What Pens Are You Using Today?

[Bill Smith]

Today's pen is an OMAs Ogiva Hi-Tech with medium nib loaded up with J.Herbin Eclat De Saphir.

 

 

[jbn10161]

Aurora Optima with a fine-ish medium nib and OMAS black ink; plus a Namiki Falcon with medium nib and J. Herbin's Vert Empire ink.

[illan]

Today, a Pelikan Souverän M600 with OBB nib, an Osmia Supra Progress (1930?) With EF Nib and a Sailor International with a Zoom (wow!) nib.

Ah, and a Kaweco Sport black guilloche M nib.

 

[Sailor Kenshin]

I am traveling and taking a SQL 2005 class this week, so I used a black Hero 616 full of Skrip blue / black for taking notes and a burgundy Sheaffer Sentinel .9mm mechanical pencil for writing marginalia in the textbook. I didn't think that I would be writing as much as I have and I kinda wish that I would have brought a different pencil with a thinner lead (quietly laments to himself the .3mm Namiki pencil that his father was smitten by and thus lost from the rotation).

 

The Hero has really impressed me! It was super cheap and has been perfectly, boringly, unswervingly well behaved so far. I didn't even flush it out; just inked it and started writing. 8 pages of mixed notes and diagrams so far and not a hiccup.

 

Another fan of the Hero 616! Today I'm using a burgundy 616 with matching ink (it was a mix of several in an attempt to get close to the barrel color) and a black 616 with Levenger Raven Black. The Levenger-filled Hero always starts hard.

 

[Fernan]

Parker Vacumatic, Herbin Perle noire, then switched to

 

Sheaffer Valiant, Herbin Bleu nuit, for the next few days. What a smooth writer...

 

 

Fernan

[rollerboy]

Pelikan M400 Brown Tortoise (modern) with F/XF cursive italic nib (Mottishaw), Diamine Umber ink

[WritingIsMyLife]

After several hours writing on a ergonomic keyboard, I picked up my trusty MB 149 and wrote 13 pages on linen paper then edited them with my red-inked Rotring Initial.

[philm]

Inked for tomorrow:

 

Parker 1941 Vacumatic / Golden Pearl / Double Jewel / Waterman Florida Blue

Pelikan 800 / Burton Jade Binde / Mottishaw Fine CI Nib / Waterman Violet

Pilot Fermo / Navy / Pilot Blue Cart

[Bill Smith]

Today's pen is a green sitrated Pelikan M800 with a medium nib tuned by Mr. Sean Gosse and loaded up with Pelikan Royal Blue.

[enricof]

Today till end of week they are:

• MB 149 with MB Violet
• Parker Vacumatic std (1948) with MB Racing Green
• Pelikan M200 cream yellow with PR Shoreline Gold
• Guider Mani ACR cherry black with PR Plum
• Pilot Capless Blue Carbonesque with Pelikan 4001 blue

 

 

[asimplemaestro]

Rockin the silver Esterbrook J with the 9556 nib today!

[Bill Smith]

Today's pens are:

1) a 1944 second quarter Cordovan Parker 51 loaded up with J Herbin Eclat de Saphir

 

2) a blue sitrated Pelikan M600 with a fine nib loaded up with Pelikan Royal Blue.

[pdimitriou]

A Montblanc WE Faulkner M nib that I've been using for the past 2 weeks. It's got a special meaning for me as it was a gift from my father to sign my newborn son's birth certificate!

[yotiao]

As for today:

 

Pelikan "Binderized" M200 Blue Marble M nib / Diamine Umber

Parker 100 Smoke Bronze GT M nib / Waterman South Sea Blues

Namiki Falcon M nib / Waterman Havana Brown

[Mr Sxypantsman]

How does everyone here know everything about there pens, all i know is that I use a fountain pen everyday that I have red, black and blue ink for.

[Bill Smith]

Friday's pens are a 1950 Parker 51 Aerometric loaded with Noodlers Polar Blue and a 1944 Grey Pearl Vac Major loaded with Diamine Imperial Blue.

[blackranger63]

Danitrio Takumi (thanks again Kevin) and vintage hard rubber Japanese Eyedropper with a wonderful semi-flex steel nib. Actually close in size to the Takumi!

 

Cheers,

 

Tony

[Beechwood]

A Shule 0.5mm black thing that was bought in a moment of curiosity as to how anyone could make anything so cheaply, it is now set to give me an infinity of displeasure.

 

Were I not so mean I would give it a flying lesson into the nearest round file.

[afagjoi]

Well, let me see.

 

1) I'm using again (I leave it rest some months) Visconti Kaleido-Voyager medium 18k 750 medium NIB. Writing with Visconti black ink.

2) My favorite Pelikan Souveran M600 green stripes 14k medium nib. Writing with Parker Quink blue-black ink.

3) For fill forms Pelikan M200 grey fine nib. Writing with Sheaffer Skrip black ink.

4) Confortly & no script letters Parker Sonnet Chisseled tartan GT 18K 750 medium italic nib. Writing with Parker Quink black ink.

5) For small notes Rotring Newton 600 medium nib. Writing with Waterman Florida blue ink.

 

Maybe the next week I'm going to replace the Visconti pen for Omas Milord & the newton for a Signum Nova with fine nib.

[Vetal]

Ancora Prima Reserve duo-tone, amber color section and hard rubber cup/blind cap, with medium-fine 18K platinum plated nib. Pretty much everyday writer. Black pocket Pilot Elite, full size version with 18K Soft Fine point. My "on-the-go" pen. W-German Reform Calligrapher in Fine point. Those are the ones on my table/in my pockets at the moment. Waiting for a sac in the mail to repair my most exciting piece de jure -- Le Ritzie lever-action pen with beautiful marbleized body (red veining and green-gray swirls). Wonderful flexible fine "Warranted" 14K nib -- my favorite writer of the moment. Also my very first endeavor in detailed repair. Psyched!