What Pens Are You Using Today?

[ThirdeYe]

Received my Flex creaper a month or so ago, and really like it. It took me a little bit to figure out how to get the best flex for me. I also like my Pilot 78G stub nib too.

 

 

 

My Noodler's Flex Creaper demo and my new Lamy Safari XF (my 1st Lamy!)

 

I really like my Flex Nib Creaper as well. I like to use it when I'm trying to make a fancy letter. I've been wanting a 78G stub for a while now. I already have a fine and medium, and need the broad stub.

 

Today I've used...

 

Pilot 78G Medium filled with Private Reserve DC Supershow Green

Pilot 78G Fine filled with Noodler's Bulletproof Black

Lamy Safari EF filled with a Lamy Blue cartridge

Sheaffer NoNonsense Fine Italic filled with Noodler's Zhivago

Parker "51" filled with Waterman Florida Blue

Parker 45 Medium filled with Parker Quink Permanent Blue

Parker Insignia Fine filled with Diamine Monaco Red

Edited March 3, 2011 by ThirdeYe

[reprieve]

Omas Milord Wild, BB cursive italic nib, Sailor Tokiwa-matsu.

MB 149, O3B nib, Noodler's Zhivago.

[pavoni]

MB WE Thomas Mann on an 'M' nib, carrying MB Irish Green. Mr Mann performed well at work today until running out of ink. Now flushed, currently enjoying a nib-soak before a 12-hour dry and re-inking.

[reprieve]

Sailor King of Pen in marbled red ebonite, King Eagle nib, Sailor Nioi-sumire.

Omas Milord Wild, BB cursive italic nib, Sailor Tokiwa-matsu.

 

[Bill Smith]

Today's pen is a black Omas Ogiva Hi-Tech with a nice wet medium nib inked up with Pelikan Royal Blue.

[HDoug]

I've been using my Pelikan M620 Grand Place (loaded with Noodler's Nakahama Manjiro Whalemans Sepia [first batch]) for the past 9 days straight. I did try something different today in my Kunst & Papier A4 journal though.

 

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5020/5498077471_f6ea864a4f_z.jpg

 

I am working on a personal project that has me making handwritten entries into a journal and I've been writing on the right page and leaving the left page blank for editions, comments, corrections, etc. But that's what the wide margins were for in medieval documents. That's what paleographer Dianne Tillotson says anyway. I found reference to medieval canons of page layout and then a very cool short video on Youtube that showed you

. Using this process replicates the proportions of page layouts in many medieval texts.

 

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As a test, I created a couple of templates and pencilled in the boxes in the next two pages of my journal. My handwriting decided to desert me, but I figured it was okay because I was just testing the look. So here are two pages of utterly trivial writing (I had a tuna sandwich for lunch) in bad handwriting that tests the look of things.

 

I think I may use this layout for my project, but I'm going to think about it for a while.

 

Doug

[mongrelnomad]

These...

 

 

Both EFs, the left is rocking MB Royal Blue, the right Sailor Jentle Brown.

[fasfcastro]

Waterman Exception F with Diamine Onyx Black

[in the flow]

Today's main pen was a Lamy Safari inked with Coral Sea.

[reprieve]

Sailor King of Pen in marbled red ebonite, King Eagle nib, Sailor Nioi-sumire.

Nakaya Redbird, broad nib, Iroshizuku Kon-peki.

1930s Parker Vacumatic Standard silver pearl, stub nib, MB Toffee.

[gadgetjunky]

Doing lots of fix-it chores today, so just my new broad-nibbed black Kaweco Sport full of PR Naples Blue. It is so small that I completely forget it is in my pocket, but it writes a lovely wet, smooth, vibrant line.

[IWantThat]

Cleaning several pens this weekend, so I'm using my cheapie, a Huashilai loaded with De Atramentis Indigo. Love the color of this ink. I think it's going in my TWSBI next.

[arrow king]

A little hard rubber, chatelaine Peter Pan. Cute little devil with a pansy gold band on the cap. Smallest 'tiny pen' I have, including another lever Peter Pan, and a hard rubber '0' Conway Stewart. and an Eclipe, this one with a steal nib not a Mary Jane. Since it was too small for an eyedropper or leverfill, it was an exercise in seeing haw it worked as a dip pen. A quick dip fills the feed. This one is not far from a Watermans doll pen. I got it in a flea market box of pencil leads and decrepit pen stuff all of which I have dumped, except the leads. Value wise a real buy, but I doubt if I'll ink it in the future. Novelties are...novelties. The response from non-collectors, "Oh, that's so cute".

[luvpens]

Hero 77 with Pelikan 4001 Royal Blue.

 

I'm loving this pen.

 

Have another hero coming next week.

[DaleR]

Today, I have my always-carry India Black 1943 DJ Parker 51 vac, filled with Noodler's Air Corps Blue-Black. I also have my freshly reparied Sheaffer Snorkel Sentinel Deluxe, filled with Sheaffer Skrip Black.

 

Dale

Edited March 7, 2011 by DaleR

[ThirdeYe]

Today I used a Blue-black Platinum Preppy 03 with the original platinum Blue-black cartridge.

[pelman]

Unfortunately , nothing a lazy weekend day. Tomorrow though my new old Aurora 88.

Edited March 7, 2011 by pelman

[georgeb]

Pilot Vanishing Point medium with Pilot Blue ink cartridge.

[Chris H]

I'm using a Holley Silverine 04 dip pen and Paper and Ink Arts Walnut Ink. Fabulous!

 

Chris

[jlepens]

Danitrio Asaborake with stiff stub nib and J Herbin Bleu Nuit.