What pen(s) are you using today?

[Scribs]

Once again I've got some catching up to do -- not that anyone's likely to be keeping tabs, apart from myself . . .

 

Saturday saw me using my Montblanc Purdey, M inked with De Atramentis Wood, Montblanc 149 (pink gold) EF inked with Montblanc Mystery Black, and Nakaya Piccolo Writer (aka-tamenuri) F, inked with Platinum Blue-Black.

 

Sunday I used my TWSBI 580 AL orange, 1.1 inked with Fritz Schimpf Sundowner, the Montblanc 149 again (same pen, same nib, same ink as Saturday), and Scribo Flow Dimensione EF inked with Akkerman Stormachtig Blauw.

 

Today I have used the Lamy2000 (original black) EF, inked with Edelstein Moonstone, and the Scribo Flow Dimensione (see above). If I end up doing any editing I'll likely reach for my TWSBI Obsidian EF, inked with Montblanc Winter Glow.

[Misfit]

Today’s pen of the day is the Kaweco Transparent Sport with BB nib filled with Visconti Bourdeaux ink. 

[Cjtamu]

7 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

  Thank you, @Cjtamu. I rarely see Pilots from the Tokyo factory, and besides yours, I have seen one other today on eBay. I really like Elites. 

They’re the perfect pen for folks like me who use their pens just for daily writing. Could probably live just fine with this, my E95S, and a couple Kaweco. Thank goodness I don’t have to 😁

[AmandaW]

I'm writing with a newly arrived Sheaffer hooded pen with an EF nib (that's how it writes, nothing designated). The ink is Diamine Amazing Amethyst. The pen was Made in Australia in the 1960s. It came to me never inked. After some deliberation and more than a twinge of discomfort I popped in a Sheaffer converter and inked it up. It's a pen, it's meant for writing... 

 

[JasonR]

Wrote with various Onotos earlier in the day.  In the afternoon I finally got an Asvine J16 Ebonite - Petrified River.   I added a Franklin Christophe SIG nib to it, and I’m super impressed.  Never used an FC nib before.  And the Asvine ebonite looks just amazing. 

[USG]

On 4/5/2026 at 12:32 AM, Misfit said:

Today’s pen is an Asvine C80 in Galaxy Blue with a stub nib filled with Birmingham Celestial Blue ink.  The purchase was inspired by @USG  

My favorite Asvine atm.  I really like the feel of the longer section and the #8 nib. 👍😀

 

Today:

Lamy C-1 <F>

Aurora Black (diluted)

Bank Paper 84.9gsm

 

 

 

Yesterday:

Pilot elite<F>

Aurora Black

Bank Paper 84.9gsm

 

[InkyProf]

Desiderata Chiaroscuro with Lamy Turquoise; SAFIS "The King" piston-filler, now with a reset nib & feed and Stipula Musk Green, which is a better match with the pen than the Herbin Vert de Gris had been, anyway.

[Beechwood]

26 minutes ago, InkyProf said:

Desiderata Chiaroscuro with Lamy Turquoise; SAFIS "The King" piston-filler, now with a reset nib & feed and Stipula Musk Green, which is a better match with the pen than the Herbin Vert de Gris had been, anyway.

 

To save others looking up the word I knew I had come across the word Chiaroscuro  before but I couldn't remember the context. It is a term used in photography for working in low level lighting to try and create contrast and atmosphere.

[InkyProf]

Yup — originally from Renaissance and seventeenth-century painting — think of the play of light and shadow in Rembrandt. I imagine Pierre chose it because the ebonite on this pen is black with a very subtle ripple that sometimes fades into the background, but sometimes becomes clearly visible as you rotate the pen and the facets catch the light.

[Penguincollector]

  Today’s pen is a Brute Force Designs Pequeño that is fitted with a steel FPR Ultraflex EF nib and ebonite feed made by Flexible Nib Factory. The ink is Diamine Dusted Truffle. 

[MarcoA63]

-Vintage Parker Duofold Maxima Blue with F nib

-Vintage Omas Extra Lucens transparent helix barrel medium size

[inkstainedruth]

Today it's been the 51 Signet, re-filled with vintage Quink Permanent Royal Blue.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Misfit]

Today’s pen is the new Kaweco AL Sport Silver with B nib that I filled with J Herbin Gris Galet ink. Today was a local Election Day. I voted. I put the sticker on my page a day, where I include the Merriam-Webster word of the day.  Today’s word is laudable. Very fitting for a voting day when one actually votes. 

[USG]

Majohn C4 <Long Blade>

Diamine Asa Blue

Smooth Art Paper

 

 

[InkyProf]

Onoto Magna Classic, Blue Pearl, <F> stub, Bungubox Omotesando Blue -- the excess of which, naturally, I wiped off the section of the pen using a hundred-dollar bill from the stacks I keep by my fireplace as kindling.

 

Also a postwar Pelikan 100N in grey marble with a fine CN nib and Herbin Gris Galet.

[Cjtamu]

Took a little doing but finally getting to use this. Feed was so gunked with a permanent ink I couldn’t push water through with a bulb. Day of soaking in water/Dawn got feed out easily thank goodness. Three soaks for the feed yesterday in pen flush totaling about 6 hours and scrubbing in between with a toothbrush finally got all the ink out of the feed. It was coming out in little suspended particulates. Let it soak overnight just to be sure. Worth it, these Magellan nibs are wonderful.

[Penguincollector]

 I used my Waterman 52 to write the grocery list, and somehow managed to wipe my sleeve  all over it, drat. At least the Bleu Pervenche is nice to look at. 

[JasonR]

Using the Magna today.    

[yubaprof]

Today I'm using my Aurora LE Primavera Optima. It's one of my favorite pens. It has the singular experience of all of my pens of having gone through the washing machine. The barrel and cap came out just fine - nice and clean, that's for sure - but the nib and feed were destroyed. I ordered a new nib (including feed) and it's back in action.

[kazoolaw]

4 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

 I used my Waterman 52 to write the grocery list, and somehow managed to wipe my sleeve  all over it, drat. At least the Bleu Pervenche is nice to look at. 

Only a Waterman 12 is more basic.  In these times of C/C fillers I admire your using a lever filler.  Maybe even a bit of flex?