What pen(s) are you using today?

[PAKMAN]

My daughter and granddaughter are here for Thanksgiving. My granddaughter has been asking me about my pens and wanting to look at them. I let her write her name with my Yard-o-Led Grand Victorian. She is 8 and did great!

 

[ParramattaPaul]

1 hour ago, PAKMAN said:

my Yard-o-Led Grand Victorian. She is 8 and did great!

'My pretty.'  An engraved shiny silver pen and an 8 year old, she's hooked.

[PJS_prog]

1 hour ago, ParramattaPaul said:

An engraved shiny silver pen and an 8 year old, she's hooked.

 

I was thinking the same thing.

 

Great choice, @PAKMAN.

[inkstainedruth]

2 hours ago, PAKMAN said:

My daughter and granddaughter are here for Thanksgiving. My granddaughter has been asking me about my pens and wanting to look at them. I let her write her name with my Yard-o-Led Grand Victorian. She is 8 and did great!

 

Wow!  An eight year old managing with a big heavy pen like that?   I'm impressed.... 

Today, so far, it's been the Noodler's Vulcan's Coral FPC (flex nib) still with Legal Lapis; and one of the black 51 Vacs with the T6 date code -- the one that DOESN'T have a name engraved on it -- (F nib I think), still with vintage Quink Permanent Blue Black.

Of course, if I manage to get my act together, I may try to take the newly acquired polishing cloth to the recent acquisitions (the Parker 75 sterling Ciselé set -- or at least to the FP) and see what it should be inked up with (now that I've gotten the dregs of the Super Quink Permanent Blue cartridge that HAD been installed in the FP) finally flushed out of it (still waiting to hear back from anyone at Parker Pens as to how hard it's going to be to find a replacement filler for the BP pen from the set...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Christopher Godfrey]

<Wow!  An eight year old managing with a big heavy pen like that?>

 

At boarding school, from age eight, we, too, were only allowed to use fountain pens!  Ballpoints were forbidden (and anyway, they were "new-fangled" and hardly in common use)   So, as far as I am concerned, 8yo is about the right age to start them.  Well done, that man, (Pakman): keep her at it!

[inkstainedruth]

It's not the fact that his granddaughter was using Pakman's pen.  It was that it was something that I -- as an ADULT -- would find too large and heavy to use (although it I ever win the lottery, there's gonna be a YoL Viceroy Victorian Standard in my future...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Christopher Godfrey]

It's not a large pen, Ruth -- and only weighs in at around 30g.

[inkstainedruth]

Uh, pretty sure a Viceroy Victorian Grande weighs more than 30 grams....  

Yup.  I just did a quick Google search and it's 66 grams....  And that's according to YoL's website....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth