What Pens Are You Using Today?

[dogpoet]

Parker Frontier (work) and the Jinhao (home), yet again.

Maybe I should try taking a P51 to work for a change?

[dannzeman]

Platinum Preppy .03 with Noodler's The Heart of Darkness

[southpaw]

1920s Sheaffer Flat-top with Waterman Purple

Platinum Preppy ED with Noodlers Baystate Blue

[Walter's daughter]

Lime Green Lamy Safari with a mixture of Waterman South Sea Blue and Caran d'Ache Saffron (a poor attempt at making a lime green ink to match the pen!)

[Beechwood]

A 1953 Parker Standard Duofold with one of the nicest medium nibs you can imagine. The ink is a blend of MB Bordeux and Lamy Blue, the red side of purple.

 

Plus a Sheaffer desk Pen with a Legacy nib and Forest Green.

 

 

[Sailor Kenshin]

Lime Green Lamy Safari with a mixture of Waterman South Sea Blue and Caran d'Ache Saffron (a poor attempt at making a lime green ink to match the pen!)

 

Pictures. We want pictures.

 

Today, who knows? Just on the verge of writing out a couple of Sypens and a Parker Reflex and I got a new batch of cheap pens in the mail. Maybe something in burgundy this time.

 

[billaudio]

My new baby was delivered yesterday and may be the most beautiful pen I have ever seen. Just my opinion right now, I am sure.

The subtle color and detail is awesome and it feels so good in my big hands. I may clean and leave dry a couple of my daily pens.

It is the Visconti Divina Desert Spring LE. It is so beautiful that pictures do not do it justice but here is the one I took when it first

arrives.

 

 

[Beechwood]

My new baby was delivered yesterday and may be the most beautiful pen I have ever seen. Just my opinion right now, I am sure.

The subtle color and detail is awesome and it feels so good in my big hands. I may clean and leave dry a couple of my daily pens.

It is the Visconti Divina Desert Spring LE. It is so beautiful that pictures do not do it justice but here is the one I took when it first

arrives.

 

 

Being a straight cricketer I never thought I would tell a man that he had a nice box too

[FredRydr]

What Pens Are You Using Today?

A black chased hard rubber Moore L-92 that arrived yesterday that I invariably filled with Aurora black. I like my vintage flexies to leave a black stroke no matter what the width. Also, I have inked a delightful old Mabie-Todd Blackbird on loan from a fellow enthusiast, equally black and equally chased, though a bit more refined. That is filled with Havana.

 

Oh, there are some gorgeous modern pens too. They want the attention, but they don't deserve it.

 

Fred

 

 

[gylyf]

Tibaldi Impero, 18K M/F stub, Pilot Tsuki-yo.

Visconti Voyager Anniversary, 14K F, Diamine Indigo.

 

Best,

David

[Bill Smith]

A blue Pelikan M505 with medium nib loaded up with Visconti Blue.

[kazoolaw]

Omas Milord Wild, medium nib, Omas blue ink

Lamy Persona, medium stub nib, Herbin Bleu Myositis

[PAKMAN]

Sadly today I've used a Dry Erase marker more that my FP's! But my Stainless Lamy Studio is getting some use today using Parker Quink Blue Black.

[vonderlasa]

A wonderful Parker green pearl vacumatic restored by Ernesto Soler. This is my 3d smoothest writing pen, behind only my Parker 51 and Shaeffer Balance.

[Diego]

In my first post in that thread, I'll put a picture too. That is my new Cross ATX

 

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[Pippin60]

Lamy 2k fine with Aurora Blue

VP .7 mm cursive italic nib with Pilot blue

Lamy Al-Star ocean blue with B nib filled with Aurora blue.

Namiki Sterling Dragon med nib with Namiki Black.

 

I just couldn't make up my mind this morning which pen I wanted to take to work.

[ethernautrix]

Sheaffer Flattop, J Herbin Perle Noire

Parker 51 Special, J Herbin Perle Noire

Edison Pearl, Pelikan Blue-Black

Sheaffer Tucky (2), both with Pelikan Blue-Black

Mb Hemingway, Noodler's OMBBB

[Mr Ink]

Current rotation:

 

Work:

Pelikan M400 - Pelikan Brilliant Black

Sailor 1911M - Sailor Black

Sheaffer Legacy Heritage - Parker Quink Black

 

Home:

Aurora Optima (Burgundy) - Aurora Black

Sheaffer Valor - Sheaffer Skrip Blue

Parker Duofold International - Parker Quink Black

[georges zaslavsky]

1985 MB 149 with its fine/extra fine nib with a mix of omas grey/ sailor grey and waterman encre noire inks.

[Fernan]

Today, two pens dried up :

• Esterbrook SJ, had Quink Blue ink;
• Parker Vacumatic, had Herbin Perle noire.

Switched to a Targa filled with Herbin Cacao du Brésil.

 

Also,

• A Parker 21, always loaded with Herbin Rouge Opéra, is carried along with me wherever I go, along with one or two other pens for whatever purpose that comes by.
• A Parker Parkette, with a very flexible nib, full of Cacao du Brésil is standing by on the desk, for quick note taking.

A century-old Waterman Ideal #12 POC, with Waterman Blue Black, and a Waterman Carène, with Waterman South Sea Blue, along with the Parker 21, are being used for correspondance and other calligraphic exercises related to Stylophiles Day, coming up at the end of the month at the Ottawa Fountain Pen Society.

 

 

Fernan