What pen(s) are you using today?

[AmandaW]

Today's journal pen is a Jinhao 51a in Wine Red filled with Diamine Deep Dark Red. It's an amazing pen - I inked it last October - then forgot. (That's why I should have made a Currently Inked notebook a long time ago, instead of like last month. Highly recommended. The notebook and the pen.) It sat in the drawer for six months through our hot dry summer, yet when uncapped this morning: it wrote immediately. Very impressed! It does have a small sweet spot, but posts deeply so lining up the clip with the correct angle helped get the hang of it pretty quick. Pretty pen too.

 

[OldTravelingShoe]

9 hours ago, essayfaire said:

Maybe the focus is having a pen collection that represents the color wheel through all the tertiaries.   

Hehe, @essayfaire, I swatched my inks, but never imagined I could swatch my pens 😆

[ParramattaPaul]

Conway Stewart Duro.

 

[essayfaire]

20 hours ago, OldTravelingShoe said:

Hehe, @essayfaire, I swatched my inks, but never imagined I could swatch my pens 😆

Glad to help! 

[AmandaW]

Today's journal pen was a fine TWSBI Cement Grey inked with R&K SketchInk Thea. It's been filled with that ink since October 2020, no cleaning just topped up as needed. I noticed when I got it out that the nib had a little discolouration - but, no it just wiped off and is as new.

 

[OldTravelingShoe]

Summary: A Montblanc desk pen (?) with smooth M-B gold nib, inked with PILOT Iroshizuku Take-Sumi.

 

Overall, I am surprised how much I like this pen. It feel great in hand, great touch on paper, I look forward to sketching with this pen. Figures 1-3 depict the pen, a writing sample, a miniature sketching sample. 

 

Figure 1. The pen and a writing sample. 

 

Figure 2. Zoom on the nib. 

 

Figure 3. Zoom on the tail. 

 

More photos in OldTravelingShoe's Random Pics of European Fountain Pens: zoom on the nib with ink on it, nib and miniature sketching sample. 

 

Comments are most welcome. 

 

[OldTravelingShoe]

On 4/17/2022 at 4:06 AM, AmandaW said:

Today's journal pen is a Jinhao 51a in Wine Red filled with Diamine Deep Dark Red. It's an amazing pen - I inked it last October - then forgot. (That's why I should have made a Currently Inked notebook

Thanks for sharing, @AmandaW. You gave me two ideas: (i) that my Jinhao 51A with Bobby-ground nib should not idle, and (ii) that I should start a "currently inked notebook". To more pen adventures, ahoy! (I don't know anything meaningful about sailing, actually 😊 ) 

[mke]

On 4/4/2022 at 5:42 AM, Gloucesterman said:

Now I am curious as to what other pen nibs have been made of "solid" 21/22/23 carat gold?

Any idea of what the chemical composition is that makes it strong (rigid) enough to use as a pen nib/

Has anyone used "solid" 24 carat?

I don't know if someone already mentioned it but there is a nibmeister from Japan, KUBO Kohei, who made 24k nibs.

I heard some of them were used by Danitrio (Mikado, Yokuzuna).

 

See here a Kubo pen with a 24k nib LINK. If you search on Google, you find more pictures. The one below is from FPN, the Kubo nib is the third from the right. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[AmandaW]

Today's journal pen is a Pilot E95s EF filled with Pilot Iroshizuku Shin-kai.

 

[OldTravelingShoe]

7 hours ago, AmandaW said:

Today's journal pen is a Pilot E95s EF filled with Pilot Iroshizuku Shin-kai.

 

Very nice pen, @AmandaW.

 

How does it feel to journal with it? I've experienced the EF nibs of Japanese pocket pens as a bit uncomfortable when writing for work, likely because they're more difficult for me to control, so I started using the larger nibs, toward B (Pilot) and larger (Sailor, Platinum). (I'm now blaming the nib for my own illegible writing.) So I'm curious how others experience this. 

[AmandaW]

23 minutes ago, OldTravelingShoe said:

How does it feel to journal with it? I've experienced the EF nibs of Japanese pocket pens as a bit uncomfortable

 

I find they just need a light touch and grip - writing under their own weight. That's something I learned drawing with a brush - for a fine line, just the tip. If you think of it like that it should work.

 

[mallymal1]

On 4/18/2022 at 8:50 AM, OldTravelingShoe said:

Thanks for sharing, @AmandaWmy Jinhao 51A with Bobby-ground nib should not idle😊

 

Neither should mine. 🙂

[mallymal1]

Parker 61 Heritage. Inked with Robert Oster Graphite. 

 

 

The Heritage bit refers to the Rainbow plating on the cap. On the Heritage it's silver and yellow gold, on the Heirloom it's green and pink gold.

 

[AmandaW]

3 minutes ago, mallymal1 said:

The Heritage bit refers to the Rainbow plating on the cap. On the Heritage it's silver and yellow gold, on the Heirloom it's green and pink gold.

 

The inlaid thingy on the hood is quite something too. Does it really help get the angle correct when writing? I read that somewhere.

[mallymal1]

21 minutes ago, AmandaW said:

 

The inlaid thingy on the hood is quite something too. Does it really help get the angle correct when writing? I read that somewhere.

 

It does for me. I'm getting older, and my eyesight isn't the best, so with the hooded nib, the arrow is a great help. 

 

I have an old Wing Sung 812 which copies this idea. It's an OK pen, which works and writes fine if it's in constant use. If left alone for a few days, it dries out. Pretty sure that there are others out there, maybe more up to date and more reliable.

 

Wing Sung 812

 

 

 

[Doug C]

8 hours ago, mallymal1 said:

Parker 61 Heritage. Inked with Robert Oster Graphite. 

 

 

The Heritage bit refers to the Rainbow plating on the cap. On the Heritage it's silver and yellow gold, on the Heirloom it's green and pink gold.

 

Please leave these for me in your will.

Beautiful!!!

[inkstainedruth]

So far today it's been a couple of Parkers:

1) the Emerald Pearl Parker Vacumatic (not sure of the size, but it's a slimmer pen with three narrow cap bands), F nib -- vintage Quink Washable Brown.

2) the Parker/Eversharp 45 style hybrid (not sure of the model -- I haven't found a lot of information bout the Parker-made Eversharps), M nib -- Kobe Suma Beach Blue.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[ParramattaPaul]

Onoto Magna

[AlexLeGrande]

I used my Jinhao 75 for today's journal entry.  What a pen!  This Parker 75 Cisele homage pen has great build quality, feels great in my hand, and writes smooth and skip-free. Current cost on Ebay, $10.  Writes better than many of my pens at 20X the price.

[MarcoA63]

Parker 45 Flighter Deluxe, m gold nib and Black Parker Quink