Pelikan Soverign 800 Blue Stripe fine nib with matching ball point.

Parker"51" Aerometric w/Diamine Steel Blue.Rain at last.

Raden VP with Noodler's Legal Blue clipped to my sweater, Graphite Aluminum Lamy Safari with Noodler's Zhivago in my bag.

In my desk: Charcoal Lamy Safari, 2 plastic Pelikanos (don't recall make), Rotring Skynn, Eversharp demonstrator.

I have a no name pen with a unusual two part nib thats been rattling around in my junk pen box for who knows how long. My plan for today was to use the threaded part of the barrel to replace bad threads on a Gold Bond pen of the same color. It was a good plan. The more I looked at the doomed pen the more sympathy I found for it. The unusual nib is what caught my attention. It has two parts with a narrow 14k gold under nib that shows from under a steel overlay with a arrow shaped opening just over 1/16" wide at the narrow part. Unusual but so what. Just another junk pen - right? Wrong. It has a small mountain of iridium on the tip. The pen itself is a nice looking and well made large pen. Color marbled wine with black tassies each end. I like puppies and junk pens so---
Fix-it time! Cleaned nib, feed and section, Removed rotted sac. Reassemble with new sac and --- WOW what a writer!! Buttery smooth medium line, even flow, no blots, skips, leaks or problems of any kind. There is a moral here.

Never toss a junk pen!! Stan
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It's been a while since I've chimed in on this thread. I'm out of town this week, so I have a three-pen case with me that has three of my best writers:

Orange Pilot Vanishing Point with Aurora Black;
Black and red Marlen Basilea (fine nib) with Waterman Blue Black; and
Pelikan M620 Niagara Falls (fine nib) with Sailor Jentle Blue.

I also have along a couple of pens for grading exams:
Bexley Fun Time in grape cooler (fine nib) with Waterman Purple, and
Silver Pilot Knight with Waterman Green.

Don

oh yah...I'm with Lloyd. Whyever did they request that?

Call me curious

Today:
MB 147, 146
Pelikan M405

And here comes the LAMY 2000 !!!!!! with Scheaffer Jet Black Script Ink!! Must say this really is a nice fountain of pleasurable writing.

Pen converted from bp to fp. Mostly XEZO.
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Today it's one of my Aurora Ipsilons (yellow) F, inked with Aurora blue and a Waterman Phlieas M inked with waterman blue.

Today, it's a Sailor Sapporo with Noodler's Pendemonium Blacktop Black. Smooth as glass. A very nice combo -- I always seem to end up using black ink in my Japanese and Chinese pens.

Lisa

Today: Bic Select X-Pen fp

Its a great pen and pencil day today.

Vintage Conway Stewart 28 in the "toffee swirl' pattern with medium CS#5 nib ( Noodlers Zhivago)

Burgundy Esterbrook "J" with a really smooth 3556 "Starburst" nib (Waterman's Blue/Black)

and, last but not least, a newly sharpened Eberhard Faber Blackwing 602 from the secret stash.

Lamy Safari, EF, Lamy Blue
Pelikan 150, F, Aurora Black

It was crazy getting out of the house this morning and of all things, I forget to put a pen in my pocket. I about panicked when I got to work. I checked my briefcase and still had a Rotring Freeway cliped in there that I haven't used in a month. I figured it was empty or dried up and hoped I had an extra cartridge somewhere. Well, I opened it up and it fired right off and wrote all day!! Mighty fine backup pen!

Pelikan M405 with Pelikan Royal Blue ink

Grabbed my Pilot Knight this morning. It's loaded with a sample of Waterman Havana, which I'm really warming up to.

Take a guess:

It's German, some decades old.

Two colours, mostly black.

Very smooth and very light.

Cap fits perfectly.

Piston Filler.

Clip is a different colour than the body........anyone.....

Umm.. a pink Pilot Prera?

About 250 exams graded with a bariety of pens

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Waterman Kultur in neon yellow with Waterman Black.

Lisa

3 pens so far

Omas Paragon with formal italic nib and mixture of PR Black Cherry and Parker Quink Black
Danitrio Densho with fine nib and PR Lake Placid Blue
Pelikan M605 fine nib with Waterman Blue-Black

Dean

Lapis Blue Duofold Jr. desk pen with Diamine Mediterranean Blue

Waterman #7 Red Ripple - red nib with Levengers Cobalt Blue

Parker 51 Aero Teal with Caran d'Ache Caribbean Blue

They said that Noodler's bulletproof Black in a pen with a broad or stub nib (which I was using on my checks) puts down a line that looks too much like the stamp ink used by corporations and by banks for signatures and cancellations. Although this seemed irrational to me, I decided to comply and am now using Legal Lapis. I was tempted to use a loud, raucous color, but decided I really don't want any more hassle. They are content with my choice of a blue in, so I'll just go with that.

Wrote a couple notes with a Rotring 600 medium, using Parker blue-blank ink. Then switched to a Franklin-Christoph M14 fine nib pen using Waterman Florida blue cartridge. -RacerX

Doing some financial projections so using a Parker Jotter Stainless Steel clutch pencil...........aaaahhhhhhh

Although in my shirt pocket is a 146 XF nib, MB black ink...........much better.....

