Waterman Carene and Filaco Leader.

Sheaffer Balance II with 1.1 mm italic nib by Deb Kinney. (Noodlers Glacier Blue)
Parker Ellipse (Noodlers Glacier Blue) It's a nail, but it's smooth and very fine.
Sheaffer Targa with 1.2 mm factory stub nib (Noodlers Nile Ebony)
Six others inked but I haven't used any of them today.

Black GFT Omas Ogiva Guilloche with Sheaffer blue-black (thanks tburke0!)

Metallic blue Waterman Hemisphere with Waterman blue-black.
Great story on the Waterman today. I was using the waterman to write down fitting measurments on a woman I was doing a bicycle fit on. She saw the pen and turned to her husband and said, look dear he's using a fountain pen! And to think I made the poor woman fill out her name and address with a cheap disposable BIC!

Jim

Sheaffer Balance II Jade Green with Broad nib using Skrip Blue/Black

Conway Stewart 60L green herringbone - Waterman BB,
Sailor Cisele - Noodler's Sequoia,
Sheaffer Targa 1001 - Sailor BB.

Pelikan m400 - medium italic nib with DuPont Royal Blue
Parker Sonnet - fine, flexy nib with Waterman Black
Sailer 1911 - medium nib with Waterman Florida Blue

It's been a good pen day...

TMann

Sheaffer Lifetime Triumph, Green stripe, with Noodlers Verdun
Sheaffer Triumph Crest, brown stripe, with Noodlers Eternal Brown and Black mix
Park Row Flat-top, Fine semi Flex nib - Diamine Royal Purple/Noodlers Iraqi Indigo
Salz Black and White, fine flex nib - Waterman Florida Blue.

John

Today's selection include
Sheaffer Valiant Snorkel w/ fine nib
Sheaffer Junior (Green Stripe) w/ fine nib
Sheaffer Copper Legacy w/ fine nib

Do you see a trend here

Pens this week (always carry four to work) are:

Pelikan M215, medium nib with Diamine Violet
Conway Stewart 85L, medium nib with Waterman Black
Parker 51, medium nib with Diamine Royal Blue
Esterbrook double-J, medium 9xxx nib with Diamine Emerald

G

Pelikan 805 w. Binder .6mm Cursive Italic Nib, and a Pelikan 400 medium nib.

Today I flew into Dallas from Detroit sporting my Black Parker 51 full (of course) of Waterman's Florida Blue, my Red Parker 21 full of Waterman's red (to match the barrell, of course) and my usual traveler, a Watermans Blue Marble Phileas Ball Point (how'd THAT get in there).

Both Parkers were slightly wet inside the caps but flew nicely. Just in case, I'll flush them out before I fly home from Jackson, MS.

I'll resurrect the striped Duofold and/or the red marbled Challenger Deluxe next week.

Danitrio Ban-ei, medium nib, with Aurora Black ink.
Tibaldi Modello 60, medium nib, with Waterman Florida Blue.
Stipula Duetto, 0.9 mm nib, with my Forest Green (1 Parker Quink : 3 Waterman Green)

Aurora forest green Optima medium nib filled with Waterman Florida Blue
Aurora Mare Broad Nib with Swisher North Sea Blue
Stipula Olive Green Saturno OB nib filled with Swisher Emerald
Parker 51 Vac with Swisher Maroon ink


9 9 9

Mmmmmm, my old black Sheaffer Imperial. I love that pen.

OT, glad to be back!! Been really really busy, but I'm putting together a talk for a public speaking competition about- what else- vintage fountain pens. WOOT!!
Write on, everybodies-
~Inchworm

In my planner:

- Pilot Varsity with purple ink
- Lamy Safari in Charcol with a fine nib

On my desk at work:

- Penatia Madison in red with Private Reserve American Blue
- Eversharp Symphony (third generation) in Black with black cap with Lamy Black
- Eversharp Symphony (second generation) in Burgundy with metal cap with Parker Blue Black
- Reform with Private Reserve Lake Placid Blue
- Esterbrook J with Lamy Black

In the pocket:

- Parker 45 (belonged to my grandfather) Blue/Silver cap with Private Reserve Lake Placid Blue
- Pelikan 400 Black with Lamy Black

In the pocket today is:

MB 149 (B nib) and Pelikan Silvexa M20 (M nib) both filled with Quink BB and a pearl brown Esterbrook J (M nib) filled with WM Havana Brown.

Today:

Parker Frontier with Noodlers Antietam. :bunny1: :bunny1:

I'm usually toting my Pelikan 805, Broad nib, (currently loaded with PR Blue Suede but I might switch it out for PR Naples Blue) and a Lamy Safari, Broad nib with Noodler's Tiananmen Red for corrections.

I had a Namiki Vanishing Point, but my husband swiped it.

I hope to get it back someday. ..

What?

I'ts OK. Really.

My darling husband, sitting at the computer next to mine, has absconded with my Namiki VP.

I've ordered him a replacement, but due to complications with the incompitent vendor, it hasn't arrived just yet. And as he hasn't got a FP of his own, and I own four others (only two of which are currently working) he's hanging on to mine until he gets his.

I'm missing the Namiki, but the new Pelikan is helping to take my mind off it.

Ok, today I am using the following Pens:

Sailor 1911 (full size) in maroon with the 21kt Nagahara Togi Emperor Nib
Bexley Prometheus in brown with a 18kt OS Stub Nib
Waterman Edson with Factory Stub
Stipula Nuda with 14kt 1.1 Stub nib (Thanks Grashopper)
Bexley Submariner Grande (Levenger) with stub nib
DaniTrio Densho with Flexy Medium nib

TNS

Today?

MB149 (B nib), Sheaffer Jr. (F nib) and Pelikan Silvexa M20 (M nib) all with Quink BB.

Esterbrook J (B nib, pearl brown) with Havana Brown.

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

Today:

Lamy 2000 XF Point with Noodler's Eternal Brown

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

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.

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 .

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.

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.

Caran d' Ache Metwood and a Pelikan M400.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.



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!

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.

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?

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 .

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

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.

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

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

I've used quite a few fountain pens today..........a restored Esterbrook desk pen with Pelikan black...........A Parker 51 with Private Reserve American Blue........and an SJ Esterbrook with quink red............

Yesterday I received a Platinum #3776 with Music nib and promptly filled it with Pelikan Brilliant Black...still using it today!

Today I was at a conference, doing what I do best between the sentences...drawing! I had my Namiki Falcon filled with Aurora black ink and my Krone rollerball.

Today, I brought my Namiki Blue Impression. Noodlers Aquamarine Blue.

Lamy 2000 EF nib, Noodler's Legal Lapis
Duke Shark M nib, Noodler's Black

Today:

Esterbrook Visumaster 3 (Early J), 9968 nib filled with 50/50 mix of PR Fiesta Red and PR Copperburst

MB 149, B nib, filled with Quink BB

Sheaffer Jr., F nib, filled with Quink BB

Pelikan Silvexa M20, M nib, filled with WM FL Blue

Today's pen & ink:

The Scabiosa is way (TY WriterNat!) It's a bit more purple (purplier?) than shown in the photo...

Cheers!
Tom

rOtring core (black) XS nib, Noodler's Verdun ink