What pen(s) are you using today?

[USG]

Sailor 1911 KOP<m>, Sailor Manyo Konagi ink

MaJohn M800<f>, Vintage Waterman Violet ink

Iroful paper

CLICK TO ENLARGE

[Tashi_Tsering]

Graf von Faber-Castell

 

- Classic Pernambuco (old version with sterling silver cap)

- Intuition

- Guilloche Chevron

 

[StrawberryDaquiri]

Used a Pilot Varsity to sign the guest registry at a wedding :3

[ISW_Kaputnik]

I have four fountain pens inked.  Left to right, Lamy 2000, Pilot Vanishing Point (with stub nib), Pilot Striped Mu, Platinum Carbon desk pen.  The Lamy is the only one I've written with so far today, but the Mu is the one in my pocket as I prepare to go out.

 

Also in the picture, two ruling pens.  These are somewhat obsolete draughting instruments, intended to be used with ink in technical drawings.  I've been experimenting with using them to put down masking fluid in watercolor paintings.

 

 

[inkstainedruth]

I had to use a ruling pen for a class I took in college when we were doing drawings where you had to show the top, front and sides of an object (I spent a small fortune on the special paper -- which was 11"x17" per sheet) and the drawings were supposed to be perfect.  And I managed to get through the class with a C (so, just barely passed).  But was SERIOUSLY unpleased by the two guys who used Rapidographs (and the professor didn't notice) -- both of whom got "A"s in the class....

I have really bad memories of that class, more than 40 years later....  Not sure if I still have the compass set that the ruling pen came in (I did buy another set a number of years ago but I don't think it's got a ruling pen in it).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[ParramattaPaul]

7 hours ago, ISW_Kaputnik said:

Also in the picture, two ruling pens.  These are somewhat obsolete draughting instruments, intended to be used with ink in technical drawings. 

I have a set German-made of ruling pens that my mother gave me in the early 1960s when I was in high school.  I used them one last time in the early 1990s.  I also have two carry cases of  draughting tools of various vintages as they changed through the 1990s along with a portable draughting board and all sorts of templates, triangles, etc.  I used none of these tools professionally during my first career.  It was only after my first retirement got sufficiently boring that I actually used any of them professionally. 

[welch]

Midnight Blue Parker 51, US medium nib. My favorite.

[Penguincollector]

I got to write with @fireant’s coral MontBlanc today. It’s super cute! 

[Misfit]

Today’s pen of the day is the TWSBI Diamond Mini AL Silver with 1.1mm stub nib. I filled it today with Levenger Smokey ink, which is a discontinued ink. 

[ParramattaPaul]

I didn't do much today but i used three pens doing it - CS Belliver (it's becoming a favourite) Onoto Magna and Scholar.

[AmandaW]

Today it's  a blue Kaweco x Moleskine with a fine nib and Iroshizuku Tsuki-yo. Again.

 

I'm also writing with a Lamy Light Rose rollerball - a slight frankenpen because it has a fountain pen barrel and the refill shortened by about 5mm to make it fit. I think a Pilot G2 refill will fit too and offer more choice of line and colour. Ordering one to find out for sure. (The rollerball barrel is on the matching fountain pen to eliminate the 'ink window' and slow down the drying out.)

 

[A Smug Dill]

13 minutes ago, AmandaW said:

I'm also writing with a Lamy Light Rose rollerball - a slight frankenpen because it has a fountain pen barrel and the refill shortened by about 5mm to make it fit.

 

Would you like me to send you a rollerball pen designed to use (so-called “standard international”) fountain pen ink cartridges? I just bought and received another three sold and shipped by Amazon Japan, in one of those deals. Consider it a Christmas present, if you want one. Just let me know.

[AmandaW]

2 minutes ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

Would you like me to send you a rollerball pen designed to use (so-called “standard international”) fountain pen ink cartridges? I just bought and received another three sold and shipped by Amazon Japan, in one of those deals. Consider it a Christmas present, if you want one. Just let me know.

Oh yes please! 🙂

[A Smug Dill]

Just now, AmandaW said:

Oh yes please! 🙂

 

Consider it locked in.

[USG]

19 hours ago, ISW_Kaputnik said:

I have four fountain pens inked.  Left to right, Lamy 2000, Pilot Vanishing Point (with stub nib), Pilot Striped Mu, Platinum Carbon desk pen.  The Lamy is the only one I've written with so far today, but the Mu is the one in my pocket as I prepare to go out.

 

Also in the picture, two ruling pens.  These are somewhat obsolete draughting instruments, intended to be used with ink in technical drawings.  I've been experimenting with using them to put down masking fluid in watercolor paintings.

 

 

 

+1  😀👍

[USG]

Today:  Part 1 of my FPR Ultra Flex nib project came in.

A Jinhao 9016, which is going to be the pen body for the Flex nib.

I had no idea it had a Heartbeat nib

Dipped but not filled

 

And I put a Kaigelu<F> in this Jinhao Century

[avlisyar]

Today, it's the:

Nakaya Piccolo with Stipula Sepia

 

[inkstainedruth]

Today it's been three pens:

1) Sheaffer No Nonsense (red orange with the off white cap with a floral design), Italic F nib -- finishing a fill of diluted vintage Skrip Peacock Blue.

2) Parker 45, (Midnight), F nib -- diluted vintage Quink Permanant Violet.

3) Parker 51 Vac (Black), F nib -- still with Pelikan 4001 Royal Blue.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[langere]

My new pen, a Stipula Suprema S'Foglio d'Oro, Medium nib, filled with Van Dieman's Royal Starfish

[Doug C]

12 minutes ago, langere said:

My new pen, a Stipula Suprema S'Foglio d'Oro, Medium nib, filled with Van Dieman's Royal Starfish

That is a good looking pen.