What pen(s) are you using today?

[PithyProlix]

And now a burgundy Montblanc 32 that came along with the 14, this time an extra fine (yay!), inked with L'Artisan Pastellier Callifolio Grenat. The ink complements the Omas Blue Black well, which has dried to a soft indigo-like color - very nice.

 

Both pens are fantastic writers, if a bit stiff compared with my other Montblancs in this series.

[Stompie]

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[USG]

27 minutes ago, Stompie said:

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Very nice.... 😀👍

What are the pens?

[USG]

Waterman Liaison<M>

Colorverse Supernova

Midori Cotton Paper

 

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Look closely, does this nib have a slight Waverly curve?

 

[flodoc]

27 minutes ago, USG said:

Waterman Liaison<M>

Colorverse Supernova

Midori Cotton Paper

 

CLICK TO ENLARGE

 

Look closely, does this nib have a slight Waverly curve?

 

@USG I have two Liaisons, a fine and a medium, and both nibs look like yours. I can't help but think the Waverly appearance is a function of producing a conical nib or perhaps an optical illusion.

[AmandaW]

Today's pen was a recently received TWSBI Eco Bahama Yellow with an extra fine nib. Filled with Diamine Golden Brown. Both look pretty close to yellow ochre to my eye. 💛

 

[inkstainedruth]

So far today it's been the Parker 51 Signet, F(?) nib, still with vintage Quink Permanent Royal Blue, for today's journal entry, and also to write down today's NaPoWriMo 2026 prompt.  

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[InkyProf]

Today's pen has mostly been a keyboard, but also (at home) the Onoto 5601 with Callifolio Ohlango, and (on campus) the Pilot E95s (Elite), EF, with Kobe #07 Kaikyou Blue.

[Amberjack]

Still with the Waterman Charleston, Skrip Jet Black, at my local N’Orleans cafe.

 

[Amberjack]

8 hours ago, AmandaW said:

Today's pen was a recently received TWSBI Eco Bahama Yellow with an extra fine nib. Filled with Diamine Golden Brown. Both look pretty close to yellow ochre to my eye. 💛

 

Definitely getting butterscotchy vibes here.  Beautiful color. 

[Scribs]

I've got some catching up to do . . .

 

Wednesday's pens were the Leonardo MZG #8 EF in Ondo Blue, inked with Akkerman Vermeer (Cerulian Blue), along with the Namiki Yukari Royale (black) F inked with Pilot Black, and my Nakaya Piccolo Writer (aka-tamenuri) F, inked with Platinum Blue-Black.

 

Yesterday's pens were my Visconti Homo Sapiens Traveler, F, inked with Diamine Pansy, and the Montblanc Origin 149, EF, inked with Montblanc Mystery Black.

 

Today I have used the Lamy 2000 (brown) EF, inked with Iroshizuku Hana-ikada, and Montblanc 149 with pink gold EF, freshly re-inked with Montblanc Mystery Black.

[Misfit]

Today’s pen is the Kaweco x Goldspot AL Mercury Orange with BB nib filled with a cartridge of Kaweco Sunrise Orange. 

[Penguincollector]

  Geha 600 inked with Diamine Jacaranda.

 

[USG]

Stipula Etruria <F>

Sailor Manyo Konagi

Tomoe River-S

 

[InkyProf]

Wrote with a lot of turquoise and teal over the last week so now back to warmer tones. Parker 51 Vac, Cordovan Brown with a very dry medium nib and Waterman Brown; Ban-Ei urushi eyedropper with a fine nib and Dominant Industry Romania Red.

 

(In the same spirit, I also just got a bottle of Wearingeul Architecture Infinite Cube, which I'll try to use next, although I'm not sure how close I am to having a free slot in the tray.)

[Mark from Yorkshire]

Two number Pilots:

 

Pilot MR (metropolitan) Pilot blue ink

Pilot Kakuno Pilot black ink

 

i think the MR may have sprung a leak, it is certainly a lot wetter than normal and looks like ink my be coming down from the base of the section on top of the nib. I really do hope not. I really like that pen and they are hard to get hold of in UK. 
 

best regards

 

Mark

[inkstainedruth]

So far it's been several pens:

1) Today's journal entry was with the Sailor 1911S Wicked Witch of the West LE pen, "music nib" -- still with Sailor Souboku

2) Doing today's NaPoWriMo prompt, and also taking notes of what I spent for stuff like breakfast and a parking meter at an antiques & collectibles shop after breakfast, it was the Pilot Plumix, with what I think is an IM nib, refilled with Platinum Classic Carbon Black.

3) Signing the credit card slip at the place I had breakfast after the estate sale, I used the Parker 51 Signet, F? nib, newly restarted with vintage Quink Permanent Royal Blue (I had dipped the pen in water a day or two ago, since I thought it might be getting low on ink, but it seemed to write well after that...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Mark from Yorkshire]

@inkstainedruth has the scourge of contactless credit / debit cards made it across the pond? They are way too easy to use. That and the banks love upping the spend limits which is also dangerous. One can buy things by simply tapping the card without thinking about how much they are spending. Chip and pin at least slows one down as you have to enter your pin at point of purchase 

[inkstainedruth]

54 minutes ago, Mark from Yorkshire said:

@inkstainedruth has the scourge of contactless credit / debit cards made it across the pond? They are way too easy to use. That and the banks love upping the spend limits which is also dangerous. One can buy things by simply tapping the card without thinking about how much they are spending. Chip and pin at least slows one down as you have to enter your pin at point of purchase 

Oh, I dislike the "tapping" stuff immensely, just in general -- I much prefer to swipe the card in the reader or stick it in the bottom end of the reader.  But most of the readers I've come across lately do NOT require the pin #.  Although there are stories on the news every now and then where someone has added their own little "skimmer" gadget that records the card # and possibly the expiration date when a legit transaction is being made .  And as for stuff like utility bills?  Those are paid by mail, and with a check made out to the CORRECT amount, thank you very much....

And I actually keep a little notebook in my purse where I write down purchases (what they are, when/where they were made, and how much I spent on X item).  It was one of the things I picked up partly from one of the chapters in The Artist's Way and partly because of my mom would keep a little notebook of expenses for tax purposes -- stuff like "replacing the ribbon" on her typewriter, or going to dinner at her friend's house in IIRC Brooklyn who edited a book that my mom had a story in (if they talked "shop" at all, my mom would keep track of the mileage and tolls from the top end of Westchester County down there and back for tax purposes...).

And of course, my parents grew up during the Depression -- they didn't even HAVE credit cards until I think I was maybe in high school (if they didn't have the money to pay with cash or by check?  They didn't BUY the whatever they were looking at; they even bought the house I grew up in without a mortgage -- based on savings and the sale of our old house -- because the interest rates were so high on mortgages).  I got MY first credit card about 3 years after graduating from college, because I was six months ahead on payments on my first car -- and NOBODY'S name was on the car loan but MINE (my dad took me car shopping, but I decided on which to get of the ones I test-drove I liked the best -- but I signed the paperwork while my parents were on a trip abroad somewhere....  And was paying my parents room and board and my share of the phone bill, mostly on poor-paying jobs doing layout and pasteup.  When I first got out of college?  I tried to get a Sears "store card" (it wasn't even a real credit card because it could only be used at Sears) with a $500 US limit -- and got turned down;  when I was six MONTHS ahead on car payments?  Bank of America contacted ME and *offered* a Visa card with a $1500 limit (and that was in roughly 1985, IIRC...).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

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[PAKMAN]

Faber Castile Ti Porsche Design pen