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32 minutes ago, AmandaW said:

Today's journal pen is a Jinhao X159 F with Van Dieman's Pepperberry. It's certainly a big one and the nib so smooth it kinda skates on the page which makes it more difficult to control. Maybe I could get used to it... by the time I finish the ink fill will know what I think. What an experience!

 

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I had a very good experience with the Jinhao X159.  I like it.

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Journaling today with my Visconti Voyager 30

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1950's Esterbrook with 9460 nib. 

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Sheaffer Snorkel Special (burgundy, EF nib) with modern Skrip Blue.

Noodler's Konrad ("Forbidden City", flex nib) with Noodler's Heart of Darkness.

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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3 hours ago, lionelc said:

onoto 6233 with a 3/st stub - diamine kensington blue

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Blue Parker Super 21 inked with Quink Black,  turquoise Platinum inked with Platinum Pink.

Top 5 of 23 currently inked pens:

Namiki Origami Tradition maki-e Penguin F, Pilot Iroshizuku Ku-Jaku

Sailor X Sakazaki Penguin Pro Gear Slim MF, Sailor Manyo Konagi

Lamy 2000 EF, Diamine Purple Bow

Platinum Hibiscus SF short-long, Platinum Green

Indigo Bronze TWSBI Eco 1.1 Stub, De Atramentis Columbia Blue-Copper 

always looking for penguin fountain pens and stationery 

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So far my Sheaffer PFM (with its M&M blue-black mix), Moonman/Majohn P136 (with my usual mostly Noodler's Green mix), and my Waterman Kultur demonstrator (with Diamine Candy Cane - that ink is growing on me!)

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Blue Lorelei 691, generic purple cartridge. 

Top 5 of 23 currently inked pens:

Namiki Origami Tradition maki-e Penguin F, Pilot Iroshizuku Ku-Jaku

Sailor X Sakazaki Penguin Pro Gear Slim MF, Sailor Manyo Konagi

Lamy 2000 EF, Diamine Purple Bow

Platinum Hibiscus SF short-long, Platinum Green

Indigo Bronze TWSBI Eco 1.1 Stub, De Atramentis Columbia Blue-Copper 

always looking for penguin fountain pens and stationery 

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On 5/21/2023 at 7:40 AM, Sailor Kenshin said:

 

Pretty colors!  From where are they available?  I only have a black.

 

The Momento Majohns..... Originally Majohn M800s on ebay...  I never saw a black one????

Sending PM

 

On 5/21/2023 at 12:28 PM, Gloucesterman said:
  On 5/21/2023 at 7:40 AM, Sailor Kenshin said:

Purple - Extra fine nib

Teal/Green - fine nib

Blue - Medium nib

Orange - Broad/1.1 nib

Nice selection of colors

The Purple is a Fine

The Green and Blue are marked Mediums even though they don't look the same

The Amber is a 1.1 stub

 

Today:  (Cosmo, Tomo, Clairefontaine)

My Namiki Shogun (F) from '95.  I don't know how it got so beat up over the years but apparently it did.  Of all my pens, this one had the highest number of ink changes.  Now it's Iroshizuku Asa-Gao.  (The refilled cartridge looks full but it's really 1/2 empty.  I recently replaced all my Pilot converters with refilled cartridges so I can see the ink level - Pelikan are you listening?)

 

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Inked up the Pilot metal Falcon with Aurora Black, time to get (semi, pseudo) flexy.

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So worth the premium over a Platinum Plaisir with a glossy finish in the regular product line-up, and still cheaper to order this special/limited edition from Amazon.co.jp instead of buying a garden-variety colourway in Dymocks locally. I just love the black hole-like blackness of the finish, and the matt texture of the barrel makes the pen so much of a pleasure to use, even if the 03 nib (as with many other Plaisir pens I've tried) writes less finely than I would like it to.

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Today, so far, it's been the Parker Vacumatic Red Shadow Wave, F nib.  Just this morning refilled it with Waterman Mysterious Blue.

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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Nemosine Fission in nickel, loaded with Pelikan Edelstein Onyx.

 

And hi, I know I've been away for a while.  :D

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  Twilight blue Sheaffer Fashion I  (638) M nib, with Slovenian Sheaffer Turquoise.

Top 5 of 23 currently inked pens:

Namiki Origami Tradition maki-e Penguin F, Pilot Iroshizuku Ku-Jaku

Sailor X Sakazaki Penguin Pro Gear Slim MF, Sailor Manyo Konagi

Lamy 2000 EF, Diamine Purple Bow

Platinum Hibiscus SF short-long, Platinum Green

Indigo Bronze TWSBI Eco 1.1 Stub, De Atramentis Columbia Blue-Copper 

always looking for penguin fountain pens and stationery 

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