Today I am using, so far, one P21 and one Pilot 2A. I have a P51 ready to go, as well as a Sailor "INK PEN", my two Watermans and two Pelikans. So far it's a slow day -- many people taking the day off to get a 4 day week, with Monday being Memorial Day.

Donnie

Good afternoon, JD and everyone! Work day.

FPN pen with Fla Blue. Forgot others but that's OK

I received an interesting NOS Platinum FP from the 70s today. It's fairly long and just a little on the slim side. It has a very fine 14k nib and writes rather smoothly. So, I'm using that and a Sheaffer desk pen for short notes.

Today, I was in a rush, so stayed with the FPN LE (F) and Pilot 78G (M). Tomorrow, though, I'll catch up on writing and use the Sailor 1911M with Noodler's Blue Black and the Pelikano with Apache Sunset. JD -- I always love to see that red Pelikan! Makes me waver on my someday purchase plans for a Pelikan M600, traditional green striped. The blue is pretty, too ... But first, partly thanks to Taki's posts, comes the Decimo. In which I plan to load my PR Arabian Rose, also thanks to Taki. I am so easily influenced ...

Neat little thread. For me - Pilot Knight with blue cartridge and Pelikan 150 w/ MB British Racing Green. Good casual Friday fair.

Last night I filled my new/old Parker Duofold Jr. Streamlined Black and Pearl with Sheaffers Scrip black ink. I never-ever use black ink, but I had been thinking about the era when this pen was made (late 1920's) and what ink choices they would have had. Your basic black or blue/black. Then I thought about my father and how he would have been 8-9 years old when this pen was first sold, and how poor they were. The price of this pen would have seemed totally out of reach for his family. Dad taught me the value of hard work, doing a good job and saving your money. So there I sat with this wonderful vintage pen just a few years younger than dad full of black ink. Strangely I wondered again why I had chosen this ink, after all black ink is for signing important documents and I foresaw no such need!

The VA hospital called about 4am this morning to tell us that dad had passed away in his sleep a short time earlier. Alzheimer's had claimed yet another beloved parent and grandparent. I was thankful later this morning as we sat at the funeral home finishing up the details, that we had pre-arranged all of the major details of his funeral. Mom couldn't handle reading or signing any of the papers so she asked us to handle it for her. They passed the papers to me to sign and I absently reached to my pocket and pulled out a pen. As I began to sign the first document, I realized that in my had was that carefully preserved and "properly" inked 78 year old Duofold!

As I turn this pen over in my hands tonight, I'm wondering how many other times it was called upon to request death certificates, or sign birth certificates, or wedding licenses, or induction papers. What stories would it tell about its owners and its travels around the world in those 78 years? It came to me from a seller in Hong Kong. How did it happen to get there? So many interesting questions.

Why I inked it with black ink last night, I'll never fully understand, but I believe I will now always use black ink in this pen. Hopefully each time I use it I be reminded of my wonderful dad and the life lessons he taught me.

Good morning, JD and everyone.

Work today.
Stipula Saturno with Diamine Umber
FPN pen with Fla Blue
Silver VP with Tanzanite Glacier
decimo with Arabian Rose

And a rousing good morning to you Taki and anyone who is up and present.
Let’s all meet outside in 15 minutes for jumping jacks and a short run and then a nice breakfast of fresh fruit and poached eggs on a muffin.
Can't tell you the temp because the thermometer is broke.

Doing my part to bring the price of gasoline down. Lot of traveling this weekend. First taking the crown prince to see his mum...picking him up on the morrow...and heading out for the NC mountains on Monday. Today will be my new Binder's Pelikan M200 w/med. stub italic and PR Supershow Blue.

My sympathies on this Memorial Day weekend. A very eloquent statement. I would love to see this pinned to the top of the board somewhere. It truly speaks to the power of simple things to add texture and meaning to our lives. Thanks for sharing.

