What pen(s) are you using today?

[ethernautrix]

 

 

 

This is a wild card in addition to my usual four.

[A Smug Dill]

2 minutes ago, ethernautrix said:

This is a wild card in addition to my usual four.

 

Interesting!

 

What's the height of the ruled lines on the paper you used?

 

The gold sheen reminds me of Lamy Vibrant Pink. If you're able to get that out of an EF nib, then I might have to put a bottle of Lamy Red on my list of products with which to pad orders so as to qualify for free international shipping.

[ethernautrix]

14 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

What's the height of the ruled lines on the paper you used?

 

It's Nanami Seven Seas Writer Tomoe River lined, 7mm (a notebook from a few years ago).

 

This EF nib is ... more of an architect grind, and I write on the side of the left tine to have the thin horizontal line rather than vice versa.

 

 

[Gloucesterman]

9 hours ago, amberleadavis said:

 

 

That's a good idea???!!!???

Or maybe "how many pens are you cleaning today?"

[PAKMAN]

No name (also known as French pen Noname' lol) with flexible Sheaffer Junior nib. Beautiful mottled ebonite body with dual gold bands on the body. Filled with Parker Quink Blue-black.  Bought at the Arkansas Pen Show from Danny Fudge (The Write Pen).

[TheDutchGuy]

Mostly using my two obliques and enjoying them very much indeed! Pretty much the first time ever that I’m truly enjoying wider nib widths.

 

A. Marossy Nr.6 OM, ca. 1953, left-oblique, Kaweco Midnight Blue.

Montblanc Bohème OB, ca. 2010, left-oblique, J. Herbin Vert Atlantide.

 

 

 

[N1003U]

Three pens today.

• Pilot Custom 823 Amber, F, with Iroshizuku Yama-guri. A wonderful smooth and fine nib for  making notes. I have no issues even at 2-3mm x-heights.
• Pelikan M200 White/Gold Marble, F, with Edelstein Smoky Quartz. A bit broader, but the steel nib has a lovely flex/bounce for a nice tactile experience and a bit of line variation.
• Schon DSGN Pocket Six in copper, EF, with Pelikan 4001 Royal Blue. Great for jotting or writing on the go. I like my JoWo nibs, because they just seem to work for all-around use and never complain.

[inkstainedruth]

6 hours ago, Gloucesterman said:

Or maybe "how many pens are you cleaning today?"

I seem to remember there was such a thread a couple of years ago (something like "What pen(s) did you take out of rotation?" or some such...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[amberleadavis]

9 hours ago, ethernautrix said:

 

It's Nanami Seven Seas Writer Tomoe River lined, 7mm (a notebook from a few years ago).

 

This EF nib is ... more of an architect grind, and I write on the side of the left tine to have the thin horizontal line rather than vice versa.

 

 

 

 

OOO Lipstick color ink.  Which one is it? Lamy Coral?

 

8 hours ago, Gloucesterman said:

Or maybe "how many pens are you cleaning today?"

 

LOL, I'm going to clean pens today.

 

7 hours ago, PAKMAN said:

No name (also known as French pen Noname' lol) with flexible Sheaffer Junior nib. Beautiful mottled ebonite body with dual gold bands on the body. Filled with Parker Quink Blue-black.  Bought at the Arkansas Pen Show from Danny Fudge (The Write Pen).

 

 

OOO, that's a looker!

 

7 hours ago, TheDutchGuy said:

Mostly using my two obliques and enjoying them very much indeed! Pretty much the first time ever that I’m truly enjoying wider nib widths.

 

A. Marossy Nr.6 OM, ca. 1953, left-oblique, Kaweco Midnight Blue.

Montblanc Bohème OB, ca. 2010, left-oblique, J. Herbin Vert Atlantide.

 

 

 

 

 

Very Pretty!

[amberleadavis]

15 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

Then I suspect you would be glad not to have bought the Diamine Inkvent calendar Red Edition last year. Not only did I have to keep finding suitable, uninked pens day after day in which to fill the inks for my wife in December, I now have to clean them out as well after she has finished using up a fill. Just last night I cleaned out five of them, along with my three Rotring Initial pens (all filled with ink from the Monteverde inks in the Noir collection) that I have neglected for months. All that soaking, sonicating, flushing and drying took ages!

 

 

Many of mine stay inked, and because I value cap seal effectiveness in fountain pens, quite a lot of them would be ready to go on any given day; but the nature of what I'm writing, and (more importantly?) the type of paper on which I'm writing, dictates which pen(s) I use. For example, I can avoid unacceptable levels of ink bleed-through on 100gsm paper in Paperblanks Flexis softcover notebooks only by using a handful of pens (often selected for their large ink capacity, e.g. Wing Sung 699 and Opus 88 Picnic) I've tuned to write especially ‘dry’ for journalling use primarily.

 

 

Then there are the newly arrived pens that need to be tested, before the window of opportunity to raise complaints of DOA or apparent product defects closes. So, last night and today, I was in a rush to clean and use my new Diplomat Excellence A2 Oxyd Brass that arrived just before I went away for nine days and didn't bring it (or any bottled ink or cartridges, just ten filled pens in a pen ‘wallet’) with me.

 

[Tasmith]

On 3/21/2022 at 11:47 PM, dms525 said:

 

 

The pen used for this entry is a Maiora Alpha K "Amalfi" with a Maiora factory stub.

 

David

Yes, .56mm crisp italic for writing and EF for signature.

[AmandaW]

A Platinum Preppy. I was comfortable in my reading chair writing my journal pages using a lapboard on a pillow (and a heat pack on the cranky shoulder) when my Pilot Prera ran out of ink. Too hard ro get up. The only choices in the pen cup were a rollerball or the Preppy. A couple of lessons in that.

[stoen]

A Pelikan 101N (1938) - F nib, inked with Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Brown:

[Doug C]

5 minutes ago, stoen said:

A Pelikan 101N (1938) - F nib, inked with Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Brown:

THAT is a nice pen.

[mallymal1]

4 hours ago, stoen said:

A Pelikan 101N (1938) - F nib, inked with Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Brown:

 

VERY nice. 🙂

[mallymal1]

A Waterman's #12 eyedropper, with a lovely #2 nib. Somewhere around a hundred years old, and still delivering a sweet line.

 

[mallymal1]

13 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

I seem to remember there was such a thread a couple of years ago (something like "What pen(s) did you take out of rotation?" or some such...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Hi Ruth, are you thinking of "What Pen Did You Finish Today?". 

 

[ethernautrix]

7 hours ago, stoen said:

A Pelikan 101N (1938) - F nib, inked with Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Brown:

 

 A very covetable Pelikan!

[ethernautrix]

13 hours ago, amberleadavis said:

OOO Lipstick color ink.  Which one is it? Lamy Coral?

 

I saw that you realized it was Lamy Red in the other (trying not to rhyme, cannot divert course!) thread.

 

Heh.

 

When I flushed out the pen yesterday (for Platinum Blue-Black, which lasted about five minutes, and now the pen is back in the Pen Valise), I noticed a strong fluorescent yellow. Verrrry interesting.

[PAKMAN]

Custom pen by Darailpenz purchased from Adolphus at the Arkansas Pen Show! Inked with J. Herbin Blue Ocean.