What pen(s) are you using today?

[Doug C]

2 hours ago, Gloucesterman said:

"On a Whim" beautiful acrylic with a 1.1 stub nib and resurrected vintage Sheaffer Peacock Blue ink.

Sounds lovely!

[Gloucesterman]

26 minutes ago, Doug C said:

Sounds lovely!

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Yes and YOU would know!

Wishing your holidays is wonderful...

 

 

[Misfit]

Starting December with the Kaweco Sport Classic in red with a 1.1mm stub nib. I filled a cartridge with Noodler’s Grinch Garnet ink (very carefully as it is a new bottle, first use).

[Penguincollector]

@Misfit, I started the season with a festive green pen and ink pairing to complement your red. Mine is a Reform 1742 EF inked with 4001 Brilliant Green. 

[StrawberryDaquiri]

Tonight I'm testing out a Parker True Blue I resacked the other day :3 

The nib was replaced at some point with a Weidlich No2 (about an ef) not sure yet if I'll track down an original or just have this one tuned up

[Misfit]

5 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

@Misfit, I started the season with a festive green pen and ink pairing to complement your red. Mine is a Reform 1742 EF inked with 4001 Brilliant Green. 

Cool! I have two Kaweco Ice Sports in red and green with complementary inks. Maybe I’ll use the green Ice Sport tomorrow. I don’t know if I have enough red and green pens for each day of the month. But no harm in repeating pens. 
 

We are pen buddies. 

[Gloucesterman]

10 hours ago, Misfit said:

a Reform 1742 EF inked with 4001 Brilliant Green. 

I have a NOS Reform green demonstrator that I have not yet used. I got it at a flea market this summer.

As for pen in use, I am using a TWSBI 580 w/ a Pendleton Brown stub and Diamine Blue Sapphire ink.

It's one of my favorite pen & ink combinations.

[Stompie]

[Misfit]

Today’s pen is a Kaweco Ice Sport in green, filled with Diamine Blue Edition Mistletoe dark green ink with B nib. 

[Penguincollector]

On 12/1/2024 at 9:31 PM, Misfit said:

Cool! I have two Kaweco Ice Sports in red and green with complementary inks. Maybe I’ll use the green Ice Sport tomorrow. I don’t know if I have enough red and green pens for each day of the month. But no harm in repeating pens. 
 

We are pen buddies. 

 I used a Chinese Clicky pen with Monteverde Valentine Red today, to continue the theme, pen buddy.

[ParramattaPaul]

Onoto Scholar and CS Belliver.

[Misfit]

@Penguincollector hey pen buddy, tomorrow’s pen will be the Moonman C1 Christmas pen filled with Diamine Blue Edition Ho Ho Ho ink. I put a Nemosine 0.6mm stub nib on it after cleaning it last month. The 0.6mm stub doesn’t show a lot of line variation. If it were italic it would as the Pilot CM nib is 0.55mm. 
 

[ruby.monkey]

I'm feeling lazy today so will stick with a couple of Esterbrook dip pens.

[AmandaW]

Today's pen has been a recently arrived Faber-Castell Neo Slim Olive Green with an EF nib. I have it inked with Graf von Faber-Castell Olive Green using a Rotring converter which only just fits, wasn't sure it would at first, skinny pen and kinda short.

 

 

Love the nib, but then I don't think I've ever experienced an FC nib I didn't enjoy. And, bonus, it's the kind with a curved top which is great for flipping over to get a wash effect when drawing. Like this...

 

[rodia77]

The bunch that's currently inked:

 

 

Platinum Prefounte, Sailor Tuzu, Pilot 78G+ and my wifey's Pilot Kaküno.

The Tuzu came with such a terribly scratchy F nib that I got back to the merchant asking to fix the situation and they in turn got back to Sailor -- waiting to hear back from them now. I'm well aware of 'feedback' in pens and that it's kinda Sailor's trademark, but this level of scratchiness renders the pen unusable in my book.

[Penguincollector]

8 hours ago, Misfit said:

@Penguincollector hey pen buddy, tomorrow’s pen will be the Moonman C1 Christmas pen filled with Diamine Blue Edition Ho Ho Ho ink. I put a Nemosine 0.6mm stub nib on it after cleaning it last month. The 0.6mm stub doesn’t show a lot of line variation. If it were italic it would as the Pilot CM nib is 0.55mm. 
 

 

  What a cute combo! Are you alternating red and green inks for the month, or is that just coincidence? To compliment, I will use my Jinhao 80 with the dark green Alfoncine shimmer ink. 

[Penguincollector]

On 12/1/2024 at 8:15 PM, StrawberryDaquiri said:

Tonight I'm testing out a Parker True Blue I resacked the other day :3 

The nib was replaced at some point with a Weidlich No2 (about an ef) not sure yet if I'll track down an original or just have this one tuned up

  Such a lovely pen! I have the ring top version. I have seen the Lucky Curve nibs at Five Star Pens.

[Driften]

4 hours ago, rodia77 said:

The bunch that's currently inked:

 

 

Platinum Prefounte, Sailor Tuzu, Pilot 78G+ and my wifey's Pilot Kaküno.

The Tuzu came with such a terribly scratchy F nib that I got back to the merchant asking to fix the situation and they in turn got back to Sailor -- waiting to hear back from them now. I'm well aware of 'feedback' in pens and that it's kinda Sailor's trademark, but this level of scratchiness renders the pen unusable in my book.

I thought the same about my Tuzu in F but my first inking was a Sailor sample that didn't agree with the pen. Very light and not flowing. I then changed to an Iroshizuku ink and it was a new pen. Worked great at that point.

[rodia77]

57 minutes ago, Driften said:

I thought the same about my Tuzu in F but my first inking was a Sailor sample that didn't agree with the pen. Very light and not flowing. I then changed to an Iroshizuku ink and it was a new pen. Worked great at that point.

 

Thanks for your comment.

 

I inked it with Pelikan 4001, but I don't give pens a right to agree or disagree with anything, at any price point; they're writing instruments and not primadonnas. Maybe if I fill them with pomegranate juice, they're allowed to act out a touch.

 

With this Tuzu, I knew there would be a problem when 'dry-writing' before inking.

[PJS_prog]

I've still been writing daily with the Lamy Safari frankenpen with the Jinhao nib.  However, while looking for something else, I saw one of the Pilot V-Pens staring up at me from my the drawer of my work desk.  So, I pulled it out and wrote with it for awhile, just because.  It's been sitting in there untouched for a couple of month now, yet started immediately,  Those things write way better than they should.