What Pen Did You Finish Today?

[RazorJack]

Lamy 2000, B nib, with P.W. Akkerman #10 IJzer-Galnoten ink. Ran out of ink while writing an assignment for tomorrow's class. Refilled it with the same ink, as usual :-)

[displacermoose]

Pilot Custom Heritage 92, FM nib. Ran out the Iroshizuku Syr-ro this morning while journaling. That was the first fill for this pen, and I've been very happy with it. It won't be long before it's up and going again.

[Zaphodbebullbrox]

i used up the ink in my Krone Molten with BB nib.

 

right in the middle of filling out a form for work. Had to finish up with my Sailor Imperial Pro Gear with zoom nib. it was the closest colored ink.

[Rosendust2121]

Yesterday I finished my Pilot Metropolitan(My medium nib) with Momji ink. I really love and enjoy the shading of that ink, especially on Clairfontaine!

[praxim]

A pen labelled Onoto Junior, model 601, except that according to the Onoto Book there is no such pen, there being either a Dainty or a different pen called a Junior. Still, it exists and I have just finished a random ink mix. It performed very well although, like other similarly sized lever fillers (e.g. Waterman 52 1/2V) the ink capacity is negligible. They are fun and handy to use for some notes. I will hang on to this as one of only two or three Onoto levers I am retaining.

[inkstainedruth]

Right now I'm in the process of flushing out one of the Vectors -- it had had a fill of diluted KWZI IG Turquoise, but needed to make way for other pens and inks to go into rotation. A few other pens are on the list after that one, but I figured that the IG ink needed to be dealt with first.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Penman222]

I finished my ASA I Can filled with Diamine Grey, and refilled it with Diamine Salamander. It holds about 3 ml, but I just use about 1.5 ml per fill.

[Almu]

2x Wing Sung 3008, one had Sailor Souten, the other Sailor Kin-Mokusei. Well they still have the same ink in them, as I just refilled them

 

 

I haven't changed inks in a long time now...

[praxim]

Pelikan M400 from the 1980s (W. Germany). The medium nib was generous with Waterman Brown. I thought the ink fitted the tortoise finish on the pen. Next time, I might try taming it a little with a Pelikan 4001 ink. The pen is a keeper.

[Noihvo]

[displacermoose]

Blue Platinum 3776 Century with a medium nib. It held KWZ Honey this time. That was a great combination, and I will probably repeat it.

[pajaro]

Montblanc 144 medium, Bordeaux color pen.

[praxim]

Montblanc 149 from 1990. I think it was sold to me as a Medium nib. I call it a Fine, definitely measuring under 0.4 mm line width.

 

Those things hold a lot of ink, in this case Aurora Blue.

 

I bought the pen getting on for two years ago, with a stuck or barely moving piston, mainly to find out about a Montblanc rather than because I was enthused by the visual design or brand, which I was neither. It was over a year before I finally made the necessary key to open it up to lubricate the piston, which was all it seems to have needed. After a brief first use I inked it again this year to use more extensively, since when I have gradually joined up with the pro-MB side of the planet, at least for MB 149s made in 1990.

 

Shortly there will be an MB 264 inked, quite a different beast I understand, as my second foray into trying Montblanc.

[praxim]

Onoto Magna "Silver" light visible pen from the late 1930s. The No 7 nib is wonderfully smooth and flexible, the pen a delight to see, and it stinks.

 

Investigation of the Robert Oster Deep Sea ink I had been using showed no contamination in the bottle, yet uncapping this pen produced a nasty smell. Further research here on FPN suggests that certain acrylics can have this characteristic, rather than it being mould. The acrylic in this pen is a patented De La Rue product. Perhaps this smell problem is why it was used only for a few years before WW2 and was not continued afterwards.

 

As a precaution, I will be giving the disassembled pen a disinfecting bath, then see how it runs.

 

Beautiful pen to see and to use, though.

[displacermoose]

Range 4C with a fine architect nib loaded with Sailor Rikyucha. This is my "get down to it and WRITE" pen. It is a pleasure to use. The grind adds interest to the lines without being distracting visually or difficult to use. It is nice a juicy and brings out all of the lovely shady-sheeny complexity of the ink. It will be used again very soon.

[fphilipp]

Not today, but yesterday... Pilot VP Black Carbonesque with a fine nib, filled with Pilo Blue. What a smooth fine nib that is. I do not generally like fine nibs but this is a pleasure.

[Freddy]

 

Fred

[praxim]

Pelikan 100, grey, from 1933-35. At first this pen was awful, which I carelessly put down to it having a Hard Fine nib. A thorough clean of the feed, switch to Aurora Black, and slight adjustment to the tines for evenness and flow transformed it. It is still a fairly hard nib, quite unlike the nib on the 100N, but as a fine nib it works very well, light, neat, clear and reliable. The reason I have mostly vintage pens is that I mostly like them, or like them mostly.

[benbot517]

Montblanc 149, filled with beatles purple. That color looks amazing coming out of the pen's O3B nib.

[inkstainedruth]

Flushed out the Navy Gray 51 this morning. I like Diamine Aster, but I have so many other inks to try.

Also am in the process of flushing out another Vector (this time the stainless steel one). R&K Alt-Goldgrun is a little light for me at the best of times (and there are other inks in the color family that I like better, like KWZI Green-Gold #2). And I was finishing up the sample I had, and ended up diluting the ink with distilled water -- that turned out to be a major mistake, because it became not only very pale, but really yellowish....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth