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Pelikan M400 brown tortoise from 1954 filled with Diamine Chocolate

TWSBI Eco white filled with Kaweco Paradise Blue

TWSBI Eco blossom red filled with Iroshizuku Yama Budo

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Cool photo. Now I want some M&Ms

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So far today it's been finishing the fill in a couple of pens to get through the morning pages: the 1990s era Pelikan M400 Brown Tortoise, F nib, with diluted Edelstein Smoky Quartz; followed by the Sailor Pro Gear Slim Purple Cosmos, zoom nib, and diluted old formula Sailor Sky High. The M400 is now being flushed out, and once I completely empty the Pro Gear Slim, it's next up to be flushed.

In the meantime, the next pen to be used will be the Forest Green Parker 51 Aero, EF nib, as I finish up putting vintage Quink Washable Violet through its paces and see how it compares to other similar purples I've already tested. And then, possibly, the new Pelikan M600 Violet and White, EF nib, still with its initial fill of Edelstein Topaz -- just because.... (I used that pen a fair bit yesterday, proofreading my husband's resume; he got laid off out of the blue on Tuesday morning, but already has had a phone screen with another company that he thinks went well -- interesting sounding work, and he impressed the guy enough in the phone screen that I think they're setting up a face to face interview).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

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"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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Newly aquired Conklin Endura in red hard rubber with a smooth fine nib! Sweet!

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Pilot Retro Pop - M. nib (red) - Shaeffer Skrip Red

Pilot Retro Pop - M. nib (green) - Diamine Sherwood Green

Pilot Animal Print - M. nib (bronze Lizard) - Noodler's Walnut Brown

Pilot MR - M. nib. (gold) Iroshizuku Kon-Peki

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Faber-Castell Ondoro (the orange resin version) with an F nib inked with Graf von Faber-Castell Cobalt Blue.

Lined paper makes a prison of the page.

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One of my favorites is being used today with its always inked Pelikan Edelstein Smoky Quartz. Say hello to the Pelikan M1005 Stresemann!

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Dr.X Mint

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I take these to work with me.

I'm very impressed with the Pilot, which feels (and works) very much like its 100 year old counterpart.

 

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Gobblecup, how do you take such beautiful pictures?

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Freddy Donor Pen

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Parker: Vacumatic Emerald Pearl D-J 2-T Nib Speedline

ROWI: {Rodi & Wienenberger} Gold Filled PIF

Wahl: Number 72 BCHR LF

Parker: "51" Vacumatic

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ItsmeDave, is the Visconti flexible?

Nice line variation with the Montblanc!

Hi, Dr. X.

The Visconti Palladium nibs are soft and bouncy, and can deliver some line variation.

Now that Visconti has reverted to gold nibs, I wonder if they perform the same?

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