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On 9/11/2024 at 12:21 PM, RedPie said:

Jinhao 159 green with Private Reserve Sherwood Green...

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Haven't seen that color in the 159 before. Vivid!  LOL 

Me like!

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1 hour ago, Just J said:

 

Haven't seen that color in the 159 before. Vivid!  LOL 

Me like!

They have a great variety of colors now! Orange, blue, gold, red, white, black and yellow. They are all good colors and good writers. 

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Taking lots of notes today with my Schon Pocket Six with a fine Franklin Christoph nib.  Fun pen for both writing and sketching.

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English Parker "51" Aerometric.  Medium nib. 

 

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Pilot Capless Carbonesque (Broad) - Lamy Pink Cliff

Lamy AL-Star (Extra Fine) - Lamy Turquoise

Lamy AL-Star (Medium) - Iroshizuku Yana-budo

Lamy Safari (Broad) - Lamy Sepia

Lamy 2000 Ballpoint - Lamy Black Medium Refill

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@Waverly That's an interesting color.  I don't think I've ever seen a 51 quite that color (or is it just the lighting and it's really Navy Gray? -- since Dove Grey is a 51 Vac color).

Today for me it's mostly been one of the black 51 Vacs (one of the two pens with the "T6" code on them), .  I had misplaced it, but found it yesterday afternoon.  Just refilled it earlier today with vintage Quink Permanent Blue Black.  Even though it had been missing for the better part of a week, it started right up this morning -- just didn't have enough ink in it to finish morning pages (that got finished with what I think is a Waterman Exclusive, F nib (a pen I didn't remember having until recently) which is inked up with some of the vintage Skrip Royal Blue I picked up at an antiques shop last weekend).

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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Montegrappa Brenta, Waterman Gentleman, Waterman Expert, Pelikan M600 black tortoise, and my wife’s Visconti Van Gogh. None of these pens were all they could and should have been, so they went to see Kirk Speer on Saturday. All but one of these pens sat uninked because they were no fun to write with. Kirk fixed that. I can’t recommend his work highly enough, each of these is marvelous now. 

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Penguincollector Donor Pen

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  Today I have used my Wahl-Eversharp Symphony 913, and am testing a converter in a Unic brand pen that belongs to a friend. She couldn’t find any cartridges or converters that fit, so I offered to take it home with me and see if I had anything that fit. It turned out that Herbin fits, as I think it’s a French brand, that tracks. A Chinese converter fits as well, so I bundled up an empty Herbin cartridge, a Larmes de Cassis cartridge, and the converter with the Fine nibbed Unic to take to the Hub for her. This pen is a wonderful writer so far. 

Top 5 (in no particular order) of 30 currently inked pens:

Parker Duofold Centennial IM, RO Rose Gold Antiqua

Parker Duofold Lady needlepoint, MB Cool Grey

Pelikan M800 needlepoint, Kuretake Shikon

Platinum PKB 2000, Platinum Cyclamen Pink

Waterman 52 EF, Herbin Bleu Pervenche

always looking for penguin fountain pens and stationery 

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14 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

@Waverly That's an interesting color.  I don't think I've ever seen a 51 quite that color (or is it just the lighting and it's really Navy Gray? -- since Dove Grey is a 51 Vac color).

Today for me it's mostly been one of the black 51 Vacs (one of the two pens with the "T6" code on them), .  I had misplaced it, but found it yesterday afternoon.  Just refilled it earlier today with vintage Quink Permanent Blue Black.  Even though it had been missing for the better part of a week, it started right up this morning -- just didn't have enough ink in it to finish morning pages (that got finished with what I think is a Waterman Exclusive, F nib (a pen I didn't remember having until recently) which is inked up with some of the vintage Skrip Royal Blue I picked up at an antiques shop last weekend).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

It was a bad photo.  The pen is more of Dove Gray than a Navy Gray because I have both and can compare them. However this is an English "51" so who knows what Parker did 70 years ago. 

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Pen(s) in Rotation:

Pilot Capless Carbonesque (Broad) - Lamy Pink Cliff

Lamy AL-Star (Extra Fine) - Lamy Turquoise

Lamy AL-Star (Medium) - Iroshizuku Yana-budo

Lamy Safari (Broad) - Lamy Sepia

Lamy 2000 Ballpoint - Lamy Black Medium Refill

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MB 220 today.

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1 hour ago, PAKMAN said:

MB 220 today.

I just bought a 220P this weekend. Keep writing & in about a week I'll join ya! ~8》

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If I said I'll fix it, I will. There's no need to remind me every 6 months. 

 

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Misfit Museum Piece

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Today’s pen is the Monteverde Mountains of the World Orange Mountains with 1.1mm stub nib filled with Faber-Castell Burned Orange ink. 

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3 hours ago, Misfit said:

Today’s pen is the Monteverde Mountains of the World Orange Mountains with 1.1mm stub nib filled with Faber-Castell Burned Orange ink. 

May I ask for your comments about this pen? I have been thinking of buying one but for one or another reason it has been postponed. Thanks.

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Waterman Gentleman, Fine nib with Waterman Inspired Blue. The Waterman’s from this period are so wonderful. I need to acquire a Le Man 200 to complete this trifecta.

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CS Belliver with a broad nib that writes like it has a medium nib. This pen is inked with Diamine Regency Blue. 

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