What Pens Are You Using Today?

[HesNot]

Today it's back to one of my favorites - burgundy Parker "51" aero with PR Midnight Blues

[Jlgreer]

Today:

 

Lamy 2000 XF Point with Noodler's Eternal Brown

 

Namiki (Pilot) Vanishing Point XF with Aurora Blue Ink...

[southpaw]

Today, just three:

Blue Marble Aurora Optima with fine italic factory nib, inked with Aurora Blue.

Danitrio Glossy Raw Ebonite Densho with regular fine nib, inked with Waterman Florida Blue.

Omas Ogiva MoMA with medium nib, inked with Diamine Imperial Purple.

[Ink Stained Wretch]

I do one pen a day in rotation at home. Today I'm using a Genius "Black & Gold Fountain Pen" which doesn't really have any gold on it. It's really too fine a nib for me, but it's what I've got after I wrecked the previous pen in this slot in the rotation .

 

I'm using my plum colored ink mixture in it. A fun ink color .

[chrisb]

Today:

 

MB 149, B nib

Pelikan Silvexa M20, M nib

Sheaffer Jr., F flex nib

Sheaffer Crest, F nib

 

All pens contain Parker Quink BB.

[offbase]

1920's John Holland lever filler (celluloid), xf flex nib, recently bought from David Nishimura -- what a writer!!! This is my first "one-pen" day in quite a while.

[chad234]

Caran d' Ache Metwood and a Pelikan M400.

[antoniosz]

Filcao Pentrace 2004 with Sheaffer Peacock Blue (pre-slovenian), Older Namiki VP with Herbin Bleu de Sapphire, Parker Sonnet with Parker Sapphire, Filcao Tuscan Sunset 14K nib with Sheaffer Black and Sheaffer Bamboo Royal Selangor sweet stub with Sheaffer Black.

[Ink Stained Wretch]

Today I'm using an old Platignum Italic fountain pen that I bought 25-30 years ago. I'm using the "medium" nib unit and I'm experimenting with a 2:1 mixture of Noodler's Standard Brown to Noodler's Eternal Brown. I'm looking for "my" brown ink mixture. I plan on trying several more brown combinations in the near term.

[Penumbra]

My office pen today is a beautiful, buttery glider, the Pelikan M400 White Tortoise with Noodler's Aquamarine.

[ballboy]

Cross Townsend in Sienna with gold trim & nib in medium flowing with standard Cross black cartridge until I decide to buy some Pelikan Brown. It's currently my favourite diary & note writer. :)9

 

My Lamy 2000 is having a hard time competing for attention despite its longer design heratige and (broad) medium nib.

[acfrery]

I thought I had six inked pens, but one had run dry. So only five are ready to work:

[Richard]

Today being Easter, the most important holiday of the year, I set aside the "51", an act that has left me feeling a little naked, and inked up something with a little more glitter to coordinate with the gold vestments at church this morning.

 

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

 

The consolation is that this rickrack-"chased" overlay Morrison from the '20s has a remarkably sweet flex nib with the least bit of a stub on its tip. Hoo-wee!

[Venus]

Two today....First and fave is my waterman 100 year pen, navy rippled body with a big rigid gold nib. Filled with the last of my vintage sheaffer's peacock blue ink.

 

Second one is a blue VP with a broad italic nib modified by Mr. Mottishaw. I love the way this pen writes now. Filled with Diamine Imperial Purple.

[Richard]

Today I restored, and am now carrying, this Parkette made in the firs quarter of 1950. Not a bad pen -- the steel nib even has a delicate bit of flex. It leaves me wondering who here is carrying the least expensive pen -- meaning the retail price in terms of 2006 dollars. I ran the computation on this $3.50 pen, and today the MSRP would be $29.41. So who else is currently carrying a pen whose MSRP -- not the street price -- is under $29.50?

 

http://www.richardspens.com/images/collection/zoomed/parkette_50s.jpg

[amin]

So who else is currently carrying a pen whose MSRP -- not the street price -- is under $29.50?

Not I. However, like you I am carrying a pen which as you well know represents darn good value for money, a Hero 100 flighter! That and a Pelikan 100N, which has the distinction of carrying the most loved nib in my collection .

Edited April 18, 2006 by amin

[Johnny Appleseed]

Not me either, I am afraid, with a Sheaffer Triumph 1250 and a Triumph Crest 1750. Of course, I did get the Crest for $15.00.

 

Does an Ingersoll dollar pen count? (well, I carried it today, but it isn't working).

 

John

[chrisb]

So what's the formula for figuring out the 2006 MSRP on FPs?

 

One of the pens I'm carrying today is under $29.50 to be sure. My pearl brown Esterbrook J. Filled with Havana Brown.

 

The other three pens I'm carrying today are a 1965/66 Pelikan Silvexa M20, a 1942 Sheaffer Crest and a 1936 Sheaffer Jr. (though it hasn't made it out of my work bag yet today). I'm guessing that in 2006 dollars they each well exceed $29.50.

[lawdr]

Today, I used my MB Herbert von Karajan FP in Starbucks

[rak]

For today, Lamy 2000, fine nib, filled with Aurora Black.