Students (Or Teachers) What Pens Will You Be Using This 2014 School Year?

[perth]

Student here. Luckily my school is pretty safe so I won't hesitate to bring my rotation pens which include the 149, just for how comfortable it is. Will likely also include the Parker Centennial Duofold, Parker Premier Black, and a few cheaper Sheaffers and Parkers to use instead of highlighters.

[dojocho]

I always rotate my Duofolds, a P25 Flighter and a TWSBI mini. I grade, write and sign with Binder Burgundy, Diamine Syrah or Parker Penman Ruby. The Duofolds and the TWSBI are inked up with BB and Diamine Syrah, the P25 always gets the Ruby cartidges. Since I can't tell the diffence between the bottled ink I always need to flush my pens before I refill them.

 

The only pen I never use is an early 90's Parker Sonnet. The nib is far too flexible and scratchy for me as a left handed underwriter.

 

Hugo

[bernardo]

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[Abner C. Kemp]

Lamy 2000 EF is really the only pen I use at school as it can take a bit of a beating, holds a good amount of ink, and is a smooth writer with moderate flow.

[wildlife]

Italix Parson's Essential, Parker 45.

[Lovely_Pen]

I mainly use two different Safari's, one medium nib and one fine. Each inked with a different colour depending upon my mood that week.

 

I recently bought a TWSBI Mini Rose Gold and a Noodler's Ebonite Konrad but I'm hesitant to take either to school for fear that they might be thought too flashy and then there's always the possibility of them being lost or stolen too. Plus, I just love my Safari's--they stand up to anything and they're extremly practical, which I consider a great trait since I'm a college student.

 

I'd like to add another "school friendly" fp to the daily collection but I'm unsure what to get. The Pilot Metropolitan's have never really excited me...

[Notgatherox]

Am bringing 8 pens on me, stuffed in pockets. The rest I put in a pencilcase to be used for notes.

 

The 8 are:

1. Pelikan M200 grey marbled EF, Noodler's Black

2. Lamy 2000 EF, 4001 Blue Black

3. Pelikan M200 black F, Noodler's Liberty Elysium

4. Pilot Custom 74 SFM, Noodler's 54th Massachusetts

5. Pelikan 120/140 frankenpen F, De Atrementis Whisky

6. Faber Castell Ambition F, Noodler's Esenin

7. Lamy Al-Star Champagne F, Lamy Blue

8. Lamy Al-Star Violet F, Noodler's Socrates

 

 

 

~Epic

[stephanos]

I keep a metal Pilot Vector (M) in the office inked up, just in case. It can lie around for weeks and weeks without use and start up first time: perfect.

There's also a selection of inks at my desk.

 

I'll need to think carefully about what to use for marking essays in future: we use a carbon-copy front-page system and I've had complaints that my light-touch writing is not showing through. Any suggestions for a 'carbon-copy' nib? I think I've seen some Pelikan vintage pens like that, but they can be expensive. Marking tends to happen at predefined times, though, so marking pens aren't a constant feature of my work life (thankfully).

 

Otherwise, a general rotation of three or perhaps four pens for taking notes when reading and/or meeting students and colleagues - and always carrying something with a snap-cap that I can lend to students in workshops/seminars.

 

I have recently acquired a Lamy 2000 (EF), which I like very much and expect will be in very frequent use. It's loaded with recently-acquired Edelstein Topaz, which is a lovely colour but more of a turquoise than I had expected and not suitable for official writing, so I'll probably put something darker-blue in there.

[savingbirds]

I try to limit myself to five, and I frequently rotate them. For the next few weeks I'll probably be using:

• Pelikan M200 Green Swirl (F steel nib) - Parker Quink Washable Blue
• Lamy Vista (F steel nib) - Wancher Matcha Green
• Hero 100 Black (F 14k gold nib) - Noodler's X-Feather
• Pilot Vanishing Point Blue Carbonesque (M 18k gold rhodium plated nib) - Pilot Iroshizuku Kon-Peki

I tend to use my M200 for general notetaking and my VP for labs (when worrying about a cap under strict time constraints isn't really an option) while the others are more for marking up documents.

[sandy101]

Preppies mostly.

 

I have a platignum gift set

 

At most my Parker 45.

 

Other than that, Papermate Inkjoys which are reasonable biros & G2s

 

Nothing else. Stuff just walks.

[Ganrok]

Student here, I'll be using my trusty Sailor KOP mosaic, Sailor ProGear and Montblanc SilverBarley. The difficult choice is choosing which ink to use :S

[Fuzzy_Bear]

I work at my kids school. I'm not a teacher, but a maintenance man. Only cheap, tough nibbed pens. Parker Vector and an old Sheaffer school pen.

 

At home, 78G, Monteverde Artista, Waterman Phileas and a few others.

[A144]

Ranges from a couple Jinhao X750/X450's to my pair of Pilot Metropolitans (one is a dedicated BSB pen), to my TWSBI 580's and Vac700.

 

I don't carry my Pilot CH91 SFM very often to school unless it's on a lab day and I can keep it in my white coat pocket where it won't get beat up by my pocket knife.

[Ergative]

Teacher here. I usually use my Pilot Metropolitan (F) for grading away from home, and my Sheaffer Prelude (EF? roughly the same as the pilot F) for grading at home. The Prelude was a gift from my dead grandmother, so even if it's not vintage or terribly expensive, I don't like to risk it.

 

Today, however, I successfully flushed out a Pilot Varsity and refilled it with my sample of Baystate Blue! I was so excited to have made it work that I used it to finish grading this week's batch of homework.

 

I just ordered a huge batch of ink samples from Goulet, and I should get them in time for the next batch of grading. My goal is never to use the same ink twice on the same student's assignment.

[cnjackson]

What a great thread!

 

In college and grad school, I used a Parker 75 my parents gave me as a high school graduation gift.

 

As a teacher now, I keep a Lamy Vista and 2000 in my bag; and once in a while will bring my MB 146 and Pelikan M805 to the office. All the inks are blue!

 

Chris

[alarickc]

As a first year engineering student I'm finding myself gravitating towards my Pilot VP and Pilot 823, both in fine. The Nakaya Long Cigar also hangs around occasionally for some notes, but I don't really like it's .5mm stub much for math.

[jsolares]

Grad school here, Still using the same pens i started with on Jan. 2013 (school year is Jan (3rd week) to Dec (1st week) of same calendar year).

 

Two Lamy Safari one in F and the other EF, also carry a 78G in F but i seldom use it.

[Venemo]

Ever since I bought the Esterbrook J, I use it in university. I study electronic engineering and at some courses I need to be able to take notes really fast, and the Esterbrook does a wonderful job.

[cambookpro]

My main pens I'm using this year are my Parker Sonnet and TWSBI 580 - both with Diamine Midnight Blue, but in a thick and a thinner nib - the 'medium' (very close to broad) Sonnet is great for notes, and the fine TWSBI is great for annotating.

 

My other pens I use are my Safari, Parker 45 and Urban - the Parkers are for different colours (one is dedicated to cartridges so I know I'll never run out of ink), and the Safari is for when I need a cheaper and more robust pen, for example during a chemistry experiment. Don't want to spill acid on my Parkers!

[HamFist]

Lamy 2000 for math and physics with asa-gao and a custom ground (japanese) nib and an M800 in fine nib for more general writing and notes.