What Pens Are You Using Today?

[fitzharry]

I used three pens today: my Waterman L'Etalon in basketweave sterling silver and Pelikan Royal Blue ink; my Sheaffer Legacy 2 in palladium finish with Noodler's Navajo Turquoise ink; and my 1945 Parker "51" with sterling silver cap and Cedar Blue body with Noodler's Ottoman Azure ink.

[Joopie]

Always have a few pens inked; now:

 

Omas Milord T-2 with Titanium Nib

Nakaya Equilibrium in Burgundy

Pelikan 1000

Pelikan 140 Burgundy

Eversharp Skyline in Solid 14K gold

MontBlanc LeGrand FP in Pure Silver

MontBlanc LeGrand FP in Vermeil

Stipula Novecento Elettra Blue

Sailor 1911 Full-size Black with H-M nib

 

Generally I use each for about half a day and then get the next one.

When one of these runs dry, I clean it, stock it and ink another one of my ink-pool.

90 % of my collection remains dry all the time; which is better [???] they say.

Edited October 23, 2007 by Joopie

[WriteOn]

I always maintain fifteen to twenty inked pens on my desk and ready to go. No more "work" for me, since I retired on July 9th, but I still alternate my pens on a daily basis and never leave the house without one in my pocket.

 

- This morning I wrote some checks and caught up on some correspondence with my sterling silver Sailor 1911 with a broad nib (writes like a medium) that was adjusted to my hand by Nagahara several years ago when I purchased it at the D.C. Supershow. He is a master and it is still smooth as silk. I'm using a Sailor black ink cartridge in the 1911.

 

- After lunch my attorney came by the house with a copy of my revised will to sign. For that task I used one of my beautiful handmade Joe Cali creations with a vintage Omas nib and filled with Waterman Havana ink.

 

-This afternoon I'm meeting a Kenyon College student who plans to attend arts management school following graduation to talk with him about the fundraising component of his study. ( I worked for twenty years in Kenyon's development office.) In my pocket will be my Conway Stewart Churchill (#154/500 in a grey/pearl color and filled with a Rotring Dakota Black cartridge.

 

Black is my usual ink of choice. Normally it's Aurora in a bottle or the black cartridge of the manufacturer who makes the pen. I was and remain upset that Rotring Dakota Black is no longer available in bottles - and even hard to find in cartridges.

During what my wife refers to as my midlife crisis, I added Waterman Havana to my selection of ink. For some reason, I just don't like to use blue of any shade, but then most of the fountain pen people I know are quirky in some respect.

 

 

 

[donwinn]

Today I am using my Young Engineer with Hero blue ink, my Duke Green Carbon Fibre with Pelikan green, my green Pilot 78G with Pelikan green, my Pilot 2A (I think -- bought it used from a 3/$10 bin at the Dallas Pen Show last month) with noname blue cartridge, and a ballpoint with the name of the company where I am employed, given to me for my birthday today, by a co-worker.

 

Donnie

[greencobra]

It was a Pilot VP in orange kind of day but standing by are a Montegrappa Extra, Lamy Studio, Delta Dolcevita, Made in England Parker "51", Hero 616, and a Stipula Etruria.

[Pengrump]

My new Pilot 742 with FA nib just wrote a letter. It only arrived late yesterday afternoon from Japan. I filled it with Namiki Blue today and took it for a spin. I think I'm going to like it a lot.

 

This morning I paid bills, writing checks and addressing envelopes with my Dani Trio Ban-ei using Diamine Prussian Blue. My bank asked me to stop using bulletproof black on my checks, so I did. I will take notes for a writing project during the rest of the afternoon using a Sheaffer Valor with Cartier Bordeaux.

[Ghost Plane]

Divided between my Yard O Led Barley, B nib, for pages of writing and the purple Waterman Carene, M nib, for editing.

[Lloyd]

My bank asked me to stop using bulletproof black on my checks, so I did.

Why did they request that?

[PAKMAN]

Pelikan Soverign 800 Blue Stripe fine nib with matching ball point.

[JohnnyT]

Parker"51" Aerometric w/Diamine Steel Blue.Rain at last.

[succubus]

Raden VP with Noodler's Legal Blue clipped to my sweater, Graphite Aluminum Lamy Safari with Noodler's Zhivago in my bag.

 

In my desk: Charcoal Lamy Safari, 2 plastic Pelikanos (don't recall make), Rotring Skynn, Eversharp demonstrator.

[tackyrama]

I have a no name pen with a unusual two part nib thats been rattling around in my junk pen box for who knows how long. My plan for today was to use the threaded part of the barrel to replace bad threads on a Gold Bond pen of the same color. It was a good plan. The more I looked at the doomed pen the more sympathy I found for it. The unusual nib is what caught my attention. It has two parts with a narrow 14k gold under nib that shows from under a steel overlay with a arrow shaped opening just over 1/16" wide at the narrow part. Unusual but so what. Just another junk pen - right? Wrong. It has a small mountain of iridium on the tip. The pen itself is a nice looking and well made large pen. Color marbled wine with black tassies each end. I like puppies and junk pens so---

Fix-it time! Cleaned nib, feed and section, Removed rotted sac. Reassemble with new sac and --- WOW what a writer!! Buttery smooth medium line, even flow, no blots, skips, leaks or problems of any kind. There is a moral here.

 

Never toss a junk pen!! Stan

 

[dwmatteson]

It's been a while since I've chimed in on this thread. I'm out of town this week, so I have a three-pen case with me that has three of my best writers:

 

Orange Pilot Vanishing Point with Aurora Black;

Black and red Marlen Basilea (fine nib) with Waterman Blue Black; and

Pelikan M620 Niagara Falls (fine nib) with Sailor Jentle Blue.

 

I also have along a couple of pens for grading exams:

Bexley Fun Time in grape cooler (fine nib) with Waterman Purple, and

Silver Pilot Knight with Waterman Green.

 

Don

[Clancy]

My bank asked me to stop using bulletproof black on my checks, so I did.

Why did they request that?

 

oh yah...I'm with Lloyd. Whyever did they request that?

 

Call me curious :hmm1:

[Dylan]

Today:

MB 147, 146

Pelikan M405

 

[Dylan]

And here comes the LAMY 2000 !!!!!! with Scheaffer Jet Black Script Ink!! Must say this really is a nice fountain of pleasurable writing.

[jd50ae]

Pen converted from bp to fp. Mostly XEZO.

 

Edited October 25, 2007 by jd50ae

[Clancy]

Today it's one of my Aurora Ipsilons (yellow) F, inked with Aurora blue and a Waterman Phlieas M inked with waterman blue.

[lalindsay225]

Today, it's a Sailor Sapporo with Noodler's Pendemonium Blacktop Black. Smooth as glass. A very nice combo -- I always seem to end up using black ink in my Japanese and Chinese pens.

 

Lisa

[funzoneplanet]

Today: Bic Select X-Pen fp