Today I'm mostly using my Burgundy Duofold with blue-black Quink, and a Frontier SS GT with royal blue Quink.

Parker 51 Fantasy in shocking pink; 1926 Sheaffer Flattop in perfect jade green, EF.

Parker...51 Flighter...Duofold 'Big Red'.
Montblanc...Meisterstuck 145 'Chopin'.
Waterman...Unknown junior-size lever-filler.

Today I am writing paper reviews and some correspondence. Inked and ready are:

• Sailor Sapporo Metallic Dark Green, Fine - Noodler's Zhivago & Pushkin
• Montegrappa Micra, 0.2 Binder XXXF - Noodler's Golden Brown
• Pelikan M450 Tortoise, 0.3 Binder Stub - Diamine Emerald
• Sailor Sapporo Orange, Fine - Noodler's Apache Sunset

Lamy 2000 with Noodler's black. I love it!

Having today received the three FPN inks :

Danitrio Takumi, flexy F, Noodler's FPN Galileo Manuscript Brown (a bit wet - maybe I didn't let the rinsewater dry out enough )
Parker "51", F, Noodler's FPN Dumas Tulipe Noire
Pelikan M205 Demo, Binder 0.6 stub, Noodler's FPN Van Gogh Starry Night

But since I'm leading a small conference this weekend, I'm also still toting my Pel M200 Citroenpers with Penman Mocha as a known combo to fall back on should the worst happen.

Three pens were my choices today:

1. Montblanc 149 with broad nib, Noodler's Forest Green Ink;
2. Waterman Edson Sterling Silver LE with fine nib, Private Reserve Lake Placid Blue Ink; and
3. Sheaffer Snorkel Clipper with fine nib, Sheaffer Skrip Green.

Visconti Voyager Anniversary Lapis, M stub, Pilot Tsuki-yo.

1937 Striated Green Sheaffer Balance; 1950 Cordovan Brown P51 Special

I'm now comfortable enough with the new inks to have returned the Citroenpers to the fallow case.

I will not use them all today probably, but I carry them in my briefcase and the first three I have actually already used today:

Faber-Castell, Graf von (sterling), with Waterman turquoise ink
Aurora Dante Alighieri (green), with Mb racing green ink
Caran d'Ache Dunas (charcoal), with a neutral dark grey ink

Sheaffer Targa (sterling), with a reddish brown ink (2 Pelikan inks mixed)
Elysee (can't remember the name), with a blue ink (Waterman)
Cross Matrix (black and silver), with a black ink (Pelikan Indian, fountain)
Stypen ? (white and red), with red Waterman ink
Delta Parthenope (black and brownish), with purple Waterman ink
Stipula Ventidue (cognac), with a blue/black ink
Delta Nazareth (green), with Mb racing green ink
Waterman Serenite (black), with blue/black ink
fake Montblanc 149, with Mb blue ink
Sheaffer Legacy, with brownish red ink (2 Pelikan inks mixed)

Ahhhh...I want this pen

Today I used:

Trusty old Lamy 2000 EF with Aurora Black
Dupont Caprice MoP with Dupont Violet
Waterman Carene Silver Guilloche with PR Tanzanite/Waterman Florida Blue mix

Today it's been a Platinum Day and Night Long-Short filled with Diamine Teal and a Tibaldi Modello 60 filled with Noodlers FPN Van Gogh Starry Night and a green Pelikan M1000 with Diamine Kelly Green.

Pelikan M1000 with Noodler's Blue for signing

Porsche Design with own brown mix for writing

Green underwood (london) piccadilly stylo eco with a Stipula green cartridge I had lying around. This is a smaller, cartridge-only pen, and it was the only regular international cartridge I happened to have in green.

It's a Noodlers kind of day!

Pelikan Sovereign 800 Blue Stripe fine point with FPN Starry Night Blue (black?)
Lamy 2000 extra fine point with FPN Tulipe Noire
Visconti Amber Kaleido Voyager fine point with FPN Manuscript Brown
Pelikan Translucent Blue 200 Binder ItaliFine with Baystate Blue

Today is a Cordovan Brown P51 Special, 1950, FP; and a 1937 gold/brown striated standard Sheaffer Balance, FP

Today it's a Sheaffer OS Balance - Black w/a firm (what else) m/f nib and a Parker Vacumatic Major - Emerald Green Pearl w/f nib. Both are filled with FPN Van Gogh Starry Night Blue.

The Vac is a new acquisition from an auction box and I finished the restoration a couple of days ago along w/a 1940's vintage Waterman. I don't know the model - it's a lower end plastic pen with a thin single cap band and a wonderful flex # 2A nib. Both pens restored well and are proof that great pens still exist in the wild - just keep looking through those estate auction boxes!

It was a Montegrappa type of day today, I inked up the Montegrappa Micra Light Blue with a Dupont Royal Blue cartridge and found an old 300 series and filled that up with Montegrappa Green (disgusting colour really...)

As always, my Lamy 2000 EF filled with Pelikan Black got some use. I'm also testing some M800 nib sections so the green M800 has been filled and refilled with Waterman Florida Blue all day.

Lamy 200 F with Noodler's Purple Martin
MB 146 F with MB blue-black

Parker Pearl & Black Duofold, Rohrer & Klingner Smaragdgrun
Duke Copper Temple, PR Chocolat
Speedball C-4, Noodler's Dragon's Napalm

Sailor Sapporo Medium NIB. Sailor Cartridge Black.
Reserves Stipula Novecento Ebano Rosa Medium NIB. Pelikan Black.
Namiki Bamboo Broad NIB. Namiki Cartridge Black.

Waterman Phileas /M with Waterman South Sea Blue
Pilot 78G/B with vintage Skrip Emerald Green
Pilot 78G/F with Noodlers 'La Couleur Royale'

1941 P51 Fine/Med nib, black Waterman ink; 1950 P51 Special, Cordovan Brown, FP, black ink

I gave a second chance to my Vector 1.5 nib. No way. It took ages to start. It is almost impossible to use. Bad luck. Turned once again to my Studio F nib. Smooth like it's incredible it's steel nib!!
Lamy Blue Cartrdge.

Cheers,

Pilot VP M nib, FPN Van Gogh Starry Night at work and Bexley America The Beautiful F nib, Waterman Havana at home.

Blue Marbled Aurora Optima with Noodlers Manhattan Blue
1928 Parker Duofold Senior (aka "Big Red") with Waterman Havana Brown

Pelikan Sovereign 800 Blue Stripe fine point with Diamine WES Imperial Blue (purple?)
Lamy 2000 extra fine point with FPN Tulipe Noire
Visconti Amber Kaleido Voyager fine point with FPN Manuscript Brown
Pelikan Translucent Blue 200 Binder ItaliFine with Baystate Blue
Pelikan Grand Place with Binder crisp italic and Noodlers Eternal Black for inking Certificates.

Tomorrow, I'm taking my Lamy Studio and Cross ATX into my first day of exams.

Wish me luck!

Today I'm taking my Pelikan 140 with me (and my Pelikan 600 as a backup). Both filled with my new favorite ink: Diamine Teal.

Today: Mentmore Diploma. Spent nearly a minute scribbling with it until I realised it was out of juice. Re-inked and went on my merry way...

This one:

Waterman 502.

Aurora Ipsilon in satin blue, quite a nice pen.

Dunhill AD2000 in gold plate with medium (fine-medium) nib
Parker Duofold International blue mosaic rollerball

I'm using a vintage Swan 3173 with a fine nib. It's a classic!

Well, one basically, since I only have one

Waterman Harmonie Glacier Blue

Sent my L2K off to get some work done on it so I whipped out the other daily Lamy writer the CP1 and inked that up with Pelikan Black.
M400 White Honey with Waterman Havana
Dupont Caprice with Dupont Blue (is it me or are the Dupont inks particularly dry? My Caprice isn't having the best time... )
and I've just whipped out the Waterman Exception Slim and am deciding on what to fill it with...

Lamy2000 med nib filled with Private Reserve, DC Show blue, and matching ball point.

In addition to always-inked my "51" Flighter, medium nib, DC Supershow Blue, today I am using a "51" Cordovan Brown vacumatic desk pen and a Visconti VanGogh Maxi, both inked with a mixture of Waterman Blue and Diamine Sapphire.

Hero A33 Classic in black pearl with gold banding. Just given up on modern version of P51 with chrome body, writes well but no grip for the fingers.

Ink is Dary Grey/Green mixture, made up 300 cc and I would like to use it up before I move onto a new colour. I use just 5cc a day so it may take a while!

Anyone like a sample?

Currently, I have four in rotation:

-Estie J Brown (9460 nib) with custom blue-black ink
-Sheaffer Targa (stainless) with Sheaffer Blue-Black cart
-Reform Demo with Diamine Umber cart
-Libelle Chromatic (stainless) with Diamine Jet Black

I just got the Targa- Love it! Nothing more needs to be said!

I'm using my new Sailor Professional Gear w/Rhodium finish, Fine, that I just got yesterday. Great feel and I love the nib.

Aurora Primavera w/medium nib - Montblanc Royal Blue
Waterman Exception Night & Day rollerball w/Schmidt medium blue refill

dip pen, mostly.

Yellow Sheaffer NoNonsense, italic F nib, with Sheaffer King's Gold ink

Pelikan 150 w/PR Midnight Blues.

My Parker Centennial Duofold Black n Pearl which just got back from France with an EF nib; 1924 Nupoint Flat Top light green FP; 1954 P51 Fantasy in shocking pink with gold cap; 1965 P21 Super FP. All black ink.

Marking exams all day with a purple nibbed Waterman 5 and a Pelikan 805.

Pelikan 800 blue stripe with Diamine WES Imperial Blue for notes and journal
Visconti Kaleido Voyager with FPN Manuscript Brown
Pelikan 200 Blue Translucent with Noodlers BSB