What Pens Are You Using Today 2020

[Helen350]

Still enjoying the vintage Sheaffer No Nonsense - M. nib.  Refilled empty  ink cartridge with

Monteverde  Caribbean Blue.  Also inked up a Lanbitou (white) 3059, M. nib.  Ink:  Diamine

Sherwood Green

[lionelc]

newly resacced parker 51 aerometric with some supplies from vintagepens.com - around 70 and still as dependable as the day it was made

[inkstainedruth]

So far, today, it's been the new Dark Blue Pilot Decimo, stub nib, with Iroshizuku Yamabudo.  Really liking the stub -- and it *sings* (I had read discussions in the past about whether that was good or bad, but had never actually had a nib that did that before).  Well, at least it was singing on the paper in my Miquelrius journal this morning.

And then later, I had to get some stuff in the mail and for that it was the Poseidon Pearl Noodler's Konrad, flex nib, with some (highly) diluted Noodler's Heart of Darkness.  After refilling the pen with distilled water twice now, it's a fairly dark grey (and I'm hoping that it still has the water resistance full-strength HoD is, given that the weather tomorrow and Christmas Day is supposed to be pretty unpleasant (one is a bill that had to be paid, and the others were sympathy cards (one to a friend who's dad died of COVID-19, and the other to the widow of another friend, whose husband died of cancer last week).  The other ink in current rotation that's pretty water resistant/waterproof is Noodle's Baltimore Canyon -- which seemed a little too vibrant for condolences...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Helen350]

Moonman P135 - Bent nib.  Ink:  Architekt Herbes alla Roma

 

[JayHomeBody]

A blue varsity, until I can go back to work and get caught up on Bill's, and then save up for a better pen. Still consistantly surprised at how nice this cheap little disposable pen is!

[Letterpress]

Since I've finally cleaned off my home desk (a task archeological in scope!) I've cleaned and re-inked a few workhorse pens to get caught up on my letter writing....

• Lamy Safari (Fine, Mango colour) inked with Waterman Audacious Red
• Pilot Vanishing Point (Medium, Yellow) inked with De Atrametis Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin
• TWSBI Eco (Medium, Black) inked with Iroshizuku yu-yake
• Waterman Expert II (Medium, Urban Blue) inked with Sailor Jentle Aquamarine

To the postbox! And beyond!!!!!

 

Edited December 27, 2020 by Letterpress
I remembered the model for the Waterman...

[Misfit]

Pelikan Smoky Quartz with matching ink, M nib.

[ParramattaPaul]

A broad nib Worcester Pen Company red acrylic with Oxford Blue ink.

[baronofthenorth]

Currently inked:

2 Parker Frontiers, one with vintage bottled Sheaffer Skrip Brown ink, and one with bottled Lamy Turquoise

1 Retro 51 currently inked with Diamine Oxblood

1 no-name Chinese pen inked with either J.Herbin Blue Nuit or Private Reserve Tanzanite (not quite sure)

[brokenclay]

Pelikan 120, with Namiki Black

Pelikan M200, with Akkerman SBRE Brown

Pelikan M120, with Monteverde DC Supershow Blue

Pelikan P20 Twist, with Akkerman SBRE Brown (looks very different with an Anfänger nib or whatever is on this school pen, than with the M200's stub nib)

Italix Parson's Essential, with Robert Oster Tranquility

Kaweco Classic Sport, with Diamine Turquoise

Kaweco AL-Sport, with Diamine Imperial Blue

My Christmas pen! Arrived yesterday, a gift from my son, Aurora Duo Cart (the new one), with Aurora Black

[Ink Stained Wretch]

On 12/22/2020 at 4:39 PM, Linger said:

I wrote a few pages of illegible notes with my Namiki Urushi #20 in M during a meeting. On Rhodia A4 graph paper. Translating that data to information will follow tomorrow. On Tomoe River paper.

 

I used to write my notes in longhand during meetings and then render it all at a later time using a Word Processor. And then one day my raw, handwritten notes were requested so that they could be copied and presented in a legal case. Well, The folks preparing the case returned them to me saying that they couldn't possibly submit that writing to the arbitrator or judge or whatever we were submitting them to as ancillary proof of what had been agreed to in a meeting. After that I resurrected my old skill set with the block lettering I'd learned in the Signal corps 🤣. As a result of that little adjustment my subsequent notes were quite legible.

 

[aimi]

For the last monthish I’ve been using my Pilot CH 912 PO with Sei Boku (love it!) and my Sailor PG Realo Z first with Sailor Manyo Haha and now Sailor 143. Huge fan of these multi-shading inks. Currently have my Pelikan M600 inked with Diamine Turquoise as well, which was an unexpectedly lovely colour. 

[inkstainedruth]

Today it's been:

1. French re-issue Parker Vector (purple, M nib) -- KWZI IG Violet #2.

2. TWSBI 580-AL (pink, F nib) -- Noodler's Baltimore Canyon Blue.

3. Lamy al-Star, (Vibrant Pink, 1.1 mm nib) -- Robert Oster Shake and Shimmer No Fixed Address.

The Robert Oster ink is a new one for me; I like that it's an interesting pinkish red with blue shimmer particles that turn some of the strokes a lavender purple -- but I don't like how cloggy the shimmer particles are (much worse than some other shimmer-type inks).

So this one is going to get chalked up as a "maybe..." ink for me.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

[sgphototn]

I had a long letter to write today so I broke out my Churchman's Prescriptor. It has an excellent broad italic nib that in fact sings. It writes smoothly on a variety of papers, and always has KWZ IG Blue #5 in it. It's not a small pen, it's not light, but I find it very balanced. As with nearly all my pens, I don't post it.

 

It's my favorite black pen.

[baronofthenorth]

That is a BIG beautiful pen!

[sgphototn]

1 minute ago, baronofthenorth said:

That is a BIG beautiful pen!

It's not an expensive pen either. From Mr. Pen in London, I believe it was about 77 dollars and that includes shipping. Beautiful lacquer over brass and an impressive nib.

[baronofthenorth]

I love ordering things from the UK and Germany when I have the funds to do it! I am currently back to being a starving college student (2nd time around, I was 20 years younger last time). So, I am buying less accordingly, unfortunately.

[NumberSix]

Aurora 888P (F) - Aurora Blue

Edison Menlo (F) - Montblanc Purdey Single Malt

Edison Pearlette (M) - Platinum Blue Black

[Penman222]

Pelikan M200 Smokey Quartz with a fine nib.

[Beechwood]

A Parker Latitude in my office upstairs, same as this one on ebay, no idea when they ever climbed up to be a £50 pen.  They are nice, for sure, but mine was £10 at a pen show a few years ago and buddy Eric said WTH are you buying that for. I have to say that it writes very well and I would buy it again at £10, perhaps not £50.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Parker-Latitude-Fountain-Pen-in-Grey-with-M-nib-/163740440884

 

 

I have a downstairs pen, so posh. That is a Jinhao X750, the cap has scratched the section which is, or rather was, painted brass. I have removed the rest of the paint and i think the pen looks better for it.