What Pens Are You Using Today?

[Bill Smith]

Today's pen is a Blue Pelikan M605 medium nib with Noodlers Eel Blue.

[Pippin60]

Blue Taccia Momento fine, and Pelikan 215 with a stub italic.

[Nikhil]

Pilot Knight and Waterford Marquis Claria

[humblescribbler]

Today I have Monsieur Parker Premier Laque Chinois écaille de tortue. Medium nib carted with Parker's washable blue which I don't like very much. :embarrassed_smile: It's looks watery, big surprise!

[reprieve]

Montblanc Virginia Woolf, stub nib, Pilot Iroshizuku Syo-ro. Inked again for the first time since May; I was only very slightly surprised to rediscover how much I love this pen. Virginia is still my favorite.

 

Pilot M90, medium nib, Herbin Larmes de Cassis. I just received this little guy today. I like the pocket pen size more than I thought I would. So far it writes very well, but I do think its nib shall become a 0.7mm cursive italic at the DC Pen Show.

[GardenWeasel]

It's my new-to-me Waterman LeMan 200 Rhapsody in mineral blue. Medium nib, and Noodler's V-Mail North Africa Violet ink. Oh, life is good!!

[ZeissIkon]

Today at work, I used my Wing Sung 230 (PR Ebony Green) for the crosswords, with my Huashilai 2375 standing in reserve; tonight, I'll be using one or the other of my Hero 70 pens (PR Ebony Blue and Ebony Green) and possibly my no-number Hero (187?) with the flex nib (PR Ebony Blue).

[Bill Smith]

Using two pens today, my beater midnight blue Parker 51 Aero and a blue/chrome Pilot Vanishing Point both loaded with Noodlers Baystate Blue.

[hdubious76]

Today I'm using, well, the one I use everyday. My fav!

 

 

 

 

[Parkermaniac]

The pens of mine that I keep inked are my Bexley Simplicity, my Waterman Phileas and my Parker "51". I am looking to get a Pelikan Pelikano and the Pelikano Jr. which will both go into my daily rotation.

 

-Nate

[Philip1209]

I just finished a chemistry diagnostic test for college, and I used an Edison Pearl for my calculations.

[Mrsal]

lammy 2000, lamy accent brilliant with rhodium rings grip, and visconti van gogh. all have b nibs

[Fernan]

The P51 and the Esterbrook dried up yesterday, after some 10 days of use. They have been put to pasture for a few months. Which means I am down to six pens that are inked, including the one that I inked this morning (see below).

 

Now, I will be applying myself seriously to managing the rotation... a learning experience as a work-in-progress. The challenge is to learn what inks go well with which kinds of paper, while being able to depend consistently on a set that has been verified for working purposes, continuously maintaining a variety of colours, and nibs at the same time.

 

Filled the Pelikan 400 with Noddler's Black. I wanted to find out how the ink in this very wet nib would behave with my Moleskine. Found that, provided I use a blotter, the trio is very well-behaved. Unfortunately, the paper in the standard-issue notebooks my employer provides us, is not as user-friendly with this combination. Guess I will be researching for a new nib on that pen.

[southpaw]

Last 1920s / early 1930s Sheaffer Flat Top, vintage Sheaffer Washable Blue ink. Simply a delightful pen / ink day!

[ZeissIkon]

Last 1920s / early 1930s Sheaffer Flat Top, vintage Sheaffer Washable Blue ink. Simply a delightful pen / ink day!

 

I'm embarrassed to admit that I forgot to grab my "work" fountain pens on the way out the door this morning, so was reduced to doing the crosswords with the same pen I use for my on-the-job forms: a Papermate pseudo-refillable ballpoint (the pen costs $4 for three, refills are $1.49 each).

 

Later this evening, I'll be using my Esterbrook J and probably my Wing Sung 230 for story and journalling.

[McPete]

A brace of Sheaffer Viewpoints and NoNonsenses that are skipping like madmen, attempting to do a birthday card in Sheaffer Red (Slovenian). Doodling with my delightful Inoxcrom Wall St filled with Noodler's Tiannanmen- A great colour, but where will I use it?

[jlh8114]

This evening, I'm using my Grandfather's Parker 51 and FPN Galileo Manuscript Brown to address my wedding invitations.

[Defacto]

Parker Duofold orange filled with noodlers borealis black.

mb de Cervantes filled with Visconti Sepia.

Stipula Florentia filled with Diamine Burnt Sienna.

[McPete]

Got my Sheaffer Javelin back from a friend, who I've now converted to fountain pens- I'd forgotten how much I liked it- A very wet writer, with a super-smooth medium nib. Stiff as all get-out, but that's part of the charm.

[Aysedasi]

I'm using two pens today. My wonderful Lamy 2000 with cursive italic nib (from Oxonian), returned from free repair by Lamy on Friday and my increasingly bewitching Parker 61 with broad nib.