What Do You Have Inked?

[Tasmith]

 

Thank you, Tom.

 

Indeed it is colorful, and it has to be: I match pen and ink color, and like to have several different colors around.

 

 

That's very strange. Particularly because the PB is such a wet ink!

PB dries out in the 146's nib and section and takes ages to clean out. Did this with two different bottles.

Edited December 4, 2019 by Tasmith

[Kalessin]

Current pen assortment (used every day for note-taking at work):

 

M910 silver Toledo with B nib -- Pelikan Edelstein Aquamarine

 

M600 dark blue transparent with BB nib -- Parker Penman Sapphire

 

M620 Berlin with B nib -- Parker Penman Emerald

 

M400 Tortoise with M nib -- Diamine Ancient Copper

[Penman222]

M200 Smoky Quartz, F nib, Diamine Green-Black

Edited December 19, 2019 by bhbarto

[Le Vieux]

M800 Black with with Parker Quink Blue Washable. Nice combination, although I do find this blue variant of the Parker ink somewhat dull.

[WLSpec]

m400 green stripe with diamine candy cane

[Tom Kellie]

m400 green stripe with diamine candy cane

 

 

~ WLSpec:

 

I've never heard of Diamine Candy Cane.

Thank you for mentioning it here.

Tom K.

[MHBru]

currently...

M800 blue stripe. Iro kon peki

M805 ocean swirl. Iro ku jaku

M800 red stripe. Herbin bleu nuit

M205 transparent blue. Kyo no oto aonibi

Ductus Herbin bleu de minuit

[Karmachanic]

M205 F CI: KWZ Scriptus Confederation Brown

When the vintage Tortoise 400 OM shows up, probably Colorverse String

[hari317]

M200 brown marbled with a BB nib unit and Quink Blue black.

 

 

[Tom Kellie]

~ hari317:

 

I love that BB nib!

Thank you for posting these images.

Tom K.

[chromantic]

I've inked up my black M300 with the new Sailor Yomogi.

[hari317]

~ hari317:

 

 

I love that BB nib!

Thank you for posting these images.

Tom K.

my favourites too. I bought several from Regina years back when they were common. But some nibs are not as wide as others. I found some significant variation.

[Barutti]

[Tom Kellie]

my favourites too. I bought several from Regina years back when they were common. But some nibs are not as wide as others. I found some significant variation.

 

~ hari317:

 

Buying several a few years ago was a wise move.

The two contemporary Pelikan BB nibs I use are both fairly wide.

What I especially like is their ability to display ink.

If another Pelikan BB comes my way, I'll be glad to add it to the other two.

Tom K.

[Runnin_Ute]

Currently inked Pelikans:

 

140 F Pelikan 4001 Blue Black

400NN EF Edelstein Sapphire

M200 Cognac F Levenger Amethyst

M200 Brown Marbled M Levenger Pomegranate

M200 Gold Marbled B Edelstein Aventurine

M400 White Tortoise B KWZI El Dorado

[hari317]

[ENewton]

My one Pelikan, a 140.

 

After almost a year and half of trying different inks--not my usual practice with vintage pens--I finally found one that works well in the pen: Pilot Iroshizuku Kujaku.

[N1003U]

Currently inked Pelikans:

 

• M1005 Stresemann B, with Edelstein Tanzanite (who knew that ink shimmers a bit red if you put it on heavily enough!)
• M800 Brown-Black M, with Iroshizuku Tsukushi
• M600 Turquoise-White EF, with Iroshizuku Kon-peki
• M215 Quadrilaterals IM, with Edelstein Sapphire
• M205 Olivine EF, with Edelstein Olivine
• M200 Demonstrator M, with Diamine Presidential Blue

[N1003U]

My one Pelikan, a 140.

 

After almost a year and half of trying different inks--not my usual practice with vintage pens--I finally found one that works well in the pen: Pilot Iroshizuku Kujaku.

 

I really want to like Ku-jaku, but I can't decide if I do or not. Teal is for me for some reason a divisive color.

[DrCodfish]

I took a box of pens to a 'penexposition' (more like show and tell) to an old friend's place up in Seattle. We went to a play that evening, and had breakfast of Dutch baby the next day and played with pens. He has a few pens and was interested in seeing a few of mine so I took some that are special to me and some that offered differences in nibs. Thus I now have inked:

 

The Pel M800 tortoise w/IB nib - Smokey Quartz

A 1970's era Pelikano - Mt Blanc JFK

M600 Pelikan blue stripe - homebrew Teal, Wateman Inspired Blue and Wateman Intense Black stubbed by Motishaw

Pelikan 400 Tortoise (older pen 1950's?) B stub nib - Diamine Chocolate

Pelikan 101N red tortoise w/Architect nib ground by J Motishaw - some blue ink

Pelikan Tortoise 'War pen' a fantastic writer with of course an expressive CN nib - Sailor Gentle Epinard

A Bexley Faux Pelikan stub nib - Diamine Ancient Copper

A Green Pearl Parker Vacumatic, F nib - Monteverde Olivine

A Green Pearl Parker Vac with a FACTORY stub nib, another fantastic writer - same ink for comparison

A Pilot 78G B nib - Mt Blanc Irish Green

A pilot 78 G BB nib - Diamine Bilberry

A Jinhao with a home ground Architect nib - Some Kelly green ink, I can't recall

 

and a very special recent acquisition;

A Chris Thompson replica 1920's era Parker Duofold, hand made of Titanium in 2006 F/M stub nib - Sailor blue black.

 

My friend is a retired architect. He's got the hand writing that makes these pens do things I can oly dream of. His wife works in historic preservation so we all had a jolly time playing with his and my pens.

 

This is of course more pens than I normally have inked. Every time I go to clean them I do a little writing and a little doodling and ……….. I never get around to cleaning any of them! But what fun to have such a nice collection of toys to play with. I'll get them all cleaned and put away, … some time soon I am sure.