Lamy AL-Star, LH nib with Montblanc Violet
Lamy Safari, LH nib with Pelikan Brilliant Brown

Current rotation is:

- Lamy 2000 M with Pelikan Royal Blue (my workhorse)
- Lamy Joy 1.5 with Lamy Blue (for fun notes, if only it were smaller!)
- Pelikan Pelikano Red M with Pelikan Red (no fear in losing it)
- Aurora 810 M (new entry!) with Sheaffer Brown (and she will stay in rotation a lot with such a color !)

Cheers,

Today I am going to ink up:

1) Shaeffer Balance tortoise marbled from early 30's - (Dip only, waiting on order of sacs...)
2) CS 75 Blue Marbled from the early 50's (new Ebay purchase.. Can't wait)
3) Mabie Todd Blackbird grey marbled from the 50's in fine point. (My first Mabie Todd pen and another new Ebay find)

Laundry and dishes await me and might just have to wait, and wait, and wait....

Have been steering away from the German pens lately and being turned on by the vintage quality British makers. I'd buy a different Conway Stuart for every day of the year if my pocketbook would allow. My problem is that I get a vintage pen, clean it up, then am so impressed with it that I want to store it in the display case unused and ink up a junker for the day. I'm very protective of my pens; probably too obsessive-compulsive.

Best,
Jeff

Teal Parker '51 fine point with Levengers Always Greener Ink
Brown Pelikan Tortoise 400 with a flexy medium nib with Levengers Smokey Ink

Both inks from the "Slightly Wild" Levenger ink set.

also:
Sheaffer Prelude cobalt with palladium cap medium nib with Diamine Mediterranean Blue

White Honey loaded with Stipula Deep Blue.
Preppy loaded with Diamine Burnt Sienna.

Parker 51 loaned to me by another FPN member, Legal Blue ink

Today, mostly my black Sheaffer PFM III with fine nib, filled with PR Lake Placid Blue. Also in today's rotation is a gray classic Parker 61 with fine nib, filled with Aurora Black. I am (no so) patiently waiting for an Aurora Talentum to arrive sometime this week.

Last year, I bought my first Pelikan - an M400 - and it didn't write very well. I sent it back to the dealer for a nib replacement. Don't know what he did, but it didn't help. So it sat very depressed for months. Finally I sent it to Pelikan and exchanged the fine nib for an extra fine. Now it is my edc and I am smiling!

Always ready at home are my Parker 51 and 61. I also am carrying in my backpack a Snorkel, because I don't care as much if something happens to it (sorry S lovers, but the grip on Snorkels feels so slippery to me). Finally, I love to carry a Namiki VP with a Binder italic loaded with Noodler's Firefly which I use as a highlighter.

Why do I love fountain pens so much?

Red Esterbrook transitional with a 2556 nib.

Jade Duofold junior

Red Parker Super 21

Black Pilot Custom 823, F nib
Grey Esterbrook J, 9556 nib

Both loaded with Waterman Florida Blue

Conway Stewart Duro "Fahrney" SE. Can't put this down. It has a modified EF nib that lays down a perfect line and now that I've used it a couple of days, it never skips and has smoothed out so that its a dream to use.

Blue Aurora Optima, Mottishawed F, Aurora Blue.

Hi all

I have two pens in my pocket
A black vintage Parker Duofold (the big one)
and a moder Waterman Charleston

At home on my desk, I am using a Hero 189

Chaim

Hi!

Today will be Pelikan day: a Pelikan 605 (trying out Baystate Blue) and a Pelikan 215 (Manhattan Blue) - both with fine nibs.

Chris

Using my new MB 149 with a fine point nib. It writes very smooth and wet.
Filled with Noodlers La Colour Royale.

