What Pens Are You Using Today?

[JayLo]

Taccia Merit B red with Noodlers red

Visconti VG Cappuccino / Sailor red brown

Parker 51 - sailor blue black

[Daedalus1]

today i use the parker sonnet blue lacquer set.

the fountainpen comes with a medium steel nib.

the ballpoint pen is my backup.

[jonro]

For the last few days, I've been using a Lamy 2000 and a Sheaffer Seas Connaisseur. I've been working at a low key office and wanted to use an excellent pen with low bling factor. The Lamy fits that need very nicely. At home, I've been using the Sheaffer, also an excellent pen, but more elegant than the Lamy.

[adt475]

I left the house for work tonight with my Levenger Decathlon (Med Nib) filled with Noodler's Red-Black and one of my Red Esterbrook Dollar pens (2048 Nib) filled with Waterman's Blue-Black.

[McPete]

At work, I was swapping between my Lamy Safari (F, Charcoal, Sailor Blue) and my Parker 95 (B, Flighter w/gold trim, Conway Stewart Dark Green).

 

Now currently toying with my calligraphy pens- A Sheaffer Viewpoint, a No-Nonsense, and my new Lamy Joy 3-nib set, as well as my crazy 6mm Pilot Parallel Pen!

[Sailor Kenshin]

No brand name, no number, not one idenifying mark on the entire fountain pen. Oddly enough, I bid on and won this pen on ebay, I paid around five bucks for it. Looking through a catalog, I discover it's an exact replica of a Mont Blanc Boheme collection. Before, I wasn't very familiar with the Boheme. The seller tells me it was made by Hero. No, it doesn't have the star in the cap jewel. This little pen lays a really good wet line! I don't know how long it will hold up but right now it's a pretty nice little fountain pen and looks great!

Moonriver17

 

Hero pens are great! They usually have a name or mark, though---got a pic you can post?

 

For the first time in a while, I'm using a fountain pen: a matte silver Levenger Mach 6 (5??)

with some brownish-black ink cart that looks like true sepia.

 

The pen is cigar-shape, a plus, but it has these inlaid rubber rings, already showing deterioration (and I had used it maybe three times). That's a biiig minus!

 

A bit heavy pen for me, but a smooth writer, maybe a medium, though on the fine-ish side. The nib doesn't say. :ltcapd:

[rsx]

Today it is still my Cross Century II, great steel fine nib, sterling cap and black lacquer body, with Waterman black ink.

I am waiting anxiously for my Visconti Van Gogh Midi which I got at a great price, another steel fine nib pen, and my Cross Affinity with, yes again, steel fine nib.

When I get in a phase, it's all or nothing.

[Bill Smith]

Two pens today

1) blue stripe Pelikan M600 fine nib

2) Blue and Rhodium Pilot Vanishing Point

 

Both loaded with Private Reserve American Blue.

[flodoc]

Early modern Parker Duofold Centennial in blue marble, fine nib and Noodlers Ottoman Azure ink.

Pelikan M640 Sahara, medium nib and Noodlers Golden Brown ink.

Parker Duofold International in green marble, fine italic nib and Delta green ink.

Ancora Perla in yellow resin with vermeil furniture, Bexley 18k fine nib and Noodlers Ottoman Azure ink.

[HBlaine]

Sheaffer OS Balance (gray pearl striated) with Waterman Florida Blue ink, and a Sheaffer PFM IV with Parker Permanent Black Quink. At least that's what I have in my pocket at the moment. In a few minutes..?

[Robert Hughes]

For my holiday cards I used a Parker 51 filled with Tanzanite, an Aurora 098 with Havana, a Lamy Safari with Waterman Red, and a Parker 45 with Quink Green. Holidays are great excuses for lots of color!

[TMac]

On vacation, but using my Shaeffer Lifetime Balance that just arrived a few days ago (I love this pen). Also using my Pelikan M600 inked with Noodlers Midnight Blue.

[Bill Smith]

Today's pen is my beater MKI Midnight Blue Parker 51 loaded up with Noodlers Baystate Blue.

[PAKMAN]

Using my Christmas pen today: Sheaffer Balance, White dot, lever fill, Carmine Red with very wide cap band and triumph nib. Filled with Quink black ink.

[Asian8640]

Today I am using a Wing Sung 712 with a fine point, which i received in the mail yesterday. I also received a Hero 750 from isellpens.com. The Wing Sung 712 has a very scratchy nib, but that was expected (what else do you want for two dollars?) On the other hand, the 750 wrote like a jewel, but it took half an hour to get the ink flowing properly. Heh (is that normal?)

[Bill Smith]

Today's pen is something a little different, one of my two Sheaffers. In this case a gray stripe late 1930s OS Premier Balance with a medium nib loaded up with Diamine Blue Black.

[GardenWeasel]

Today's pen is my yellow M200 Pelikan. I ran dry of my La Reine Mauve ink, and changed the ink to Galileo Manuscript Brown. And for another change I removed the (M400) oblique stub italic nib done on a broad nib by the nibmeister Richard Binder - and installed my factory M400 broad nib.

I've written half a page in my journal and am already regretting changing the nib!

[ZeissIkon]

Today I took notes at my Fantasy Hero gaming session with my Parker 51 Vac, using Private Reserve Ebony Blue. I updated my checkbook register with my numberless Hero and Noodler's Brown, and I'll be writing my journal with my Wing Sung 233, also using PR Ebony Blue.

[Daedalus1]

today i choose lamy safari in blue (red clip) medium nib. the ink is still parker quink washable blue.

[Bill Smith]

Today's pen is my blue and rhodium Pilot Vanishing Point loaded up with Omas Blue ink (I really have to finish that off).