Hi,

Off work until the New Year now, so just pens for home, intend to ink up and use a few that over the next 7 days.

At the moment looks mainly vintage:-

Pelikan 400NN (Black Stripe) - Diamine Indigo
Conway Stewart 28 (Black) - Conway Stewart Black
Parker 51 Vac (Teal) - Diamine Sapphire Blue
Sheaffer Tucky (Brown Stripe) - Waterman Blue-Black

and one non vintage Retro 51 Scriptmaster II (Tortoise) - Diamine Imperial Blue.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all.

Dated my journal with a vintage Sheaffer my late Mother in Law gave me. Uses a US made Italic F nib. I added the converter and load it with Waterman Black.

I have written in my journal using several pens today.

Blood Pressure readings using a Blue Lamy Safari, M nib loaded with PR Burgundy ink. Also a Black Lamy Safari, F nib loaded with PR Sherwood Green.

Most writing today with my new Dupont Olympio loaded with Dupont Night Blue.

Most of my "at work" writing is done with a Lamy Palladium Studio, F nib loaded with Mont Blanc Blue Black ink.

I sign my papers with a Lamy Palladium Studio, M nib loaded with Mont Blanc Blue ink.

You think that I may like Lamy pens?

So far today it's been:
1) A blue marbled Bexley/Molteni Heritage (button filler based on the design of the 2006 Owners' Club pen), fine nib, filled with Diamine Royal Blue.
2) A Wahl-Eversharp lever-fill Doric in Garnet Shell filled with Diamine Woodland Green. Oh, did I mention the medium nib is wonderfully flexible?

Today is a FPN LE Bexley Simplicity filled with a vintage bottle of Waterman's blue-black and a green PFM I filled with Diamine Prussian Blue. Good day indeed.

A Waterman Expert (old style, not type II). This pen has become my daily user. It writes as good as my $400.00 pens: very smooth and not failure to start ever. I paid $40 for it new on the Bay and don't have to worry about misplacing it somewhere.

Pelikan M800
Namiki Falcon
Nakaya Long Pen
Wality 69L eyedropper

To ToDaY i HAvE BEeN RoCKIN a PeNTEl EnERgEL. It'S ME FaV.

Parker 180 and Lamy Safari

Workday today...I only used Light blue Sailor Sapporo Mini F nib, filled with Waterman South Seas Blue.

Today, Christmas Day, on vacation, I take four pens with me on the flight. Today, I have used my trusty Targa, with a converter, a Targa with a cartridge, no problem with a cartridge compressing in an airplane as a converter can do, and an oversized Bexley a tenth anniversary issue, with a converter. All with Black Ink
The wife has brought her Christmas Pen, A Sheaffer Holly, with a converter, and DC Private Reserve Blue ink that we re-fill the converter with.

Pelikan M405 with Waterman marine blue ink. I didn't want to risk my new Saturno around the nephews.

Wooo Hooo finally using my Pelikan 400 Brown Tortoise filled with Levergers Skies of Blue ink! Also using a Sheaffer Craftsman (Carmine Red) with Diamine Mediterranean Blue and a Parker 51 Teal with Caran d'Ache Caribbean Blue!

Today I use my new Aurora Ipsilon in Black resin with a brushed chrome cap. I've always wanted one of these and I was suprised how inexpensive they can be. I paid $49.99 new. It has a M NIB but writes much more like a F.

The British (pens) have arrived...

CS Duro Heritage w/ an IF nib (thank you Kevin Cheng!)
CS Wellington w/ an IF nib (thank you Richard & Barbara Binder!)

Today I go back to work with my new 3 pen case filled with my gray Parker 51, Pelikan Black 800 and the new Sheaffer PFM III in black I got from Diane yesterday, all filled with my mix of Tulipe Noire and Russian Aubergine. A nice set of pens for all occasions.

2 pens today:
Hero 100 flighter F nib, Noodler's Luxury Blue
Pilot Bamboo (black) F nib, Aurora Blue

These pens were Christmas gifts from my children in 2006 and 2007.

French

OMAS Paragon in Blue Royale with a Minuskined M stub and a Waterman blue-black mix. Best,
David

The capacious Wality 69L eyedropper was applied to Sudoku this morning.

Today I am using a Bexley Poseidon LE with PR Gray Flannel and a Omas Paragon Milord with Pelikan Blue. But I have with me a Visconti Opera Ciello which I intend to fill with Noodler's Navajo Turquoise. Heaven!!!

Shhh! Tell no one that I'm correcting papers with Waterman Carnation RED ink in a Visconti Medici III (Ithink)
gary

Lamy 2000 F nib, Noodler's Gulfstream Blue

Lamy 2000, EF, Lamy Turquoise
Pilot Sesenta, F, FPN Galileo Manuscript Brown (haven't decided yet if this is a good match for this pen or not)

I am looking for a Danitrio Tactical $33 pen.

Thanks.

Today is a Pelikan Day:

Old Faithful Pel 400 Blue Stripe with Diamine Mediterranean Blue and
Newly acquired Pel 400 Brown Tortoise with Levengers Skies of Blue ink.

Today my new Lamy 2000 medium nib with Lamy blue ink.
I've bought this pen some days ago and I am very satisfied with it !!
This is my first Lamy...very, very good !!

