What pen(s) are you using today?

[IlikeInksandIcannotlie]

A Pilot Metropolitan F, filled with 3 Oysters' Min Cobalt.

[NgunnawalJack]

On 1/3/2022 at 12:12 PM, AmandaW said:

And, as usual, a Kaweco Perkeo with a posting nib

Ok, d… question What is a “posting nib”?

[Recursion]

[AmandaW]

15 minutes ago, NgunnawalJack said:

Ok, d… question What is a “posting nib”?

 

Pilot offers them on some of their pens - they're curved down, very fine, but very smooth - for writing small and on poor quality paper. I wanted to try one in my bullet journal for writing small, but they're pretty expensive so I had one made by fpnibs on a Kaweco Perkeo to see if a Pilot might be in my future...

 

Picture of a Pilot 912 with posting (PO) nib borrowed from JetPens

[chromantic]

I'm retiring the folded-nib PaperMate I've had inked with 1864 as it's developed a small hairline crack on the section below the nib and replaced it with a JIF, the dark blue one with black cats and white mice. This is the replacement for the one I lost; it's been stashed away for a long time so I'm excited to have a reason to use it. The 1864 is working great in it.

[sansenri]

6 hours ago, Recursion said:

 

nice finish! (I love the MZ)

[sansenri]

I've just inked up my Stipula Etruria Alter Ego.

It was far too long unused.

[Recursion]

1 hour ago, sansenri said:

Stipula Etruria Alter Ego

Also a nice pen with beautiful finish 

[DvdRiet]

2 hours ago, sansenri said:

I've just inked up my Stipula Etruria Alter Ego.

It was far too long unused.

 

Beautiful!

[ParramattaPaul]

The Onoto Magna is the 'duty pen' for today.  

[NgunnawalJack]

MB 32 F and Jinhao x450 with 1mm fude nib. Both inked with Pilot ioshizuku kiri-same.

 

[NgunnawalJack]

11 hours ago, AmandaW said:

Pilot offers them on some of their pens - they're curved down

Thank you! Learn something new everyday here.

[inkstainedruth]

Pelikan P22 (International #4), F (?) nib -- Robert Oster Tokyo Blue Denim.

Parker 45 Arrow (Aqua Blue), M nib -- vintage Quink Permanent Royal Blue.

Parker Vector (Geometric), M nib -- Robert Oster Dragon's Night.

 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[flodoc]

Montegrappa Symphony in black celluloid with 18k fine nib and Private Reserve Naples Blue.

Edited January 7, 2022 by flodoc
Corrected name of pen based on more information

[A Smug Dill]

 

One of my two Delike New Moon 2 pens. This one has a glaring ‘bald patch’ due the unfortunate presence of a pale, off-white glob in the acrylic, which happens to fall on the edge/rim of the end finial. (You can't see it in the photo, only because it just happens to be on the ‘underside’ from this perspective.) While it does not affect the pen functionally at all, I just cannot bring myself to love this pen; and so I rarely ink it up or use it, except as a glorified nib-holder-with-feed when I'm doing ink testing.

[AmandaW]

1 hour ago, A Smug Dill said:

This one has a glaring ‘bald patch’ due the unfortunate presence of a pale, off-white glob in the acrylic, which happens to fall on the edge/rim of the end finial

 

Could you add a roll stop? One that it attractive, functional and hides the fault.

[Recursion]

[wangjianwei]

On 1/1/2022 at 12:02 PM, A Smug Dill said:

I'm sorta using my new Majohn A1 (clone of Pilot Capless Vanishing Point) today. Or, more like fixing it, so that it would actually write.

How does the A1 write?
I have the impression that its a good copy of the Capless. 

Would it be a good buy?

[wangjianwei]

I'm currently using

Wing Sung 601 (been inked for months)

Lamy Cp1 M nib, bought it last month and enjoyed it. Really vanilla nib but writes reliably well.

Lamy Logo F nib, slightly wetter than the Cp1, a little too fine but growing on me

[A Smug Dill]

2 hours ago, wangjianwei said:

How does the A1 write?
I have the impression that its a good copy of the Capless.

 

2 hours ago, wangjianwei said:

Would it be a good buy?

 

I neither can, nor want to, assess or comment on that using someone else's (implicit or explicit) framework of ‘good’ in that regard, sorry.

 

For several reasons, I don't regret buying mine at the price I paid, as a novelty item among Chinese pens (of which I have, well, many). On the other hand, I have seven or so Pilot Capless (Vanishing Point) pens in my personal fleet — not counting my wife's four or five (Vanishing Point and Décimo pens) — and I'm certainly not going to let the Majohn A1 take the place of any of those.

 

For now, my wife has taken custody of the matt black Majohn A1 that I bought, with the understanding that at some point we'll pass it to one of a countable-on-one-hand number of friends to whom we've given fountain pens and inks to in the past few years, as a gateway into the realm of Pilot Capless pens if they're interested.