What Do You Have Filled At This Moment?

[jor412]

Parker 51 - Waterman green

Parker Vacumatic - Pelikan Royal Blue

Swan minor - Pelikan Blue Black

Esterbrook J - J. Herbin Lie de The

Sheaffer Craftsman - Waterman green

Sheaffer No Nonsense - Quink black + Quink blue mix

Pilot 78 G - Waterman black

Pelikan M150 - Waterman black

Noodler's Creaper - Pelikan Brilliant Red + Waterman Black mix

TWSBI 530 - J. Herbin Poussiere de Lune

Edited August 26, 2011 by jor412

[Bo Bo Olson]

How things change from when this first came up to now. Pens added to the collection, a pen sold, some given away...others in rotation.

 

 

Artus piston@ 1950(no model name, not the Bialit or the Favorite which I also have) steel Geha semi-flex OB nib, Waterman South Sea Blue

Lamy Joy, nib 1.5 Lamy blue

 

Clipper, piston @1955 rose and black stripped, an “no name” piston filler, with a Fine 14 K Rupp (F-1) flexible nib. Waterman SSB

 

The maxi-semi-flex/'flexi' Rupp nib returned to original black and gold cracked ice 'no name' probably Ero pen. The cork rehydrated . Too dead to suck up water...even after I finally tried to unscrew it...it did not dawn on me to put water in by syringe. :embarrassed_smile: Pelikan Blue-Black. On the right paper, that Ink really dances up a storm, with that nib.

 

Clipper, piston @1955 blue and black stripped, with a semi-flex F, 14 K Clipper nib, Pelikan Brown.

 

Diplomat C/C silver plated, stirrup clip, horse jumping in the jewel.(there is the same model with tennis.) regular flex steel M nib, Diamine Purple.

 

Esterbrook, lever, DJ Grey 1948-52, steel 2968 Broad nib, 60 year old sac, Lamy Turquoise Pelikan Brown

 

Geha piston 790 14 K semi-flex KM (a wet writer), SSB A De Atramentis Royal Blue under a Boutique label. A second 790 with a maxi-semi-flex/'flexi' EF nib with [u]same ink[/u], and a different tone depth due to nib width and wetness.

 

 

Geha piston 725 Goldschwing (Gold Wing) 1968-72 semi-flex 14 K Broad. SSB Waterman Florida Blue. My second third best pen; best non oblique pen.

 

MB piston, 234 ½ Deluxe (52-55 only) Semi-flex 14 K, KOB nib.

MB Toffee Pelikan Blue Black. (Now my best pen.)

 

New MB Virginia Woolf...had a M that was a B on poorer paper. Unfortunately an M on better paper. Sent in the nib for an exchange....got a B that writes BB on Richard's Chart. Smoothest nib I have, # 12 of my top 20....A De Atramentis Royal Blue

Tied for # 13 is the Pelikan school kid 120 F ('56-65), the Pelikan 400 ('90-96) regular flex M and that Rusewe @ '55, with a very good F semi-flex Bock nib.

 

 

 

Pelikan piston 120, with a Very nice writing regular flex steel Fine a joy to write with, Lamy Violet removed from ink cartridge and put in an inkwell. (still, I just still keep sucking the Violet ink out of the cartridge with a syringe and put in that pen.)

 

Pelikan 400NN, from 1956, which like 1950, has a friction feed…semi-flex maxi-semi-flex/'flexi' 14 K OF, moved up to being # 2 pen Waterman SSB MB Winter Forest.

Having not realized I had a maxi-semi-flex nib from the start, did not realize this was one, until I found out my Rupp nib was way flexier than any other semi-flex I had. That was one of those 'flexi' nibs everyone was talking about.

In that many have a very wide definition of 'flexi' I border it with maxi-semi-flex/flexi'.

 

Green and black striped Rusewe Spezial...an Austrian pen NOS from about 1955 in it was still cork, with a very nice Bock semi-flex F nib, MB Winter Forest. Slightly different tone in this semi-flex Bock is not quite as wet as the maxi-semi-flex/flexi' Pelikan 400NN's OF.

 

Pelikan 400 tortoise (90-96) regular flex 14 K M…

Cap and blind cap are a brown so dark it looks black unless placed next to a black pen. SSB

Now using De Atramentis Moss Green...really a spring moss green.

 

Pelikan 605 regular flex 14 K BB, SSB

 

Parker button filler Vacumatic rose and black stripped, 36 Canadian BB 14 K gold stiff stub nib, and body, 39 clip. SSB

Lasted one filling before rubber died.

