Which Pen Is Always Inked?

[thygreyt]

i have a few pens, but the only one that i almost always carry with me and the one i use for almost absolutely everything is my CdA Ivanhoe, and for the near future its staying with Iroshizuku Kon Peki.

[sharonspens]

At the beginning of the calendar year, I choose one pen and one ink that will remained constant for the year. This year it is Pilot Custom 74 with Iroshizuku Old Man Winter. I haven't decided which one will be the 2016 pairing.

 

I have several other pens inked at the same time, but they switch in and out as my mood changes from vintage to modern.

[MobyDick]

Pelikan m200 semi-vintage(1990s), Fountain Pen Revolution Indus, and a Sailor Realo. I would say a Platinum #3776 as well but the converter holds so little ink that it's empty within two or three days for me.

Edited November 28, 2015 by MobyDick

[bongo47]

Since getting a TWSBI Eco, I've had it inked, currently with R&K Salix. I had been keeping my Pilot VP inked at all times with cartridges as a backup, but I've recently cleaned and stored it. I've also got two Pilot 78g's inked: one green and one red. Each with corresponding ink for grading. I'm trying to rotate other pens more thoughtfully than I used to so fewer are sitting around what dried up ink, so my other inked pens only have a few more days/weeks before their cleaned and put at the back of the line.

[sandy101]

Parker Sonnet with Diamine Velvet Blue - it gives a nice fat medium line, and shows the colour well.

 

Italix Parsons Essential with violet ink - usually j Herbin's Violet pensee.

 

Faber Castell Loom, my EDC with Diamine Tyrian Purple.

[Tasmith]

Pilot Decimo with a fine nib inked with Pelikan Royal Blue.

 

Waterman Kultur nib ground to an extra fine by Tim Girdler inked with Montblanc Permanent Blue.

[sirgilbert357]

Pilot Decimo with Iroshizuku Asa-gao. Up until a day or two ago, I always had a vintage Parker 45 with a gold medium nib inked with Noodler's Liberty's Elysium. I got a wild hair and decided to switch it to Pelikan 4001 black or Noodlers Black, whichever behaves best in it. Noodlers Liberty's Elysium will be going in my Lamy 2000 once it arrives.

[BayesianPrior]

One of my Pelikan M805s because they hold so much ink!

 

A Lamy Safari because it writes well but I don't like the look of it, so it barely gets used.

 

A Lamy Studio in brushed steel because it's my indestructible work pen - usually filled with iron gall ink.

[cellardoor04]

A black Pelikan M805 (the one in my profile pic!) with a Masuyama CI. I change inks as soon as they're done, currently it has Diamine Autumn Oak in it.

 

Recently I've kept a wonderful cedar blue Parker 51 with Minuskin stub inked with Iro Tsuki-Yo, and I've been using that to take notes in grad school. It's a really nice, unassuming beater pen, performs flawlessly and holds a lot of ink!

[corgicoupe]

Pelikan M800 with a Binder Italifine inked with Bad Belted Kingfisher. It's a match made in heaven.

An oversize Sheaffer's Balance in Black and Pearl, generally loaded with Blakwa. Although everything matches it is really a composite of parts from three different pens all made around 1929 that is a perfect writer.

Hmmm. I have the Bad Belted Kingfisher in my Targa for writing envelopes because of its drying time. I'll have to try it in my new to me semi vintage 1990s M800. Edited November 29, 2015 by corgicoupe

[corgicoupe]

And a Lamy Vista with a black cartidge that is my pocket pen. I dont write with it much, but it is reassuring to always have a fountain pen in your pocket in case something unexpected requires writing or signing.

 

And always preferred over using the one in the doctor or dentist office that has been handled by (how many?) sick folks.

[Occipital Lobe]

Pelikan M800 stub

Sheaffer Legacy Heritag Fine

TWSBI 580 M

Scriptorium Idyll CI

Scriptorium Master Scrivener M

 

These pens are permanently inked as well as a few others in rotation.

[orfew]

I have 2 that always seem to be inked. An MB Heritage 1912 and a MB 147.

[Bklyn]

Noodlers Ahab. Fits in my hand so well and it is a real workhorse.

 

On the other hand, I do not like to have pens lying around that are NOT inked. It just gives me the creeps.

[mitto]

A Parker 75 sterling silver and a Sonnet sterling silver always remain inked and ready to go. The 75 is always inked with Pelikan turquoise while the Sonnet is inked always with either royal blue or brilliant green.

[Bill Wood]

Edison Beaumont. Usually as an ink dropper

[Lam1]

I rotate my pens and no single pen is always inked. But I always have at least one of my Pelikans M80x and at least one M2xx inked. Two pens that seem to come into rotation frequently are the Pilot Vanishing Point and the Parker Duofold Centennial.

[pajaro]

It is interesting the variety of pens people like.

 

I took the Minuskin 1.2mm stub out of the cedar blue pen and put into an aerometric midnight blue 51. Works better. Still inked, along with the same pen in a fine. Blues Brothers.

[Ink Stained Wretch]

My definition of "rotation" seems to be a bit different from some others' definition. My rotation pens are the ones that are inked and which each get used to start a day. I have six of these. If I had seven, which I once through about, I'd have each fountain pen locked into a specific day of the week. This way the pens move around the week.

The fountain pen that's "always" been inked for me has to be my burgundy Sheaffer Imperial IV, a cartridge filler that has been inked with Noodler's Black ink since early June 2004. So that one has been constant for almost 11½ years. I have cleaned and flushed it maybe 3 or 4 times in all of those years.

 

There's a blue Pelikano Jr. that's had my various blue ink mixture experiments, and other blue inks, in it for what must be at least 10 years. I had it in the rotation before I started on FPN, and that anniversary will be 10 years next Monday.

 

There's a Stypen Ergo Plume that's had Noodler's Blue/Black ink in it since September 2004, so another 11 year pen and ink. It's actually labeled "Swisher Pens Blue-Black," but it's Noodler's Blue/Black rebadged, everyone agreed (including Chuck Swisher and Nathan Tardif). I have about three drops of ink left in that bottle now, so the next ink in that fountain will have come from a bottle with a real Noodler's label on it.

 

I've got a Parker Frontier with a broad nib and my "plum" ink mixture in it, that pen and ink combination has been in use for between 8 and 8½ years.

 

Out of the rotation I have a Pelikano Jr. with my mixture of Thistle Blue/Black and Noodler's Black ink in it. That pen's had that ink mixture in it for almost 7 years now.

 

For those who crave boredom, I went over my inks once and the old list is still mostly the same now. Some of the fountain pens have sadly had to be retired or are awaiting repair, and have been for quite a while .

[cjr]

I have had my Lamy 2000 EF inked with Noodler's 54th Massachusetts with me for over a year. It's the one constant in my rotation.