Savage, I had a Stipula Saturno with that exact nib and I loved the way it wrote. I wasn't exactly happen with the olive color; I had expected something a little more "vibrant" One of my students LOVED that pen since I let him write with it one day. I gave it to him while he was standing in line to go on stage for his graduation. It was indeed a most magical moment. He's at West Point now and uses the pen daily.
Of course, now, I wish I had another one......maybe not the green one!

Thus far today it's been:
FPN LE pen with Diamine Tropical Blue LE ink
Blue Sheaffer Valor with Caran d'Ache Sunset
Bexley Cracked Ice Poseidon SE with Diamine Orange

Work,

Blue (Crushed Velvet) Parker Duofold - Parker Black
Pelikan M250 Red Demo - Waterman Blue-Black
Maroon P51 - Diamine Imperial Blue

Home

Senator - Noodlers Black
Pelikan M250 (Black) - Diamine Indigo
Sheaffer Balance II (Millennium Edition) - Diamine Sapphire
CS 28 - Waterman Florida Blue

Vintage Aurora 88K with Chrome Lined Cap and flexy medium nib with Waterman's Blue Black

Black PFM MkII with fine nib and Noodle's Blue/Black

Both the above for editing documents and signing mail.

Vintage "Flecta" with a firm fine nib - a shameless replica of the Nizzoli Aurora 88 but one that I am quite happy to use with potentially damaging inks. Filled with Penman "Ruby" and being used to highlight passages in a research paper.

It's was a Pelikan kind of day today. 800 Soverign Blue Stripe fine point with Parker blue black quink, with it's associated Pencil.

....... .........try again.......

The Precious, of course, and a Delta Profili I just received. Both loaded w/ PR Tanzanite as it's a very grey day here and I need the contrast on the page.

Vintage Aurora 88 F with Aurora black (thanks, Dan!)

Sandal red Van Gogh Maxi M with Noodler's red-black.

Bexley Simplicity Teal - Fine, ~ PR Velvet Black
Retro 51 Green Scriptmaster - Medium w PR Spearmint

Pilot Custom 742 with falcon nib, Namiki Blue for letter-writing, Sheaffer Valor with fine nib, Cartier Bordeaux for editing and notetaking, DaniTrio Ban-ei, Diamine Prussian Blue for everything else.

Been enjoying using my recently repaired Delta Dolce Vita mini, EF nib--post-fix, it's a wonderful writer. Filled with Orange Crush.

Sheaffer Snorkel Desk set with triumph nibs one med one fine with Parker Penman ink, and my Pelikan 800 Blue stripe with Parker Quink Blue black.

Parker Vacumatic - Standard Azure Blue m/nib; Cross Tuxedo w/f nib; Platinum Y5000 w/f 14k WG nib

Today (Oct. 29, 2007) I used my Pelikan Silvexa.

It's a good day!
Waterman Carene~ Garnet Med. with Swisher Intense Red
Lamy Safari Black 1.1 Italic with North Sea Blue

Good morning everyone, 41F and going up to 70F.
Hello Taki and Pep. Hope your trips were pleasant and successful.

As I go forth to spread joy and happiness in the world I will be taking my very large Huashi, never know when you may have to thump someone into being happy.

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Anyone know if these can still be had?

Good morning, everyone! It's 48F and the high will be 68F.

JD, we had a busy but good trip

Blue Sapporo Mini with Sailor Jentle Blue cart. I found it is a different color from the cheap INKPEN blue carts. I prefer Jentle Blue because it is deeper blue. Also using my Pel M320 with Apache Sunset.

Time to go brew my first cup of coffee!

Parker Sonnet chiseled tartan. Waterman black ink
146 MB black ink

Today's pair are... a Pilot Murex (fine) with a black Pilot cartridge and a Monteverde Invincia Black Tie (medium) with Zhivago.

In the Piquadro:
Hero 100 flighter (xf) Noodler's Black
Parker VS blue (made in Canada 1Q 1947 still with the clear feed) (xf) Waterman South Seas Blue

in the organizer
Wing Sung 237 brown celluloid (f) FPN Galileo Brown

On the desk:
Platinum Belage red/black (f) Waterman South Seas Blue

Today I think I will be taking my black Sheaffer Cadet filled with Rachmaninov to work, with it will go my Laughlin eyedropper filled with Inkommunicado’s Russian Aubergine (in my mind I still call it Rasputin’s Revenge) recipe. Hopefully this will help make up for my back killing me, I pulled a muscle in my lower right back a couple of weeks ago and it still hurts like someone kicking me in the right kidney. Ouch!

It's a slow day at the office. We're moving to new space tomorrow, and all of my files are packed away and ready to go. I have with me my newly-acquired Pelikan M600 (blue striped, fine nib) with PR Black Magic Blue and my Orange Pilot VP LE with Aurora Black. I just don't have much writing to do....

Don

1, Old style Pelikan M250, burgundy with a Binder extra fine, full flex nib; Rohrer and Klingner Alt-Bordeauz ink
2. Sailor Sapporo, rhodium trim, extra fine nib, Sailor Red-Brown ink (for grading exams)

Matt C.

In honor of Halloween, I'm using my orange Waterman Kultur loaded with Waterman Black.

Lisa