What pen(s) are you using today?

[Doug C]

29 minutes ago, Scribs said:

Today so far it's been;

 

Montblanc Origins Classique, F, inked with J. Herbin Ambre de Birmanie

Nakaya Dorsal Fin 2, SF (see below), still inked with Pilot Black

regular black Lamy 2000 EF inked with Edelstein Moonstone

 

A disclaimer of sorts, I do also use my pens for normal, regular, and generally a little more legible writing that's kept legible by not rotating the page.

 

For @lamarax resting atop my senseless scribbles-just-to-enjoy-the-pens-without-purpose scraps of paper (thriftly scribbling between the lines, paper turned 180 degrees), the aka-tamenuri DF2. 

Beautiful! I still have 3 Nakaya’s (sold the others) but never got a DF.

Is it larger section wise than say, a Piccolo?

[JasonR]

Security Fountain Pen - BCHR w/Check Protector - Cursive Italic with some sort of grey ink, I'm getting them mixed up now that I"ve bought 3 or 4 in the last 2 weeks.  It's a fun pen, one of two I bought at auction and I parted ways with the other.  Twist filler which until a couple of weeks ago I didn't even know was a thing.

 

[Scribs]

1 hour ago, Doug C said:

Beautiful! I still have 3 Nakaya’s (sold the others) but never got a DF.

Is it larger section wise than say, a Piccolo?

 

Its section is larger in both size and girth, but I find both really comfortable. I tend to prefer girthier pens in general, although not exclusively.

[A Smug Dill]

 

[lamarax]

5 hours ago, Scribs said:

For @lamarax resting atop my senseless scribbles-just-to-enjoy-the-pens-without-purpose scraps of paper (thriftly scribbling between the lines, paper turned 180 degrees), the aka-tamenuri DF2. 

 

You know, I may just have found a way around the anti-teleport barrier. Uh-oh  

 

 

...and I do have a magic wand!

[Scribs]

11 minutes ago, lamarax said:

 

You know, I may just have found a way around the anti-teleport barrier. Uh-oh  

 

 

...and I do have a magic wand!

 

My senseless scribbles are in fact spells doubled and tripled to withstand eventual collapses of the anti-teleport barrier! 

[lamarax]

15 minutes ago, Scribs said:

 

My senseless scribbles are in fact spells doubled and tripled to withstand eventual collapses of the anti-teleport barrier! 

 

😄 OK, you win this time! grrr

 

Awesome pen; it's been my grail since... forever. Unfortunately, it's a) too expensive for me and b) I couldn't possibly be patient for a year or more to have it  

[Scribs]

@lamarax There was a time I also thought pens like this would never be mine. There is no way of knowing what the future might bring. You may just find yourself with your grail... I'll see if I can scribble some spells to help ...

[Misfit]

Today’s pen is the Levenger True Writer Midnight Spark with a Nemosine 1.1mm stub nib filled with Diamine Eclipse ink. 

[rodia77]

I craved the Oxblood (ahem!), so here we are with Pilot 78G+ serving it finely.

 

[boilermaker1975]

10 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

  How is this pairing working out for you, @boilermaker1975?  Are you having any of the issues you had with other inks?

 

@Penguincollector I should have given you a shout out for suggesting Inspired Blue. It is working. It maybe  not quite as wet as the Diamine Writer's Blood.

 

The pen does seem less scratchy as I have kept using it. Searching I have found that is common as the nib is used and smoothed.

 

I don't know if it is just my imagination, but the ink also seems to keep flowing a little better with continued use.

 

Edit: I really want to be happy with how this pen writes because I just love the look and feel of it. It is the pen I want to pick up and write with. I would love to get the dark age version.

[LMpensandthings]

Pen of the day is a Vintage Belmont - Black and Pearl - inked with Waterman Serenity Blue

[USG]

17 hours ago, Gloucesterman said:

And what do you deduce from your writing experience?

 

I'm just reporting the occurrence.  What's your analysis?

  

15 hours ago, Lithium466 said:

 

 

Interesting, is this the 90gsm "velouté" paper? That's a paper I really never connected with, and this behavior is ringing a bell.

 

Yes, it's the 90gsm veloute paper.  It's one of their standard bright red shiny covered notebooks with 90 sheets.  

[Stompie]

[Misfit]

12 hours ago, rodia77 said:

I craved the Oxblood (ahem!), so here we are with Pilot 78G+ serving it finely.

 

You craved (ox)blood! 

[sandy101]

Visconti Van Gough Souveneer de Mauve with a broad nib.

 

I'm trying to will Spring into existence.

[InkyProf]

Leonardo MZ Pausilya, elastic EF nib, Rohrer & Klingner Verdigris.

 

Not quite done with the Yu-Sari notebook, but because I'm taking notes on notes, and don't want to flip pages constantly, I started a new notebook for that task, using a new B5 that I guess is an Apica Premium CD. (Mine is identified as Nippon Note, and doesn't say Apica on it anywhere, but I gather that these are the same product?) First impression: the Apica paper is super-smooth, and does not magnify line width the way the Yu-Sari does; but, weirdly, it ghosts and even produces some pinpoint bleeding here and there, using a not-especially-wet JoWo EF nib. I'll have to see if this behavior persists with different pens and inks. It's not terrible, but it's not ideal.

[MarcoA63]

Pelikan Souverän M400 Red&Black - F nib

[rodia77]

2 hours ago, Misfit said:

You craved (ox)blood! 

 

Call me a sucker for blood, or bloodsucker for short! 

[Calligraph]

Pilot Custom Heritage 912 with a Spencerian-modified FA nib (done by Richard Binder at the BWIPS yesterday!) inked with Waterman Mysterious Blue.