What pen(s) are you using today?

[Misfit]

Today’s pen is a TWSBI Vac Mini clear with 1.1mm stub filled with De Atramentis Sherlock Holmes ink. 

[Wil D]

Pelikan Ineo clearing breeze

[Just J]

3 hours ago, ParramattaPaul said:

Get a Scholar. You will love it.

 

(I have three of them.)

What's so good about them, Paul? 

 

[PJS_prog]

On 10/10/2024 at 8:18 AM, TSherbs said:

Pilot Varsity, black

I like those pens. I keep a small handful of them (Vpen <F> black) in my desk at work as giveaways. You inspired me to get one out and use it just now. Very smooth pens for what they are.

[inkstainedruth]

Today it's mostly been the Pelikan M120 Iconic Blue, M nib, with Edelstein Star Ruby; and the purple Pilot Falcon, SF nib, still with Sailor Souboku.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Driften]

Parker 45 Flighter GT with Lamy blue ink. I had meant to ink it with Lamy turquoise but grabbed the wrong bottle.. Oh well. In any case it helped remind me what I liked about these pens. Made me thing about getting a cartridge version of my Parker 61, but ended up ordering a Pilot E95s instead  

[ParramattaPaul]

4 hours ago, Just J said:

What's so good about them, Paul? 

 

The nibs are smooth and glide across the page like a knife through warm butter.  I can leave one inked, capped, and unused on my desk for a week or more and it will write straight away.  It goes without saying they are well made.

[psimpson130]

Floating now between one of my Ellington Stealths (have two - one in pristine condition and the other missing most of the finish) and my new Pilot retractable (about $80 on Amazon). Amazed at how small the nib is on the Pilot, but it writes nicely. In a meeting the other night and it blew a couple of folks' minds.

[Wil D]

Pelikan Ineo clearing breeze

[Wil D]

Pelikan Happy in black

[inkstainedruth]

So far today it's been the Waterman Exclusive (black, 18K F nib) with diluted vintage Skrip Royal Blue.  I really meant to flush the pen out entirely -- but after spending most of the week REPEATEDLY trying to flush Edelstein Amethyst out of the nib unit on the Reform "Westinghouse" c/c pen, I just didn't have the energy to deal with flushing another pen.  Although, in the process, I did discover that the Pelikan converter "borrowed" from one of the Pelikan P22 c/c pens actually fits in the Reform pen just fine....  

So now, once the Reform nib unit and converter are completely dry, I need to see if that converter will work in a couple of other Reform pens I have (dating back to the nib-tuning workshop I went to at my first pen show), and then I will buy several more Pelikan converters for ALL the Reforms, as well as for the P10 Twist that was swag from last year's Pelikan Hub (thanks, I think, to a local stationery store that sells pens, including Pelikans).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Surlyprof]

Used my Montblanc Meisterstuck 146 LeGrande to write a thank you note to the person who gifted it to me.  

[midnightblues]

I usually have multiple pens inked at a time, because I like writing in different colours (I don't usually fill to the brim)! This week it is Use Up Some Samples time:

 

The cursed TWSBI 580* - 3 Oysters Doldam - a little dry, yellow tinged grey

Benu Lavender - Kyoto Sakuranezumi - deep dusky purple

Benu Bora Bora - Waterman Mysterious Blue - yup

Benu 4 Leaf Clover - Sailor Tokiwa-matsu - deeeeeep delicious green

Platinum #3776 <C> nib - FWP Goose Poupon - basically R&K Alt-Goldgrun

Benu Luminous Amber - Taccia Tsuchi Golden Wheat - basically a more expensive KWZ Honey

Benu Bloody Mary - Platinum Cassis Black - a shady burgundy

 

*it has not been a Good Week for my TWSBIs - 540 and 580 both suffered stuck pistons, my Eco-T lost its seal and drained all the ink out as I watched it, have stripped, lubricated and reassembled but not convinced I'm getting a proper seal yet. Will have another fiddle with it this week. 

[inkstainedruth]

Yep, I understand COMPLETELY about WMB.  I had people in my local pen club ask me one time what the green ink was in some pen of mine that was being passed around.  And I said, "NOT a green ink!  I know what's in this pen!"  But for some reason on whatever paper it was, it didn't look like a blue black....

Might have been the Red Shadow Wave Vac -- that pen has been inked up with NOTHING but WMB since I first got it, at my first pen show, and I took it to one of the repair tables to be checked out, and on the recommendation that the friend who had gone with me, went to the Indy-Pen-Dance table.  And Mike Kennedy checked the pen out and tested it with water and told me he thought the diaphragm in it was perfectly okay.  And I said, "You got ink?" and he said "Waterman Mysterious Blue...."  And I said, "That works for me!" and I ran that pen for THREE years with zero maintenance, other than refilling as needed with WMB. 

As for your TWSBIs?  YIKES!  I'll admit I haven't been all that impressed with my 580-AL and 580-ALR (because the piston head does not extend all the way to the end of the feed, when they get low on ink I can develop air bubbles that block the ink flow).  And while the 700-Vac (I got the "Iris") is pretty, it took forever for the ink chamber to dry after I gave it an initial flush.  I didn't want to have to keep playing around with removing the nib and feed.  Then, a few months ago, broke down and inked it up again and promptly lost it..... 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Misfit]

Today I’ll use the Karas Kustoms Decograph in matte gray with 1.1mm stub nib. It was filled from a sample of GvFC Stone Grey. 

[Gloucesterman]

Cypress Applewood w/ EF (?) nib and Diamine Nutcracker ink (In fact, a perfect match between the two.)

Aurora 98,,  Fine nib, Flighter, with Parker black ink cartridge

Nemosine (Model - the basic one, don't recall the name?) .6nn CI nib and Iroshizuku Yama Budo ink.

Did some ongoing journaling during the day.

[Wil D]

Pelikan Happy Pen P26 in black

[ZeroDukE]

[kazoolaw]

Lamy Safari - Diamine Green/Black

Parker 51 Flighter- Diamine Twilight

Newton Knickerbocker - DuPont Bleu Nuit

[torstar]

3 hours ago, ZeroDukE said:

 

[jealous] over pen and handwriting...