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1 hour ago, Scribs said:

A pre-owned Montblanc Calligraphy Flex 149 arrived in the post today, and I'm loving it 🥰

Oh I am so jealous!  Where did you find it?  I’m dying for one but MB now only offers it through their bespoke nib program ($1200+pen cost).  The used ones I see online are way above the already lofty retail. 
 

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A black urushi Pilot Custom 845 with a #15 fine nib, inked with Iroshizuku Tsuyu-kusa.

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2 hours ago, Scribs said:

A pre-owned Montblanc Calligraphy Flex 149 arrived in the post today, and I'm loving it 🥰

Photographs pretty please!

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2 hours ago, Scribs said:

A pre-owned Montblanc Calligraphy Flex 149 arrived in the post today, and I'm loving it 🥰

Photographs pretty please!

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2 hours ago, Scribs said:

A pre-owned Montblanc Calligraphy Flex 149 arrived in the post today, and I'm loving it 🥰

Photographs pretty please!

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  I’m using a beautiful Radius 1934 Settimo Cielo Blu with a JoWo fine flex nib lent to me by a friend. If I like it, they might be open to letting me buy it. I inked it with Monteverde Horizon Blue and so far, it’s pretty good. 

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

MontBlanc 1441 F, Monteverde Brown Sugar 

Platinum PKB 2000, Platinum Cyclamen Pink

Waterman 52 EF, Herbin Bleu Pervenche

always looking for penguin fountain pens and stationery 

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Today’s pen of the day was the Kaweco Sport Skyline in white with B nib, and a Jet Pens blue ink cartridge. 

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I'm still using some mystery chinese fountain pens and some Jin Hao pens. They are filled with inks I used at the Pelikan Hub and I don't want to waste the rare inks.

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A Cross Apogee with Diamine Oxblood.

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Today I'm using Diplomat Burgundy ink on copy paper in a fake Parker Sonnet which looks like this Baoer 388:

 

BAOER 388 Red Marble Fountain Pen with 5 ink cartridges. Free Shipping! - Picture 1 of 2

 

Yesterday I was using a Parker 45 flighter with Monteverde Brown Sugar.

 

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Asvine V200 today with Kon Peki ink.

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Today’s pen of the day is the Kaweco Sport Apricot Pearl with BB nib, and a cartridge of Kaweco Sunrise Orange ink. 
 

I cleaned the Edison Beaumont in Molten Ores last night. I filled it from a sample of KWZ Old Gold ink. I’ll write with it later. The Beaumont is in my top 5 of my pens.

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I'm still writing with my FP Day experiment, a Lamy Safari Aqua Sky stubbed-medium filled with Iroshizuku Tsuki-yo. Second fill. 💙

 

And finally... after months of languishing on my to-do list... getting around to fitting CM nibs (from Plumix pens bought for the purpose) into Wing Sung 3003s. There are three to complete my set of available colours. I think these newer ones might be different to the couple I have had for a few years. I will ink up one for use later today.

Will work for pens... :unsure:

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20 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

  I’m using a beautiful Radius 1934 Settimo Cielo Blu with a JoWo fine flex nib lent to me by a friend. If I like it, they might be open to letting me buy it. I inked it with Monteverde Horizon Blue and so far, it’s pretty good. 

 

That's a beautiful pen...  😀👍  How do you like the way the flex nib writes?

LINK <-- my Ink and Paper tests

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30 minutes ago, USG said:

 

That's a beautiful pen...  😀👍  How do you like the way the flex nib writes?


 

  It’s really nice for a steel nib, but more bouncy than flex. I think it could use a grind that would better show any line variation, like a needlepoint. I am enjoying it 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

MontBlanc 1441 F, Monteverde Brown Sugar 

Platinum PKB 2000, Platinum Cyclamen Pink

Waterman 52 EF, Herbin Bleu Pervenche

always looking for penguin fountain pens and stationery 

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10 hours ago, Tashi_Tsering said:

Today a rather rare British pen from the mid 1930s — Ford’s Patent Pen. 
 

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Impressive.  Could you share the dimensions?

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Yard-o-Led Grand Victorian for today! 

 

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