What Pen Did You Finish Today?

[McBaneG]

1948 P51 Vacumatic, cedar blue. Has been filled continuously and written with fairly regularly for nearly 7 years. I decided it was time to give

it a break for a while so I cleaned it this evening (always something of a chore with these pens!).

 

I may ink up the Metro with Plumix nib in its place. That would make the main rotation the Safari Petrol, the pre-reunification Pelikan M600, and the italic Metro.

There are also two pens inked with Waterman green, a charcoal Safari with an F nib and a cheapo (but smooth) Paperchase model, for grading.

[Honeybadgers]

I just "finished" by cleaning like 40 different pens.

 

Man my backlog was getting severe.

[KaB]

my lamy al-star (1.5 nib) ran out of Alt-Goldgrün and my lamy studio (1.1 nib) ran out of Diamine grape.

[inkstainedruth]

I just "finished" by cleaning like 40 different pens.

 

Man my backlog was getting severe.

 

YIKES! I have trouble keeping on top of what's inked up when I get to a dozen pens!

 

Today it was (sort of) one of the Parker 61s. It's currently got diluted J Herbin Rose Cyclamen in it. As my usual MO, I keep reconstituting the ink in the capillary filler and write with what's left, then repeat the process until the ink is too diluted to be legible on the page.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Noihvo]

[praxim]

Finished two today. One was an Onoto K4 from the mid-fifties. Although it writes well, it is less good than my other K series Onotos or most other of my pens of the same era in that a day or two of non-use seems enough to dry out the nib. I keep a small inkwell of water for just such an eventuality, so a quick dip fixes it. It means you can not take it out though, unless you first primed it in the morning.

 

The other was a version of the Aurora Optima, one of the 'Italian Flag' series from 1997, this one the white with a medium nib. It performs like an Optima which is to say, excellently. I noticed the reserve lasted almost exactly 1.5 A5 pages.

[KaB]

One of my preppy markers ran out of yellow. Refilled it with Diamine yellow. Some day I'll be the one finishing a bottle of Diamine Yellow. But it'll take quite a few more years.

[Zookie]

A Colibri LeGrand with some Thorntons Brown.

[praxim]

The pen I finished was a Santini 'Colours' Galaxy with medium nib using Montblanc Irish Green. Attractive pale blue pen with white swirls (more sky than galaxy), impeccable grip and heft, gorgeous 18k Santini nib, marred to my taste only by being a cartridge converter pen rather than piston fill. I could live happily with this pen alone.

 

However, I have (or had) four inked at the moment so will make also a brief comparison. Another in action is an Aurora Optima Mare, similar in proportions and feel to the Santini although with a quite delicate 18k fine nib with no trace of scratchiness. As with the Santini, if you inflicted on me only this pen then I would live happily. There is also a 1970s S T Dupont Classique; beautiful red Laque de Chine, with appearance and feel as if new. The 18k nib though, feels a bit dead compared with the Italians, and prone to hesitant starting before laying a medium line on the rich side.

 

Despite my pleasure with all of the above, it is the 80 year-old fourth pen which whips them: an Onoto Magna, this a silver ink-visible. I am not quite sure how the Italian nibs are surpassed yet when I write with the Magna No 7 nib it is silky, flexible; a perfect, tactile, expression of writing for pleasure. The plunge fill pen is also perfectly behaved, unlike some of my earlier examples of Onotos.

 

Finishing the wonderful Santini just gave me an excuse to write about the fabulous Onoto without waiting to finish it as well.

[WLSpec]

Just finished a pilot metro black with diamine elf.

[WLSpec]

Sailor 1911L Tangerine (MF) with Diamine Poinsettia

[ENewton]

Not today, but since I was last able to read and write posts on this website, I finally emptied by Parker Victory Mk 1.

[DrDebG]

I finished several today: Franklin Christoph Panther with Pilot Iroshizuku Yu-Yake, Delta Horsepower with Pilot Iroshizuku Ku-Jaku, Conklin Duragraph with GvFC Deep Sea Green, Italix Captain's Commission with Robert Oster Peppermint, Lamy Aion Black with Robert Oster Copper, and Lamy Safari with my Montblanc dump.

 

Tomorrow is cleaning day for at least a dozen pens. Oh boy!

[Tom Kellie]

I finished several today: Franklin Christoph Panther with Pilot Iroshizuku Yu-Yake, Delta Horsepower with Pilot Iroshizuku Ku-Jaku, Conklin Duragraph with GvFC Deep Sea Green, Italix Captain's Commission with Robert Oster Peppermint, Lamy Aion Black with Robert Oster Copper, and Lamy Safari with my Montblanc dump.

 

Tomorrow is cleaning day for at least a dozen pens. Oh boy!

 

~ DrDebG:

 

I've noticed this thread several times over the last couple of years, but never knew what it was about.

Reading your comment above and a couple of others I finally figured out what it meanns to finish a fountain pen.

I'm truly dim-witted and slow on the uptake.

I'd mistakenly supposed that finishing with a fountain pen had something to do with discarding or selling.

Therefore I finished about one dozen fountain pens on New Years Day as I like beginning each year with few inked pens.

Tom K.

[praxim]

Hi Tom K, welcome to the thread. My original idea was that it offered an opportunity to people to give brief comments or one-line reviews of pens and inks they have finished, immediately after the experience. People using it as they please is also good

[inkstainedruth]

Think I've finally gotten the Turquoise Parker 61 mostly flushed out. Mostly.... (It had J Herbin Rose in it -- pretty color but I wanted a change, especially after someone warned me that it stains).

I thought flushing a Vacumatic was a PITA....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[sharonspens]

Xezo Architect, F nib, blue - filled with Kobe Maya Lapis. Well, until this afternoon, that is.

 

Sharon in Indiana

[Tom Kellie]

Hi Tom K, welcome to the thread. My original idea was that it offered an opportunity to people to give brief comments or one-line reviews of pens and inks they have finished, immediately after the experience. People using it as they please is also good

 

~ praxim:

 

Thank you so much for the explanation of this thread's original intent.

I'm muddle-headed these days, so I didn't know what it meant to finish a pen, as I'd never before encountered the term.

I've been out of circulation in English speaking countries for far too long. Ha!

That's all that there was to it. Threads wander where they will...as do my thoughts.

Now I know how to describe it when any given fountain pens runs out of ink. It is finished, as is this post.

Tom K.

[praxim]

One of those long-winded pens, and I do not refer to ink endurance. It was an S T Dupont Line D Atelier brown laque de chine, normal (not oversize). Nib is typically smooth rich M. I had it filled with GvFC Hazelnut Brown, a colour and ink I like although it is allowed only in pens without a latex sac or an ink window.

[Al-Nasser]

I just finished emptying my Montegrappa Nazionale Flex, which was inked with Montegrappa's black blue ink (although it looks like grey to me). This will be refilled with the same ink as it is one daily driver pens at the moment and I really like the pen ink combo.