What pen(s) are you using today?

[ak47]

2 hours ago, PAKMAN said:

It is marvelous! A dream

[ZeroDukE]

[AmandaW]

Day 7 of 30 with a Sailor Shining Blue 14k EF. The ink is now Pilot Blue Black after searching here for "lubricated blue black". That's what came up, that I have on hand, cos no time to be ordering something in the context of distance and wanting to be using the pen for everything without a break.

 

I do think the nib is getting better with use, but wanted something in it that was bearable, ie not pale and dry, in these first days of writing it in.

 

Pilot Blue Black is noticeably more blue than the Sailor version. I will try Pilot Shin Kai next.

[inkstainedruth]

On 11/9/2023 at 10:05 PM, ajcoleman said:

This week I have been using a burgundy Parker 51 Demi vacumatic that I got this past weekend at the Ohio Pen Show. At only $50, I think it was a great buy. Though I have other 51's, this is my first Demi. I am really liking the smaller size.  And of course it writes wonderfully.

 

If only we could all look as good and work as well when we are 75 years old!  

Interesting.  I don't think I've seen a demi-size in a 51 Vac, although I do have a couple demi Aerometrics.  I'm presuming that you got a restored pen?  So yeah, $50 is a good price!  Well done!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

ETA: For me, today's it's been the Grey Pilot Decimo, F nib, with Iroshizuku Murasaki Shikibu.  Someone looking over my shoulder this morning was fascinated by the idea of purple ink....

[USG]

12 hours ago, ZeroDukE said:

 

Cool ZD, Full Stealth Dian.... 😀👍

 

Me:

Omas Ogiva

Ink Mixture:  Edelstein Topaz w/ residual DC SuperShow Blue

Cosmo Snow 75gsm

 

[ZeroDukE]

30 minutes ago, USG said:

 

Cool ZD, Full Stealth Dian.... 😀👍

 

Me:

Omas Ogiva

Ink Mixture:  Edelstein Topaz w/ residual DC SuperShow Blue

Cosmo Snow 75gsm

 

 

 

Omas is one of my favourite brands... if not no.1.

 

 

[SLinkster]

On 4/7/2023 at 8:21 AM, Misfit said:

A TWSBI Diamond Mini AL in Mint Blue, 1.1mm stub nib, filled with J Herbin Violette Pensèe.  And an Opus 88 Picnic Pen in purple, with 1.4mm stub nib, filled with J Herbin Poussiere de Lune. 

Hi Misfit. Any chance both of these pens are still inked, and that you'd be willing to show me some side-by-side writing samples? Don't go to and effort if pens are not inked. Thanks! 

[Bo Bo Olson]

 

Among a three new Parkers, a P-51, 15 & 50, I paid €20, the neighbor woman paid 12...so we were both happy.

I just got a Parker near mint  P-75 Thuya....a pen I had wanted for ages. I got the set from a widow so was a bit generous.

The silver 75, I've had since @ 1971.

The picture of the Thuya BP is darker than it is.

 

I think I'm going to put my 1971Parker  pencil cartridge in it...back then I didn't care for MP's. (Which is why I still have it mostly full) Do now.

[AkitaMom]

My reliable Waterman inked with  Herbin Larmes de Cassis. I bought it at a local Stationery shop decades ago, and it has be a lovely pen to write with. No fuss, no muss, just smooth writing and very reliable. It was modestly priced as I remember, didn't have 'extra dosh' to splash out, and even this pen for me was a treat, and it remains so.

Edited November 13, 2023 by AkitaMom
Clarity

[inkstainedruth]

Today it's been the new to me blue Cross Adventura, M nib, with Robert Oster Frankly Walnut (both acquired at the Ohio Pen Show a week and a half ago; and the Medieval Lapis Noodler's Konrad, flex nib, with Noodler's 54th Massachusetts.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Baka1969]

[Doug C]

Fine Writing International Sceptor, and a Mr Cypress.

[langere]

For those of you who appear to use many different pens over a short period - how do you do it?  

 

I use three pens until their ink runs out and, if it hits my fancy, I clean the pens and take out different ones.  Perhaps I do not rite as much as you do, but usually the pens' ink lasts me at least a week or two.

 

Sorry for what may be a really silly question -

 

Erick

 

 

[Misfit]

Today’s log book pen is a vintage Pelikan 400 brown tortoise M nib from 1954 filled with Diamine Chocolate. 
 

@langere I use so many pens by having far too many inked at one time.  Also, I have a very large batch of pens needing cleaning. It got out of hand, and stayed that way. 

[inkstainedruth]

10 minutes ago, langere said:

For those of you who appear to use many different pens over a short period - how do you do it?  

 

I use three pens until their ink runs out and, if it hits my fancy, I clean the pens and take out different ones.  Perhaps I do not rite as much as you do, but usually the pens' ink lasts me at least a week or two.

