What Pelikan Are You Writing With Today? (2024 Edition)

[RedPie]

Using my Pelikan Twist P457 filled with the Pelikan ink of the year. I was surprised about the shimmer!

[Bo Bo Olson]

With Blue Lapis, I discovered, that if I shake well and let start settling for a minute and fill... from the bottom and not the top, I got all the glitter that other folks showed. I think it's a finer glitter that don't settle as fast as two of the Diamine glitter inks mentioned below.

 

I just tried that trick with Diamine Brandy Dazel, and got more dazel, but not in the same magnitude of Blue Lapis. Perhaps one of the blue or turquoise glitter inks would show more. Tropical Glow (turquoise), no, I think  in those two Diamine glitter inks, uses heavier glitter in they are setting out inside of 15 seconds. With out the desk lamp's side light, no glitter.

Diamine Arctic blue is a real fine see the glitter with out tilting and was top filled....so I guess Diamine learned in there is a world of difference between Arctic blue and the other two.

Brandy Dazel was filled in my 605 stubbed B, and the Tropical Glow in my Amethyst B. They are filled but not really in use, in I'm editing and want finer nibs.

 

So much for Plan A...Plan B is buy some sort of mica and keep adding it until I get enough glitter on the page that I don't need to tilt or have the desk side lamp on.

 

The paper used is Canon Black Label Premium 80g....a printer paper that often shows shading...but not all the time; depending on ink. I intend to stock up on it and the supermarket 90g at the same store.

On Clairefontaine Triomphe 90g, there is much more glitter but it's still tilt to see.

 

[Wil D]

Pelikano with F nib

[Ceilidh]

Vintage 400 with an OB nib, Noodler's Texas Katydid (the Dromgoole/Noodler's show ink from last weekend's Dallas Pen Show). 

[RedPie]

20 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

With Blue Lapis, I discovered, that if I shake well and let start settling for a minute and fill... from the bottom

I also roll my pen in my hands when I start using the pen. May be that would work for you too.

[Wil D]

Pelikano with F nib

[Wil D]

Pelikano with F nib

[RedPie]

Pelikan Twist P457

Pelikan M200

Pelikan M250

[carlos.q]

Today I've been using a Pelikan M1000 with a EF nib and Pelikan 4001 Dark Green.

 

[Merrick]

Tortoiseshell 400NN with a custom ground nib. 

[Wil D]

Style neon blue with M nib

[Bo Bo Olson]

605 stubbed to a B from a double round ball BB by Francis.

Held in the 'forefinger up' method. With Diamine Brandy Dazel, which needs more gold colored mica. Diamine Arctic Blue don't have that problem of tilt to find.

 

[RedPie]

12 hours ago, carlos.q said:

Today I've been using a Pelikan M1000 with a EF nib and Pelikan 4001 Dark Green.

 

Very elegant! 

[Wil D]

Technixx blue

[inkstainedruth]

Today it's been the newly re-inked M120 Iconic Blue, M nib, with Edelstein Star Ruby.

Almost had a major panic attack when I got out of the place I had breakfast after going to an estate sale, because I suddenly couldn't find the pen.  Checked my purse (several times), checked around where I'd been sitting, checked in the car -- then found it on the floor near the cashier's station....  

WHEW!!  NOT an inexpensive pen to have go missing... (although I was the same way when I lost a couple of relatively inexpensive Parker Vectors... ).  And I KNEW I'd had it in the restaurant because I'd been trying to do Morning Pages (I did about half a page sitting on the sidewalk at the the apartment complex where the estate sale was going to be, but then got talking to other people in line; and I did some more on today's Pages entry while waiting for a seat at the Waffle House where I ended up going to for breakfast -- so I KNEW I'd had it with me in there at least to start with.  Ended up finishing the last page and a half when I got home.  Only to have my husband (who was going off to a gaming day at some friends' house) then not be able to find his driving glasses....  Although he DID find the 51 Vac I bought at an estate sale last weekend which I didn't KNOW was missing  until he told me where he'd put the pen after finding it on the floor this morning before I got home....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Irontank]

Going to ink up my M200 Smokey Quartz for today. It is next in line in my pen rotation roster. 🙂

[Merrick]

Swapped a two chick M250 M nib in to my 400NN and just gave it a quick test. It has some bounce but obviously isn’t a flex nib like  the original 400 nib, but it actually writes like a medium which is nice (a little on the thin side for a western medium really). Now I can use the 400NN as a daily writer. 

[Wil D]

Level L5 blue/black

[Wil D]

Style neon-blue

[RedPie]

Pelikan Twist P457