What Pens Are You Using Today?

[GardenWeasel]

My yellow Pelikan M200 with the Binderized OM nib and La Reine Mauve ink... no ink showing in window - it's gotta be close to NEW INK TIME!!

[rookieboyliu]

A trusted old Lamy Safari in Charcoal color with a fine steel nib with Noodler's Forest Green ink.

[argonavis]

Today I'm using my Waterman Expert II Dune Green set - M nib pen, Ballpoint, and 0.5mm pencil. I also have my Cross Apogee Chrome, M nib, inked and on hand.

[ZeissIkon]

Today, as usual, I used my Wing Sung 230 for crosswords at work; this evening I believe I'll use my Sheaffer TD Imperial (I think it's an VIII) with fine stub regrind, for my journal.

[Mrsal]

visconti millennium arc II no. 707 of 1000

[McPete]

My new Pilot Knight (burgundy) and Lamy Safari(Charcoal, Fine), both with Sailor Jentel blue, my Lamy 2000 (Fine) with Noodler's Coral Sea Blue, and my Pentel Kerry 0.5 (Red) with Pentel Ain 2B.

[cuza]

 

 

Today, I am using my recently acquired Laban Celebration Oyster Blue Medium Point which I "love."

 

-- cuza

[Ghost Plane]

Delta Profili B nib with Waterman Blue on board to match the deep blue trim.

MB Dumas with MB black until it runs out on a shake-down cruise until the pen tells me what color ink it wants.

[svejk]

Rotring TintenKuli

Koh-i-noor Inkograph

Rotring 1300 (Brushograph)

 

I am in the middle of a large project converting a computer program I wrote 13 years ago to run on-line. Most of the code fills 3 three-ring binders. As it is basically a script I convert it from beginning to end. This involves a lot of notes, editing and highlighting. For basic notes I use my new (to me) Tintenkuli Spezial. This is pretty much a regular Tintenkuli with a metal cap and a transparent nib section. No real difference in usability. A Tintenkuli is the ancestor of a Rapidiograph but has a rounded end on the tube nib so it writes at lower angles. Great for quick notes as you don't need to rotate it so that the nib is upright. The uniform line width adds legibility to my terrible handwriting. I use Platinum Carbon Black for maximum density. Editing is done with a Koh-i-noor "Inkograph". I have no idea why they latched onto this famous name for this model. It is simply a Tintenkuli sold under another name, which, in this case, means a Rapidograh with a very slightly different nib. Noodlers Maroon makes nicely noticeble edits. The Rotring 1300 was also sold as the Brushograph which tells you that it is a Rapidograph with a nylon brush instead of a needle nib. This one is a size 40 - 4 mm wide. That is over 30 times wider than the nib of a 000000 Rapidograph. Noodlers Hellfire makes it a very enjoyable highlighter.

Tintenkulis and Rapidographs aren't glamorous but they get the job done. They don't leak much, they always write unless you put something really strange in them and anything short of hardened epoxy can be cleaned out of their innards. And they feel so much better to write with than a ball-point. Live ink! No training wheels!

[McPete]

My Lamy 2000, writing up some concise notes on various fluid flow measurement systems for quick entry into a layout I'm going to get done sometime soon for an assignment...

[Beechwood]

A mirror grey Creeks n Creeks, just 4 inches nib to end, hood job the cap posts well

[Doug Add]

Not much writing today, as I rode the bicycle for a couple hours this morning, then went to a movie and dinner to celebrate my son's birthday this afternoon.

 

I jotted some notes this morning with my charcoal Lamy Safari, filled as always with Private Reserve Tanzanite.

 

Tonight's journal writing will be with my red auroloide Aurora Optima, filled with Diamine Majestic Blue, and one or both of these:

 

* black Omas old style Paragon, filled with Omas Blue,

* blue stripe Pelikan 800, filled with Visconti Blue.

[Daedalus1]

sheaffer legacy heritage black lacquered, medium nib. inked with pelikan 4001 königsblau.

sheaffer 500 ballpoint-pen 0.7mm

[Ghost Plane]

MB B nibbed Dumas, PR Fiesta Red

Visconti Van Gogh Maxi in Evergreen with Herbin Vert Reseda. Ink is a little too blue-green for the pen.

[gylyf]

Pelikan M215, 18K F, Pilot Blue-Black.

[montrepassion]

Black Aurora '88 fountainpen

 

 

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

 

[Doug Add]

Two fantastic writing pens that together cost less than $40:

 

• old style blue marbled Waterman Phileas (fine nib) filled with a mix of Waterman Florida Blue/Purple

• black Geha Schulfüller (fine semi-flex nib) filled with a mix of Pelikan Turquoise/Private Reserve Sherwood Green

Edited September 8, 2009 by Doug Add

[mishugina09]

At School today have a Levenger True Writer with Medium Nib with Noodlers Polar Blue, and a Guantamelg (HERO) 921 with Noodlers Dragon Napolm.

 

Should be fun because I handed in my problem set done in all Dragons Napolm. A nice bright color!

[PAKMAN]

Edison Herald red/black ebonite fine point filled with FPN Tulipe Noire

Parker 45 burgundy with ef nib and filled with Quink Blue black

Parker 51 Special black aero with ef nib and filed with Quink Blue black

Parker 51 Special black matching MP

[McPete]

My F- nibbed Safari and Pilot Knight all day, and now I'm playing around with a Sheaffer viewpoint F that I've adjusted the flow on and my F-nibbed Lamy 2000...

 

I think my 2000 is a little on the dry side, but I'm really not game to try adjusting it myself...