What pen(s) are you using today?

[USG]

Pelikan M800<F>

Edelstein Sapphire

Cosmo Snow paper

 

[thx1138]

This week is a sonnet/centennial week. With a Caravel and Narwhal thrown in for good measure.

The sonnets are all 18k BB, B, med italic, the centennials a mix of italics and mediums, the Caravel medium steel, and the Narwhal 1.1 steel.

[jchch1950]

3 hours ago, PAKMAN said:

Porsche Design Tec Flex P3100 steel/gold with 18K Fine nib. Purchased this last weekend at the Arkansas Pen Show!

 

Nice pen. Isn't too heavy.

[Gloucesterman]

4 hours ago, jchch1950 said:

Nice pen. Isn't too heavy.

My question also.

[Grayfeather]

Today's pen. Hm. I received a Cross Bailey Light fine nib, gratis. I loaded it with the included Cross black cartridge. So far:

 

Light is the key word. Very light. Not my cup of tea. I don't need a pound of lead, but I like a little bit of heft. Something that feels strong, and feels empowering.

 

The nib. Fine. Not really. I think it resides somewhere between fine and medium. Then again, it could be the ink itself. Also out of the box, I had to adjust the nib and feed. The feed was cocked way to one side, and the tines were smashed very close together. 

 

I'm going to run it through the paces and see what it does. In the end, I will probably just keep it for an EDC, for signing documents and the like. 

 

A

 

 

[PAKMAN]

3 hours ago, Gloucesterman said:

My question also.

It is around 50 grams in weight. Big pen.

[flodoc]

On 3/24/2025 at 9:39 PM, Doug C said:

Didn't Swisher go out of business a decade ago?

Yep, but I still have three bottles of their in-house branded ink! Parker stopped making Penman ink 25 years ago, but I still have several unopened bottles of Sapphire and Ebony ink.

[ParramattaPaul]

16 minutes ago, flodoc said:

Yep, but I still have three bottles of their in-house branded ink! Parker stopped making Penman ink over 30 years ago, but I still have several unopened bottles of Sapphire and Ebony ink.

That reminds me.  I have a packet of Platignum blue ink cartridges I purchased from WC Penfolds in 1977.

[Mr. Pink]

Dug out my old Parker 51.  First Fountain pen I ever bought (other than a Shaeffer School pen).  Had not used it in a long time.  I nearly gave up on it a few years back as the flow was horrid.  Took it all apart - which for me is frightening - and now it writes like a champ.  I might just get to like it.  

[PAKMAN]

MB 220 today.

[Bo Bo Olson]

A large Osmia 76 BCHR pen with a grand Weak Kneed Wet Noodle USA made Morton nib. Morton closed down in 1920. Lamy Crystal Betitoite, on discontinued Neusiedler 80g Japan post.

This is a similar but smaller medium-large 74 BCHR Osmia pen. I can't get Imgur to load most of the time and the 2,500-3,000 Kb pictures are called 1.2meg and don't load here from Word or my computer for me.

 

From 1900-1914 Morton supplied Kaweco with the best nib in Germany; better than Soenneceken and MB. April of 1914 Kaweco bought the machinery and had American trainers come to Germany to show the Germans how to make a world-class Morton nib.

Then came August and the Americans went home. 

 

Until the owner of Kaweco went broke from being on the margin in the '29 market crash, they made that great nib. 

 

In 1931 the first thing the new owner did was get rid of that costly, hand hammered, and aneled, with potato pieces on the nib tip so the 'iridium' wouldn't burn off. Then Kaweco fell to having a nib no better than Soennecken or MB.

There also went the kanteen's famous potato soup.

 

Weak Kneed Wet Noodle is a term invented by the British nib grinder, John Sorowka. I now have 4...my MB pre-1920 Safety Pen.

 

I added a jeweler made 950 Parisian silver clip.

A Waterman Gothic..1918-early '30's 0554 Gothic.

A @ 1924-27 Parker Doufold.That's how small my pictures have to be to load now.

 

WKWN, Weak Kneed Wet Noodles had been a myth to me. A year and a half ago I got the MB...then inside a year I lucked into the other three.

Some day when the com stops saying my 2,500-3,000kb pictures are 1.2megs big, I'll see if I can remember to put a picture of that Morton nib up.

SO MUCH FOR PLAN A.....the pen leaks, so needs a new gasket. Joins the pens going, now in three loads, to Francis.

It did water just fine when cleaning the pen...but I wasn't doing a drop test.

[RedPie]

MB Meisterstück 144.

[RedPie]

45 minutes ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

I added a jeweler made 950 Parisian silver clip.

That is good looking!

[Bo Bo Olson]

6 minutes ago, RedPie said:

That is good looking!

Thank you.

That cost more than the resurrection of that very beater looking pen. 

Of course, it needed a new gasket, also.

[Just J]

1 hour ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

A large Osmia 76 BCHR pen with ...

C'mon now BoBo - all this drool ain't doin' my tablet screen any good. 

~J. 

 

[Penguincollector]

Today’s pen is a Parker 51 with an Ariel Kullock “Black Pen Society” cap. I inked it with Diamine Brilliant Red, as I wanted something cheery for Wednesday. 

[Doug C]

Benu Pixie.

[inkstainedruth]

So far today it's been the Harry Potter "Ravenclaw" al-Star, still with Lamy Vibrant Pink.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[flodoc]

On 3/24/2025 at 9:39 PM, Doug C said:

Didn't Swisher go out of business a decade ago?

Yep, but I still have three bottles of their in-house branded ink!

[flodoc]

New ink day. Birmingham Pens Railroad Spike in a Bexley Poseidon with 18k stub nib.