What pen(s) are you using today?

[Tashi_Tsering]

1 hour ago, kazoolaw said:

Impressive.  Could you share the dimensions?

Of course   

This is the so-called “Short Standard” model:

Lenght (capped): 132mm  

Barrell diameter: 14mm

Cap diameter: 15.3mm

 

"Standard" and "Magnum" models were also produced, 146 and 157 mm long (with the same thickness). I was looking for a "Standard" model for the collection, but I haven't found one yet, I could only find “Short Standard“

[Doug C]

There are a lot of inked fountain pens on my desk but right now I am using an Omas 360 Wild Celluloid rollerball that I just received. 

[Misfit]

Today’s pen of the day is my Edison Beaumont in Molten Ores with 1.1mm italic nib. It is filled from a sample of KWZ Old Gold ink. 
 

I have been playing with my gray Kaweco pens. I wasn’t clear on the color names, so I looked in my pen/ink notebook. From darkest they are the standard Skyline Gray, then what I call the “rock” pens the Concrete, Granite and Pebble gray pens. 

[B. Honeydew]

56 minutes ago, Misfit said:

Today’s pen of the day is my Edison Beaumont in Molten Ores with 1.1mm italic nib. It is filled from a sample of KWZ Old Gold ink. 
 

 

I've been considering an Edison for awhile now.  I'm really intrigued by how they've carved out their niche.  Can you post (or repost) a photo of yours?

[ParramattaPaul]

Conway Stewart Belliver and Onoto Magna.

[Misfit]

1 hour ago, B. Honeydew said:

 

I've been considering an Edison for awhile now.  I'm really intrigued by how they've carved out their niche.  Can you post (or repost) a photo of yours?

This is my Beaumont: I’m quite fond of this pen. It’s in my top 5 of the pens I own.

[inkstainedruth]

On 11/1/2024 at 12:46 PM, PAKMAN said:

For Fountain Pen day I broke out my Retirement Pen from 13 years ago and polished it up and filled it with Akkerman Shocking Blue! The Yard-o-Led Grand Victorian!  (Don't look inkstainedruth!) 

TOO LATE!

Actually I'm just seeing this now (nearly a week after FP Day) because I got to OPS with the charger cord for my laptop and the battery died, then had to go to the Apple Store yesterday after my allergy shots because the cord somehow got damaged even though I didn't bring it to Ohio with me....   And then spent this morning at the dentist, and then going to vote, and then running a couple of errands and THEN spending several hours (which I will NEVER get back) on repeated phone calls with some stupee auto insurance company that decided for some reason that I just ABSOLUTELY wanted to be one of their new customers (no -- not REMOTELY, and after seeing some of the rants about them on FB, you couldn't PAY me enough to switch -- especially from my very excellent auto and homeowners insurance company....  (I could not BELIEVE the level of incompetence -- first from whoever did their voicemail H*ll, and then the fact that it took three MORE calls to find someone who actually understood the issues -- but even the third person I talked to on the phone was apparently incapable of passing the complaint up the food chain herself (the best she could do was give me an address to write to....

But sigh, that pen of yours sure is pretty....  

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

But boy, if I ever win the lottery, a Viceroy Victorian (although probably a Standard, not a Grand like yours) is at the top of my shopping list (a Pelikan 700 size Toledo being #2)

[inkstainedruth]

Today's pens have been the Noodler's Vulcan's Coral FPC, flex nib, with Noodler's Legal Lapis; and the purple Pilot Falcon, SF nib, with Sailor Souboku.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Mercian]

I broke my own 'only-two-pens-inked' 'rule' today, and so now have three(!) pens inked:

 

• Pilot Plumix (European version), 'M' nib, loaded with Monteverde Olivine;
• Lamy Vista, 1.1i nib, loaded with Lamy Turquoise;
• Waterman 'Graduate' (1990s version), 'F' nib, loaded with Diamine 'Chocolate'.

Oh, the profligacy!