A black Waterman Charleston, silver furniture with a medium 18k nib. Havana brown for a bit of a subdued classic. It's also garden mulching day, so brown seemed fitting.

Thank you for sharing that. My very best and kindest wishes to you and your Mother.

I still don't know how to use the converter with my pink Decimo, but when I do, it's going to be filled with Arabian Rose.

Today I've been making notes with my Virginia Woolf MB, filled with Burgundy Mist. I, also, was moved by pakmanpony's tribute to his father, and send my condolences.

Good morning, JD and everyone. Looks like sunny and nice day. Hope work is not too busy today.

coco, I'm sorry you can't get converter to work. Seems like I hear that a lot lately. I think I said this already, but I just fill empty cartridges with my choice of ink using syringe. You can buy an oral syringe to give medicine to babies in drug store.

Parker "51" Cocoa with PR Chocolat
FPN pen with Florida Blue
Silver VP with Tanz Glacier
decimo with Arabian Rose

Good morning Taki, sorry you have to work on such a nice day.

Today my lead FP is going to be a VP, but who knows what will get used as the day goes on...?

Good morning Taki, it is 59F and is going to be another nice day.

A special good morning to all of you who are serving and who have served. And also to all the family members who have waited.
Bless you all.

Today my lead pen will be a Duke.

Good morning, JD and eveyone. It's 62F and going to be a nice day. We will go to downtown to watch the parade, then might have early lunch. The University is out for summer, and the population in Ames decreases to 1/2 the normal. I love quiet summer (probably businesses in town do not)

Sheaffer Balance Ebonized Pearl with Diamine Tropical Blue
Parker "51" Cocoa with PR Chocolat

Eureka! Ames is finally throwing the students out? Wonderful! Now maybe you won't have to wait for 15 hours to get a table at Hickory Park on a Saturday! Saucy Southerners...here I come!

For me, the pens of the day are my Black Simplicity, the Dove Grey 51 Vac, and the Kelly Green Cross Solo XF. The Simplicity and the Solo are filled with Pelikan Blue; the Dove Grey is filled with Montblanc Black (vintage-ish from the late 80s...cool bottle!)

I've been trying to write a few pens dry to make room in my rotation for some pens that should be arriving/returning shortly.

This weekend I used mainly:
Sailor 1911 fine/medium nib with Sailor Jentle Blue; Haolilai 801F with Private Reserve Shoreline Gold

Today it's:
Pelikan M200 amber demonstrator with .7mm Binder cursive italic and Waterman Havana
FPN LE (steel fine nib) with Waterman Blue-Black.

Don

I am using a LAMY Vista (?) It is the clear bodied plastic that seems to be called the Vista, but Paradise Pen (where I purched) calls it a Demonstrator... oh well Has a LAMY black cartridge.

Also, a LAMY Al-Star with converter and Waterman Blue-Black (also had PR Plum earlier).

Both are medium nib. The shop is not stocked in other nibs...would have to order. I may check out a cursive Italic from R Binder.

Pens I tested yesterday:

Cross Century II--Medalist Chrome with Gold accents and gold nib
Cross Century II-Century II Lustrous Chrome with Steel nib
Parker VP--only fine nib in the store...and Fine definitely means FINE...very thin, but steady line
Pelikan-- 150 or 200 I believe (priced around $70?) anyway, felt VERY good in my hand...like the weight and balance.

BUT...still new and still shy of price tags north of $50...partly budget, but mostly just still getting used to thinking of these as more than a pen, if that makes sense.

BTW...I WANTED to buy the Medalist and Pelikan and possily the VP ('course, the VP was well beyond my current comfort zone

Although, when I exchanged my PR Ultra Black for Watermans...I almost bought the Pelikan

Tony

For work.