In the Piquadro:
Hero 100 flighter <F> Noodler's Red-black ink
Namiki VP Raden <F> Namiki Blue-black ink

in the organizer:
Platinum Bel-age <F> Waterman's SouthSeas Blue

Brown Pelikan Tortoise 400 with a flexy medium nib with Levengers Smokey Ink
Sheaffer Prelude cobalt with palladium cap medium nib with Diamine Mediterranean Blue
Reform Clear w/Italic nib with Private Reserve Blue Suede

Yesterday and today using newly restored Sheaffers (great job by the Zorns, thanks & no affiliation):

• Touchdown (Admiral, I think)
• Crest Triumph Vac-fil

silverblue Lamy Al-Star loaded with Lamy Blue
graphite Lamy Al-Star loaded with Noodler's Hunter
black Pelikan M800 loaded with Private Reserve Copper Burst
Namiki Falcon loaded with Noodler's Black

Binder's special Taccia Staccato.

Lamy Studio (steel finish) with 1.1 mm italic and Waterman Havana Brown, as discussed in another post!

Bernie.

I've picked my dear Delta Dolce Vita Medium, who sat inked (Delta blue cartridge) from Xmas in my desk stand, and bringed to work today.
It was a hit! A pen that does not pass unobserved, I must say!

Pilot Knight in black. It's filled with Sailor blue ink.

At work: Flat black Lamy Safari, M nib with Lamy Blue
At home: Azur blue 1947 Parker Vacumatic F nib with Aurora Black

I normally carry three pens. Today they are:

Waterman 7 emerald-ray with "red" nib
Chilton 98 (OS LI Chilton with green/black marbling)
Pilot, "6" size, pre-1938, black with platinum veining

Danitrio Densho and Pelikan/Classic Pens CP6 Marguerite

Frosty Steel Cross Apogee with Noodler's Luxury Blue.

Dunhill AD2000 with Montegrappa Blue, Montegrappa 1930 with Quink Black and a Pelikan M200 F with Quink Black...

Sheaffer Craftsman c 1945, wire band with #33 nib. A very pretty example in carmine and black stripes.

I select Lamy "ABC", this is very nice to daily use and special on weekend.

Jojo

Almost every day I've clipped to my shirt collar or pocket a black Pilot knight. I feel more sane carrying around work each day a pen that cost me less than $50. The clip looks nice and holds firm. Just wish they made it with a finer nib, then it's all I would carry. I use a green colored ink that stands out from the usual blue or black, for doing marking on students work.


Safely inside my sportscoat pocket, ... a Lamy 2000 with extra fine nib for writing in my pocket 3x5 inch leather bound moleskine-like notebook. I use noodlers waterpoof ink Its perfect for getting lots of thoughts into a small pocket notebook, and if I drop my notebook in a puddle my writing is safe.

At home (it's my most expensive pen) I'm doing creative writing with a previously owned pelikan 800 in a "envirotech" (spiral bound, 3 hole perf pages) notebook made by Ampad with 20lb 100% recycled paper.

I *was* carrying an old Esterbrook J with 2550 nib I got as a gift. Being my first *real* fountain pen I loved it! But then one day at work I uncapped it to find ink all over the grip and nib. And then with uncanny timing my co-worker asked to borrow my pen in a meeting. I got the chance to make a good first impression for fountain pens on my co-worker.. .and the Estie blew it. And I couldn't write my meeting notes, until after the break when I could clean up the pen at the washroom. From now on, I plan on carrying fountain pens that have less risk of leaking ink everywhere.

Inked up my Pelikan M200 Amber Demo with Diamine China Blue.

Dunhill Sidecar with Noodlers Blue for signing

Dunhill Sentryman with Noodlers Black Ell for writing

Dip-pen.
Parker Duofold big red flattop.
Parker '51'.
Parker '45' (I really love the nib on this pen, even though the pen itself is quite boring).

Today, I am using a Kaigelu 336, obtained from isellpens. It's a very pretty pen -- matte gold cap, checkered blue resin body, cute little "pregnant" bulge around the middle. And the nib is decorated with a kangaroo. The ink that came with it, though, is a very washed-out looking black, so I might flush it out and reload with a nice blue.