[USG]

5 hours ago, Mercian said:

Waterman 'Graduate' (1990s version), 'F' nib, loaded with Diamine 'Chocolate'.

 

Hi MCN  Does the Diamine Chocolate look brown when you write with it or does it start to look Black? 

 

Today:

2 Jinhaos, Century & X159 (both Mediums)

Iroshizuku Yama-Budo & Shin-Kai

Cosmo Snow paper

CLICK TO ENLARGE

[Mercian]

34 minutes ago, USG said:

Hi MCN  Does the Diamine Chocolate look brown when you write with it or does it start to look Black?

 

I have found that it can look very dark - almost black - when run through a very wet pen.

Conversely, if one runs it through a very dry pen, the red component in the mix that makes up the brown starts to become noticeable. It isn't anything like as 'red' as e.g. Waterman 'Havana'/'Absolute Brown' is, but from a dry pen one does becomes aware of that part of the dye load.

 

My findings above may be 'amplified' by the fact that I mostly use finer-nibbed pens.
If one were to run it through broader-nibbed pens, I suspect that more of its dye-load would show through, and thus that it would usually tend to appear 'brown'.

 

Most of the the time, I have found that its colour is very much a 'chocolate brown'.

And I really enjoy it 😊

[Janeite]

I started in on my A4 Clairfontaine notebook I picked from Vanness Pens, as I am going to use it to improve my handwriting. This is my Parker 45 flighter with Monteverde's Brown Sugar Ink.  My fake Parker Sonnet/Baoer 388 also got some use at work.

[USG]

2 hours ago, Mercian said:

 

I have found that it can look very dark - almost black - when run through a very wet pen.

Conversely, if one runs it through a very dry pen, the red component in the mix that makes up the brown starts to become noticeable. It isn't anything like as 'red' as e.g. Waterman 'Havana'/'Absolute Brown' is, but from a dry pen one does becomes aware of that part of the dye load.

 

My findings above may be 'amplified' by the fact that I mostly use finer-nibbed pens.
If one were to run it through broader-nibbed pens, I suspect that more of its dye-load would show through, and thus that it would usually tend to appear 'brown'.

 

Most of the the time, I have found that its colour is very much a 'chocolate brown'.

And I really enjoy it 😊

 

Thanks for the info, much appreciated. 😀👍
 

[AmandaW]

Today's pen is a blue Kaweco x Moleskine with a fine nib and Kaweco Midnight Blue ink.

[Misfit]

Today’s pen of the day is the TWSBI Diamond Mini AL Grape with 1.1mmm stub nib filled with Wearingeul’s F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby ink. 

[jchch1950]

On 11/6/2024 at 7:14 AM, B. Honeydew said:

 

I've been considering an Edison for awhile now.  I'm really intrigued by how they've carved out their niche.  Can you post (or repost) a photo of yours?

In my opinion: excellent quality, flexibility to customers' wishes, a wide range of pen designs, multiple choice of material and colours, many pen sizes to choose from, personal attention of Brian in the production of pens and a good relation between price and quality.

[avlisyar]

Todays pens include:

Edison Pearl/ Broad CI by Pablo at Fpnibs filled with PR Infinity Black

Scriptorium Custom / Broad CI by Pablo at Fpnibs filled with PR Cobalt Blue

[RedPie]

19 hours ago, Mercian said:

I broke my own 'only-two-pens-inked' 'rule'

I broke that rule a long time ago. LOL I have about 5 inked and use them all the time!

[inkstainedruth]

I'm back to having too many pens inked up, because I got four repaired at OPS last weekend, and a fifth one checked out.

So far today, it's been the Sailor Pro-Gear Slim Purple Cosmos, zoom nib, with diluted Sailor Sky High; and one of the pens I got repaired at the show: the Cordovan Brown 51 Vac, F(?) nib, with Pelikan 4001 Royal Blue.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Janeite]

Used some Pilot Varsity FPs and the Baoer Sonnet at work and tonight I I used my Parker 45 (F nib) and Pineider Avatar (M nib) with the letter B.