What Pens Are You Using Today?

[GardenWeasel]

Egads! I had 3 pens inked today, a Sailor Profit with an EF nib, and two Esterbrooks, one with a Relief Medium Stub and the other with a Relief Fine Stub - and in the mail my LeMan 200 arrives from being tuned by the nibmeister Michael Masuyama. My LeMan 200 now has the sweetest Cursive Italic nib imaginable!! (That's were the Egads comes in) I now have 4 pens inked for today!!

[Doug Add]

It's May Day already, but my mind is still processing Thursday. My study notes this morning were written with a blue stripe Pelikan 800 (fine nib) filled with Visconti Blue.

 

Journal writing was done with a marine green 1930 oversize Sheaffer Balance (fine nib) filled with a 1:1 mix of Parker Penman Emerald and Bexley Harmony Green.

 

I signed the guest book at a funeral this evening with the accompanying ballpoint to my blue stripe Pelikan 800, and I signed the sheet authorizing my son's off-campus Advanced Placemet course exams with a modern black Aurora 88 (medium nib) filled with Private Reserve D. C. Supershow Blue.

 

Mostly computer work today, so that's all the writing I did.

[Bill Smith]

Today's pen is a Black Pelikan M800 with fine nib loaded up with Diamine Prussian Blue.

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I thought you might like to see "what I am writing with today"....a Classic LM1 Flame Red with Medium Nib with Private Reserve Flame Red Ink!

 

Marvelous!

[penburg]

Beautiful pen!

 

And this is what I'm writing with, one of my favorites, a green/gold Parker striped Duofold...

 

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[Ghost Plane]

MB Faulkner w/ B nib using MB Black. I've used colors for so long that black ink is a novelty.

[I am not a number]

Home ground Namiki Bamboo Stub and a couple of Kaweco Sports that I also ground to stubs and loaded up with home-brew green and home-brew blue.

[Doug Add]

I thought you might like to see "what I am writing with today"....a Classic LM1 Flame Red with Medium Nib with Private Reserve Flame Red Ink!

 

Marvelous!

Indeed! What a lovely pen. And welcome from a neighbor to the north. I was in Sumter many times back when we lived in the Columbia area.

 

I wrote this morning's study notes with a 1924 Sheaffer Flat Top (fine nib) filled with Aurora Black.

 

Journal entries were done with the following:

 

- charcoal Lamy Safari (fine nib) filled with Private Reserve Tanzanite

- 1930 marine green OS Sheaffer Balance (fine nib) filled with various inks to test their compatibility with the pen (Rotring Brick Red, PR Spearmint, Penman Emerald/Bexley Green mix)

- emerald auroloide Aurora Optima (medium nib) filled with Private Reserve Spearmint

- lapis 1997 Parker Duofold international (fine nib) filled with Waterman Florida Blue

 

I did a first draft of page one of my entry for the handwritten Bible with the above-mentioned Safari, and a red Waterman Phileas (fine nib) filled with Noodler's Red.

[gylyf]

Tibaldi Impero, 14K F, Visconti Blue.

Best,

David

[southpaw]

M1000 green stripe, f nib, Penman Emerald.

[mikerph]

I carried a Pilot vanishing point filled with Private Reserve DC supershow blue, and a Fisher Mars pen in black titianium

[mikerph]

Today's pen is a late 1970s Parker 75 Cisele in sterling Silver with a fine nib and loaded up with Noodlers Midnight Blue.

I really like the 75, I was given one on graduation from Pharmacy school--I still use it some, but it has too much sentimental value to carry every day. I found a stainless steel with gold trim 75 fountain pen that I do use regularly.

[HBlaine]

Parker Duofold Jr. Streamline Moderne set, Parker Black Quink in the FP.

 

For some reason, while I was out, I also tucked a jade (but discolored) Duofold Sr. in my pocket (also with black Quink).

 

Had my Samsonite portfolio with me, and had an original model Sheaffer Crest with Noodler's La Couleur Royale and a Marine Green GF cap Skyline with Noodler's Nightshade tucked into it.

Edited May 2, 2009 by HBlaine

[Fernan]

Notes on the latest novel by Ursula LeGuin, Lavinia, which I am currently reading (almost finished): with a Parker 51, filled with Waterman South Sea Blue.

 

Notes on an "appearance" by Ursula LeGuin, at the Ottawa Writers' Festival, earlier tonight... with a Montblanc 642, filled with Skrip Permanent Blue Black.

[mikerph]

Today, I used a stainless steel Lamy 2000 millineum 2000 edition ball pen.

[PAKMAN]

Writing with:

Copper Esterbrook J fine nib

Parker Duofold vac blue stripe xf

[Bill Smith]

Today's pen is a current model Blue Sitrated Pelikan M600 with a fine nib and loaded up with Diamine Imperial Blue.

[HBlaine]

Right now? A jet-black (celluloid) Sheaffer Flattop Sr. with Ottoman Azure ink. I was going to sign 'thank you' cards for my uncle's funeral with this, but ended up using my Cross Townsend Tango BP instead...

 

I've been thinking about getting out my plain Waterman 0552 (also with Ottoman Azure), but don't know whether I will or not.

 

(The other night, I was writing journal entries with an E.Faber 68 dip pen holder fitted with an Estie 048 "Falcon" nib, and an Esterbrook Dip-Less 444 fited with a 9460 nib, both using "Panache Exceptionally Black" ink". Don't know why...)

[penswrite]

My index fingers' tips are still stained from drawing this morning.

Inks: Parker's Quink black & Waterman's Habana brown.

Pens: Parker Quink with a: Sheaffer's Lifetime touchdown (bought, in the wild, with its original mediumish--and particularly flexy, for a Sheaffer's pen--Sheaffer's nib); Waterman's: Rajan hybrid, with a big, juicy, flexy Pelikan OBB nib.

[diplomat]

Pens for next week work are ready to use:

 

- Lamy Safari Orange 2009 (1.9 Italic) w/Lamy black

- Pelikan M150 green (M) w/Pelikan Royal Blue

- Lamy Studio SS (F) w/JHerbin Pousserie de Lune

- Pilot VPen (F) Red