What pen(s) are you using today?

[chromantic]

Green-marble M200 with Golden Beryl.

[Arthur Pewty]

Pilot Custom Heritage 91 with a maki-e image of an octopus. I chose it because it reminds me of the woodblock print "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife" by Hokusai (emphatically NSFW). Pilot Blue; I've put some other inks on my Amazon wish list and my birthday is a few weeks away, so next time I may have a less boring ink to report.

[inkstainedruth]

Today it's been the Pelikan P22 "Chinatown", M? nib -- Birmingham Pens Schenley Park Thicket Green; and the purple Pilot Falcon, SF nib -- Sailor Souboku.  

The first was for today's MP journal entry; the second, mostly for writing checks to pay bills.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[mallymal1]

9 hours ago, Arthur Pewty said:

Pilot Custom Heritage 91 with a maki-e image of an octopus. I chose it because it reminds me of the woodblock print "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife" by Hokusai (emphatically NSFW). Pilot Blue; I've put some other inks on my Amazon wish list and my birthday is a few weeks away, so next time I may have a less boring ink to report.

 

Very nice.  👍

[jchch1950]

Twsbi Swipe with Twsbi cartridge and  blue ink.

[Peter_H]

14 hours ago, Arthur Pewty said:

 

 

That’s one interesting-looking pen.  Wow!  😲

[yubaprof]

 

 

8 hours ago, Peter_H said:

 

That’s one interesting-looking pen.  Wow!  😲

Is it possible to hand paint a pen at home? In other words, a do it yourself job. I could not do it myself as I have no artistic skills, but maybe a friend could. I'm assuming a special paint would be needed or covered with laquer or something else. Is this a goofy idea? Crazy? Stupid? 

[ParramattaPaul]

8 minutes ago, yubaprof said:

 

 

Is it possible to hand paint a pen at home? In other words, a do it yourself job. I could not do it myself as I have no artistic skills, but maybe a friend could. I'm assuming a special paint would be needed or covered with laquer or something else. Is this a goofy idea? Crazy? Stupid? 

The real question is why not if it strikes your fancy.

 

[Nick T]

My Montblanc 149 with Calligraphy nib. It’s knocked everything else off the desk since I acquired it last year.  

[PAKMAN]

1936 Parker Vac Emerald Pearl Standard double jewel with striped section and jewel and lockdown filler.

 

[yubaprof]

3 hours ago, ParramattaPaul said:

The real question is why not if it strikes your fancy.

 

Yes, it strikes my fancy, but is it feasible? That's what I want to know. 

[I-am-not-really-here]

35 minutes ago, yubaprof said:

Yes, it strikes my fancy, but is it feasible? That's what I want to know. 

Feasible?  Yes.  Look at Etsy, there are all sorts of everyday objects, pens included, that folks have augmented with hand painted designs.

[lionelc]

3 hours ago, PAKMAN said:

1936 Parker Vac Emerald Pearl Standard double jewel

a beauty

[ruby.monkey]

Platignum cartridge school pen with a medium oblique italic nib. I'm living the high life!

 

IMG_4432 by Jean-Yves, on Flickr

[Runnin_Ute]

Since it's arrival earlier today the Sheaffer Craftsman (TD Filler) M nib, I bought from Ron Zorn has seen quite a bit of use.

[amberleadavis]

15 hours ago, ruby.monkey said:

Platignum cartridge school pen with a medium oblique italic nib. I'm living the high life!

 

IMG_4432 by Jean-Yves, on Flickr

Looks great!

[Peter_H]

7 hours ago, Runnin_Ute said:

Since it's arrival earlier today the Sheaffer Craftsman (TD Filler) M nib, I bought from Ron Zorn has seen quite a bit of use.

 

A photo of this pen would be interesting.  I’d never heard of the Sheaffer TouchDown system and had to look it up!  Didn’t come across the Craftsman, though.

[sandy101]

Today, I'm using my grandfather's Parker Doufold/Victory for no other reason than I haven't picked it up for a while.

[essayfaire]

On 7/30/2022 at 5:14 AM, chromantic said:

Green-marble M200 with Golden Beryl.

I decided the golden beryl is a bit too golden for my brown marbled.

[OldTravelingShoe]

On 7/21/2022 at 7:46 AM, A Smug Dill said:

 

Yet another Majohn (né Moonman) A1 pen in which the steel EF nib as supplied proves to be a width grade or two broader than a Japanese F nib.

 

The nib and feed combination only delivers a relatively narrow range of colours/shading with Noodler's Ink Apache Sunset, out of what has been demonstrated (by the Pilot MR nib mounted on a dip pen handle) the ink is capable of.

 

Beatiful pen, even better review and writing sample.

 

(I'm getting tempted to try this one out myself.)