What pen(s) are you using today?

[jandrew]

[LMpensandthings]

I am using my Lamy 2000 F with Waterman Serenity Blue 

[inkstainedruth]

Today, so far, it's been the 61 Flighter (not sure what the nib is, probably an F or EF), with whatever black ink was in the capillary filler that I've been trying to reconstitute and use; and the dark blue Decimo, stub nib, with Iroshihzuku Take-Sumi.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[USG]

On 10/30/2022 at 6:20 AM, Misfit said:

I’ve been curious about L’amant ink. What are your impressions of it?  

 

 +1

 

23 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Today has been a Parker 45 day for me: 

Red Rage 45, M nib -- vintage Quick Permanent Blue Black

black 45, B nib -- Waterman Serenity Blue.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

You got me thinking about Parker 45s, but I can't find the burgundy 45 I used to take notes with in the late 60s.  I have no idea where I put it. It had a very smooth steel med. nib and a steel cap. The last thing I remember is that it had Parker blue-black ink syringed into a cartridge because the converter developed an air seal problem.  It must be all crudded up by now and probably in a similar condition to your 61.  🙂

[essayfaire]

M and K Pelikan(also on poetry thread)

Blue Sailor 1911 S Sailor Jentle Black

Diplomat Blue Demonstrator Herbin Caroube du Chypre

TWSBI Go Bacas RNI grind MB Purdy Cigar

 

I was wrong about the ink in the picture - it's MB Colloidal - I had written it down but it was further back in my records than I expected.

[AlexLeGrande]

Wings 3001.  Surprisingly nice writer that I bought when t first cam out,  and it's been sitting unused for a long time.

[ParramattaPaul]

Onward with Onoto.  Yes, it was another Onoto Scholar day today.

 

[Misfit]

@essayfaire what are your impressions of sugarcane paper?  I’ve seen it for sale, but wonder about its qualities. Does it show shading and sheen well?

[Topgunbai]

Karas Kustoms Decograph matte blue with JB6EC ebonite feed from Flexible Nib Factory and Bock 250 titanium nib modified to flex fude

 

 

[USG]

Omas 360 Demonstrator

 

[USG]

2 hours ago, Misfit said:

@essayfaire what are your impressions of sugarcane paper?  I’ve seen it for sale, but wonder about its qualities. Does it show shading and sheen well?

 

A while back I found three, Egyptian made, Stapes 'Sustainable Earth Notebooks' in a plastic Staples shopping bag from around 2014, so my experience with Sugarcane paper is from those notebooks.

 

When I first started writing on it I took some notes.  The flowing is paraphrased from those notes.  The paper is thinner than Kokoyo 64gsm paper and thicker than Tomoe River 52gsm.  In feel, it kinda resembles Tomoe River in that it's a crisp, write on one side paper. It's a thin, almost translucent, off white paper with no significant bleed-through or feathering and has a little feedback with fine nibs like my Pelikan M1000.  In my estimation, the line width is ever-so-slightly wider than on Clairefontaine, similar to 24lb HP copy paper, but I wouldn't call it spreading.  I haven't noticed sheen but it shows colors and shades nicely.  I like it because it has a different writing feel than the other papers I use and the pages, although perforated for removal, don't detach from the spiral notebook on their own.

 

The paper reminds me of the old Postal Air Mail Paper.  If you look closely under magnification you can make out tiny little fibers, like hand made Japanese paper, but the feel is slick and untextured to the hand and to the nib.

 

I wrote that "the pen glides over the surface;  it's not like writing on Clairefontaine paper but it's not draggy like Rhodia paper can be."

 

Of course YMMV.

 

[Misfit]

Thank you for sharing your experience @essayfaire  

 

oops, I mean thank you @USG Sorry I didn’t notice who had replied. 

[ParramattaPaul]

Wouldn't sugar cane paper be much the same as papyrus?

[ParramattaPaul]

7 minutes ago, ParramattaPaul said:

Wouldn't sugar cane paper be much the same as papyrus?

 

 

Answered my own question.  Sugar cane paper – how waste is turned into wrapping paper – ZOEWIE

 

AND

 

How Paper is made from sugar cane | A Don Morris video. - Bing video      

 

Basically, it ends up the same as wood pulp paper.

[Misfit]

I was given a Franklin-Christoph notebook, a single, so I’m not sure if it is their sugarcane or bamboo paper. 

[Misfit]

This pen in the color Coco Pearl. 
 

[PAKMAN]

Asvine 169 Skelton

[essayfaire]

@Misfit I really like sugarcane paper.  I write on legal pads and most have too rough a texture for many of my pens.  The sugarcane paper does not bleed through, though it does have "shadows" on the other side.  That said, the shadows are not significant enough to deter me from using both sides of the paper.  

 

My inks lie well on the paper.  I use mostly fine nibs, so it is harder for me to weigh in on the shading/sheening question, but I haven't noticed it showing less shading or sheen than any of my other papers.  I have a strong aversion to slick papers, which I believe shows off those qualities.  

 

The paper is thinner than that in my Tomoe River journals, but still well-behaved.  I've been buying ten-packs of the Staples version for at least three years.  It's reasonably priced and fountain-pen friendly in a size I need, so I'm happy with it.

[NgunnawalJack]

[essayfaire]

@MisfitI miswrote - my sugarcane paper is OfficeDepot, not Staples.   There have been so many mergers in the stationery supply stores I forget whose who sometimes.  Sorry.