What Pens Are You Using Today?

[Prometheus]

Yesterday I recieved a gift:

A Montblanc Meisterstück Solitaire Ceramics Black Prisma (ballpoint pen)

 

What a heavenly (and heavy!!!) pen:

Lies like a rock in your hand, yet writes very elegant

[bigstick]

Today is the PFM III inked with JH bleu pervenche

[Bill Smith]

Today's pen is an early 1970s vintage Cisele Parker 75 with a broad nib inked up with Diamine Presidential Blue.

[KeweenawArchive]

Still using my Pelikan Pura as my go-to pen. With a cartridge of Pelikan Violet in it, it's just been flawless. Really a lot more pen than I expected for the price.

 

Love my Waterman Carene, too, though for a medium nib, it writes a bit thin sometimes.

 

The Libelle Autumn Leaves just makes me happy.

[ailleurs]

Today is my Levenger Plumpster on a Diet in B nib with Herbin Eclat de saphir. I hated this pen when I first got it, but now that it's broken in, I really like the responsive and wet nib. It's becoming one of my favorite pens.

[Frazer]

Today an Aurora Ipsilon, in yellow resin with a fine nib, that has been resting out of rotation for a few weeks. Filled with Private Reserve American Blue. Still one of my favorites!

[Penman222]

I seem to usually have 4 or 5 inked up at any one time, but this weekend I have been using and loving my medium mustard yellow Pilot VP filled with Syo-Ro, and a burgundy fine Sheaffer Snorkel Special, which is the one with the open silver nib. I have Diamine Majestic Blue in the Snorkel, and the shading even with a wide fine nib is amazing.

[Ipno Tizer]

Today, I've come to work with:

 

My red Waterman Ici loaded with Diamine Woodland Green in a re filled long cartridge

A WH Smith polycarbonate cartridge pen (worth arround £1) as backup, fitted with a 1980's Stypen Style black cartridge.

[Bill Smith]

Today's pen is a mid to later 1970s Parker 75 Flighter with a broad nib and inked up with Noodlers Eel Blue.

[moonriver17]

Today, I am using a 50's Wearever, lever fill, fountain pen. It's the one with the bar down the middle of the nib. Very good little pen, has good flow and a fairly smooth glide across the paper. Mine is burgundy and has the screw threads for the cap as so many Wearever's had. The cap is brushed stainless which I think, is really plastic but looks just like brushed stainless. I bought this pen on Ebay, the cost was very little. Also, I commited a fountain pener's sin by grabbing up my Bic Cristal ballpoint. $1.14 at a major grocery store, that's about .12 cents each with tax added. I read somewhere that this was the number one selling writing instrument of all time! I don't doubt that, one can hardly go wrong at .12 cents each! It is non-refillable though but the ink is much darker than the ink used to be. These Bic's seem to write forever and are highly dependable. All my life, I've seen nurses and medical personnel using Bic Cristals. I only wish I owned one in gold or silver!

moonriver17

[thrage1]

Waterman slip cap vintage semi flex and a namiki fermo. I also always carry my stipula passaporto everywhere

[jayanthkashyap]

I've been using Wality fountain pen for more than 3 years now. Jet Black is the color of ink I usually prefer for writing as it creates a good undying impression on white paper. This pen is so adorable and admirable to me that I can't bear even a single day without seeing it sheltered safely inside my pocket like a 'bean in the pod'. It remembers me my ex-girlfriend a lot to whom I gifted the same color pen quite sometime back.

Edited May 20, 2010 by jayanthkashyap

[reprieve]

Danitrio Densho Firefly, flexible stub nib, Noodler's Zhivago.

Danitrio Densho Mt. Horai, fine nib, Iroshizuku Momiji.

1920s Parker Duofold Sr. Lapis, broad italic nib, Visconti Blue.

 

Going to use my Nakaya Dragon later today, but it needs a refill, and I haven't decided on an ink yet!

[Ipno Tizer]

Now let's see. What's in me laptop bag.

 

Laptop, mains adaptor, plug, notebook, business cards, 3G dongle....

 

... Ah there it is. Pen Wallet! Let's see what's in it....

 

Esterbrook SJ, fully fuelled with Schaeffer Skrip Blue. And just in case, my Ohto Tasche loaded with Waterman black.

[rwlahman3]

In my pocket (or rather clipped to my shirt placket) is a Pelikan Technixx, recently purchased. Standard Pelikan cartridge ink. Hopefully on the way back home soon is a recently updated Pelikan Level 5 - changed the nib from OB to F. Also on the way home is a newly restored red striped Sheaffer Jr. I am a fan of Pelikans, but several years ago inherited a few old Sheaffers, which are being restored over time so I can pass them down to my daughters.

[Fuddlestack]

- A 6-euro Waterman school pen my wife brought home from the supermarket, and included cartridge, next in my series of starter-pen reviews

- Lamy Swift roller for doing VAT declaration :bonk: (FP ink goes through low-cost tax-office paper like a dose of salts)

- Lamy Safari with 1.1i & Diamine Jet Black for writing cheques

Edited May 21, 2010 by Fuddlestack

[reprieve]

Delta Dolce Vita, stub nib, Noodler's Polar Blue.

Nakaya Ascending Dragon, flexible medium nib, R&K Alt Bordeaux.

Parker 51 Flighter, 1.3mm Minuskin stub, Herbin Eclat de Saphir.

[bigstick]

I CARRIED the Hero 329, but it saw precious little use.

[Anne S. Gray]

My favorite everyday pens are my Visconti Van Goghs. I love the way they write!

 

I'm curious as to how many pens others have inked up at one time? I love having a choice of ink colors and nib sizes to choose from.

[reprieve]

Today was pen cleaning day! Put some away, brought out some others, refilled or changed inks... it took two hours. Yes, I had way too many pens in rotation.

 

 

These are the pens that are currently in my five-pen wrap (to be used throughout the weekend):

 

Parker 51 Flighter, 1.3mm Minuskin stub nib, Visconti Blue.

Pilot Custom 823 Amber, 0.7mm Binder cursive italic nib, Iroshizuku Ajisai.

Danitrio Densho Mt. Horai, fine nib, Iroshizuku Momiji.

Nakaya Ascending Dragon, flexible medium nib, Caran d'Ache Amazon.

Delta Citta Reale, broad nib, Herbin Violette Pensée.