What Pens Are You Using Today?

[Bill Smith]

Today's pen is a 1970s vintage flighter Parker 75 with broad nib and inked up with PR American Blue.

[Freddy]

Parker "51" aerometric filler forest green gold filled cap B--nib.

 

Bexley America the Beautiful black rose gold trim Richard Binder 0.9 CI--nib.

 

Nettuno Idra green celluloid vermeil trim sleeve filler(this week) pleasently responsive 14k M--nib.

 

Classic Pens Legend 766...experimental sintetica LB3 indigo rhodium trim FI--nib.

 

All filled with Waterman blue black.

Edited April 17, 2010 by Freddy

[lizncats]

Pilot Plummix with Private Reserve Purple Mojo

Waterman Audace Indian Vibes with Diamine Havasu Turqoise

Lamy Safari yellow ef nib with Iroshizuku Tsuyu Kusa

[GardenWeasel]

My yellow Pelikan M200 with its M400 oblique stub (broad) nib by the nibmeister Richard B.! It's a pleasure to rotate to it! Ink is Noodler's Bad Green Gator.

[flodoc]

Namiki VP in blue carbonesque with 14k med. nib, filled with Noodlers Ottoman Azure;

Montblanc 146 with 14k fine nib, filled with MB blue;

Dunhill AD2000 in gold plate with 18k med. nib, filled with Ottoman Azure.

[PAKMAN]

Levenger Mediterranean Seas Sheaffer Connoisseur filled with Diamine Sapphire Blue

[tanalasta]

Pelikan M600, Extra-Fine (purchased from Richard Binder) filled with J'Herbin eclat de saphir. Used it for a whole day at work, then flushed and currently drying and being taken out of rotation.

 

Pilot Decimo (capless VP), fine. Filled with MontBlanc 'Love Letter' Ink as I wanted a writer in red this evening. It's a lovely, free flowing ink that reminds me somewhat of J'Herbin inks. Quite fluid and just the faintest rose scent.

 

Aurora Optima, Burgundy Auroloide, fine with J'Herbin Pouisiere de Lune.

 

MontBlanc LeGrand (146), extra-fine with J'Herbin Perle Noir. I'm taking it to work on Monday to use up the ink then will be flushing it out to be taken out of rotation to be replaced with a Visconti HomoSapien (EF) I'm expecting to receive Monday or Tuesday. Will be inking it in Perle Noir as black is our staple work colour and I've three bottles of the stuff to work my way through!

 

 

[rsx]

Using my brand new (new to me, that is) Parker 51 Demi, 1948 Aero-Metric, Navy Blue, fine point with Waterman Florida Blue. I have a few hundred pens, mostly modern (though some are now 30 years old) but this is my first 51. Fantastic!

[nicholasyeo]

Sailor Pro Gear A Mode 21K F with Pilot-Namiki's Iroshizuku Ku Jaku

Lamy 2000 14K F with Pilot-Namiki's Iroshizuku Yama Budo

Lamy Al Star F with Pilot-Namiki's Iroshizuku Asa Gao

[Ed Ronax]

Montblanc Hemingway F nib with Montblanc Sepia.

Montblanc Christie B nib with Diamine Torquoise.

[wide o pen spaces]

Blue Lamy Safari broad nib with Lamy blue ink.

[bigstick]

Today I am using a resurrected Lamy 2000 (circa 1975) which I filled with my first look at J. Herbin bleu pervenche. I must say I am disappointed with this ink, which is nowhere near as deep a colour as the label and the pdf sample sheet suggest. sigh. A nice blue, mind; just not the one I was looking for. I want a vibrant mid-blue, kind-of like my "blue box" recycling bin. But that's for another thread. Love the pen, by the way, which is what THIS thread should be about. It had been sadly neglected and needed 3 days of cleaning to get all the black mung out. Looks like some ink got BEHIND the piston at some point. THAT took most of the time to get out. The pen has a medium nib and a very small sweet-spot, but it's lovely when it's there. Fits my hand well. Attractive in a nihilist way. Worth a ton more today than when my then-GF bought for me in college (she had plans, but I didn't. Ah well.)

[reprieve]

Today's pens:

 

1929 Parker Duofold Senior Lapis, broad italic nib, Visconti Blue.

Aurora Optima Red Auroloide, stub nib, Diamine Teal.

Danitrio Densho (firefly maki-e), flexible stub nib, Noodler's Zhivago.

[ailleurs]

My trusty Vanishing Point M with Poussière de Lune

Waterman Expert II M with Orange indien

Levenger Plumpster on a Diet B with Eclat de saphir

Monteverde Regatta M with Larmes de cassis

[Breck]

P51s and Noodler's

 

Grey demi Vac (EF nib) with Black

Insignia (~0.9 mm stub) with Zhivago

[GardenWeasel]

Yellow Pelikan M200 with M400 nib, and Noodler's Bad Green Gator ink. Yellow & Green...

[Bill Smith]

Using my late 1970s vintage made in the USA Parker 75 Cisele with a fine nib and inked up with PR American Blue.

[TMac]

Brand new Cross Townsend with Cross Black

Parker Sonnet with Private Reserve Ebony Purple

Pilot Knight with Diamine Chocolate Brown

Levenger True Writer Metalist with Diamine Imperial Blue

[RobbyM]

I just received an Inkograph Stylographyic made in the 1930's that I filled with Private Reserve Black Cherry. Also, a Stipula Passaporto.

[rsx]

Pilot Fermo fine nib with mixture Pilot Blue-Black and Noodler's Midnight Blue

Parker 51 Demi fine nib with PR Black Magic Blue

Pilot V5 in a Sherpa Mr. Pinstripe pen case for work on fountain pen unfriendly paper