My new Sailor 1911 EF Demonstrator with Aurora Black...great, smooth writer

And later: Sheaffer Heritage with Noodlers Tahitian Pearl.

Avocado green Sheaffer Viewpoint with Italic F nib, Sheaffer Slovanian Violet cart Probably will use all inked pens for journaling later.

At home, journaling with my Esterbrook #407 dip-less pen, 9550 EF nib and Pelikan black on Clairfontaine pocket notebook. This pen is the first one I reach for; it may not be "the best" pen I own, but I must admit it's my favorite right now - words flow effortlessly, page after page, pausing only to admire the perfection of this little writing instrument.

I'm making lots of notes for a database I'm working on for work. I'm doing the notes with my FPN LE with Minuskin medium stub nib and Diamine Prussian Blue ink.

I'm also taking personal notes in a pocket-sized Moleskine cahier using a Lamy 2000 XF with PR Black Magic Blue.

Other pens I have inked include:
Black Sheaffer PFM III fine with Aurora Black,
Cedar Blue Parker "51" vacumatic XF with Sheaffer Skrip Blue, and
Tortoise Levenger True Writer medium with Herbin Vert Olive.

Happy new year, everyone!

Don

Pelikan transparent blue (demonstrator) FP with Noodler's blue ink.

Still using the Stipula Saturno with PR Blue Suede. Earlier, was using the Aurora Ipsilon with an Aurora blue cartridge (got a couple of them, might as well use 'em up).

Today... first of the year, using a Parker 51 vac, bold nib in my Clairefontaine notebook (Quink black)...

and... a Wality 69L piston-fill, a new pen directly from the shop in India (my brother-in-law visited there recently, met the owner, and brought a bunch of pens back). I am very pleased with how it writes, putting down a nice wet, fine (or medium/fine) line, even after not being used for a couple of days. It's black, and called an Oversize, but about the same size as a Balance. Available at Retrodesk (no affiliation). Very nice for the price.

A Waterman Audace in Evening in Paris. A Christmas present from my nan

I'm excited, because my latest addition (the Galileo) arrived by FedEx today. Currently, I'm using:

1. Omas Galileo Rollerball
2. Omas Imagination FP
3. Visconti Mazzi "Climbing the Space" FP
4. Visconti Mazzi "Running the Space" FP
5. Visconti Titanic FP
6. Visconti Opera Black FP
7. Visconti Opera Ivory FP
8. Visconti Van Gogh Midi Black Rollerball
9. Marlen Shuttle FP
10. Marlen Eclisse FP

I'm hoping to round out my collection with a Pelikan Caelum pen after finishing grad school in March. Any suggestions regarding other space-themed pens are welcome! I've been keeping an eye on a Krone Apollo 11 FP but I'm not yet ready to invest.

Here's to a terrific '08!

Pilot 78G (green) stub nib, Noodler's Verdun Green
Pilot Bamboo (black) F nib, Aurora Blue

pilot capless -m-
lamy 80 -m-
parker 51 -m-
parker duofold junior mid -f-

all inked with waterman blue-black

Waterman Phileas - Black w/black ink - Story-drafting.
Parker 45 - Black w/black ink - scribbling/note-taking, diary-entry.
Calligraphy dip-pen - w/black ink - more story-drafting. (I'm doing that right now, actually. By dim desk-light, late at night. It's a nice setting for writing. Dim light, dip-pen scratching over the paper. Shiny black ink, open inkwell a few inches away...it's very old-worldy and relaxing).

So far, today, I've only used my black Pelikan m805 with a fine nib.

Mont Blanc Ramses loaded with Noodler's Luxury Blue
Pelikan M800 loaded with Noodler's Habenero
Lamy Al-Star loaded with Lamy Blue
Namiki Falcon loaded with Noodler's Black
Nakaya Long Writer loaded with Platinum Blue-Black

Platinum Stainless Armor. I was INSANE lucky and got it for about $30 off ebay. It's an amazing, amazing pen and right not it's using PR Sherwood Green ink, but I'm trying out Noodler's soon.

Visconti Van Gogh in Laguna Verde (the Swisher color). Pretty darn cool.

Tomorrow I break out The Beast.

Lamy 2000 F nib, Noodler's Gulfstream Blue

Parker '45'.

Just dipping the new aquired Majesty and giving it a go......

A Parker 180 Flighter (1979) with M|X nib on my Moleskine.

A pair of vintage Pelikan 400s, one in green stripe with a broad nib, the other in tortoise with double broad. I am using the green for edits and the tortoise for signing letters etc. Both full of Diamine Blue.

Very close to my perfect pens so far as nibs and looks, but not quite wide or long enough.

Today:

Stipula Saturno with PR Blue Suede
Aurora Ipsilon with Aurora Blue

A pair of Pelikans: an M200, F nib, filled with Diamine blue black, and an M600, XF nib by Richard Binder, filled with Waterman black. This combination helped me get my post-holiday notes and letters out of the way this evening.

A Lamy Safari, my only FP atm. Although it's a great first pen, I am looking for something a bit nicer as I love the fountain pen experience. I'm considering a Pelikan M200 or 215.

Sheaffer Balance II, fine point, with Waterman blue ink
Parker Sonnet, medium point, Waterman blue ink -- I have three Sonnets but this one, purchased about 10 years ago, is clearly the best.