Today my pocket cradles a silver "geometric" Duofold from 1939 and its companion pencil. The pen has a bellyful of Pelikan blue-black, and gives every appearance of enjoying the outing.

Today, while inputting all my 2006 receipts in time for my accountant to file my late 2006 taxes, I used a pen that just arrived in the mail: an Omas 2000 (fine nib) which I first filled with Noodler's Luxury Blue, then rinsed out and re-filled with PR DC Blue (liked this pen/ink combination much better).

Love the Omas...it's made dreary work so much better...

My second Parker Vacumatic in Golden Pearl.

I gotta tell you that these pens are some of the most satisfying I have ever held twix'd my grubby, ink stained fingers.

Wow!

A Namiki VP, slate grey with Namiki Blue/Black cartridge for personal notes and a vintage Parker 21 with whatever black ink was in it from eBay. Still waiting for it's daily leak these are supposed to be known for.

Tony

Today I'm using two pens because I'm writing their reviews after a long test period: a Waterman Expert II Dune Blue CT Medium and a Parker Frontier Blue Medium.
Next pen or two pens (some times I use them two by two) will be of high level. I like to alternate from entry to high level pens.

Today I am using a Sheaffer Lifetime flattop XV with Quink Blue, a Sheaffer Green Striated Balance M with Skrip Blue Black, and a Cross Solo F with Noodler's la Coleur Royale.

Donnie

Today I'm going to try to use every pen I have inked and clean out all that are about empty.... May take a while!!

So let's see what is inked:
Pelikan 400 Diamine Med blue nearly full
Waterman #7 Red Ripple same ink recently filled
Wahl gold seal black and pearl levengers cobalt nearly empty
Vistonti Wall Street Visconti Bordeaux nearly empty
Parker 51 Teal Demi Aero Caran d'Ache Carib blue
Parker 51 Teal fullsize Aero dito
Parker Duofold black and pearl desk pen dito
Parker 45 Noodlers burgundy
Conklin crescent filler Noodlers black
Hero 100 PR Chocolat
Parker 45 flighter with whatever black Susan Wirth used to test it at Dallas
Sheaffer Ballance II cobalt glow Levengers cobalt
Lamy 2000 Levengers cobalt
Pilot custom pilot blue
Yard-o-Led unknown black ink

Crud I better get to writing and cleaning!!!

MonteVerde Regatta Blue fp

At the moment I'm using an antique Mabie Todd Swan 3173. I'm carrying a Bexley FPH special edition I got several years ago. It's an incredible writing pen with a distinctive woodgrain ebonite barrel and cap. Occasionally I write with a Signum Ornamenta. It writes pretty well but I like it more for its flashy appearance.

I will be using my new Sheaffer snorkel that I won on eBay just a week ago. Looks nearly brand-new, 2 very small black spots on the barrel, and 3 absolutely tiny letters, never seen a pen personalized with such tiny letters. Has an excellent fine nib, extremely smooth writer, that is one thing I have never argued about Sheaffer pens, those triumph nibs almost always are great writers. Other than some that had suffered obvious damage I have never run into a bad Triumph nib. Even the ones that did nothing for me wrote well and smoothly. This one I like, nice fine nib, one of the non-gold ones. The snorkel works just great, sucks up and expels properly. The TM Sheaffer is a bit too thin for me but writes so well that it is well worth not even noticing this minor detail.

On the second photo you can, barely, see the personalization.

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The color is actually a medium gray, not blue as it appears to be in the pictures.

Had planned to carry my Yard-o-Led set today but I realized that the shirt I picked out for Church had pocket flaps, so I had to improvise and find the leather Yard-o-Led case. Put the Viceory and Diplomat into the leather case then in my Bible covers pocket and off we went!

Blue bodied, fine nibbed Prera with my Namiki Blue/Levenger Cobalt/Noodlers Black mix.
Fine nibbed MB 149 with MB blue ink.
Green Estie J with 9556 nib & Noodlers Legal Lapis.
Brown Hero 237-1 with PR Chocolat.

Great minds must think alike. Having a Yard O Led day. Loaded the Barley with Herbin Cafe Des Isles and the Victorian with Vert Olive. May have to rethink the latter as it's a big pastel for what I'm working on.

Work

Sheaffer Baance II - Diamine Sapphire
Pelikan 400NN - Pelikan Black
Sheaffer Connaisseur - Private Reserve Naples Blue

Home

Senator - Noodlers Black
Modern CS Duro - Diamine Imperial Blue
Sheaffer Balance (L/F) - Sheaffer Blue
Pelikan M250 - Diamine Indigo

Waterman Edson with Noodler's Legal Lapis

But that's today. Next week... who knows.


