What pen(s) are you using today?

[penwarrior32]

22 minutes ago, Mercian said:

Well, FWIW, my own mind generated three thoughts when I first saw it;

1- that is beautiful 🙂

2- I bet its texture feels really interesting in one’s hand 🙂

3- but it also looks as though it’s probably a major Dirt Trap, and I bet it’s a real ‘challenge’ to keep it clean! 😢

 

I guess I’m just showing my age again, eh? 😁

 

I also bet that its combination of that texture and its gold plating make it absolutely mesmerising when writing by candlelight 

[Before anyone replies with ‘Drag yourself out of the Nineteenth Century, granddad!’, I ask them to bear in mind that I am English.
We are not yet sure that we entirely trust your newfangled ‘electricity’… ]

So far so good.

No need to clean out any dust. Thinking of just letting the dust to accumulate to give the pen a vintage look (perhaps I am just too lazy). 

 

Doubt a young person will pick it up. More for us old folks who have finer taste in life hahahaha.

 

The typical comments from others using the pen - like to rub their fingers to feel the textured barrel and cap while writing. 

 

Writes well on MD, MB and pineider paper.

Flows well on paper with some texture/feedback. 

 

[ParramattaPaul]

Evergreen (medium nib) Onoto Scholar while I decide which pens to ink or re-ink.

[penwarrior32]

Simple doodle sketches today with my pilot dip pen. Pilot inks.

 

[Misfit]

I recognize quite a few of those buildings and monuments. Very nicely done @penwarrior32

[PAKMAN]

Parker Duofold LE CP5

 

[Wil D]

English Swan Self-Filler 1 with a fine nib, early 1920ties. Nice writer.

[lascosas]

I've not been posting to this, but wanted to alert you Kaweco Sport fans to a non-Sport alternative.  For years I carried a Sport Black Stone in the pocket of my jeans, along with my keys, and a traveller's notebook in my back pocket.  But too often the Sport wouldn't start, and I would need to sqeeze the small cartridge to get it going.  I finally gave up and started using a Fisher ballpoint. 

 

A month ago I received a Hongdian M2.  Also aluminum, thought much lighter in weight, it is the same length capped, and longer posted.  During that month, it has never failed to start.  Other advantages?  Unlike the Sport it comes with a clip and a converter, and I paid $11.99, including shipping.  I then purchased another color with an EF nib, $13.99.  Both nibs are wet, smooth & with a tiny amount of feedback, just the way I like it. 

[Penguincollector]

  I got to use so many cool and different pens today, as there was a special Saturday pen club meeting. I got to use several Waterman BCHR pens, with Music and very noodly nibs. I tried a Binder Flex Mod little Tortoise Pelikan, a Monteverde Innova with an Omniflex nib, a very fun fude nib of some sort, a pen sold at the Buckingham Palace gift shop (pretty sure it’s the same factory in China that does Cross now) and a lovely Sheaffer Italic Broad Targa. I also go to hold and examine an early BCHR Parker Lucky Curve Eyedropper with an intact box and a Lucky Curve Club certificate. I also made arrangements to buy a lovely Eversharp 715. 

[Fo0zle]

Lamy 2000 EF with Noodler’s Blue Black as usual

 

Glass pen to test out new bottles of Noodler’s Violet and Southwest Sunset. The violet is a really lovely ink. I think I’ll use quite a bit of that. 

[Penguincollector]

11 hours ago, PAKMAN said:

Parker Duofold LE CP5

 

 That is a showstopper. I love it so much.

[Vintage_BE]

This pen belonged to my late father. I suspect he received it as a present sometime during the seventies of last century. As far as I can see on the basis of www sources it’s a Sheaffer Imperial. It has a steel nib that puts down a quite fine line, the writing sample is on Clairefontaine school paper with 2mm line spacing.

[Mercian]

47 minutes ago, Vintage_BE said:

This pen belonged to my late father. I suspect he received it as a present sometime during the seventies of last century. As far as I can see on the basis of www sources it’s a Sheaffer Imperial. It has a steel nib that puts down a quite fine line, the writing sample is on Clairefontaine school paper with 2mm line spacing.

The elegant way in which you phrased your identification of the era when your dad was given this Sheaffer makes me feel really old - I, too, date to the 1970s 😁

 

And your photo has reminded me that I need to dig-out my own Séyès-ruled Clairefontaine notebooks!

They’re a great tool for practising/refining one’s handwriting, to try to make one’s letter-sizes consistent.

 

Thank you 

[pan101]

Today I'm using my 'Orca' Laban Mento with Diamine's Havasu Turquoise. 

[penwarrior32]

A nice day to look at Daimine shimmering seas ink.

Love the shimmer!!!

TWSBI eco clear demonstrator is paired exclusively to this ink.

[penwarrior32]

16 hours ago, pan101 said:

Today I'm using my 'Orca' Laban Mento with Diamine's Havasu Turquoise. 

Pretty pen. Love the swirls of colours on the barrel. 

[Penguincollector]

  Platinum teal short long with a soft 14k EF nib, inked with the eponymous blue black on it’s maiden voyage. Schneider BK406 EF, inked with Diamine Jet Black. Osmiroid B4 inked with Diamine Gold Star. Platignum Gold Nib Cartridge “M.”

[MarcoA63]

Watermans Hundred Year Pen in maroon and amber transparent end.

Akkerman ink. Medium nib

 

 

 

[kazoolaw]

52 minutes ago, MarcoA63 said:

Watermans Hundred Year Pen in maroon and amber transparent end.

Akkerman ink. Medium nib

 

 

 

Original cap & barrel ends?   Beautiful pen & nib.

[MarcoA63]

so they told me. This one is made in Canada. The next one I'm eyeing is ribbed, with blue end remade. Still Canadian though

[PAKMAN]

This guy - Grifos Gaudi