What pen(s) are you using today?

[lamarax]

2 hours ago, rodia77 said:

 

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

 

Today, this combo:

 

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

 

Bah, forget about the pen. The ink is the true winner!

[lionelc]

omas extra ogiva black, fine, diamine kensington blue

[Scribs]

On 2/24/2026 at 8:05 PM, 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.

 

I was hoping there's a zen stage that comes after, where no further pens seem necessary, and in my hope assumed you'd reached it!

 

I've got several #8 nibs from Leonardo, all of them being 14k gold. On this particular pen it's a pretty rigid nib. It's been a while since I last used any of the others, I don't remember them being this rigid (but I also didn't remember this pen being rigid the first time I used it... if that makes sense?). 

 

Today it's been MB Origin Classique with Herbin Amber de Birmanie, Namiki Yukari Royal in black, with Pilot Black, and Nakaya Desk Pen in Kuro-tamenuri, likewise with Pilot Black.

[rodia77]

4 hours ago, lamarax said:

 

Bah, forget about the pen. The ink is the true winner!

 

I rather like it and I'm curious to try other blue-blacks -- I have a feeling my all-time fave will be somewhere among them.

[InkyProf]

1 hour ago, Scribs said:

 

I was hoping there's a zen stage that comes after, where no further pens seem necessary, and in my hope assumed you'd reached it!

Three pens this week, not that any of them were “necessary,” but I’m afraid I have a long way to go before I achieve that spiritual equilibrium.

[Misfit]

Today’s pen is the Monteverde MP1 in Mocha Mousse with 1.1mm stub nib filled with Diamine Chocolate ink. 

[dms525]

Today, I'm writing with a Delta Stantuffo "Blue Moon." This is a sort of NOS pen. It was assembled from parts left from the former Delta pen company stock but with a new section threaded to take JoWo nibs, rather than the original Bock nibs. Mine has a 14kt 1.1mm stub. It writes very nicely with Robt. Oster "Bondi Blue" ink.

 

 

David

[inkstainedruth]

8 hours ago, lamarax said:

 

Bah, forget about the pen. The ink is the true winner!

Yeah, it is, isn't it?  I've got it in the M120 Iconic Blue, M nib, which I was using to write checks to pay a couple of bills earlier today.

Other pens in use today were the recently acquired 51 Signet (F?) nib, still with vintage Quink Permanent Royal Blue; the Pilot Plumix IM(?) nib, still with Platinum Carbon Black; and just now, the Red Shadow Wave Vac, F nib, still with its usual fill of Waterman Mysterious Blue.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Scribs]

Today I've been using Leonardo MZG 'Masterpiece' in rosewood ebonite, inked with Leonardo Red Passion, Platinum 3776 Mt Fuji Unkei Kinu-Gumo in SF, inked with Akkerman Stormachtig Blauw (Stormy Blue), and Nakaya Dorsal Fin 2 Aka-tamenuri (also SF) inked with Pilot Black.

[inkstainedruth]

Today it's been the Violet Safari, just refilled with Lamy Turquoise.  But I've been moving so slowly today that I never got around to cleaning the ink off my fingers.... 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[lamarax]

19 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Yeah, it is, isn't it?

 

It's my ink of inks!  Although it can be... difficult at times with some less wet nibs.

[Misfit]

Today’s pen is the TWSBI Diamond Mini in white and rose gold version 2, with 1.1mm stub nib, filled with J Herbin Paris Series Tour Eiffel. 

[Ceramicist]

5 minutes ago, Misfit said:

Today’s pen is the TWSBI Diamond Mini in white and rose gold version 2, with 1.1mm stub nib, filled with J Herbin Paris Series Tour Eiffel. 

Sounds wonderful. I love my TWSBIs. I don't know the Paris series and will have to check it out.

[Misfit]

4 hours ago, Ceramicist said:

Sounds wonderful. I love my TWSBIs. I don't know the Paris series and will have to check it out.

I think there are five inks in the series.  

[PithyProlix]

• Caliarts Ego with an italic B nib from a Pilot 78g, inked with diluted Sailor Women's Color Days (Onago Iro) Komorebi Olive
• 1974 Pilot Elite Short with 18k white gold FM nib, inked with Pilot shin kai. First time I have used this ink. Seemed a bit ho hum until it dried into a relaxed grey-blue.

[InkyProf]

Vizzini: Bayard mottled red hard rubber, late 20s or early 30s?, with a very fine semi-flex and Herbin Perle Noire.

 

Fezzik: ‘76-‘82 MB 149, 14c EF or F, with MB Toffee Brown.

 

[Mr. Pink]

12 minutes ago, InkyProf said:

Vizzini: Bayard mottled red hard rubber, late 20s or early 30s?, with a very fine semi-flex and Herbin Perle Noire.

 

Fezzik: ‘76-‘82 MB 149, 14c EF or F, with MB Toffee Brown.

 

Great looking pen.  What a difference in size, like a battleship next to a PT boat.   I'd have to wait a week to go from one to the other.  How's it write?   

[Mr. Pink]

On 2/25/2026 at 6:07 PM, dms525 said:

Today, I'm writing with a Delta Stantuffo "Blue Moon." 

 

 

David

Wow!  I'd love to have that, but I'd need sunglasses 🙂

 

[Mr. Pink]

Pulled out my Parker Cisele Sonnet.  I never bothered to look at the date code before, so just for fun, I did.  llP (1997) - yikes, have I really had it for that long?  Guess so - I bought it new, and it's always been a good writer.  No idea where I bought it and how much I paid.  

[InkyProf]

1 hour ago, Mr. Pink said:

Great looking pen.  What a difference in size, like a battleship next to a PT boat.   I'd have to wait a week to go from one to the other.  How's it write?   

Thanks! When I got it, though it had been restored, it barely wrote at all. I suspect the nib had been damaged at some point and repaired in a way that left the tines too tightly closed, and also both pointing very slightly to the right -- almost imperceptibly, but just enough, I think, that the two halves of the tipping were slightly offset fore-aft. After opening up the tines a little and doing a little bit of reshaping of the tipping (I wasn’t going to try to straighten any further) it now writes nicely -- a fine-to-medium line, with feedback but no real scratchiness. It will flex a little if pushed, but I don't really want to push (the sample below is with light pressure only) so maybe I should just say that it's got some spring rather than call it semi-flex.

 

Edited to add: I called it a "very fine" nib because I think that in its original condition it might have been a fine to extra-fine. Now it's sort of a wet fine.