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I've been in and out of the pen hobby over the past few years and am currently back to using pens on a daily basis. I journal extensively and use fountain pens exclusively for this hobby. Recently I have thought about whether any of my pens "deserve" to be kept permanently inked up. There are several candidates including my two Platinum 3776 pens, a Monteverde Prima (after replacing the nib with a Bock medium that I've become fond of), a Bexley Prometheus that was given to me by my wife, and a Wing Sung 698 with a Plumix nib, and a Nemosine Singularity demonstrator with a 0.8 mm stub nib.

 

So now the question: Do you have any "permanently" inked pens and if so, what are they?

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The pens that are permenantly inked are the pens that get every day use.

 

Desk pens (home)

S T Dupont D-line - Black S T Dupont.

MB 146 - MB Royal Blue

Platinum Izumo - Platinum blue-black - cartridge

 

Every day carry

 

Cross Townsend - whatever ink I fancy - it seems to be the most tolerant pen for different inks

Century ~3776 - currently brown ink

Diplomat Excellence - currently Pelikan blue back

 

Desk (work)

 

Pelikan Stola III - what ever blue cartridge is around

Platinum preppy - platinum blue-back

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A Pilot CH 92 with fine nib inked with platinum blue-black.

 

I keep this one always inked up for when I use poor quality paper. The rest of my pens are broader or wetter nibs that I use with inks that I think look better. They're all cleaned and rotated out when they are empty.

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I switch out pens every two months or so. In addition to a blue Sailor ProGear Slim, only my two Platinum 3776s have been inked (and used daily) since 2015. Fine and medium nib, they are such great everyday writers.

 

My Nakaya Naka Ai has been inked for almost a year, but I do contemplate cleaning it and putting it away for a while. I do have other pens that need attention!

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All are inked all the time:

 

Muji x 4.

Unknown x1.

Metropolitan x1.

Pensmanship x1.

Vista x 7.

Cool x1.

Studio x 4.

Sonnet x2.

Ambition x1.

75 x 1.

m205 x2.

m600 x1.

Professional Gear x1.

Le man 100 x1.

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt."

 

B. Russell

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I have several pens I keep inked up:

Pelikan M205 is always inked, usually with blue (Diamine Blue Velvet right now).

Pilot prera, usually inked with Pilot/Namiki inks (currently pilot blue).

Pilot CH912 with FA nib is probably permanent (now with Iro Yama Budo); this will stay inked up until I decide how much I like the pen.

In the past I've had a vintage Pelikan inked up with black (Noodler's Polar Black or Aurora Black). This might get replaced by a Wing Sung 698 or a Mr Pen, Italix Parson's Essential with a 1mm italic nib (this is my only real broad nib for when I want to write a heading).

 

 

Eventually, I will have an XF flexy vintage pen used daily; the ones I have all need some work.

I also have some pens that are inked because I haven't gotten around to cleaning them. I will carry them when out and about sometimes. They are mostly cheap Pilots, Plumix and Pluminix and Wing Sung 698s.

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I've had quite a few that made long term status as far as staying inked but none are permanently inked.

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The only pens that are considered 'permanently' (more than 6months) are my; Conid, 149, 34, 74, VP.

Everything else gets used and cleaned and stored after 2-3wks of use.

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all of my 12 pens are inked and in a regular daily rotation. My M800 has the most continuous miles on it tho.

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Parker 51 midnight blue

Montblanc 144 bordeaux medium

MB 144 bordeaux fine

MB 144 black extra fine

Pelikan M300 extra fine

All with Montblanc blue black

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The only pen that has been continuously inked up for about a year now is my Lamy dialog3.

"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live."

– Lin Yu-T'ang

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I have a Preppy dedicated to BSB. Otherwise, another 8 or so in constant rotation. I tend to focus on inks instead of pens.

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sheaffer snorkel desk pen (usually noodlers dark matter), my delike alpha (something waterproof), a wing sung 698 with a pilot italic (whatever color I pick for that quarter in school), and a 3776 with registrar's blue black are always inked

 

usually inked are a conklin all american old glory, and my custom TWSBI vac700r 14k wet noodle

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permanently inked pens, for me, are pens that do not dry out easily - for at least 1 month or longer.

 

TWSBI eco, 580. Pelikans (all of them from Pelikano to m1000). Pilot 74, 912, 743. Sailor 14 and 21k nibs. Lamy2000 (not the Safari). Platinum 3776 and Preppy. Jinhao 51A, 992. Wingsung 698, Delike New Moon, Lingmo.

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Not fountain pens, unless you count some Pilot Varsities which stay inked because they are almost never used. It would probably be fairly rare for me to give any of my good pens more than four months in a row before cycling in something else. And a month to two months might be more typical.

 

But I do have an Esterbrook Dip-Less pen, a sort of hybrid that uses a fountain pen nib and feed unit in a dip pen holder, soaking up ink from the well when not in use. I've probably had that inked on my desk for several years now, refilling the well now and then, and trying several different nibs in it. Actually, I have some other Dip-Less sets, but only this one stays inked. I suppose you could say that changing the nibs makes it not the same pen all the time. Right now it has a nib from a modern Pelikan M-205 which screws into the Esterbrook holder.

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- Benjamin Franklin

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Try as I might to break the habit, I cannot. My very first fountain pen was a Hero 616. I loved it so much I bought more and then traded out cap parts to create a custom 616...black barrel, silver cap, gold clip. That pen was permanently inked for the better part of 4 years. Since then I have acquired way too many pens but, to this day, I am partial to the Parker 51 concept. The one pen that I own that is always, always inked is a 1949 Parker 51 (forest green) with a 14k gold-filled cap. I may not use it for a week or so but it always writes on first contact with paper and is the pen I use on Sundays and anytime I am out socially. My business pen is a Parker 21 Special, inked with Sailor Jentle Blue. The only other pen that is permanently inked is my Levenger True Writer which is generally filled with the now hard to find Hero 232 Blue Black. With about 3 dozen fountain pens, all of which are vintage with the exception of the Levenger and several Hero 616s, I manage to typically have no more that 5 inked at any one time with an average of 4 being typical.

 

Cliff

“The only thing most people do better than anyone else is read their own handwriting.”  John Adams

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I have a Lamy Al-Star that is permanently inked with Sailor's Jentle Blue-Black solely for my patient's use when signing on path forms. The rest of them are rotated on a fortnightly basis.

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Lamy 2000 Medium Aurora Black (Usually)

Sailor 1911 Fine Diamine Blue Velvet

Jinhao X-450 w/Goulet Fine Diamine Oxford Blue

Parker Sonnet Medium Quink Blue Black

Wing Sung 3008 w/Lamy Broad Bay State Blue

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I swap out pens on a regular basis. The only criteria is that I have at least one pen inked up at all times with an ink that is water resistant for addressing envelopes and signing checks.

Beyond that? I have some pens that have highlighter ink in them which really need to be flushed out... :blush: (one of which may ALSO need disinfecting.... :(

Truthfully, I have so many pens and inks that I like to change it up on a regular basis. And that's half the fun. The only long-term pen at the moment is the Parker Vacumatic Red Shadow Wave -- but that needs to be (finally) flushed out, and I also need to fix the blind cap and just haven't gotten around to either yet. But I ran that pen for over 3 years with just refilling with Waterman Mysterious Blue as needed.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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