What pen(s) are you using today?

[inkstainedruth]

Wow!  Didn't know that they made pens for NASA -- that is so cool!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[InkyProf]

Today: MB 149 <EF> with MB Toffee Brown; for contrast, Pelikan Old Style M200 retrofitted with an 1st-gen M600 18c nib (with Robert Oster Cities of America—Chicago); and on campus, Lamy 26p with a mystery blue-black cartridge. 

[AmandaW]

Lamy Safari Scarlet EF with Diamine Merlot. I did photograph the pen and writing sample, but won't bother uploading it cos the 'scarlet' is so dark it just looks black. It is nice in real life though. 

[Scribs]

Lamy 2000 with Kiri-same, Kaweco Al Sport Piston Navy, with Robert Oster Detox, and Namisu Nova Titanium with Tsuki-yo.

[Misfit]

2 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Wow!  Didn't know that they made pens for NASA -- that is so cool!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

I got it from the store for the Johnson Space Center. I was checking there recently, and they were gone. 
 

I posted a photo in this thread. Scroll down to see it. 

 

[Misfit]

I was wrong! I just found the proper online store with the LAMY pens and NASA worm logo. You have to click on the image to load the page. They have the Vista, and the red Safari. Oh, and they have Lamy notebooks with NASA on them. 
 

https://spacetrader.shop/search?q=Fountain+&type=product

[inkstainedruth]

Thanks!  

Years ago, after visiting my husband's uncle who lived in Palm Bay, we took one of the bus tours around Cape Canaveral as we were starting home (there was supposed to have been a space shuttle launch while we were down there, but it got postponed until after we got back to Pittsburgh).  

The joke was that his uncle kept talking about "native Florida wildlife", so one night, when he was off teaching some Coast Guard navigation class, we went into town to grab dinner and then saw IIRC a Walmart across the street from the fast food place we were eating at, and bought his uncle an inflatable alligator for his pool.  And then the only gators we ACTUALLY saw the whole time we were in Florida was on that bus tour -- and I MISSED seeing the first one because I was on the wrong side of the bus....   Didn't even see any the day we drove to Epcot and back (of course, a friend of ours who had gone to cooking school had done her externship there, but got injured on the job and fought Disney for 3 years over workmen's comp (she was also PO'd because she got injured the week before she was supposed to work in the German pavilion at Epcot, where she said it was so clean you could eat off the FLOOR in the kitchen).  And I recall her telling places to NOT eat at Disney World or Epcot, but I don't remember now the 3 places she mentioned (we ended up having dinner at the Japanese pavilion and got a great view out the side window of the fireworks that night and pretty good food too).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[USG]

Waterman Patrician <M>

I think the rehydrated ink might be Sailor Nadeshiko

Cosmo Snow Paper

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[rodia77]

The Prera quckly approaching the rank of my fave, at the moment inked with Diamine Aurora Borealis.

 

[InkyProf]

This morning, my newly restored Azure Pearl Vac Major with Serenity Blue, plus an early-80s MB 146, monotone <M>, with MB Midnight Blue (non-IG), which for some reason was writing with a really nice, delicate line today (or maybe it was me). After swearing I wasn't interested in modern MB cigars,* last year and this year I acquired this pen and a secondhand 149 from an overlapping era, and I'm enjoying them a lot. It helps the enjoyment that I got them both for less than the current MSRP for a 146.

 

*I think I am at a point in my education (in this hobby, I mean) at which I've learned enough simultaneously to have some confidence in my tastes and preferences, but also to have learned not to say "I'm not interested in x..." without adding the qualification "...at least at the moment."

 

 

 

 

[inkstainedruth]

Oh, I hear you on that.  Years ago when I had a question about one of the 51s I'd gotten, the guy who does the Parker Collector's website answered my question and then said, "And then you'll start collecting Vacs" and I said, "No I won't -- they're too Art Deco for my taste...."  And he's now probably STILL laughing himself sick over that....  Because of course when I got my first one, that claim went right down the tubes....  Was just using the Red Shadow Wave this morning for today's journal entry (with its usual fill of Waterman Mysterious Blue, of course... ).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

ETA: Now using the Pilot Plumix with the (IM?) nib, still with Platinum Carbon Black, to cover over the QR codes on the usual spate of ad flyers we get packaged up in the mail every few weeks, before tossing them in a bag to take to a recycling center at some point.

[Scribs]

3 hours ago, InkyProf said:

 

*I think I am at a point in my education (in this hobby, I mean) at which I've learned enough simultaneously to have some confidence in my tastes and preferences, but also to have learned not to say "I'm not interested in x..." without adding the qualification "...at least at the moment."

 

 

 

 

 

I'm still at the stage where I decide it might be wisest to add the qualification... "at least at the moment".

 

Today so far it's been Leonardo MZG #8 EF with what I call the blue Nemo pattern (white background, chattoyant blue clown fish patches), inked with Akkerman Ceruleum Blauw van Varmeer, the Lamy 2000 again (trying to empty it for a clean and different ink after the Kiri-same), and TWSBI Obsidian inked with MB Winter Glow.

[InkyProf]

19 minutes ago, Scribs said:

I'm still at the stage where I decide it might be wisest to add the qualification... "at least at the moment”

we’re at the same stage! I think my sentence was unnecessarily convoluted. 🙂

 

how do you find the no. 8 nibs on the MZG? (And is yours gold or steel?) I wondered recently about trying one.

[Misfit]

12 hours ago, rodia77 said:

The Prera quckly approaching the rank of my fave, at the moment inked with Diamine Aurora Borealis.

 

I’m glad to read this. I really like the Prera a lot. I have so very many of them. 

[Amberjack]

P75 Cisele’ and Dromgoole’s USS Texas blue

[jmccarty3]

19 hours ago, InkyProf said:

we’re at the same stage! I think my sentence was unnecessarily convoluted. 🙂

 

how do you find the no. 8 nibs on the MZG? (And is yours gold or steel?) I wondered recently about trying one.

 

Pardon me for joining this conversation, but I have an MZG in Marmo Incrinato with a No. 8 gold La Fenice EF nib. It writes wonderfully, and I particularly like the decoration on these nibs.

[rodia77]

14 hours ago, Misfit said:

I’m glad to read this. I really like the Prera a lot. I have so very many of them. 

 

I totally don't plan to buy more of them, honest. 

 

Today, this combo:

 

Still trying to get to like the Tuzu, I suppose.

[kazoolaw]

Lamy Persona - Faber Castell Deep Sea Green

Lamy Vista -1.1 nib - Iroshizuku Tsukushi

[InkyProf]

Thanks for that, @jmccarty3 -- it was the no. 8 steel nib I was most curious about, but I'm glad to hear a positive report about the gold, too!

 

Today's pen was the newly restored Azure Pearl Vac Major, which I've managed to empty of its first fill of Serenity Blue in less than a week -- which shows you how much I was enjoying it, given that it took up a full milliliter of ink. Replaced with the late-1920s Wahl Pen in Rosewood HR that I salvaged last year, filled with Waterman Brown, which has a firm but pleasant no. 3 "Warranted" 14k nib.

[MarcoA63]

Pelikan Souverän M400 Red & Black Montblanc Burgundy Red

60s/70s Grey Montblanc 030, steel nib, piston filler and Diamine Grey Ink