Blue Mosiac Duofold - Diamine Sapphire Blue ink.
Pelikan M600 - Pelikan Black ink
Parker Parkette - Diamine Indigo ink


Home

Sheaffer Tucky - Sheaffer Blue ink
Faber Castell 884G - Wateman Black
Conway Stewart 100 - Waterman Florida Blue
Parker 51 - Parker Blue Black

My new Pilot Deluxe with EF nib ... Waterman Floria Blue.
My Sheaffer Snorkel with A4 nib ... oh yeah Waterman Floria Blue.
My Sheaffer Shorkel with A5 nib ... Ahhhhhh here we go a new colour - Herbin Poussiere de Lune.

That is the case I pulled out of my brief bag for work.

Sheaffer Valor. My favorite pen.

Good morning, JD and everyone! It's already 67F and high will be in 80's, not that matters in aways freezing hospital.

Parker "51" Cocoa with PR Chocholat
Sheaffer Ebonized Pearl with Diamine Tropical Blue
FPN pen with Florida Blue as a backup.

Golly gee willikers. Taki beat me to it.
Good morning Taki and anyone else that is preparing for morning exercises. And a 1.....and a 2......time for coffee.
65F and it is going to be cloudy. Should reach 85F or higher.

Today I am using my VP, M800 and my Van Gogh. I need to practice some so I can join the snail mail brigade.

Good morning Taki.
It is going to be hot, humid and probably thunder bumpers.

Lead pen is a Pelikan M800.

Good morning, JD. It's 67F and looks like we are going to get some storms today, too.

Silver VP with Tanzanite Glacier
Orange Capless with Herbin Amber
FPN pen with Florida Blue

For a week or so I've been carrying my 1943 Hundred Year Pen, with the wicked flexie, so this weekend I put my 1941 Hundred Year Pen, with the RIGID accountant point, in the Piquadro, too, in the slot normally reserved for THE "51".






What' that you say? have I finally abandoned THE "51"? Not hardly! Fortunately, there's a nice open place between the two sewn-in slots, plenty spacious for THE "51":

Sheaffer Valiant Snorkel / Blue / Parker Blue Ink / Medium Nib
Vintage Diamond Point / Green Lined / Vintage Carter's Washable Blue
Pelikan 600/ Red Striped / Waterman Red / Binder 0.7 mm
Eversharp Skyline / Flex Nib / Waterman Florida Blue
Esterbrook Black Dollar Pen / Fine Nib / Waterman Florida Blue

Parker 75, sterling sliver, with PR Burgundy Mist ink. Pen is always a good writer (as long as its clean) and the ink is not one of my all time favorites, but is provides a distinct contrast to other notes and scribbles on invoices, credit approvals etc. The ink color I find, distinguishes who approved a doc as much as the signature.

Today I am using my new prize (Pelikan M200 with Binder F nib) and my old reliable Phileas F. I have my Sailor INK PEN in standby, and a few others in the carriers, but I probably will stay with the dynamic duo for most of the day.

Donnie

my just-arrived "51" vac w/ Noodler's Ottoman Azure. Griz said to use Waterman ink in it, but my new stash hasn't arrived and I just. couldn't. wait.

I don't know if I'm more surprised at the heft of it, or that the F/XF nib is behaving so well... just glides across the page...

Pelikan 215, fine, Florida Blue. This really is my favorite pocket pen. The nib from Richard is adjusted to lay down a nice wet line.

Hey Richard, is there a proper term for the "ruffles" on the pen? I've only seen it on the Montblanc Virginia Woolf and thought it was the result of a Montblanc designer reaching too deeply into his bottle of inspiration. I didn't realize it was some kind of bona fide historical technique.



Just wondering about this.

Doug

P.S. Oh, it's a sunny 77 degrees here, and I'm still honeymooning with my VP Fermo with your .5mm italic cursive.

I went to a out-of-office meeting today and brought my Pelikan m605, Parker Sonnet Cisele and Waterman Kultur. The m605 is my primary meeting pen (along with my Namiki VP). It's dependable, has a wonderful nib and the cap opens and closes with less than a single turn. The Sonnet has a very fine point that I like to use sometimes. The Kultur is backup and the pen that I clip to a polo shirt and take to lunch. We are all back in the office and I've pulled out my new (to me) Filca Atlantica with a Binderized .9 mm italic stub nib.

