Hello everybody,
Yesterday I have received a Pelikan M1000 Classic Green Stripes with a Medium Nib from my gf for my birthday. I am the happiest man in the world because this was for me the most wanted pen in my life.
Suddenly I have seen it is a very luxury pen, and also if I have little hands, it can be used uncapped without problems.
During next summer I will write a lot of pen reviews and of course of the M1000 too.
What do you suggest to use as starting ink in this pen? I need something that ensure a perfect writing in the future, something that will lube the pen and is considered as the starting ink for most pens. Wimg, can you help me?

Congratulations on getting a M1000, this is a wonderful writer. It was a very thoughtful gift from your girlfriend!

As a starting ink, I don't think you could ever go wrong with Waterman Blue. It is the first ink I use in any new pen of mine as it is safe, has great flow and a good colour.

Best of luck and I hope you enjoy using yours! What nib do you have on yours? Mine came with the regular medium nib but I recently bought a gigantic BB nib that makes it write a bit like a fat permanent marker

Wow..that's a lovely pen. Congratulations, thats a really great gift. I have used Waterman Florida Blue in my M600 for years. It's a nice colour, safe, easy to get and very reliable. So like feiye i think thats a good ink to start with.

I would go for the Waterman Florida Blue too.It's a great ink and I think somewhere in Richard Binder's website he says that Waterman is the best ink for any pen.But you could go for Pelikan ink as well.You are very lucky indeed.Getting a M1000 as a gift...Wow...

Nice pen, great girlfriend. Both are keepers, I'd say.

Whoa! Keep the girlfriend! She definitely is a treasure.

Real Nice Gift, great girlfriend. WEDDING BELLS RINGING!!!...
Regards,
René,

What a great gift; congrats on your pen.

I would suggest good ol' Aurora Black. This ink has excellent properties and will give you a good idea of the ink-flow of your pen. The M1000's are notoriously wet writers so if the Aurora flows too freely then you may want to try a less free-flowing ink.

I hope you enjoy your new pen.

Greg~

What a great gift! An M-1000 is a FP icon. I have three and I love them.

I just commented in another thread that I am particular about the ink I use in piston fillers. I generally stick to J. Herbin, Pelikan or MontyB, but I do use Waterman inks as well. I would recommend any of those brands, and suggest you decide for yourself what color looks good coming out of a huge pen with a green barrel. - I personally like contrasting colors, so I would use Pelikan Brilliant Brown or J. Herbin Cafe des Iles; or Pelikan Purple or Herbin Violet Pensee.

As an aside, I like Herbin inks, but their bottles are not very useful, especially when filling an M-1000. For a 1000, I usually unscrew the nib unit and fill the pen with an eye dropper (from the bottle). That method saves a lot of frustration.

You might want to get a bottle of one of the Pelikan inks. IME, these inks run a little on the dry side and the 1000 tends to be a wet writer anyway, so with some inks the M nib may really put out some serious ink. Have fun. j

Congratulations!!! I exactly know how do you feel. one of the greatest pen. you have an excellent girlfriend.

I use (the same pen) next ink:
10 parts of pelikan blue
10 parts of pelikan green
1 part of pelikan black

for me this mixture suits best to the greeen striated pel 1000.

The M1000 is a very nice pen. I think you'll like it. What a wonderful girlfriend you have. Maybe I should consider getting a girlfriend....

Thank you very much for all the compliments and suggestions!!
Yeah my gf is a very rare and special one.




Yeah, Waterman Florida Blue is the one that wimg suggested me in the past. Eventually, I have found some old posts. It is a good starting ink for every pen. The nib is Medium... as I wrote... I don't like B or bigger nib... I have two (one Stipula Titanium and one Parker Sonnet) and I don't like them. They are good just for informal letters to friends.
I have filled the pen with it. But I have found that Medium on a M1000 is bigger than Medium on M150.




I have quite a lot of Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Black because in the past I had bought a 1000ML bottle and also if I have used it during these years, there are still a lot of little brown bottles full of it. I have also 5 or 6 bottles of Pelikan 4001 Royal Blue but I think that bot inks are not very good as starting ink because of they don't lubricate the pen, even though they flow very well.




Yeah, I know. Thank you. I'll do.




My gf, reading this compliment, started to think good about my collection, better than in the past.




Yeah, we hope it for the next year...




I will try because by now I don't hav any Aurora ink and I have started the pen with Waterman Florida Blue.




If with MontyB you mean Mont Blanc, I have one of it, Bourdeaux, nice color but I don't like the ink's features. I will buy some Herbin inks in the future, because I want to try them...
I don't have problems of filling the M1000. By now I'm filling the pen from the Waterman bottle, and in the future I will use my Stipula Netto Netto or my Visconti Travelling Ink Pot, that is good at home too.




As I said, I started now with the Waterman Florida Blue, but because of my big stock of Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Black, it is sure I will use it too.




Nice suggestion... Mixing inks... And I have some ink wells as gifts from Pens.it to use for it. Thanks a lot!




Good idea... and thanks for the compliment!

Congratulations on a fine gift.

congrats on the m1000 enjoy it

Dear omonimo,
Congratulation on your beautiful new pen! Are you happy with the colour? I think the green striped is the classic one. I also like the blue striped (I have a M805 in blue)...

I'm asking because I am ready to made the same step (penwise, since girlwise I'm far ahead: I'm married )

Cheers,

Hi,
The M1000 exists with two colours only: Black and Green striped. I prefer green stripes because I have a lot big black fp.

I'm a late-comer here, but was reading this thread, and had to laugh in agreement here, I'd hope for such a wonderfully thoughtful future girlfriend!

Personally, I've been into more moderate-sized pens, but I enjoyed trying out the M800, and really would be thrilled to receive a 1000 -- seems like such a unique pen.

Modular -

Well, it seems like you need to get the right girlfriend then...

Erick

son, you got lucky.