What Pens Are You Using Today?

[Davide77]

i've just bought a Diesel fountain pen for only 12 euros. Filling system: cartirdge. Medium Nib. Of course I'm using it today!

[djmort]

Today was a Lamy 2000 loaded with J Herbin Lierre Sauvage. Actually used it to create a deck design on a napkin at lunch!

[Lord Henry]

Today I picked up 3

 

Waterman Hemisphere with Waterman black, for all my daily writting

Pelikan M100 with Diamine China Blue, for my journal entries and non government paperwork

Visconti Monte Carlo with Noodler's Tieniman, for editing all the paperwork that comes across my desk.

[dogpoet]

I'm using a Schneider Base at the moment. The red type with a medium nib.

[southpaw]

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Pilot Custom Bible Sterling Silver inked with Waterman Purple

Edited April 12, 2009 by southpaw

[Shangas]

I'm using my stainless steel Campo Marzio Minny. Fine nib. Filled with Sheaffer blue-black. I haven't used this pen in months, so I was aching to give it a doodle.

[Doug Add]

Did some jotting and journaling this morning with a charcoal Safari filled with PR Tanzanite. This afternoon's journal writing was with a blue auroloide Aurora Optima filled with Omas Roma Blue.

 

Since I was mostly working outside and enjoying the day off today, that is all the writing I did.

[Fernan]

A Parker 51, filled with Waterman South Sea Blue. Both fit well with my Moleskines.

 

 

At the Bridgehead Café on Dalhousie Street in Canada's federal capital.

 

 

 

Fernan

[ZeissIkon]

I'm using a Yafa Cartridge (from Office Depot), when I can get it to write. I'm not very happy with the Foray refills I bought with it (extremely hard to start and stops writing frequently), but with the cartridges that came with the pen the only problem is occasionally stops, most quickly rectified by unscrewing the barrel and squeezing the cartridge. I read on another thread that a thorough cleaning may help (presumably removing mold release and oils from manufacture); I'll try that, but I'm also planning to get a converter and start using either Noodler's or Private Reserve ASAP.

 

FWIW, I've been away from fountain pens for more than thirty years (my last one was a Shaeffer with the white dot on the top of the clip, I forget the model but it was lever fill, bought around 1973-1975); I'm glad to see they're still available and can still be economical. Now if the ink supply in an international cartridge would last more than 10-12 pages... :bonk:

[searcher18]

Delta Via Veneto Black/Gold Fountain Pen broad nib

 

BEXLEY THE AMERICANA RIO GRANDE FOUNTAIN PEN broad nib

 

Swan Mabie Todd Leverless (Model 4230) Fountain Pen medium nib

 

1935 KROUTL and Co system D RIPET ''DIA' fine nib

 

The first two are smoother but the last two feel as if you are really writing.

 

This is my first posting.

 

Allen

Edited April 13, 2009 by searcher18

[Sunneson]

...using my Parker 51 with Visconti´s Sepia ink... just getting that old touch to everything i do... love my P51...

[penofmonth]

Well, I recieved a few pens in the mail this weekend and a few from repair and also I work on a few:

 

Stipula Saturno Olive Woodgrain color W/1.1 Stub Nib

Aurora Optima Burgandy Red W/Broad nib (I worked on this nib for a few hours on Saturday) It was once a toothy nib now it is a smooth Juicy Broad nib!!! Patience and persistance Pays off!!

Lamy 2000 W/Broad Nib Thanks Kurt!! This is a fantastic Pen with a wonderfully smooth nib. Why did I wait so long to buy a Lamy 2000?

Visconti Copernicus Black&Blue celluloid striped W/Medium nib

Stipula Etruria Ocean Blue W/1.3 Stub Nib

 

TNS

 

today i use the limited edition Eversharp Skyline Taxi Fountain Pen - and a sheaffer balance. i have about a dozen limited edition and old pens i rotate. ps i have a new unused Eversharp Skyline Taxi Fountain Pen for sale...

[Breandan]

Since I retired I managed to purchase again on EBaay all the pens I used maybe 50 years ago; some were lost, some stolen!, some just plain worn out; Parker, Sheaffer, Waterman, Swan. They are now my treasured possessions. Currently I am using Parker 51's - all the nibs have been ground to write fine-medium normally but when I turn the pen over and write with the back of the nib, they have been smoothed to write (quite) fine - all my pens are like this - two nibs for the price of one! I use maninly violet or blue ink; I have a weakness for gold filled Parker 51's

[prisonrodeo]

A cheap (free, actually!) black Shaeffer cartridge pen from the 1970s, with a steel Target-knock-off nib, loaded with Skrip black.

 

Cheap pens rock...

[PAKMAN]

Mont Blanc 146 fine nib with FPN Tulipe Noire

Lamy Safari Blue with ef nib and Lamy blue

Parker Dufold blue stripe with xf nib and Parker Quink

Parker 75 broad nib with Quink Black

Parker 51 burgundy with Noodlers burgundy ink

[typeOnegative]

I have the following pens that I carry around:

1. A silver Sheaffer Triumph Imperial - Pelikan Ink (Black) - Medium nib

2. A black Sheaffer Prelude - Pelikan Ink (Black) - Broad nib

3. A black Lamy Safari - Camel Ink (Red) - Medium nib

4. A blue Pelikan P460 - Camel Ink (black) - Borad nib

 

I have not been able to lay my hands on Sheaffer Skrip in black. For those not in the know, the Camel ink that I use is a locally made in India and is cheap but decent. Will post a pictures of my pens later.

 

One common question I keep hearing from people here is why I bother to use fountain pens. Gets a bit tough explaining.

 

[I am not a number]

One common question I keep hearing from people here is why I bother to use fountain pens. Gets a bit tough explaining.

It's a shared problem around here but not to those who have had the experience, welcome to FPN!

[PrinceRandom]

I've used my Montblanc Platinum/Crystal Boheme and a Kingsley I got at a market. Probably go home and play with one of my duofolds next

[br549]

To update my earlier post,

a Baoer 3013

a "Vogue" syringe filler, circa 1940's

a no-name cheapie cartridge filler

a no-name lever filler, circa 1950's

[Bill Smith]

Today's pens are a pair a Parker 75's from the 1970s

 

1) Sterling Silver Cesile with a fine nib loaded with Diamine Sapphire Blue

 

2) Stainless Steel flighter with a broad nib loaded with Noodlers Midnight Blue.