Today I'm totin':

Bexley Americana in Sanibel Blue, M nib, filled with PR American Blue (best ink/pen combo ever)
Lamy 2000, M nib, filled with PR Midnight Blues (my current favorite blue/black ink)
Pilot VP, black with gold trim, 0.9mm Binder stoob, filled with Namiki Black (my current favorite black ink)

This is a nice trio!

Waterman called the design "grooved." I'm not sure what Platinum calls it -- they have a 3776 that combines two Waterman versions into one.

Waterman Hundred Year Pen 1939/1940 (this is a 1940 pen):


Waterman Hundred Year Pen 1941 onward (this is a 1941 pen):


Platinum 3776:

Platinum calls their version "Gathered" (as in "gathered skirt").

Oversize Maroon Waterman's 100 Year pen with Waterman's Blue Black

Brand new old stock Sailor Trident with the same ink.

July 1976 date stamped Pilot MYU-701 with Noodler's Zhivago.

A good pen day.

Weather is cooling here on the East Coast of Australia. 12 degrees celsius last night and up to 24 degrees today. Still sunny and still.

Good morning, JD and all who are up already. 57F and overcast. Humidity is 93%

A dark green Eliott (a Japanese vintage from 50's) with flexy steel nib with Zhivago. I had this pen for a few years but never used it because of it's length (about the size of Esterbrook pusre pen) and scratchy nib. But I noticed that my new Estie 9128 nib improved after a few days of scribbring, so I'm going to give this a try

Also pink decimo with Arabian Rose today.

Rain and very cool, very easy to sleep a little late.
Good morning Taki, I see you are already up and most likely finished your first cup of coffee.

Today I am using my Sailor 1911 as the lead pen.

Binder/Broadwell/Bexley 'The Pharaoh'. Every day since I got it!

Aug 1971 date stamped NOS Pilot MYU-701 with PR Orange Crush. Just arrived from Tokyo.

I have found the one true pen!!!! (well, for today, anyway)

1930's Sheaffer's OS Balance in red veined marbled grey with a very smooth Lifetime upturned fine nib, using Noodler's bulletproof black.
I bought the pen at this year's Chicago Pen Show, and have been very pleased at its color and its smooth fine nib.

My Aurora 88 that I boughy today. It was love at first sight!

Good morning Taki.
70F already, gonna hit 90F I bet, chance of rain.

Today my lead pe will be my XEZO Airmen.

Good morning. Casual Friday: Pelikan M150, medium with Waterman Green and Pilot Knight with Pilot Blue. That Knight has got to be one of my favorites. If I was interested in a Custom 823, where is he best source for purchase??

Good morning, JD. It's my day off, and itqs raining.

Hoping to recceive a grey Estie in mail today. If I do I am filling it with Apache Sunset

EDIT: I did, and put 2314F stub and filled with Apache Sunset

In the two-pen pocket pouch:
Venice Blue Omas Paragon fine nib with Diamine Prussian Blue
Cocoa Parker "51" aero fine nib with Private Reserve Chocolat

In the three-pen briefcase pouch:
Parker "51" flighter fine/medium nib with Waterman Blue-Black
Burgundy UK Parker "51" aero fine nib with Private Reserve Burgundy Mist
Black Waterman Phileas fine nib with Waterman Black cartridge

Don

I know Richie at www.cyberpens.com can send them to the USA for $200.

Oh, and for the record, today I'm using:
Fine nibbed Pel M605 with a blend: Namiki Blue/Levenger Cobalt/Noodlers Black in a 10:10:1 ratio. Looks like a med to me.
Fine nibbed 'P51' Aero with Noodlers Red Black. Looks like an xf to me.
Oblique medium nibbed Moore 84 with PR Chocolat.