 

Reform piston 1745 steel regular flex Fine nib, SSB

 

Reform piston P-125 steel regular flex EF nib MB ToffeeSSB.

I'm so glad SSB washes out.... :embarrassed_smile: The pen had been sitting there a long time. I went to get that last drop out to see what I had in it.....now it's out of rotation.

 

Lamy Persona was an OB 18 K worthless nail. Pendleton Brown made it a Medium Broad CI.....and Yes....there is a nib for Lamy Green. :roflmho:

 

P-51 F, with De Atramentis Bordeaux rote. I have learned to like this pen and it's nail nib...it was always the nail nib that kept me from liking it enough. In that most of my pens are piston pens with windows, I did need a pen for red inks.

:embarrassed_smile: It works just fine .... even if it is a nail. The pen stays wet uncapped long, and is smooth. I've been using it in manuscript correction between the lines. It goes to the back page out comes another pen to play.

Another prejudice dies a just death.

 

Ah...even in sight...blind, A Cross Townsend midnight blue M nail with SSB. Just to see how a M nail writes again. Very smooth...but I still don't use it much.

Tooth don't bother me if the nib has a tad of flex; a bit of dance.

 

 

Sheaffer Sentry Cartridge (‘80’s made by Sailor) steel Nail F-4 Fine nib, Waterman Florida Blue needled into the Sheaffer cartridge. sold.

 

The older Sheaffer 3 nib cartridge calligraphy set, old Sheaffer blue.

Osmiroid mdl 65 with Osmiroid Italic medium nib, Lamy Turquoise.

 

Sheaffer Touch down Imperial 11, desk pen. 14 K Nail M, a mix of Lamy blue and a touch of Pelikan black ( :bonk: out of sight, out of mind.) Up on the high top shelf of my two shelf desk.

 

 

 

Nice Chinese black and chrome with no name pen.

Eduscho is a coffee bean shop, that sells a small wall of this and that. My wife bought me a black and chrome pen set, basically for the classy heavy shinny black plastic box, that matches my black glass and crystal Art Deco double ink well set. Has a chromed end piece, that when posted looks like a small ring. A dither piece, do I sell it, or keep it. Sharp looking pen. Regular flex steel M nib, a Diamine cartridge red ink. To Godson.

 

Brown amber German ‘50s style Cheap no name, steel M nib, got as part of a lot. Inked with a different red Diamine cartridge to see if it writes well. OK but not worth keeping. Given as first fountain pen to a local school kid.

 

The rotation always grows any time I buy a new ink.

This next month I start re-corking pens (12-15)...then my rotation will be much bigger than needed.

Edited August 26, 2011 by Bo Bo Olson

[reprieve]

My rotation these days is largely made up of Nakayas and Sailors. I am still falling more and more in love with Japanese pens and nibs.

 

Nakaya Portable Ishime Kanshitsu; Aurora Black.

Nakaya Heki-tame Dragon; Aurora Blue.

Nakaya Dorsal Fin Ishime Kanshitsu; Akkerman Hofkwartier Groen.

Nakaya Neo Standard Fox; Noodler's Forest Green.

Sailor King of Pen red/black ebonite; Akkerman Garuda Rood.

Sailor Pro Gear red/black ebonite; Noodler's Black.

Stipula Passaporto red swirl ebonite; Homebrewn Blue-black.

Pilot Vanishing Point Pink; Diamine Hope Pink.

Pelikan M1005 demo; Iroshizuku Kon-peki.

Montblanc Generation orange; Iroshizuku Fuyu-gaki.

Vintage metal Swan; Diamine Graphite.

[Emoo]

I recently cleaned all of my pens out (some of them had been sitting around for several months!), but I keep one inked for notes.

 

Pilot Vanishing point yellow M nib; blue cartridge.

[Sasha Royale]

I just experience a financial windfall. Not billions, but enough to pay

bills and jump into a couple of acquisiions, which I am trying right now.

Writing checks and letters.

 

A TWSBI Diamond 540, broad nib, charged with Montblanc Turquoise.

A BEXLEY Corona, extra fine nib, charged with Private Reserve DC Supershow Blue.

(It is a brother to the vintage Duofold Sr. 5-1/2 " x 1/2" dia.)

A Reform 1745, fine nib, charged with Noodler's Polar Black. A bit of flex.

 

Except for converters, I have never before owned a piston filler pen.

 

God continues to pour into a overflowing cup.

