What pen(s) are you using today?

[Ceramicist]

14 hours ago, PennyTheDog said:

Thanks! You know, it’s actually orange… I guess the white balance is a little funny on the picture. This one might be a little more accurate. Although I think I got it largely because I think old Duofold Big Reds look so good!

That's a really, vividly beautiful pen. I have a Nagasawa Kobe Affection in Kyomachi Legend Blue, and its visual appeal combined with the fact that it is a superb writer make it one of the pens for which I frequently reach. It's my first Sailor, and it won't be my last. 

[Cjtamu]

3 hours ago, Misfit said:

I don’t have the piston filler. But all the plastic Sport pens, and lots of AL pens called to me after I bought the Frosted Natural Coconut with 1.1mm stub. Then it was a buying spree of Kaweco pens. 
 

When I noticed what looks like Kaweco discontinuing the Frosted Sport made me buy the two I didn’t have while I could. Luckily that was before the price went up. 

May I suggest you try one? We have Al and other Sport. I have an Al Sport with Kirk Speer tuned F nib. Wonderful pen, and I still prefer the piston filler. The ink flow is different and it’s just a hair wetter and smoother and came out of the box that way. Just a different feel with piston feeling system. @Ceramicist thank you on the Magellan. Hoping to learn a little more about it, but Matsuya has no web site, no email I’m aware of, and I don’t speak Japanese. See what happens.

 

Toady I’m using another recent acquisition. Love my E95S so much I wanted an early Elite to go with it. Stumbled on a 1972 Elite with 18K soft fine nib. Lovely pen, and a lot of fun to write back to back with the new E95S and compare nibs made 50+ years apart.

 

Edit: Note on the Elite for anyone that might get one. Had heard the Con-40 didn’t fit some of the original Elite and this was one of them. About 1mm too long so the body wouldn’t fully attach to the section. Con-b fits perfectly as do the Pilot cartridges.

 

[inkstainedruth]

I keep looking at Pilot Elites (especially the burgundy barrel ones).  But keep hesitating because of all the costs we've incurred in the past year in work on the house (just had a roofer come this morning to check/patch a couple of leaks and to clean out the gutters -- and I just now realized that I forgot to ask him about getting some sort of grating over the gutters (the problem is that a lot of the commercial "covers" aren't big enough, front to back, to fit on old box gutters like what we have).

Today's pens, so far, have been the Pilot Plumix, (IM?) nib, just refilled yesterday with Platinum Classic Black (for today's journal entry and also for blacking out addresses and QR codes on a bunch of ads that need to go into a recycling bin); and the Pelikan M120 Iconic Blue, M nib, just now refilled with Pelikan 4001 Blue Black (to get some bills paid, including paying a guy who came out this morning to clear out the gutters and patch a couple of places on the roof).  But I've got a pen club meeting tonight, so will also be bringing some of the pens I had worked on last weekend at the B/W show.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

[Amberjack]

Today’s pen is a new to me ‘47 P51 in Cordovan Brown.  EF nib.  Freshly filled with 1950s Quink blue-black.  This is my first 100% restoration of a vacumatic “51”, and it turned out perfectly!  Patience is the key.  A week in total soaking parts, mild heat and gentle care finally allowed me to break it all down.  
 

[Gloucesterman]

2 hours ago, Amberjack said:

Today’s pen is a new to me ‘47 P51 in Cordovan Brown.  EF nib.  Freshly filled with 1950s Quink blue-black.  This is my first 100% restoration of a vacumatic “51”, and it turned out perfectly!  Patience is the key.  A week in total soaking parts, mild heat and gentle care finally allowed me to break it all down.  
 

Very nice restoration work.

Your patience and attention to detail appears impressive.

Congratulations and savor your success.

Happy Writing...

[Misfit]

Today’s pen is the Kaweco Frosted Natural Coconut with 1.1mm stub nib filled from a sample of Iroshizuku Ajisai (hydrangea) ink. 

[Misfit]

7 hours ago, Cjtamu said:

May I suggest you try one? We have Al and other Sport. I have an Al Sport with Kirk Speer tuned F nib. Wonderful pen, and I still prefer the piston filler.

I’ll keep this in mind. 

[USG]

Platinum 3776 <EF>

Taccia Ink

Hokusai Koiai

Graphilo Paper

 

 

[InkyProf]

Started today with the Parker 51 demi Vac, Cedar Blue, F, with Aurora Blue-Black, and then finished out the fill of Rohrer & Klingner Verdigris in the Leonardo MZ "Pausilya," elastic EF, and was too exhausted to decide what to replace it with, so that will wait until tomorrow, or perhaps until my latest Impulsive Ink Purchase™ arrives.

