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  Pilot Elite Lady with Kon Peki that I added a little bit of Asa-Gao to. 

Top 5 (in no particular order) of 31 currently inked pens:

Parker Duofold Centennial IM, RO Rose Gold Antiqua

MontBlanc Bohème Noir F, MB Midnight Blue

Platinum PS-5000(?) EF, Platinum Mixable Aqua 

MontBlanc for BMW IM, MB Green with SC-15

Parker True Blue Ringtop F, Quink Blue-Black 

always looking for penguin fountain pens and stationery 

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10 hours ago, Penguincollector said:


   It was a Herculean effort, but I put them out before the cake melted! 

 

Someone left the cake out in the rain....  😀

 

Pen ATM

Jinhao X159<F>

Sailor Seiboku

 Cosmo Snow

 

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28 minutes ago, USG said:

Someone left the cake out in the rain....  

 

  Some of my earliest memories are roller skating in a long gone rink to this song. I was three. 

Top 5 (in no particular order) of 31 currently inked pens:

Parker Duofold Centennial IM, RO Rose Gold Antiqua

MontBlanc Bohème Noir F, MB Midnight Blue

Platinum PS-5000(?) EF, Platinum Mixable Aqua 

MontBlanc for BMW IM, MB Green with SC-15

Parker True Blue Ringtop F, Quink Blue-Black 

always looking for penguin fountain pens and stationery 

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Today I've enjoyed using a few different pens, but mostly my Conway Stewart 55 and 479 with CI grinds from two different nibmeisters to contrast their grinds.  

 

I have a Sailor Realo that I want to get some use tonight as well, so that's up next, maybe for a letter to my wife.  Those always get me brownie-points.

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Today I'm choosing a Pilot Falcon.  After months of jumping on medium and broad nibs, italic and whatnot, I'm back to enjoying the finer things in life.  This is an SEF and I love writing with this and the Platinum UEF right now.

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Today: the Parker blue marbled Duofold Centennial <EF> with Monteverde Sapphire, which was probably the pen I wrote most with this week. Other than a couple of moments of needing to advance the converter plunger to keep things flowing, it's been a flawless writer. It's been accented today with a Platinum 3776 Century Oshino demonstrator in <M>, filled with Diamine Red Dragon, and supplemented by a marine green Sheaffer Balance Lifetime vac-filler with Herbin Lie de Thé, with a smooth, precise, and firm fine nib.

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19 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

 

  Some of my earliest memories are roller skating in a long gone rink to this song. I was three. 

 

You have a very good memory..... 👍😀

 

19 hours ago, JasonR said:

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I have a Sailor Realo...

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Hi JR

I always wanted a Realo.... 

Is a Sailor Realo the same size as a 1911 Large?

 

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36 minutes ago, USG said:

 

You have a very good memory..... 👍😀

 

 

Hi JR

I always wanted a Realo.... 

Is a Sailor Realo the same size as a 1911 Large?

 

There’s a Pro gear version and a 1911L version.  I have the Pro Gear and love it as I prefer the shape of Pro Gear to 1911L.  

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15 minutes ago, JasonR said:

There’s a Pro gear version and a 1911L version.  I have the Pro Gear and love it as I prefer the shape of Pro Gear to 1911L.  

Are the sections the same size?

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21 minutes ago, USG said:

Are the sections the same size?

I wouldn’t think so but I don’t own a 1911.  

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This week a trio: a new Magna Carta 600, a Pelikan m200 demo with IB nib, and a Bexley Corona with cursive italic ground by R. Binder.

 

Love all 3: the Pelikan is the easiest to use, the Magna Carta is the most fun, and the Bexley feels so precise in comparison to the other 2.

 

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Back to the black celluloid Omas 556/S with a very fine, generously semiflex Omas Extra nib, with Herbin Vert de Gris. This writes as smoothly and as expressively as the Extra Lucens in my 556/F, and I tell you: if I had to choose a desert island nib, either of these would serve very nicely. 

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  Today I am using my Pelikan old style M400 OM blue stripe with Diamine Nightfall. 

Top 5 (in no particular order) of 31 currently inked pens:

Parker Duofold Centennial IM, RO Rose Gold Antiqua

MontBlanc Bohème Noir F, MB Midnight Blue

Platinum PS-5000(?) EF, Platinum Mixable Aqua 

MontBlanc for BMW IM, MB Green with SC-15

Parker True Blue Ringtop F, Quink Blue-Black 

always looking for penguin fountain pens and stationery 

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So far today it's been the Pilot Plumix, IM? nib, still with Platinum Carbon Black, for today's journal entry.  (I've got basically 2 days' worth of "morning pages" to go after that, before breaking out a new journal.  Sent email off to Miquelrius asking why they stopped making the 600 page A5 journals, because at this point I think I've got maybe 4 more to go after the new one gets filled....  (At one point a few years ago, I was ordering a bunch of them at a time from their US distributor -- like many 20 at a time just so I wouldn't run out any time soon).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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I am traveling and have only one fountain pen with me, my Visconti Bronze Age inked with Monteverde Horizon Blue.

 

I do have four MB roller balls with me with blue, red, green, and black Pentel Energel refills in them.

My top pens

1. Visconti Homo Sapiens Bronze Age

2. Onoto Faraday

3. Onoto Magna Ebonite

4-9. My Pelikans ( three 800s, two 805s, one 809)

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Trying out a Swan 46ETN today with Waterman Mysterious blue and a Majohn P136 w/Flex Nib inked with Edelstein Golden Lapis for a little fun, but it's a little too shiny so I'm probably going to switch to Wearinguel Hades.   

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Been doing some reviews today (…and then I must sort the photos and write the text and all that, very tiresome…) but that’s too many pens to list. So, the ones I used for my own notes today are: Scribo Blu Cosmico in Parker 45, ONLINE Cranberry in vintage Senator with Degussa nib, Parker Blue-Black in Noodler’s Nib Creeper, finally finished Lamy Dark Lilac (2024 version) in FWP Carousel LE and wow this one must be cleaned and am afraid to imagine the scale of the whole process…  Very busy day so left the pen SPA for tomorrow or even later :) 

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