What Pens Are You Using Today?

[HelzBelz]

Greg, I imagine your resurrected pen does look rather good. I never manage to find these things on Ebay, although of course even if I did I lack the skills necessary to repair them.

 

On topic for the thread, yesterday's pen was a Waterman Harmonie M in Boudoir Red, with Caran d'Ache Blue Night, an ink which I bought this week and is a huge disappointment. It's a washed out blue-grey, with heavy tones of grey. It flows a little too well, although I'll grant that the Harmonie is generous with its ink anyway, and has a small amount of bleed-through in my journal (okay, my journal's a Moleskine, but it's a well-behaved one which hasn't had problems with the other inks I've used in it).

 

Today's pen will be my Pelikan M200 (black) F with Herbin Poussiere de Lune.

Edited July 24, 2008 by HelzBelz

[sdonahue]

Today? Mini Sheafer B & W Flat Top with smooth FP(1925); modern Centennial Pearl n Black Duofold EF point.

[doxiedaddy]

Today I am using a Franklin Cristoph M-14 with broad italic nib with Noodler's Borealis Black and a Pilot VP with a cursive italic nb and Nakimi Blue.

[Ghost Plane]

Ancora Perla B nib w/ PR Blue Suede ink.

[Pengrump]

Red Ripple Waterman 52 with nice f flexy nib and Waterman Blue Black ink

Classic Pens Tourmaline Fire Prototype with f nib and Diamine Woodland Green

[Ed_K]

Parker Frontier with XF nib, dark gray barrel, GP nib and clip. Filled with PR Lake Placid blue.

 

Ed

[schizosoph]

a binderized pelikan m200! Lovin' it too!

[PAKMAN]

Too busy to open my pen case today so the Lamy 2000 had to work all day. It is filled with FPN Tulipe Noire ink.

[kjm1211]

I use today, Paker Mosic Black Centennial M nib filled with Montblanc burgundy.

[southpaw]

Today it's been the CP Legend 766 Garnet Fire prototype with Richard Binder 0.35mm nib and Visconti Bordeaux.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v719/michaelwhitesides/Classic%20Pens%20Legend%20766/CPGarnetFireCapped.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v719/michaelwhitesides/Classic%20Pens%20Legend%20766/CPGarnetFireNib.jpg

[PAKMAN]

Lamy 2000 extra fine nib with FPN Tulipe Noire

 

Pelikan 200 Translucent Blue with a vintage flexy pel nib and Baystate Blue

[georges zaslavsky]

1925 Parker Big Red Single Band Flat Top Duofold Senior with Tangerine Dream from Private Reserve.

[fitzharry]

Today my fountain pen choices are:

 

1. Montblanc William Faulkner medium nib with Private Reserve Lake Placid Blue, and

2. Stipula Etruria Amber Celluloid (large size) medium nib and Noodler's Saguaro Wine.

[Silke]

The usual P51, but I'm also fighting with the Calligraphy Parker I got, which scratches across the paper.

But I've not used it much, so I figured I'll fight with it a bit, see if it improves.

[Ed_K]

Used my red Parker "21" and a Frontier with a Fine nib, two generous writers, both filled with Visconti blue, to write some letters. The Frontier fairly gushed ink onto the page. I’ve been looking for an ink that gives a good line from a Frontier XF nib; so I’ll give the Visconti blue a try.

 

I've also been trying Noodlers American Eel blue ink (formulated to lubricate pistons) in a Pelikan Go! with a balky piston, and a Waterman Florida blue cart in a Pilot 78g I just received from Samovar.

 

Ed

[HLeopold]

This week my pen case has been filled with a Parker striped Duofold (vac filler), an open nibbed Scheaffer Snorkel in burgundy and my new Parker 51 Flighter. All are filled with Inkommunicado’s Russian Aubergine purple. All three are excellent writers, but each is quite different in feel and the line they put down, even though all three are pretty much fine points.

 

At home I was using a no name stylograph that has to be at least a hundred plus years old, but now I am cleaning it out and putting it away, I like how it writes, but it also leaks pretty badly, that could be because I am not using the ink shut off correctly, but I think it is just pretty well worn out, this pen was very well used, not abused, but after all these years it has a bit of a bladder-control problem. Eye-drop filler, two gold-washed bands, chased black hard rubber. I am glad I got it, but it will be strictly a display model.

[brianw06]

Parker 45 with Noodlers Black

Parker "51" special with Heart of Darkness

Hero 616 with Baystate Blue

 

[theblackpen]

Pelikan M605 with Waterman Florida Blue

[nkk]

Lamy Al-Star with Visconti Blue.

 

I can only wish I had some of the pens listed here.

 

-nkk

[Silke]

I'm using a Herlitz Tornado for the day. I cleaned it the other day and after languishing in a draw for years, it works again.

 

Silke - who needs to learn how to refill cartridges...