I bought a Parker Sonnet [medium nib] - my first Parker - when Office Depot had their big sale in December. I love the way it feels. It's very well-balanced, and the nib is very smooth. But it is extremely free-flowing - so much so that the ink feathers on papers that work well with all my other pens. Is this the nature of a Sonnet? I have it inked with Noodlers FPN Galileo Brown. Is it possible that this ink just isn't suitable for this pen? Or is there something wrong with the pen? If it is an ink/pen mis-match, what ink would you suggest?

Judybug

Have you tried any other inks? I have 4 Sonnets, and none are particularly free flowing. The only Noodlers ink I have loaded is Walnut in one with a medium nib. It behaves well.

I have a new Parker Sonnet also with the medium nib. I would not call it free flowing. I started with Waterman Blue/Black and it performed wonderfully. I now have it loaded with Aurora Black, and it seems to be a perfect combination.

Bob

P.S. I have had the opposite effect using FPN Brown. Two pens, a Mustard VP and a baby Danitrio Cumlaude which normally are nice and wet with most inks, run real dry and hard to start with the FPN Brown. I have yet to find a pen that it works well with.

It can be adjusted with the tine spacing. There's a thread on that here somewhere. Too free flowing is usually an indication that the nib tines are too far apart.

Found it here:

http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/in...ndpost&p=149404

Judybug,

The fix KendallJ refers to is an easy one to do - give it a shot

I use Watermans in mine & they run very sweetly (I'm not fond of gushers).

Regards,
Ruaidhrí

I have used FPN Galileo Brown on my Sonnet Medium before ...it gushed like a waterfall, just like you described .

I have also tried Waterman Green ink in my Sonnet before, but found that the flow was too fast, like with Galileo Brown. You may have different results though. Sonnets are like lottery tickets...each and every one of them are unique. :doh: I have in my household potentially 3 Sonnets. My father's EF Sonnet, my personal Medium Sonnet, and a spare Medium nib in my drawer. I can tell you that the two Mediums write NOTHING like eachother. One writes almost like a Fine, and the other writes fat and wet like a Phileas

My Sonnets, generally seem to like Quink Black the most out of what I've used in it so far.

I cleaned my Sonnet and refilled it with a mixture of PR's Shoreline Gold and Sheaffer Brown and it's performing beautifully. Sooooo --- maybe it just doesn't like the FPN Galileo Brown. I wonder if it's going to be incompatible with all the Noodlers inks?

Judybug

I bought a new Sonnet FP, fine point, about six months back (at Paradise, on sale). I was using Noodler's green. Mine was skipping. When I asked, I received a number of responses. A couple struck a responsive chord: Richard Binder suggested that I should switch inks to Diamine or Watermans. Michael Fultz suggested that the feed in modern pens tended to be less well made than in vintage stuff. My solution was to purchase a 1946 Vacumatic pen (also fine nib); the ink is in the mail. I test-drove the vac with Diamine Jade Green - a nice color for Easter eggs or Christmas cards, but way too light for real writing - and all went very well. The Sonnet is now in a chest, and the vac is on my desk.

Nope! Not at all

Noodler's Zhivago works wonderfully in it too I'm sure others will too. (+There isn't much nib creep, which is a bonus)

I hope you continue to enjoy your Sonnet.

I have something like six or eight Sonnets at this point, and all of them are free flowing. I have also experiemented with inks and I find some of the more pastel Herbin inks and Montblanc inks work well in mine. I have one Sonnet with a stub nib in which I use Noodler's "Eternal Brown." That pen and ink combination works very well.

Good luck.