What pen(s) are you using today?

[Penguincollector]

5 hours ago, USG said:

 

I have my Moonman  Flex out today too..... 😀👍  It's on an Asvine V126.

You'd think Sailor would sell those plastic handles by the bag full...  🤷‍♂️

 

 

  Look at that sheen! I put Polar Glow in mine. Sailor sells the holder alone, but it’s $10 and I can get a set with a Dipton ink for $20, so I just get the different inks or nibs. I’ll save money in the long run if I can get one made out of something thicker. 

[JasonR]

Nahvalur Original Winter with an FPR 1.0 stub replacement and Dominant Industry Lapis Lazuli for the penultimate page of my journal.  It’s going to feel good to actually finish a journal for the first time at 47.  

[ParramattaPaul]

Today is an ebony Magna day.

[br549]

Today's pens are a  circa 1950 Sheaffer Sentinel with vintage Waterman's Carnation Red, and a Parker 51, also from 1950, with non vintage Sheaffer blue/black.

[USG]

20 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

 

  Look at that sheen! I put Polar Glow in mine. Sailor sells the holder alone, but it’s $10 and I can get a set with a Dipton ink for $20, so I just get the different inks or nibs. I’ll save money in the long run if I can get one made out of something thicker. 

 

I saw those handles....  I agree, you'll do better with a custom nib holder.

 

I got more sheen on Tomoe River-S than I got on the thin Bank Paper.

 

[USG]

Today:

Pelikan M150 <M>

Residual ink

Tomoe River-S paper

 

 

[Scribs]

On 5/10/2026 at 10:16 PM, nm4 said:

Finally having some time off I've elected to make it urushi week...so my Namiki Capless Raden stripe and my Nakaya long writer in Aki Tamenuri have been inked up.  The Capless with Diamine Sunset orange and the Nakaya with Iroshizuku Kon Peki.

 

N

 

An urushi weeks sounds like one of the nicest choices! Perhaps I'll get my rotations well organised in the future to start setting specific themes . . . For the moment I seem to be swapping around from what happens to be currently inked, or caving to a specific craving, even if it means inking up yet another pen. 

 

Today there has been a very surprising theme, though: I started out using my white flat top Wing Sung 930, F, inked with Akkerman Stormachtig Blauw, and then reached for the Jinhao clear Dadao, EF, inked with Lamy Crystal Obsidian, which I seem to be unable to put down, much to my surprise.

[InkyProf]

Today was a day of keyboard work, housecleaning and visiting with a friend, but I did use the Parker 51 Signet (Herbin Bleu Verrerie) for a while.

[Misfit]

Today’s pen is the Kaweco AL Stonewashed Black with M nib filled via a cartridge of Kaweco Pearl Black ink. 

[AmandaW]

I'm still using a Lamy 2000 Makrolon EF filled with Diamine Misty Blue. Second fill... The ink does seem to have tamed the line width. After sitting in a pen drawer unloved for 3 years we're actually starting to get along. It just needed the right ink. There's a lesson there. The other is that I think I will be requiring Misty Blue in the larger bottle. 💙

[JasonR]

5 pens came home today but since I can’t keep writing with all of them, I’ll choose the Conway Stewart 55 in Blue Marble with Diamine Blue Velvet to match.  Nib is a freshly ground Medium to Broad CI from Mark Bacas and I love it.    The feedback still feels almost like a sharpie, which doesn’t sound great but it feels nice.  
 

[inkstainedruth]

Been a Parker day for me.

First it was the Red Shadow Wave Vac (F nib) still with Waterman Mysterious Blue -- for today's journal entry.

Then later it was the Lapis Duofold Senior (EF? nib) -- just refilled with Waterman Intense Black, and the Midnight Blue 45, F nib, still with vintage Quink Permanent Blue Black; both for making general notes about stuff I needed to do today; and the 45 also for signing in when I went to get my allergy shots this afternoon.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[USG]

Parker 51 <F>, Diamine Oxford Blue

Waterman Boucheron <M> J Herbin Rue de la Verrerie

Parker 45 <M> Parker Penman Mocha + H20

Platinum President <M> Sailor Manyo Sumire

 

 

[georges zaslavsky]

Waterman Laureat extra fine wih the horrible Waterman encre violette and my MB fine medium with Herbin Perle Noire mixed with Yama Guri.

[Scribs]

Leonardo Momento Zero Grande Masterpiece, EF, inked with Leonardo Red Passion, and Sailor x Wancher Realo, EF, inked with Pilot Black.

[JasonR]

Conway Stewart 55 still for journaling and Platinum 3776 Chenonceau UEF.  Amazed at how much smoother the UEF is after Mark Bacas fixed it up.  It came from the factory with one time longer than the other and misaligned.  

[Penguincollector]

  I’ve been using a very long, thin novelty pen that has shimmering particles suspended liquid inside the end of barrel where the piston would be (it’s a c/c). It has a very basic F nib and Lamy Safari style clip. I have a short Quink cartridge in it. Here’s the retailer’s picture: 

 

[nm4]

On 5/11/2026 at 2:18 PM, Scribs said:

 

An urushi weeks sounds like one of the nicest choices! Perhaps I'll get my rotations well organised in the future to start setting specific themes . . . For the moment I seem to be swapping around from what happens to be currently inked, or caving to a specific craving, even if it means inking up yet another pen. 

 

Today there has been a very surprising theme, though: I started out using my white flat top Wing Sung 930, F, inked with Akkerman Stormachtig Blauw, and then reached for the Jinhao clear Dadao, EF, inked with Lamy Crystal Obsidian, which I seem to be unable to put down, much to my surprise.

Fantastic ink choices!   I have a Jinhao Dadao and truth be told one of my best writers - better than pens 100x its cost.  
 

N

[InkyProf]

On 5/11/2026 at 7:33 PM, JasonR said:

5 pens came home today but since I can’t keep writing with all of them, I’ll choose the Conway Stewart 55 in Blue Marble with Diamine Blue Velvet to match.  Nib is a freshly ground Medium to Broad CI from Mark Bacas and I love it.    The feedback still feels almost like a sharpie, which doesn’t sound great but it feels nice.  
 

Looks great, @JasonR, and I like the term “marker-like” or “Sharpie-like” feedback, that immediately captures an experience I recognize from certain  pens!

[InkyProf]

Today, I'm using a Dove Grey "51" Vac from 1947 with a GF cap and a fine nib, filled with Pelikan 4001 Turquoise (to replace the Lamy Turquoise I'd had in the Desiderata Pen Co. Chiaroscuro, and also to replace the "51" Signet I was using yesterday, both of which are now cleaned out).