Ralph

Using two inexpensive pens today that I am growing to love:

Parker 25 fine nib with Purple Mojo ink
Esterbrook LJ black with a 9550 fine nib with Burgundy Mist ink
with help from its little brother, an Estie SJ copper with a 1555 nib and Copper Burst ink

Ballpoint help today from a Lamy Al-Star gunmetal finish...

Hi all,

I just joined up thanks to my friend Izzy linking me to here. Over the years I've had a Parker Duofold (flipped, and I regret it!) two Montblanc (hence forth, 'MB') Meisterstück 149s (M) of which was my Dads, and recently picked up a Meisterstück LeGrand (M).

In the collection is also a MB Meisterstück Amadeus Mozart Fountain. Again, I've had a Boheme, now flipped.

This weekend I picked up a Montegrappa Extra 1930 Black Bamboo, M nib...and it has rekindled my love for FPs again, and I hope to add a Duofold Centennial to the mix soon.





For the rest of my collections, please visit the link below,

My Collections

Thanks,
Mike

Just one pen came with me to university today: Sailor 1911 Red with gold trim and a medium nib, loaded with Private Reserve Tropical Blue. A very smooth writing pen.

Today is a gray, over-cast, rainy blah-day. So to cheer me up I think I will be taking a couple of gray pens to work with me: My Parker 51 and my new Sheaffer Snorkel gray. To add just a touch of color I will also drag along my green marbled Sheaffer pencil with the gold turban. Inks will be Noodler’s, Fox Red in the Parker and FPN GMB in the Sheaffer.

Parker Duofold Cenntenial with Noodlers BP Black (the Duofold was being a little neglected since the arrival of my 1911 Sailor)

I ordered the DC with the Noolders BP Black as well - should be interesting Thanks Izzy!

I'm trying to use the Yafa fountain pen I bought about 3 weeks ago. When it's feeding ink it's a very smooth writing pen. Unfortunately it has a severe ink feeding problem and I can't seem to solve it.

I'm really new to the fountain pens. I really like writing with it, when it's working, I hope that not all of them are this much of a pain.

Currently in rotation:

Parker Sonnett Verdigras FP
VP black carbonesque FP
Hero 187 FP
Reform Skywalker FP
Lamy Vista Safari FP

Also in my FP collection:

Pelikan 205 FP
Pelikan 200 red FP
Mont Blanc 144 FP (Classique)
Shaeffer Prelude Rose Gold FP
Retro 51 stainless FP
Laban wood FP
Esterbrook J grey FP 1551 Nib
Esterbrook J brown FP 2668 Nib

Yes, As of now, 13 is my lucky number!

In the market for an OMAS Vision and a Sailor 1911.

Currently in my work bag:

Mont Blanc Traveller FP F nib
Mont Blanc Le Grand FP XF nib
Cross Apogee FP M nib
Waterman Carene FP XF nib
Mont Blanc Starwalker Doue B nib
Mont Blanc Doue Signum RB
Parker Sonnet Chiseled Tartan FP F nib

in my draw at home........won't say....don't want the wife to find out

newly acquired - Stypen Ritz/spitfire fp.

Nice Saturday at home, using my newly acquired Blue Parker / Carltonware deskset with a Parker Duofold deskpen in Lapis Blue and Diamine Mediterranean Blue ink. Probably won't go anywhere to use a pocket pen today, so I will just take the chance to enjoy one of my favorite desk pens!

Just received this week a Parker 51 (vac style), newly restored, and writes like butter. This will be THE pen this week and beyond I think.

Bob

I bought a few monnths ago a Nakaya Tamenury Writer long with clip with a medium fine flexible nib. It is very similar, in fact almost identical but mine has a very small converter. I contacted Nakaya for a larger converter and the answer was a polite "no no". I write at least two hour a day and the Sailor Naginata with a Togi nib ( which I live very much) has the same problem: a very small converter. I use a MB 149 and a Pelikan 800 but I love the long configuration of the Nakaya. Judginfg by the looks of your Danitrio it has a piston filled and it should be large enough. If it so, I would like to get in touch with Kevin about buying one. Thanks for your time and a reply. Vervavolant

Danitiro Densho that I just received from Kevin. Man I love this pen!

Dean

Signed a birthday card today with Noodler's Antietam in a black Waterman medium Phileas...

What type of nib did you get with the Densho?

Black VP with a custom nib.

Today, My "Duke Columbus 226" fp, will be in use!

Today I'm ending a Parker Frontier Blue with Parker Sapphire and a Waterman Expert II with Waterman Florida Blue, both medium, and I'm starting with a Stipula La 91 0.9 italic with Stipula Sienna (terra di Siena). Maybe I'll add another pen, or a dip pen. I have to decide which. This is the daily matter of every collector.

