What Pens Are You Using Today?

[Visoflex]

I have three fountain pens and they are used continually, the selection of which depends on the task in hand.

 

 

Pilot Myu 701 with Aurora Black - General scribbling - a ballpoint substitute

Black GF Aerometric Parker 51 with Quink Blue - Good quality handwriting

Red Marble Parker Duofold with Waterman Violet - Marking up / correcting etc. Anything that requires text to be easily identified

Edited October 26, 2006 by Visoflex

[guy]

Parker 25... that takes me back! I've been looking at these lately on Ebay - fancy having one again after all these years. Great for daily use. Do they write as smoothly as I remember? For a relatively inexpensive pen, I seem to recall that they were buttery smooth (at least mine was)!

 

My Parker 25 is really nice... I paid £9.50 (USD$18) for it on eBay and consequently is excellent value for money. The nib is smooth and after flushing last night now flows reasonably well... very good but not excellent.

 

Incidentally, will they take the modern Parker piston converter?

 

Yep, first thing I did after flushing was install a modern parker slide converter. No problems.

[Rosevecay]

Oh, I'm afraid I bought the Hémisphère pen for far too much Euro's.  Online is cheaper, but I wanted to feel the pens first and try some out. You are very fond of Waterman fountainpens I presume?

Today I've written with it again and must say, that I have to get use to the nib. I had a Waterman before with a medium nib I think.

You might have paid a lot but at least you got good warrently now. I'm not too happy with Waterman pens. Got three and two were defective (and 1 very scratchy, but was a cheap pen.) when I got them. Got an exchange on both of them but one is still giving me grief. That's the one I bought on ebay for half price but I've got no-where to go to help me with that pen. It's not possible to send it directly to waterman.

 

Your nib should be smooth and working well. maybe not as smooth as a medium nib but still smooth. What nibsize do you have? F?

If you draw a circle on paper it should be equally smooth in all directions.

Thanks for your remark. Yes, it's a F nib. And I have to mention, that I'm a lefthanded writer. I'm an overwriter. Maybe, that a M nib was easier to write with, but I just liked those narrow lines more...

I guess your right about the warranty. Which fountain pen do you prefer?

[lisa]

Thanks for your remark. Yes, it's a F nib. And I have to mention, that I'm a lefthanded writer. I'm an overwriter. Maybe, that a M nib was easier to write with, but I just liked those narrow lines more...

I guess your right about the warranty. Which fountain pen do you prefer?

I'm lefthanded too but underwriter. I'll try overwriting see if that makes a difference in smoothness. I don't think so, I've tried overwriting before but it cramps up my hand. Try drawing a circle on paper slowly, like I said. You should feel equal resistance from the nib on the paper in no matter what directing you're drawing. You can smooth the nib a bit more by writing on a brown paper bag. Just make circles and 8 shapes. And check it a lot to see if it's smoother yet. But really that nib should already be reasonably smooth. Not like a broken in M, but smoother than an old fasioned dip pen by far.

 

I'm fairly new to faintainpens (at least having multiple of them. I used to use just one) but I like the Pelikan Pelikano lefthanded best at the moment. They are made for underwriters though. At least, the ergonomic grip they have is.

 

 

OK, I've tried overwriting. With the Pelikano pen the nib is just a tad less smooth. But I can't be sure. With a Parker pen with F nib it makes no difference (this nib is in between F and M in size really.) The Waterman F pen was smoother as an underwriter but I did spend some time with it writing on a paper bag to make it even smoother with my handwriting. And I have to add, there wasn't any ink in the pen. I just cleaned it and let it dry.

[solaris]

The Menu today includes:

Pelikan M600 (black) with Pelikan Brilliant black ink

Lamy 2000 with Parker Quink Blue Black

Sheaffer Javelin with Waterman Florida

[Taki]

Stipula Saturno yellow-green ebonite EF nib with Diamine Imperial Purple

Lamy CP1 black with Diamine Orange

Bexley AtB with Diamine Tropical Blue

[Velma]

Today's journal pen: brown-striated Sheaffer Craftsman with original needlepoint nib, Noodler's Antietam.

