What Pens Are You Using Today?

[Doug C]

Omas Saffron blue Paragon

Omas Burkina Pencil

Onoto Heritage

[Wandering Man]

1941 Parker Duofold Vacumatic with Private Reserve American Blue

2014 Parker Premier with Diamine Red Dragon

[Scribblesoften]

I am using a Manos BHR with a Nikko G nib dipped.

[SujiCorp12345]

M805 3B with DC Supershow Blue

Lamy 2000 EF with Aurora Black

Vanishing Point EF with Iroshizuku Tsuki-yo

[perfaddict]

Franklin-christoph Model 29 broad nib/Caran d'Ache Ultra Violet ink

[Tas]

The newly released Platinum Preppy 0.2mm.

 

Oh my. I've said it before and I'll say it again, these nibs are game changers. £2.95 !!

Fill your boots people, fill your boots.

[pmhudepo]

Bit of journaling at home: Visconti Homo Sapiens in Steel, 1.3 mm stub, MB Permanent Grey (for dates / headlines) and MB 246 marbled-green, F, MB Jonathan Swift ink (for the entries themselves)

Also at home, Palmer writing practice: Sailor 1911 Large, EF, Aurora Black ink.

Edited December 10, 2014 by pmhudepo

[pajaro]

Parker Sonnet Firedance, medium italic, MB violet, old ink.

[peterg]

Wrote a cheque with a WH Smith's syringe pen yesterday. Not very successful. The nib is very flexible and the ink supply dries up, plus it only lays down a line if held at the right angle. But when it is writing it produces a lovely variable line.

 

The other highlight is It's Christmas, so lots of cards to write. Yesterday I used the oversize Unique. Not so much a wet line as a pool. Oh dear. Back to the ever reliable Parkers. A black Victory MkI, burgandy MkIV, and green & black marble Parco with a fine gold plated Enduro nib to write the notes with. I've also just found out that if left on its side it leaks into the cap and thence onto me!

[Medsen Fey]

Colibri Mickey Mouse pen with a medium cursive italic nib.

[mknoblauch]

Oh my. I've said it before and I'll say it again, these nibs are game changers. £2.95 !!

Fill your boots people, fill your boots.

I had a good laugh with this one, Tas! At my own expense as a Yank, of course!

I have only recently heard this expression used this way in the last six months or so, and at the time I had misunderstood by the context that the speaker meant something along the lines of "filling someone's shoes", but I knew that wasn't quite right and had to look it up.

The way it's used in Britain and the Commonwealth is a great expression: "Go for it!" or "Get as many/ much as you can, while you can". But before this last summer, for me, filling up one's boots would have always been something that occurs as an involuntary response to fear.

Funny how even in the 21st Century we continue to be "two nations separated by a common language"!

[mknoblauch]

I have many pens inked, but today I am playing exclusively with some custom stubs I am enjoying on loan from another member here...

 

Sheaffer Cartridge School Pen with custom stub, inked with KW21 #81 Iron Gall Cherry Ink

TWSBI Diamond 580 AL with a custom italic stub, inked with Montblanc Corn Poppy Red

[rafizip]

going exclusively with the Pilot Metropolitan M nib and Waterman's Audacious Red for today

Edited December 10, 2014 by rafizip

[SujiCorp12345]

M805 3B with PR DC Supershow Blue

M205 .4mm stub with J. Herbin Lierre Sauvage

M400 M with J. Herbin PdL

[Tas]

But before this last summer, for me, filling up one's boots would have always been something that occurs as an involuntary response to fear.

Funny how even in the 21st Century we continue to be "two nations separated by a common language"!

 

 

[a m a r g o]

Pelikan M215 with Iroshizuku Kon-Peki...

[Thier.]

Pelikan 400 I received yesterday from a client. After a good flush, it's now ready to be used .....

[Helen350]

Wahl-Eversharp Skyline - Montblanc Blue/Black

Jinhao X450 - Chesterfield Erinite

[perfaddict]

Franklin-Christoph 29 Bellus broad nib/Caran d'Ache Ultra Violet ink

[pmhudepo]

Bit of journaling at home: Visconti Homo Sapiens in Steel, 1.3 mm stub, MB Permanent Grey (for dates / headlines) and MB 246 marbled-green, F, MB Jonathan Swift ink (for the entries themselves)

Also at home, Palmer writing practice: Sailor 1911 Large, EF, Aurora Black ink.

 

Practice makes permanent, so I repeated the above. Palmer textbook on iPad to the side for drills and instructions. Repeating the large ovals, capital A, small o, and small m drills; new for today: small l and that "oval + cap L" thing on page 40 or so. (Don't have the book with me.)