Mont Blanc Writers Edition - Voltaire M Nib (Mont Blanc Black Ink)

Jonro,

I decided on a firm fine nib. I debated on the flexi, but doubt I'll get much flex with it from everyday use and I wanted to firm to use with multi-copy forms.

Dean

Using a newly-acquired grey Lamy Safari with Broad nib. Waterman Havana ink. Am surprised at how smooth the broad nib is! Wasn't expecting it since the Medium one was a bit scratchy.

Today, my lemon yellow Bexley 10th Anniversary (with a fine nib) made it back into rotation, and I'm glad it did. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed writing with that Doric-inspired, perfectly balanced, big-nibbed Bexley. Oh, and I'm kind of on a PR Lake Placid Blue kick at the moment, so that's what it's filled with.

Today: Pelikan Silvexa w/ Sensa black ink cartridge.

51 Flighter with PRSSB for precise thought

Parker 51 Flighter


Visconti Aida with THE Penman Sapphire ink withKinneyed cursive italic nib for sweeping generalizations.

Visconti Aida

I used three pens today: my Waterman L'Etalon in basketweave sterling silver and Pelikan Royal Blue ink; my Sheaffer Legacy 2 in palladium finish with Noodler's Navajo Turquoise ink; and my 1945 Parker "51" with sterling silver cap and Cedar Blue body with Noodler's Ottoman Azure ink.

Always have a few pens inked; now:

Omas Milord T-2 with Titanium Nib
Nakaya Equilibrium in Burgundy
Pelikan 1000
Pelikan 140 Burgundy
Eversharp Skyline in Solid 14K gold
MontBlanc LeGrand FP in Pure Silver
MontBlanc LeGrand FP in Vermeil
Stipula Novecento Elettra Blue
Sailor 1911 Full-size Black with H-M nib

Generally I use each for about half a day and then get the next one.
When one of these runs dry, I clean it, stock it and ink another one of my ink-pool.
90 % of my collection remains dry all the time; which is better [???] they say.

I always maintain fifteen to twenty inked pens on my desk and ready to go. No more "work" for me, since I retired on July 9th, but I still alternate my pens on a daily basis and never leave the house without one in my pocket.

- This morning I wrote some checks and caught up on some correspondence with my sterling silver Sailor 1911 with a broad nib (writes like a medium) that was adjusted to my hand by Nagahara several years ago when I purchased it at the D.C. Supershow. He is a master and it is still smooth as silk. I'm using a Sailor black ink cartridge in the 1911.

- After lunch my attorney came by the house with a copy of my revised will to sign. For that task I used one of my beautiful handmade Joe Cali creations with a vintage Omas nib and filled with Waterman Havana ink.

-This afternoon I'm meeting a Kenyon College student who plans to attend arts management school following graduation to talk with him about the fundraising component of his study. ( I worked for twenty years in Kenyon's development office.) In my pocket will be my Conway Stewart Churchill (#154/500 in a grey/pearl color and filled with a Rotring Dakota Black cartridge.

Black is my usual ink of choice. Normally it's Aurora in a bottle or the black cartridge of the manufacturer who makes the pen. I was and remain upset that Rotring Dakota Black is no longer available in bottles - and even hard to find in cartridges.
During what my wife refers to as my midlife crisis, I added Waterman Havana to my selection of ink. For some reason, I just don't like to use blue of any shade, but then most of the fountain pen people I know are quirky in some respect.

Today I am using my Young Engineer with Hero blue ink, my Duke Green Carbon Fibre with Pelikan green, my green Pilot 78G with Pelikan green, my Pilot 2A (I think -- bought it used from a 3/$10 bin at the Dallas Pen Show last month) with noname blue cartridge, and a ballpoint with the name of the company where I am employed, given to me for my birthday today, by a co-worker.

Donnie

It was a Pilot VP in orange kind of day but standing by are a Montegrappa Extra, Lamy Studio, Delta Dolcevita, Made in England Parker "51", Hero 616, and a Stipula Etruria.

My new Pilot 742 with FA nib just wrote a letter. It only arrived late yesterday afternoon from Japan. I filled it with Namiki Blue today and took it for a spin. I think I'm going to like it a lot.

This morning I paid bills, writing checks and addressing envelopes with my Dani Trio Ban-ei using Diamine Prussian Blue. My bank asked me to stop using bulletproof black on my checks, so I did. I will take notes for a writing project during the rest of the afternoon using a Sheaffer Valor with Cartier Bordeaux.

Divided between my Yard O Led Barley, B nib, for pages of writing and the purple Waterman Carene, M nib, for editing.

Why did they request that?