[GutSchrift]

Pelikan m1000 F -- with R&K Altgoldgrün

Montblanc 149 BB -- with Noodler's Old Manhattan Black

Sailor ProGear NM -- with Diamine WES Kensington Blue

(Brand new!!) Yard-o-Led Viceroy Grand Barley -- with R&K Altgoldgrün

Edited September 23, 2011 by GutSchrift

[LedZepGirl]

Parker '51' filled with Sheaffer Skrip Peacock Blue

Waterman Lady Patrician filled with some olive green ink- can't remember which one

[SHK]

YOL Viceroy Grand with Diamine Royal Blue.

[paolino_paperino]

Kullock fantasy P51.

I seldom ink more than one pen.

[dex138]

Diamond 540 with F nib - Noodler's Ottoman Azure

 

Cross Solo White with M nib - Scheaffer Scrip Blue

 

 

[saketb]

Currently, I own 3 pens...

 

Sheaffer 300 M - Private Reserve Orange Crush

Lamy Safari Blue F - Lamy Blue

Lamy Safari Red EF - Sheaffer Black

[ThirdeYe]

Too many.

 

Sheaffer Desk Pen with 14k Inlaid Nib - Sheaffer Skrip Black

Parker "51" - Noodler's Black Swan in Australian Roses

Parker Vacumatic Major - Diamine Golden Brown

Sheaffer Balance - Sheaffer Skrip Green

Esterbrook Transitional SJ 2556 - Noodler's Brown

Sheaffer 330 - Sheaffer Skrip Blue-Black

Sheaffer 100 - Noodler's Blue-Black

TWSBI Diamond 530 - Sailor Jentle Apricot

Noodler's Flex Nib Creaper - Diamine Prussian Blue

Platinum Preppy 05 - Noodler's Manjiro Nakahama

Pilot 78G Broad Stub - Noodler's Dragon's Napalm

Waterman Phileas - Noodler's Blue Eel

Cross Aventura - Cross Black

Cross Solo - Cross Blue-Black

Pilot Plumix - Aurora Black

Parker Frontier - Noodler's Black

Esterbrook LJ 2968 - Noodler's Dragon's Napalm

[PAKMAN]

Namaki Capless stealth

Parker 51 Flighter

New from Dallas Pen show

Sheaffer OS Balance lever filler in Carmine Red!!!!

Wahl Doric Monaco with a flexible nib!

[WOBentley]

Pilot Custom 823- Akkerman Bezuidenwoudgroen

Preppy x 2 one with BSB the other with Kung te Cheng

TWSBI 530 - Noodler's Blue

Custom pen by an FPNer- Aurora Black

[Pens Woods]

Pelikan M800 green striated - Diamine Majestic Blue

Montblanc 149 - MB Midnight Blue

Thomas Mann - MB Burgundy Red

Pelikan M800 blue striated - Mixture: MB Royal Blue + MB Mystery Black

Parker 51 - Diamine Kensington Blue

[FearNot]

TWSBI 540 - Noodler's Blue-Black

TWSBI ROC 540 - Waterman Florida Blue

[pmhudepo]

Still the Montblanc 146 OB, but I have switched to Diamine Syrah, a lovely wine-coloured red ink. Also, a tiny bit of Private Reserve Dakota Red is left in my Montblanc 149 OBB.

 

Because I thought it wouldn't be such a great idea to bring a precious Montblanc on a recent trip (lots of sailing, lots of people, very little private space), I also filled my trusty, fine-nibbed Waterman Expert II with my go-to ink, Waterman Florida blue.

[Penman222]

I currently have 4 pens filled:

 

1. Parker Vacumatic - black, restored by Danny Fudge. Filled with Waterman Blue-Black, it tends to prefer less saturated inks like Waterman.

 

2. Shaffer Snorkel Admiral - A wonderful broad smooth gold open nib with a pen that is nearly NOS - flawless. Filled with Montblanc Royal Blue

 

3. Esterbrook J - a nice green J fitted with a NOS 9314-M stub nib. Great flow and live variation, filled with Diamine Chocolate Brown.

 

4. Lamy Vista (a clear Safari) - have this filled with Noodler's Van Gogh Starry Night Blue.

[liapuyat]

Pelikan M600 F - Herbin Vert Empire

Pelikan M215 F - Pilot Iroshizuku Kiri-same

Pilot Decimo F - Herbin Poussiere de Lune

Reform 1745 F - Waterman Havana Brown

Sheaffer Snorkel Sentinel EF - Noodler's Army Green

Sheaffer Marine Green Balance F - Lamy Red

[Robert Hughes]

I currently have 4 pens filled:

 

- 1950's era Sheaffer lever fill, with Waterman Brown

- 1960's Parker P51, with PR Daphne Blue

- 1950's Conway Stewart, with PR Orange Crush

- 1930's Belmont, with PR Midnight Blue

Edited November 11, 2011 by Robert Hughes