Lisa

Wow, how did I end up with two consecutive posts in this very popular thread!? Today, it's a pretty little cloisonne no-name I bought off of eBay when I was in my rookie, buy-everything-in-sight phase. I don't know the brand, but it's obviously of Chinese manufacture, complete with a squeeze-bar converter. It has a white body, with white clouds outlined in gold paint and what appear to be cherry blossoms.

Lisa

Aurora Ipsilon de Luxe, 14k nib, inked with Noodler's Legal Lapis. If I leave the pen uncapped for several minutes the feed dries, but a touch to the tongue gets it going without a problem.

Yeah, Esties can leak if they get jostled. It's part of the fun of vintage pens. Also, an Estie J can unscrew in your pocket and deposit ink all over your clothes. That happened to me a few weeks back, but my dry cleaner knows stains better than I know inks.

Today's pen is a late 1950s Aurora 88p loaded up with Visconti Blue.

Staccato Starry Night fine point filled with Waterman Havana Brown.

1963 Sheaffer Imperial, Cross Century 2 M, and Lamy 2000 xf, all Quink black.

Conklin Duragraph Tobacco Brown, Fine Point, with Waterman black cartridge; Aurora Talentum Fine Point with Aurora black cartridge.
(The 'Kremlin' down the hall has dictated that only Black ink is to be used from here on out.)

1948 Cedar Blue Parker "51"
1940's Black Shaeffer Signature Touchdown
2007 Monteverde Bow Tie Invincia (big hummer )

Today is my Conway Stewart Duro with an EF Nib, a 75 Cisele and a Montblanc 114 both with a M Nib.

I've only recently become obsessed with fountain pens. I started out with a few different pens, but at the moment, I'm using two Lamy Safaris with medium nibs and a Pelikan Pelikano with medium nib at the office. I've got Waterman red in the Blue/Red Lamy, and Aurora Black in the Black Lamy. I filled the Pelikano with Noodler's La Couleur Royale. On the way, I've got a blue Lamy Safari that I hope to fill with a blue ink. For now, at least, I'm going to match the color to the pen in some way.

Marlen Dot Com in PINK loaded with Noodler's Rachmaninov, which is ever so much pinker.

Stipula Novecento in Terracotta loaded with Noodler's Chekov, what remains of it. It's a nice complement to the pen.

Review of both inks forthcoming.

Today I am going to university. I am taking my:

- Parker Duofold big red two-bander. 1928.
- Parker '51' Flighter. 1949.
- Waterman lever-filler. 1936 (?)

This little jewel that I picked up at the Arkansas Pen show yesterday! Pelikan 625 with Diamine Mediterranean Blue!!

Currently I have the following three pens inked and in use:

- Bexley Sheherazade, piston-filler, in tortoise; filled with Waterman's South Seas Blue.

- Bexley Sleeve Filler in black; filled with Waterman's Florida Blue.

- Waterman's One Hundred Year pen, ribbed, in black; filled with Waterman's Florida Blue.

Today is the Sheaffer Legacy FP in Fine and the Cross ATX pencil.

I just ordered my first Montblanc....a LeGrand 146 new...I am anxious to get it and use it.

Not using - but - recently bought a Nakaya Urushi Portable Size Fountain Pen in the Aka-tamenuri (Reddish Red) color. It has a fine nib and uses a Platinum converter. Have not inked it yet even though it was used. I bought it from Nibs.com. It is a spectacular piece.

Anybody have one of these? Comments - criticisms?

I have the Piccolo writer version of your pen, also with F nib--no criticisms! It's beautiful, I love the finish, the way it handles and writes. If you are used to very wet writers, you might feel a difference there. This is no problem for me, and find like many pens differences in flow based on different inks. The Platinum ink cartridge was for me on the wet side compared to many of my Noodler's inks. You'll love your pen!!

Today I'm using a champagne pink Decimo, F nib with PR Black Magic Blue, and a Yard-o-Led Retro BP with a Visconti black F gel refill. Happy writing!