What Pens Are You Using Today?

[ReverendPen]

A Parker 21 with Waterman Blue

An Aurora Style, fine nib with waterman black.

[Aysedasi]

Parker 51 Vac recently traded with Tawanda. It's a really surprising pen - even for one relatively recently converted to the joys of the 51. I just love the way it will write beautifully on anything....... Filled with Waterman FB - the ink I always seem to return to.....

Edited October 19, 2009 by Aysedasi

[kushbaby]

While I brought a number of fancy pens to work today (a MB Woolf, a 149, an Edison, and a Rotring 600 OS), I ended up using only the Lamy Orange Safari with black EF nib (great pen, filled with Sailor nano-black) - *exclusively* (which must be some sort of record for me. Just that kind of day, I guess...)

[inkcoffee]

Platinum 3776 with Music nib and Sailor EF Turquoise cart pen

[Sandy1]

Waterman Opera - gold M nib c/w Visconti Blue

 

Easy to match, but as a combo tough to beat.

 

BR

S1

[Flourish]

Well folks, believe it or not, I finally took the plunge and got my first batch of Lamy Safari's. I got em' because I wanted a set of pens I could regrind into a daily beater set of tester nib shapes to get my nib grinding feets wet. Yes I said beater because I needed pens that I was relatively unafraid of modifying, abusing or losing. And now my verdict. These are flat out one of the best fountain pens, in any price range, that I have had the pleasure to use. And, unless you are a flex and/or Italic nib junkie, like myself, then the nibs on the extra fine (European Extra Fine I reground to a Japanese xxf), fine (European Fine makes a fantastic .3ish mm Italic and on the reverse a Japanese extra fine), and medium (Now officially one of my daily go to pens with its nib reground to a double point of .6mm Italic and reversed a Japanese extra fine) have better ink flow off the shelf than most any other pens out there. I AM CONVERTED!

 

I've also grown to love my flex nibbed and Italic Pelikans, but it took some work to get the nibs just the way I liked em'. So my Pelikan M605 with its Mottishawed Spencerian nib is my main daily flex nib of choice these days, this pen has turned out to be that super special pen that I've always quested for, it's absolutely perfect for my penmanshiply particularities. But I do have to admit that I actually prefer my double point .6mm Italic and Japanese extra fine nibbed Lamy Safari over my Pelikan Italics as my daily Italic pen.

 

Well folks, them's my daily users for now. All my other pens are so sad and despondent these past few months of their neglect, but it is survival of the fittest, especially in the fountain pen world as a pen that don't write ain't right. Toodles.

[mkor]

Hmm...

This week - Aurora Ipsilon with M nib and Reynolds Accent with M steel nib (accidentally found it in my collection).

 

A week before tested new purchased on-line Visconti Opera with F nib and Sailor Sapporo Sapphire Blue LE with MF-H nib. Both pens found as perfect ones. The blue Sapporo looks a bit cheap.

Edited October 20, 2009 by mkor

[ZeissIkon]

Work day today, so as always I'll be using my Wing Sung 230 (Noodler's Black) for the newspaper crosswords, with my Huashilai 2375 (Noodler's Luxury Blue) standing backup. For tonight's journal, I expect to use a Perry & Co. Eastern Wonder dip pen with my homemade iron-gall blue-black ink.

[reprieve]

Pelikan M450, Binder music nib, Noodler's Golden Brown

Bexley Americana Yellowstone, factory stub nib, Herbin Larmes de Cassis

Danitrio Nami-nuri Wine, factory stiff stub nib, Herbin Poussière de Lune

[bphollin]

Banged out some letters with a Lamy 2000 (M, PR Sonic Blue) and a Hero 329 (F, Waterman Havana Brown). Grading with an Esterbrook SJ (Skrip Red). Jotted down some notes with a Lamy 2000 RB.

[McPete]

My Lamy 2000 F, with Noodler's Blue, my Sheaffer Viewpoint F-Italic with Noodler's Golden Brown, and my Parker 95 Broad- Which after two sentences of being very dry seemed to realise that it's a broad, and that broads should throw down a lot of ink. It proceeded to turn into the lovely, juicy nib I'd hoped it would be, loaded up with the shading-y Noodler's Coral Sea Blue.

[jniforat]

Parker 51 with a M/F nib with Private Reserve Ebony Green

[mejdrich]

Aurora Optima Black with Chrome - Medium nib - iroshizuku yama budo

MB 146 PT - Medium nib - Noodlers Midnight Blue

MB 144 RB with a medium red refill

Parker 51 (no idea what nib size - medium or broad) with Waterman red ink...

[pccchlrr]

Pelikan Shanghai, pelikan turquise ink

[rx170]

Today I was writing with Waterman Expert and Pilot VP.

[Bill Smith]

Today's pen is a c. 1944 Cordovan Parker 51 Vac SJ with gold filled cap loaded up with Diamine WES Imperial Blue.

[GardenWeasel]

Still writing with my Waterman LeMan 200 with CI nib and Dark Matter Ink. Also using my yellow Pelikan M200 with OM nib - actually ran out of ink with it at work today! Good thing I keep a bottle of Waterman's Florida Blue on my desk...

[Ghost Plane]

Logged around 2k words using a gold overlay 146 MB with a B nib and Tanzanite, MB Dumas B nib also with Tanzanite.

[zubipen]

THAT TOPIC OF YESTERDAY ABOUT 146 OR 149 PUT ME NERVOUS, SO TODAY I HAVE WITH ME 146 BB PELIKAN BLACK

149 FINE VISCONTI BROWN

[Virgo Thing]

Lamy 2000 EF on my Rhodia 18 Pad...a song about my girlfriend.