What pen(s) are you using today?

[RedPie]

Using my Jinhao 82 with Private Reserve Ink Sherwood Green.

[inkstainedruth]

48 minutes ago, AmandaW said:

The Greenfield school pen looks to have a similar nib to the Midori, costs about half and still does the wash-effect off the back of the nib.

 

It's a lightweight, but sturdy pen as one would expect from a school pen. The Steiner schools worldwide specify it as the pen their students use.

 

 

Not familiar with that brand at all.  Had to look them up, but the combination of plastic and wood doesn't really wow me, so I don't mind paying more for something I think is nicer looking.

As for the Steiner schools, I had to look that up too -- here in the US they're "Waldorf" schools.  I know a couple of people here in the Pittsburgh area who have connections to the Waldorf school in the city (one worked there -- a teacher's aid, I thin) and another couple (the wife used to sing in the amateur choir I'm in) sent their daughter there -- but it didn't go past eighth grade, so they had to send her to a regular Pittsburgh city school for high school, and worried that the girl would not transition well from a more insulated type of school (not sure if the kid ended up in a "regular" high school or one of the more special ones, like "CAPA" which was one of sort of charter schools in the Pittsburgh district (CAPA specializes in visual and performing arts; I think there are also at least one high school in that district which is a "STEM" school (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[A Smug Dill]

[DilettanteG]

@A Smug Dill Nice pairing. The ink really sets of the gold and brown of your pen. 👍

 

Another day, another matched Pelikan Pair for me: M200 Blue demonstrator from 2002 filled with Pelikan Edelstein Tanzanite   on top of my navy blue Graphic Image Journal:

 

 

[Runnin_Ute]

Today so far has mostly been the Montblanc Noblesse that arrived Monday. 

[Baka1969]

 I just got in my Pineider Avatar UR. Dante Del Veccio all but copied his own design of the  Visconti Rembrandt. 

 

 

There is obviously Brotha from anotha motha happening here. 

 

I'll do a deeper comparison in another thread, however, there are more similarities than differences between the two pens. I love them both. I'm a sucker for a testarossa. 

[AmandaW]

5 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

Now that's fude mastery!

 

Are you able to read the inscriptions decorating the cap?

[A Smug Dill]

14 hours ago, AmandaW said:

Are you able to read the inscriptions decorating the cap?

 

As standalone characters, I'd say not even half of them, by visual recognition alone. The task is made easier in knowing the vocabulary from which the hanzi was selected; as on your HongDian 6016 with the silver cap (on which the inscriptions are different), the names of the twenty-four solar terms are there. The top row is for the animals in the Chinese zodiac, but not all using their traditional names/representations (so, instead of 犬 and 豕 for the last two in the cycle, 狗 and 豬 are there instead). The second row are just drawings of the animals as opposed to any sort of script. The third row are the names of the twelve Earthly Branches matching the twelve animals.

 

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This is the first time in ages I've received a HongDian pen that didn't function properly ‘out-of-the-box’ (although it was shipped to me from China only in a plastic sleeve inside a padded envelope, without literally a box). When I went to flush it before inking it, I was a little surprised that there was no trace of red ink in the feed; every HongDian pen I've received in 2023, and possibly earlier than that, has apparently been dip-tested at the factory, and it was always with red ink.

Inspecting the nib after I inked the pen up, I thought the metal didn't seem to sit straight on the feed, but appeared to have rotated some 3° or so off the feed's centreline. Ink just didn't flow properly to the long bent tip on the nib. Eventually, I had to pull the nib and feed out of their plastic collar and make a few adjustments; but luckily I don't have to go as far as try to ‘heat-set’ the plastic feed to get a better fit.

Then it wrote properly. A little too wet for my preferences, actually, as it limits how small I can write with it, to avoid intersecting strokes being a mess; but then, it needed to be that wet when putting down ≥ 2mm-wide lines.

p.s. Considering that I got it at a significantly lowered price (even by AliExpress standards), at a time when it showed as the last one in stock for that particular seller, and when I revisited the page just now, the pen model is out-of-stock (or withdrawn from listing by the seller), I'm starting to wonder if it was a returned ‘defective’ unit that I got.

[pan101]

Using a Mabie Todd Chatelaine pen with Sailor Yamadori ink.

[Misfit]

I used a Franklin-Christoph model 3 Iterum in Bluestone for my log book page entry (Feb. 1).

[Baka1969]

1 hour ago, pan101 said:

Using a Mabie Todd Chatelaine pen with Sailor Yamadori ink.

 

Nice line variation. How much ink does it hold? 

[pan101]

35 minutes ago, Baka1969 said:

 

Nice line variation. How much ink does it hold? 

I don't know exactly as I didn't fit the new ink sac but I don't really notice much difference between this and my other vintage Mabie Todds. It's the oldest pen in my collection and tbh I don't write with it very often, just a nice oddity.

[manolo]

On 1/29/2024 at 11:18 PM, DilettanteG said:

Snagged a Pelikan M205 Amethyst which arrived this morning and immediately inked it up with some Pelikan Violet. Writes like a dream!

 

 

 

A pen I really like.

[Baka1969]

3 hours ago, pan101 said:

I don't know exactly as I didn't fit the new ink sac but I don't really notice much difference between this and my other vintage Mabie Todds. It's the oldest pen in my collection and tbh I don't write with it very often, just a nice oddity.

That's a shame. How smooth does it write?

[pan101]

15 minutes ago, Baka1969 said:

That's a shame. How smooth does it write?

There's a little bit of feedback from the paper but not an unpleasant writer, quite a wet nib. Probably would benefit from a bit of nib tuning. 95mm capped, 90mm unposted and 130mm posted, intended for a woman's hand. I bought it for my wife a couple of years ago but she doesn't use it so it sits in my collection and gets a very occasional use.

[Tashi_Tsering]

Vintage (circa 1925) Parker Duofold Sr. “Big Red” + Iroshizuku Asa-Gao

 

 

Annual inventory 

[DilettanteG]

6 hours ago, pan101 said:

Using a Mabie Todd Chatelaine pen with Sailor Yamadori ink.

Stunning pen with a gorgeous ink!👍

[DilettanteG]

4 hours ago, manolo said:

 

A pen I really like.

Thanks! i was afraid I’d missed out on this one, but I got really lucky second hand on eBay. The custom ground 14kt nib is such a pleasure. Someone did a great job on it.

[Doug C]

Ranga, Pineider,  Atelier Lusso.

[inkstainedruth]

Silver Pearl Vac Major, F? nib, still with diluted vintage Quink Permanent Violet, trying to finish up the fill.

Was going to try to finish up my test of Platinum Classic Sepia Black, in the Monteverde Strata, Omniflex nib -- but discovered last night (about 4 AM!) that the converter seems to be loose and I ended up with ink all over my hands after getting home from taking my husband to the ER.  And then discovered MORE ink on my hands this morning -- even though I hadn't *used* the pen since last night in the ER waiting area -- apparently it's soooo slow drying that it was on the fake-leather cover of the current Miquelrius journal....   I've still got a bit of the ink on my thumbs, even now....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth