Two Parker '51's.

'My kind of pens! What are they?

Today I'll probably be editing with my magically-fixed-itself PlatPrep in pink.

Near mint French Parker 75 Sterling Cisele w/18k med. nib and diamond cut cubic zirconia cabochon. I have never seen another pen like this. Date code TE (Q1 1985). In the photo on ebay, it was black with tarnish and barely recognizable, but it polished out perfectly. Beautiful pen!

Today was my first day using a rollerball since being introduced to Fountain Pens. I must say it went smoothly. It was a MB Le Grande 162 blck with platinm trim. I will be carrying it regularly now. Might not see much use but ill have it

Dragon Pen with Dragon Blood just for Halloween , ah, wishes.
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Belmont lever pen, sold by the Rexall Store in the 1930's. It has a Warranted 14k nib and is filled with Lamy Blue Black. It's primitive and eccentric, but it sure has character.

Lamy 2000 w/El Lawrence, Heart of Darkness mix
Hero 100 w/ Zhivago
Pelikan m200 w/Kiowa Pecan

Stypen filled with Sheaffer Blue-Black
Plat Preppy in red, for editing.

Today I put Parker Quink washable blue in my Sheaffer Valor black/gold trim with M-nib.
It writes so smooth as silk. But sometime it start after 2-3 mm.
Remind me of the baby-bottom effect.

waterman expert II dune blue at work,waterman hemisphere on road. both filled with pelikan blue

My new Pink Pastel Esterbrook with Noodler's Ottoman Rose and a Pilot Custom 98 with a red ink cartridge. Love these pens!

Cross ATX in Basalt Black w/PR American Blue
Sheaffer Javelin w/Quink Blue

Today I used my wonderful old Pelikan 120, bought at the Conklin Book Store on College Street, in Appleton, Wisconsin, during my first week of college in 1970; it's fresh back from Ron Zorn's repair, leak all fixed, and filled with Private Reserve Lake Placid Blue. I had forgotten just how smooth that nib is...

Bexley Stradivarius, "Berlin Hochschule" with 18k fine nib (original nib was broad). A beautiful pen in red and black hard rubber and a wonderful writer (as are all of my Bexleys).

Summer Breeze Libelle with medium nib. Filled with Noodlers Aircorp Blue Black.
Purple Pilot Varsity. (Yes, the same one.)

Parker Deluxe Challenger with XF nib, filled with Aurora Black. This pen is one sweet writer.

It's a couple of days now I'm using a Montegrappa NeroUno... it's loaded with Pelikan Royal Blue cartridge because it didn't have a converter and that ink was the best I have in international cartridges.

I still have to decide if I like it or not. It's very heavy, so long, almost impossible to use posted IMHO... but I like the way it writes, nice line, not too smooth... and overall a great feeling of quality in material and assembly.

I don't know yet...

I am using a 1970's vintage UK Parker 61 Flighter with a wet broad nib loaded up with Quink Washable Blue.

Bexley Owner's Club 2006 in the blue/silver Tibaldi celluloid, inked with Waterman South Seas Blue (perfect match for the blue veins).

Scribbled a few notes with a Parker 45 full of Waterman black earlier.

Omas Demonstrator (not quite sure of model) with M nib
Two Parker Sonnets with fine nibs much different from Omas but good for editing

AHHH, a day off. Carried my Pelikan 150 around today.

Tibaldi Modello 60 w/18k EF nib filled with Noodlers Blue. Very smooth, very fine line.

Parker VS
Aurora Ipsilon

(two great pens)

None today but tomorrow its going to be ........ Edson in blue with oblique broad nib

Sailor Sapporo EF with whatever bluish/blackish ink it came with, and a Reform 1745 with Legal Lapis.

-Nkk

Tibaldi Trasparente, 18K OM, Waterman mix. Best,
David

ca. 1947 Esterbrook transitional, copper color, 9556 nib.
It's the smoothest writer I have ever experienced.
Alas, it is not mine, and I'll have to give it back.

-jon

Pilot Myu90 F nib with Noodler's Blue

Used my new Pelikan 400 with PR American Blue, what a great combination.

Pelikan M200 (Black/Gold) with Noodlers BP Black (My beater pen, just stuck in my jacket pocket)

Cross Townsend (Gold) with Noodlers BP Black (My desk pen)

Regards to all
NIGEL

VP Raden (Pilot blue cartridge right now - will be moving to PR Ebony Purple, PR American Blue, or possibly Pilot Iroshizuku Syo-ro depending on if I feel flush)
silverblue Lamy AL-star (PR Ebony Green)
silvergreen Lamy AL-star (Noodler's Polar Black - my check-writing pen)
Cross Aventura (Cross black cartridge)
gold Sheaffer Agio (Sheaffer Skrip black cartridge) - this pen is a loaner from another VPC member and writes nicely but is a little thin for my hand. I'm also a little unclear on what model it is, but it looks like an Agio of some sort.
Jinhao Long March (PR American Blue)

These are all M nibs (yeah, I'm creative - I have some non-Ms coming in the mail!), though the VP M is more like a Western F, as many have noted.

My brand new (today) yellow Lamy Saffari fine point and an Eversharp Skyline Maroon & Gold striated w/ marron body (fine nib as well). Really impressed with this Lamy so far!

a cool Guider fine/Italic point and my Safari F. Really a Lamy Vista Demon straiter

Early Parker Jade Dou fold Jr. PR Sherwood Green ink. Stuff NEVER dries!

Sheaffer Sentinel De Luxe with brown body and two-tone stainless steel cap. Very nice fine Triumph nib.
Black Carbonesque Vanishing Point with fine nib.
Blue marbled vintage No Nonsense with italic fine nib.

Viscontis all the way - Romanica [vermeil], Mudejar, and Renaiscimento in the Deco pattern

Edited for spelling!

Hi Noble, but not Savage

I rotate 2 pens simultaneously everyday. One with Blue and the other with black ink. Today I used MB 149 and Conway Stewart Nelson II Stardust Red. Tomorrow, i do not know yet. It depends on the clothes I will wear.

Vieira Coelho

My m600, and Lamy Vista

Last week and this week has been my Parker 100 Cobalt/Black that I rediscovered after adjusting and smoothing the nib. Now I can't unink it Filled with PR Midnight Blue.

Pilot Sesenta inked with Caran d'Ache Grand Canyon (photo over exposed to show barrel pattern better)

Used to Written Work. It is my Friend.




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Vasanthi

Blaze Infotech

Lamy Vista, broad nib, filled with Parker Quink washable blue.

in the piquadro:
Namiki Bamboo <F> Noodler's Black
Platinum screened maki-e (cranes & Mt Fuji) <M> Noodler's Legal Lapis

In the organizer
Platinum Bel Age <F> 50:50 mix Waterman's Violet and Noodler's Luxury Blue



close up on the maki-e pen


pardon the lack of photography skills

In my pocket currently:

Namiki VP Raden, M nib, with a Pilot blue cartridge (planning on switching it to PR Ebony Purple or PR American Blue when the cart runs out)
Esterbrook J, 2442 Falcon stub nib, Quink blue-black

I've got a few others inked, but I'm not using them regularly at the moment.

Tibaldi Modello 60 w/18k EF nib and Noodlers Blue ink

Let's see, in my pocket right now I have:
- a Reform 1745 with Levenger's "Blue Bahama's",
- an Esterbrook Transition (black) with Private Reserve "Plum", 1551 nib,
- an Esterbrook "J" (black) with Noodler's "Bay State Blue", 1554 nib,
- an Esterbrook "SJ" (black) with Fahrney's "Forest Green", 1555 nib,
- a Levenger "Seas" pen (green) with Levenger "Cobalt Blue",
- an Aurora "Ipsilon Classic" with Levenger "Always Greener",
- a Parker "Jotter", for those times when one must use one of those ballpoint abominations.

I usually limit myself to a total of six pens, but I've been on a buying spree lately (the Esties) and as I had to ink them to make sure they worked I'm using them until they run out of ink. My wife tries not to let me out in public when I'm carrying this much hardware around. I don't understand that.

Later,
Ron

Today in the pouch I have:

MB 149 with fine flexible nib from the 1960s filled with "Cocktail" Dark Night ink from Paris.( Might do a review of that ink soon); and

Waterman's #7 in black with "Yellow" nib and blindingly yellow barrel end disk filled with some sort of blue ink from Levenger, can't remember which.

At home on the desk are my Raw Ebonite Mikado full of Parker Blue Quink and OMAS 360 with "Cocktail" Royal Blue.

Wow - I love your pen! I've been using my pink/champagne decimo today.

It's been a while since I posted, but here goes.

In the two-pen pocket case:
Orange Pilot Vanishing Point LE with Pilot Blue-Black cartridge
Cedar Blue 1946 Parker "51" vacumatic (Toronto assembly) fine nib with Sailor Jentle Blue

In the four-pen case:
Pilot Pocket Pen Isaac Newton fine nib with Waterman Purple
Black Waterman Phileas fine nib with Levenger Pinkly
Green striated Pelikan M600 fine nib with Waterman Black
Venice Blue Omas Paragon fine nib with Noodler's Blue

Don