What Pens Are You Using Today?

[reprieve]

Pilot Custom 823 Amber, 0.7mm cursive italic nib (Binder), Iroshizuku Kon-peki.

Nakaya Piccolo Cigar Housoge Kikyo, music nib, Herbin Bleu Nuit.

Nakaya Spiketails, flexible medium nib, MB Violet.

[ibz]

Today in the office I was using a Lamy Safari I bought yesterday. The medium nib is too broad for me, I need to try the F or XF.

The ink was Lamy Blue, brighter than my usual Montblanc Royal Blue but very nice.

Edited February 3, 2010 by ibz

[Treecat]

Today it's a Waterman Charleston (ivory) with Racing Green ink and a Parker 45 flighter with PR Lake Placid Blue.

[amble63]

Today it's a Waterman Charleston (ivory) with Racing Green ink and a Parker 45 flighter with PR Lake Placid Blue.

 

ooh, for some reason that combo of the Ivory Charleston with Racing Green sounds just right.

[amble63]

It's Parker day today: Parker 100 (smoke bronze) inked with J. Herbin Terres de Feu and Parker Sonnet Vison (just arrived from The Pen Seller from France yesterday) inked with Diamine Chocolate Brown. I guess it's brown day today too!

[ztfw]

Sheaffer Admiral with Noodler's black.

Waterman Expert II with Noodler's red-black.

Edited February 3, 2010 by ztfw

[Arts11]

I've been using my Pelikan M205 a lot lately. I originally shelved it b/c I thought its EF nib [which writes almost as wide as a Medium IMO] wrote too broadly, but lately, I've gotten a kick out of using it. I don't know why [maybe b/c I hadn't used it for so long], but I felt excited to use it. Also [and I don't really remember noticing this before], I've noticed my nib is showing just a hint of line variation, which is nice and different from my regular Japanese Fine-nibbed pens that get a bit boring writing in the same uniformly thin lines.

[ailleurs]

Waterman Audace M nib with Waterman bleu effacable

Monteverde Regatta M nib with Noodler's Baystate Blue

Waterman M nib of some sort (can't find a picture of it, but I bought it in 2000) with Waterman violet

Murano glass nib with Herbin Bouquet d'antan

 

All are in rotation currently.

[Pippin60]

VP Raden, M1000, and Niagara Falls, but I have to admit once I started using my M1000, the others went back in the case.

[kushbaby]

VP Raden, M1000, and Niagara Falls, but I have to admit once I started using my M1000, the others went back in the case.

 

Oh, I know what you mean.

[PAKMAN]

Lamy Studio Brushed SS with FPN Dumas Tulipe Noire ink

Mont Blanc 146 with Parker Quink Blue Black ink

[amble63]

Meant to use my Parkers yesterday but then I pulled out the Waterman Charleston, M nib, inked with Waterman blue black and I never looked back. Still feeling the love for my Charleston today so I think it will be that one.

[Ghost Plane]

MB stainless steel 146 B nib just back from an overhaul at MB. Using MB black for testing.

[pansipotter]

Using MB145 fine nib with Diamine Teal cartridge and MB146 medium nib with Waterman purple.

 

Tomorrow - who knows!

[jean-charles]

Using Montegrappa 50th anniversary of European Union, LE of 500 made a few years back.

It's filled with Montegrappa Turquoise, and it did impress my work mate during a metting this afternoon...

[rsx]

Today it's the Vanishing Point medium nib, black carbonesque, black Pilot ink. Wish I could find a stiffer steel nib for this one, I understand they are only sold in Japan. Waiting to get my Lamy Dialog 3 retractable nib pen!

[kushbaby]

Visconti Van Gogh Maxi in Evergreen (a gift from my lab at work), filled with MB Racing Green

 

Rotring 600 (old style, black, with 18K EF nib), filled with Noodlers Bulletproof Black

 

Pelikan 140 burgundy with EF nib, filled with Iroshizuku Kon-peki

[RitaCarbon]

All day today I am using just one pen, which is so not typical of me. It's my long-forgotten Pelikan M400 White Tortoise, M nib. I filled it with Baystate Blue yesterday and it survived! That's a perfect match!

http://www.fountainp...1entry1409291

 

My Pelikan got a second chance to become an active writer again. I hope it will always be in my daily rotation, since it is my exclusive pen for BSB now.

 

You have to see people popping out their eyes when they see the color.

 

In my dayly journal, all the other inks I ever used look so washed-out now.

 

For quite some time, I'll be a single-pen-with-single-ink user.

 

Rita

Edited February 4, 2010 by RitaCarbon

[reprieve]

Sailor 1911 Sterling Silver, Naginata medium nib, Sailor Red-brown.

MB Poe, broad nib, MB Blue-black.

[Bill Smith]

Today's pen is a MK I Midnight Blue Parker 51 Aerometric with lusterloy cap inked up with the beautiful, misunderstood and sometimes feared Noodlers Baystate Blue.