  I blame Pakman.  Early on in my journey through this forum, I found a thread called "Show Us Your Silver Pens" and found myself just DROOLING over the photo he posted of his YoL Viceroy Victorian Grande.  
I have a few sterling pens now -- a couple of Morrison ringtops with sterling overlays (one of which has the same filigree overlay that I've seen on other vintage brands, including Waterman) and a Parker 75 Ciselé (got outbid on one with an F nib a few years ago on eBay, but then got mine (with a B nib) for the minimum because NOBODY was watching that listing but ME (go figure).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Thanks! Now I really want another silver pen.

 

I was looking at listings earlier this week and I've also been making mental notations of various sterling pens I'd like to add to the collection. 

 

Just one more pen? Right?

 

[PAKMAN]

On 10/23/2023 at 9:28 AM, Baka1969 said:

 

Anything like this?

 

Exactly like that! And again today!

 

[Penguincollector]

10 hours ago, Baka1969 said:

 

Thanks! Now I really want another silver pen.

 

I was looking at listings earlier this week and I've also been making mental notations of various sterling pens I'd like to add to the collection. 

 

Just one more pen? Right?

 

 
  At the Pen Realm table there was a  silver filigree Waterman (I think, it was in July, so I may be misremembering) covered with little diamonds. It was a huge pen, and about 6K.  It was so pretty. 

[Baka1969]

3 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

 
  At the Pen Realm table there was a  silver filigree Waterman (I think, it was in July, so I may be misremembering) covered with little diamonds. It was a huge pen, and about 6K.  It was so pretty. 

 

$6,000 is watch territory. I'm not at that level for pens. lol

5 hours ago, PAKMAN said:

Exactly like that! And again today!

 

 

Mine has a very bouncy nib.

[USG]

Yesterday I was using the Waterman Boucheron [M]...  one of my least used pens.

Ink was recent Waterman Blue but I changed it to vintage Waterman Blue Black. 

Paper was Cosmo Snow and the yellowy pages of a B5 Life Notebook.  From now on I will only get white.

(Reposted Pic)

 

Today:

Back to the usual suspects.  3 KOPs, 2 W-S 630s and 2 X-159s [all Ms]

Inks were:

KOPs

Sailor Manyo Nadeshinko

Sailor Manyo Konagi

Sailor Shikiori Yonaga

W-S 630s

Pelikan 4001 Blau-schwarz

Diamine Majestic Blue

X-159s

Diamine Sargasso Sea

Sailor Shikiori Nioi-Sumire

 

Paper:  Same as above.

 

 

My Big discovery is that Diamine Sargasso Sea and Sailor Shikiori Nioi-Sumire are Doppelgangers.  Follow the LINK.

 

[Doug C]

14 minutes ago, USG said:

Yesterday I was using the Waterman Boucheron [M]...  one of my least used pens.

Ink was recent Waterman Blue but I changed it to vintage Waterman Blue Black. 

Paper was Cosmo Snow and the yellowy pages of a B5 Life Notebook.  From now on I will only get white.

(Reposted Pic)

 

Today:

Back to the usual suspects.  3 KOPs, 2 W-S 630s and 2 X-159s [all Ms]

Inks were:

KOPs

Sailor Manyo Nadeshinko

Sailor Manyo Konagi

Sailor Shikiori Yonaga

W-S 630s

Pelikan 4001 Blau-schwarz

Diamine Majestic Blue

X-159s

Diamine Sargasso Sea

Sailor Shikiori Nioi-Sumire

 

Paper:  Same as above.

 

 

My Big discovery is that Diamine Sargasso Sea and Sailor Shikiori Nioi-Sumire are Doppelgangers.  Follow the LINK.

 

The Waterman is really beautiful. 

[USG]

6 minutes ago, Doug C said:

The Waterman is really beautiful. 

 

Thank you, but for some reason I don't write with it often.  🤷‍♂️

[inkstainedruth]

1 hour ago, Baka1969 said:

 

$6,000 is watch territory. I'm not at that level for pens. lol

 

Hey, I'm not at the $350 level for pens.  Never MIND $6000.  Even my grail pen (a Y-o-L Viceroy Victorian Standard size, isn't at THAT price threshold... 

I think I paid under $150 for the Cisele 75, with tax and shipping.  Unfortunately it's developed a taste for MB Jimi Hendrix ink....   Which isn't QUITE unobtanium, yet....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth