What Pens Are You Using Today?

[ojars]

1951 Parker 51 loaded with Noodler's black!

[vacuumkid3]

So far, my two pens include a Sheaffer's Admiral Touchdown, with the wrong nib, filled with Noodler's Black, and my Sheaffer's Skripsert, filled with Skrip Red. My pencil is a Sheaffer's Crest Deluxe pencil, soon to have its matching pen, a Tuckaway Vac-Fil, back from the shop! I can't wait! I will start taking that one instead of the Touchdown. Anyone have a Admiral Touchdown for parts?

 

~~K~~

[jd50ae]

M800 and NAMIXIN

[futhark]

At home, with three pens:

 

Swan Mabie Todd Self-Filler, medium, with Aurora Black ink

Conway Stewart 58 (old), medium italic, with Visconti Blue

Pelikan M200, oblique cursive italic, with Diamine Umber

[Stephen-I-am]

I've been using my Mandarin yellow VP with PR tanzanite so much the past few days, I think it will be back to my CS 58 with the rhodium trim in dartmoor.

 

 

Filled with Noodlers walnut, it makes a great combination.

 

Stephen

[Richard]

Yesterday I finally figured out how to restore this pen that's been kicking around for about three years now. I bought it in a big parts lot, and I've been shuffling it aside, ignoring it because I didn't know how it worked, until this week. My friend Dennis Ryder has been helping me by sorting out my boxes and bags and drawers and piles of parts, and he found the pen among the Conklin parts. Seeing it reminded me that it was time for a little excitement, so I restored it.

 

http://www.richardspens.com/images/collection/zoomed/all_american_capped.jpg

 

http://www.richardspens.com/images/collection/zoomed/all_american.jpg

 

What is it? It's THE ALL-AMERICAN PEN (product of Conklin), and its filler, the repair of which took me a while to psych out, is a bulb filler that uses a twist knob to "wring out" the sac/bulb thingie. Twist, you expel air. Release, the sac sucks up ink through the breather tube. This thing is a sweet pen! It has a nice Conklin-imprinted nib with a tiny bit of flex, and I'm lovin' it.

[JRodriguez]

Today I've been using my new Filcao Columbia filled with Waterman black. That's a super cool pen Richard!

[southpaw]

Thus far today:

Navy Sheaffer Balance (modern) with Waterman Blue-Black

Blue Sheaffer PFM I with Pelikan Violet

Blue Marbled Aurora Optima with Aurora Blue

MB 146 with Waterman Blue

Reform with Noodlers Blue Ghost

Blue celluloid piston filler handmade by Kato Seisakusho, Diamine Royal Blue

[yiterp]

today it was--

1948 Parker 51,jewelers cap,black with pelikan brillant black

Sheaffer White Dot,green with military clip with Private Reserve Sherwood Green

[jd50ae]

M800 and Xezo

Edited February 10, 2007 by jd50ae

[JRodriguez]

I'm off to Italy tomorrow and have inked up my Aurora 88, a Lamy Safari with 1.5mm italic for letters, and my Lamy 2000 as a backup. I'll be using nothing but these for the next 12 days ... unless, that is, I pick up anything in Italy. Unless. Ha!

[jd50ae]

Shaeffer, Sailor amd M800

[Taki]

Pel M250 Clear with EF nib from M400 filled with Noodler's Purple Martin

Pilot decimo pink with PR Chocolat

[jd50ae]

M800 and XEZO

[jpolaski]

Black Parker "51" with lustraloy cap and a Grey Pearl Vac with 2 tone nib and gold arrow clip, filled with a mixture of Parker Washable blue and Blue Black

[korsten32]

Today I'm using three:

 

Montegrappa Classica, with Arabian Rose ink

Lamy Studio, with ultra black ink, and

Pilot Custom silvern, with pilot black....

 

cheers,

Luca

[dwmatteson]

Danitrio Densho raw ebonite with Aurora Black;

Haolilai 801F with Private Reserve Tangerine Dream;

Danitrio Tosca with Noodler's Legal Lapis

[Johnson]

Black Pelikan M800 with Noodlers Ottoman Azure

Sanibel Blue Bexley Americana with Private Reserve American Blue (a perfect combination, IMO)

Black Parker 51 aero with lustraloy cap with Private Reserve DC Supershow Blue

[ojars]

Grayson Tighe Twist Damascus fine point -- Noodler's Black

Pelikan M800 fine point -- Noodler's Hunter

[jd50ae]

VP and XEZO