 

Sorry for what may be a really silly question -

 

Erick

 

 

Well, I usually don't (or at least try not to) -- but my current excuse is that I got a bunch of pens repaired at the Ohio Pen Show, plus got the Cross Adventura in trade for what unfortunately turned out to be a parts pen (why someone tried to turn a Sheaffer Snorkel into what appeared to be a c/c pen is beyond me -- and beyond belief to TWO different repair people as well).  So I've gone back to the "don't ink a pen up until I flush out at LEAST two..." regimen in the past week.  The problem of course is that if I like an ink and how it works in a specific pen, I'm inclined to want to keep refilling that pen for a while (especially since one of the pens that needed a bit of work was the Red Shadow Wave Vacumatic, with its usual fill of Waterman Mysterious Blue -- it just works SOOO well in that pen *and* looks good coming out of it too).  While the one "new to me" pen, the Adventura, got inked up with the one ink I got at the show (the other repaired pens mostly got filled with what the repair people had available as tester inks) -- Robert Oster Frankly Walnut (a new exclusive ink for Federalist Pens). 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[AkitaMom]

I usually keep 3-4 inked, and use them rotating daily.  Journal, Hula Notes, Correspondence, lists and such.  Just whichever pen suits me for the purpose at the time.

[yubaprof]

1 hour ago, langere said:

For those of you who appear to use many different pens over a short period - how do you do it?  

 

I use three pens until their ink runs out and, if it hits my fancy, I clean the pens and take out different ones.  Perhaps I do not rite as much as you do, but usually the pens' ink lasts me at least a week or two.

 

Sorry for what may be a really silly question -

 

Erick

Not a silly question at all. My method is to not completely fill a pen, but rather just maybe to one fourth filled or even less. If I filled a piston pen to the max it would take quite a long time for me to empty it out. If the pen is a cartridge/converter then I make sure to use a converter and try to avoid cartridges. If I have a pen that does not have a cartridge, and I do have a couple of those, then I use a syringe to fill the cartridge, but only about halfway. 

[USG]

18 hours ago, ZeroDukE said:

 

 

Omas is one of my favourite brands... if not no.1.

 

 

 

Yay Omas 😀👍!! +1 

 

8 hours ago, Baka1969 said:

 

Nice Watch Baka !! 👍😀

 

5 hours ago, langere said:

For those of you who appear to use many different pens over a short period - how do you do it?  

 

I use three pens until their ink runs out and, if it hits my fancy, I clean the pens and take out different ones.  Perhaps I do not rite as much as you do, but usually the pens' ink lasts me at least a week or two.

 

Sorry for what may be a really silly question -

 

Erick

 

 

 

CluelessMe has almost all of my pens inked.  It's a hobby, right?  I Never know what pen I want to write with or what ink I want to use or on which paper

 

I have a longer explanation on my ink test page.

 

EDIT

Today, Jinhao X-159, Mrs. Stewart's Bluing, Claire Fontaine stationary 90gsm

 

 

 

[Penguincollector]

5 hours ago, langere said:

For those of you who appear to use many different pens over a short period - how do you do it?  

 

I use three pens until their ink runs out and, if it hits my fancy, I clean the pens and take out different ones.  Perhaps I do not rite as much as you do, but usually the pens' ink lasts me at least a week or two.

 

Sorry for what may be a really silly question -

 

Erick

 

 

   I have a bunch of different colors inked for artwork, and I don’t usually fill the pen all the way unless it’s an eye dropper or uses a cartridge. I sometimes will also switch between pens that use compatible c/c if I want a different nib. 
 

  Today I’m using a blue Parker 45 Arrow M octanium nib, a modern French Permanent Blue cartridge installed. I read on a French forum that Parker and Waterman inks are the same now, that the factory just uses different bottles and labels,has anyone else seen this? FWIW, the Permanent Blue Quink is a bit darker than Serenity Blue, but I don’t know how old the cartridge is compared to the bottled ink.

[USG]

15 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

   I have a bunch of different colors inked for artwork, and I don’t usually fill the pen all the way unless it’s an eye dropper or uses a cartridge. I sometimes will also switch between pens that use compatible c/c if I want a different nib. 
 

  Today I’m using a blue Parker 45 Arrow M octanium nib, a modern French Permanent Blue cartridge installed. I read on a French forum that Parker and Waterman inks are the same now, that the factory just uses different bottles and labels,has anyone else seen this? FWIW, the Permanent Blue Quink is a bit darker than Serenity Blue, but I don’t know how old the cartridge is compared to the bottled ink.

 

I don't usually fill pens all the way either. 👍😀

 

It would be a shame if Parker and Waterman inks are the same.   Wasn't something like that predicted when Gillette sold to Rubbermaid?