[Scribs]

Todays pens have been the Lamy 2000 (Pine) EF, inked with Diamine Sherwood Green, and Namiki Yukari Royal (black) F, inked with Pilot Black.

[Cjtamu]

3 hours ago, USG said:

Platinum 3776 <EF>

Taccia Ink

Hokusai Koiai

Graphilo Paper

 

 

Such pleasant nibs, but I have yet to find a 3776 body that suits me. Hopefully someday. I was going to curate my Bourgogne one because of that, but Kim told me she liked it. It got curated all right ha ha ha. Glad you’re enjoying yours.

[Ceramicist]

22 hours ago, Cjtamu said:

 @Ceramicist thank you on the Magellan. Hoping to learn a little more about it, but Matsuya has no web site, no email I’m aware of, and I don’t speak Japanese. See what happens.

 

 

You're welcome! 

[USG]

11 hours ago, Cjtamu said:

Such pleasant nibs, but I have yet to find a 3776 body that suits me. Hopefully someday. I was going to curate my Bourgogne one because of that, but Kim told me she liked it. It got curated all right ha ha ha. Glad you’re enjoying yours.

 

H Cjtamu

I agree pleasant nibs. 😀

What are you looking for in a 3776 body?

[PAKMAN]

Faber Castle Porsche Design Ti

[torstar]

8 minutes ago, PAKMAN said:

Faber Castle Porsche Design Ti

 

you always win

 

my best moments are rummaging through a bag or box and finding a pen i forgot i owned.

 

 

[Penguincollector]

  I wrote my grocery list with my fine nibbed Platinum short-long inked with Platinum Pink. It’s the first game day of the season for my local pro women’s soccer team and like to write with team colors (red/black/pink) on game days. Tomorrow the ink used will be green or gold for the men’s team. 

[inkstainedruth]

So far today it's been the Midnight Blue (I think) Parker 45, with the recently replaced F nib; the frightening part of course is that a steel nib cost WAY more than I paid for the pen itself, which originally had a gold nib on it (I don't even want to know what I'd have paid for a 14K nib to replace the one that got mangled -- thought I could get it repaired when I was down at the B/W show last weekend, but apparently some of the tipping broke off ).  

The pen is still filled with vintage Quink Permanent Blue Black -- but the ink is sufficiently wet that the pen writes more like a medium than a fine....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Cjtamu]

6 hours ago, USG said:

 

H Cjtamu

I agree pleasant nibs. 😀

What are you looking for in a 3776 body?

So hard to say until it’s in your hands. And the 3776 has so many bodies to choose from. We own several, but they’re all in Kim’s hands pun intended. Something along the lines of a 1911L would be nice. Intended to use a lovely Waterman CF today. But, the vintage Pilot Elite is really hard to put down, so it’s today’s pen too!

[InkyProf]

Used my Pilot E95s (Kaikyou Blue) until my Impulsive Ink Purchase was delivered, and then inked up and wrote with:

 

• A Pelikan 400 with a KEF script nib, back from having its filling system repaired, filled with Akkerman Dutch Masters No. 8 Ruisdael's Stormachtig Blauw. This might be my favorite of my 7 Pelikan nibs of the 1950s -- flexible but snappy, crisp but smooth. And the ink color's great.

 

• Leonardo MZ Pietra Marina, with a JoWo steel nib in F, ground by Damien Alomar to a "Cutlass" (basically a curved architect), inked with Troublemaker Petrichor. I wanted to try this ink with a nib that would show it off reasonably well while remaining usable for me. I started off with a medium stub but found it too wide and wet: the chromashading was very attractive but it spread out a lot and feathered a little on Midori. So I switched to this Cutlass, which gives the line more definition, but also loses most of the interest of the chromashading (and it's really not that fine). Will I have a use for this? I'm not sure.

 

 

[USG]

59 minutes ago, Cjtamu said:

So hard to say until it’s in your hands. And the 3776 has so many bodies to choose from. We own several, but they’re all in Kim’s hands pun intended. Something along the lines of a 1911L would be nice. Intended to use a lovely Waterman CF today. But, the vintage Pilot Elite is really hard to put down, so it’s today’s pen too!

 

Gee whiz they're pretty similar pens.  What do you see as the differences?