What pen(s) are you using today?

[penwarrior32]

47 minutes ago, PAKMAN said:

This guy - Grifos Gaudi

Nice pen. Very bling.

Edited April 23 by penwarrior32

[torstar]

ballpoint Caran d'Ache 888 Infinite with Goliath refill.

 

refill worth more than the pen

 

"but this pen isn't made for a Goliath"

 

"that's okay I'll find a way...."

[mizgeorge]

2 hours ago, PAKMAN said:

This guy - Grifos Gaudi

What a very attractive pen - I like the twist on the guilloche very much. I'm guessing it's sterling silver?

[gweimer1]

A couple of Shawn Newton pens...with Esterbrook nibs.

 

 

 

[Mercian]

27 minutes ago, gweimer1 said:

A couple of Shawn Newton pens...with Esterbrook nibs.

The black-&-white one reminds me of the ‘Op Art’ of Bridget Riley.

 

And of the traditional British sweets called ‘Everton Mints’ 😁

[Mercian]

7 hours ago, penwarrior32 said:

Nice pen. Very bling.

Pshaw sirrah!

It is a truth universally-acknowledged that a machined all-sterling-silver pen is a ‘timeless’, and ‘elegant’, and ‘classy’ writing-implement!

If you want to see something from the more ‘bling’-y (i.e. ostentatious) side of the ‘Shiny Thing’ spectrum, you need to look at pens that are entirely-gold-plated, such as my own 1980s Parker 75s:

 

 

Those are ‘bling’-y! 😉

 

I will though add that they do look nice when one is writing by candlelight 🙂

[Misfit]

My pen of the day is the TWSBI Diamond Mini AL Silver with 1.1mm stub nib. It is filled from a sample of Kaweco Midnight Blue. 

[penwarrior32]

1 hour ago, Mercian said:

Pshaw sirrah!

It is a truth universally-acknowledged that a machined all-sterling-silver pen is a ‘timeless’, and ‘elegant’, and ‘classy’ writing-implement!

If you want to see something from the more ‘bling’-y (i.e. ostentatious) side of the ‘Shiny Thing’ spectrum, you need to look at pens that are entirely-gold-plated, such as my own 1980s Parker 75s:

 

 

Those are ‘bling’-y! 😉

 

I will though add that they do look nice when one is writing by candlelight 🙂

Yes. Very clingy!!!!! Cheers mate. 

[PAKMAN]

8 hours ago, mizgeorge said:

What a very attractive pen - I like the twist on the guilloche very much. I'm guessing it's sterling silver?

Yes Sterling Silver. Beautiful pen.  The Grifos rep I talked to at the Arkansas Pen Show explained that the pen was named the Gaudi because Gaudi was the mathematician that developed the Fibonacci series and they used the Fibonacci series as the settings on the Guilloche machine to create the spiral pattern! Makes the pen even cooler to me!

 

[inkstainedruth]

Interesting.  I vaguely remember learning about the Fibonacci series in some math class in high school, but had to look it up to double check that I remembered what it was *correctly* 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Wil D]

CS Le Tigre 106 and Dinkie 570, filled with Pelikan 4001 Turquoise.

[RedPie]

That is a beautiful pen @PAKMAN.

[Penguincollector]

  Today I inked up an EF pastel purple Chinese clicky pen that @Sailor Kenshin sent me with reconstituted Geha Purple (or Violett). I also used my glass pen for swatches, and my 1928 jade Lady Duofold. 

[pucipatas]

Inked up my gray Pilot Metropolitan CM with BPC Interstellar Bronze. 

[lionelc]

parker striped duofold ef from 1941, just needed a quick ultrasonic clean and resac.  parker washable blue.

[RedPie]

Jinhao 159 black

Jinhao 950

[Sailor Kenshin]

@Penguincollector, the clicky pens do take certain cartridges.  I have some pale neon blurple that may or may not fit…. 😸

[Penguincollector]

1 minute ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

@Penguincollector, the clicky pens do take certain cartridges.  I have some pale neon blurple that may or may not fit…. 😸

  I’ll check it out- I have a ton of Chinese cartridges in both of the usual sizes. I was wondering about that, if it needed the converter as part of the clicker or not. Thanks! 

[Sailor Kenshin]

23 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

  I’ll check it out- I have a ton of Chinese cartridges in both of the usual sizes. I was wondering about that, if it needed the converter as part of the clicker or not. Thanks! 

The mechanism does work if the carts are long enough.  You know the color of Clairefontaine and Rhodia lines, dots and grids?  This cartridge is like a neon version of that, lol.

[Penguincollector]

25 minutes ago, Sailor Kenshin said:

The mechanism does work if the carts are long enough.  You know the color of Clairefontaine and Rhodia lines, dots and grids?  This cartridge is like a neon version of that, lol.

  I can picture it, lol. Sounds like a color I found at Five Below a couple of years back.