Traveling with me: silver-grey striated Sheaffer Balance 875 with Binderized tiny cursive italic nib, Omas Grey (new formulation);

translucent red Sheaffer Javelin with Dillonized tiny stub italic nib, Sheaffer Burgundy

grey marbled Pelikan M200 with Binderized XXXF needlepoint nib, Noodler's Squeateague.

 

Those are my current crew, and current autumnal colors.

[OldGriz]

Parker 51 Vac Argentine Demonstrator filled with Waterman South Seas Blue

Parker 51 Vac Argentine Demonstrator filled with Penman Ruby

Parker Vacumatic filled with Penman Sapphire

Parker Vacumatic filled with Penman Emerald

[James P]

Orange/Cream colored Bexley Submariner, filled with Noodler's Antietam. Kinda Halloween-ish/fall-ish.

[penmanila]

i've designated a number of pens as my "daily writers," and rotate them from time to time:

 

1. a montblanc 146

2. a pelikan M800

3. a parker duofold international

4. a faber-castell e-motion pearwood.

 

i use the parker most often, but with a new m800 on the way, things could change!

[Univer]

A typically Sheaffer-weighted assortment today.

 

Sheaffer Admiral, Persian Blue, lever-fill, factory stub - Private Reserve Tanzanite

 

Esterbrook J, Blue marble, 2442 "Falcon" fine stub - Black Quink

 

Sheaffer "Jellies" No Nonsense, Orange, converter, fine - Brown Skrip (for editing)

 

Sheaffer/Levenger Red Sea, converter, medium - Black Quink

 

Sheaffer Cadet 23, sort-of Fern Green, Touchdown, medium - Black Quink

 

Platinum Maestro, Black, converter, music - Noodler's Blue-Black

 

Lamy Safari, Charcoal, cartridge, extra fine - Lamy Black (a permanent office pen)

 

Sheaffer "23" desk pen, Black, Touchdown, fine/medium - Black Quink

 

Sheaffer Cartridge Pen, Red/Chrome, Cartridge, fine - Black Skrip

 

Scripto "Ink Reserve," black and goldtone, lever-fill, medium - Black Quink (a surprisingly nice writer)

 

Oh, and I'm not really a Quink lover (nothing against it, though). That's the only brand I can order out of my company's office-supplies catalog.

 

Cheers,

 

Jon

[dwmatteson]

Black Rotring 600 with Waterman purple ink. Then it went dry (I'm taking it out of rotation for now).

 

Now it's a gray Esterbrook SJ with Private Reserve Burgundy Mist.

 

I still have the black Parker 51 vacumatic with Noodler's Legal Lapis and the gray Parker 51 special with Aurora black close at hand, though.

 

Don M.

[Taki]

Same Stip Saturno & Imp. Purple

Taccia Continental Cotton Candy Binder Stub nib, filled w/ Herbin Bouquet d'Antan

Pilot Legance Blue M nib, filled w/Noodler's Blue

[Blade Runner]

Waterman LeMan 200, black + gold trim and Aurora black.

A beautiful medium with a hint of stub. :)9

[Maja]

--a glossy black MB Noblesse Oblige filled with Pelikan Brillian Brown ink

 

--a Schneider 'Base' fountain pen I found in a shop on Wednesday (I got the very last one....and it's red!!)--a nice student pen with a rubberized cap, barrel and grip on the pen that makes it comfy to hold. I have it filled with Lamy Blue ink

[RyanL27]

It's been these two, all week:

 

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Pelikan m800 with Binderized 0.8mm Stub nib

Pelikan 400 with Binderized Fine Flex nib

[DilettanteG]

Pelikan M800 OB with J. Herbin Encre Violette, I can't decide if it's the ink or if this pen came back from Chartpak with a really dry flow.

[Henrik]

I used to be a Parker man - allways armed with at least a Vector Calligraphy - But reacently I fell in love with two Faber Castells -

the Ambition fine and the E-motion B so rigth now I carry these two trying to get used to write the german way

 

Henrik

[Mescof1]

Parker Duofold with Needlepoint and Waterman Havana; Waterman Rhapsody with Florida Blue (fine point); Waterman Phileas (medium nib) with Quink Black.

[jd50ae]

Today it is my NAMIXIN, the biggest pen I own. Bought it on a whim. It is a very good pen, suprised me. M800 for comparison.

Edited November 4, 2006 by jd50ae