What pen(s) are you using today?

[Misfit]

3 hours ago, Katolin said:

I finally decided to get a Magna Carta Mag 600 for Black Friday and I absolutely love writing and doodling with it.

Your writing is beautiful. 

[AmandaW]

1 hour ago, Misfit said:

TWSBI Eco-T Rosso red with 1.1mm stub nib filled with Private Reserve Infinity Green

A Christmasy colour combination. 🎄♥️💚

 

My pen today will be a Kaweco Perkeo Peony Blossom filled with Kaweco Summer Purple. That should use up the last of the ink so it can go in the cleaning queue.

 

If I do finish it up... a Lamy Studio Dark Brown EF filled with Diamine Triple Chocolate is waiting for a turn.

 

[inkstainedruth]

9 hours ago, Katolin said:

I finally decided to get a Magna Carta Mag 600 for Black Friday and I absolutely love writing and doodling with it.

Where did you get the pen holder?  That's ADORABLE!

As for the pen, my initial glance made me think of the vintage celluloid (?)  used for the Pearl model Vacumatics -- especially since I've seen Vacs that color (although don't have one myself).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Katolin]

5 hours ago, Misfit said:

Your writing is beautiful. 

Thank you very much!

 

 

1 minute ago, inkstainedruth said:

Where did you get the pen holder?  That's ADORABLE!

As for the pen, my initial glance made me think of the vintage celluloid (?)  used for the Pearl model Vacumatics -- especially since I've seen Vacs that color (although don't have one myself).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Ha, it's actually marketed as a cell phone holder. I found it on Amazon, and it was just too cute to pass up!

 

I love the look of celluloid, and I definitely also thought of that when I saw this stacked resin. I have one small Parker Vacumatic to compare to, and while the resin is definitely less chatoyant than celluloid, it has its own special flair.

[Misfit]

I wanted to add a photo of my pen, but it wasn’t letting me earlier today. 
 

Here, as @AmandaW said, it’s red and green like Christmas. Oh yeah, TWSBI Eco-T with 1.1mm stub nib. The ink is Private Reserve Infinity Green. 
 

 

Someone needs to remind me that I notice the grip of the Eco-T, and should not get any more of them.  

[Penguincollector]

  I’m using my newly converted Chren penguin EF fountain pen. It was originally a fp cartridge using micron type marker, so I found a fountain pen by them in the same diameter, and swapped the ends. I’ve inked it with R&K Alt-goldgrün that I added a greenish copper mica to. 

[USG]

48 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

  I’m using my newly converted Chren penguin EF fountain pen. It was originally a fp cartridge using micron type marker, so I found a fountain pen by them in the same diameter, and swapped the ends. I’ve inked it with R&K Alt-goldgrün that I added a greenish copper mica to. 

 

What did you do?????  😱

 

[inkstainedruth]

Today so far it's been the black Parker 61 that I picked up a few months ago at an estate sale company's "showroom sale" with whatever ink was in it that I keep reconstituting (I ran the first 61 I ever bought -- also black, as it happened -- running for something like three months, until the ink in the teflon sponge got so diluted that it was illegible on the page).  So far, this new-to-me one has been the ONLY plastic-barreled 61 that hasn't developed cracks in it (the only other 61 which hasn't developed cracks is the Flighter...).

But at some point I have to probably write a check for my husband (probably with the Pilot Falcon, sill inked up with Sailor Souboku) and get it in the mail ASAP (it's for reservations for next spring for the thing he runs his sideline business at; at this point he stores all the equipment at the site in a CONEX box).  But he's waiting to get a call back from the site owner because the amount he has to pay this year has tripled or quadrupled and he needs to find out if this is including reservations for some of the people who work for him at the booth).  I had really wanted this to happen sooner so it could go out in today's mail (I have to run to the grocery store and possibly the local BJ's as well, and this would give me an excuse to move the van before one of our next door neighbors gets home -- they both drive big SUVs and don't have a driveway).  And of course normally it wouldn't be an issue -- except of course OUR driveway replacement is on hold because the contractors screwed up and apparently ALSO screwed up on other jobs because they were nearly a month late finishing the previous job and of course now it's the middle of December -- NOT late October when I THOUGHT they were supposed to show up -- AND was only supposed to take 5 days (it's been nearly a MONTH at this point).  And the advantage of me going to the post office today is that I could then run to a grocery store and then (hopefully) park LEGALLY (unlike last night when the only available space on our street turned out to NOT be legal -- and the cops called my husband this AM telling him to move the van or it would get TOWED....  And I don't know if he's actually gone up the street to move it yet.... 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Misfit]

Today’s pen is a Kaweco Sport Classic Bordeaux with M nib filled with Kaweco Ruby Red ink. 

[Doug C]

A Kilk, a Gioia, an Ulpia, and an Esterbrook. 

[lionelc]

parker kop 1911 broad nib, manyo haha

[gregamckinney]

Same pens as yesterday, but two with new ink in them:

_ Pilot Custom 823 now with Bungbox 4B (was Omas Roma 2000 Blue)

_ Pelikan M910 Yellow Toledo now with Noodler's El Lawrence (was Kobe 45)

[yubaprof]

Ulpia Desert with Edelstein Topaz. As far as I know this is the only pen being made in Spain right now. It has a medium nib that is very stiff, but I plan to have it obliqued and hopefully that will give it a bit more character.

[Mark from Yorkshire]

Various including waterman expert with mysterious blue ink

[Nick T]

My trusty Pelikan 400 with cursive italic nib from the nibsmith- ink is KWZ blue black #1. Subject is the lament of tone coming from an old Fender Princeton amplifier that I play jazz with. Cheers!

[Misfit]

Today’s pen is a TWSBI Diamond Mini clear with 1.1mm stub nib filled with J Herbin Lierre Sauvage. 

[Estycollector]

Continuing to enjoy the Sheaffer Crest with a newly installed sac which has transformed the ink flow. 

[inkstainedruth]

The newly acquired sterling Ciselé Parker 75, F nib -- only it turns out that there's a problem with the nib -- one of the tines has apparently had the tipping broken off, so the pen is very scratchy and I'll either have to try to find a replacement for it or see about serious nib work on it.  Neither of which I was expecting -- or budgeted for....  Which is a shame because I'd inked it up with the MB Great Characters Beatles Psychedelic Purple.

And one of the black Parker 51 Vac with the T6 date code, F? nib, still with vintage Quink Permanent Blue Black....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[PJS_prog]

5 hours ago, Nick T said:

... an old Fender Princeton ...

Classic.

[ParramattaPaul]

Onoto Scholar.

 

The Magna was due for a 'scrub up', had it, and like most Aussie workers is off until early in the new year.