What pen(s) are you using today?

[USG]

Waterman Patrician<M>

Diamine Oxford Blue

Canopus Paper

 

 

[Ceramicist]

50 minutes ago, USG said:

Waterman Patrician<M>

Diamine Oxford Blue

Canopus Paper

 

 

I love that pen!

[Penguincollector]

6 minutes ago, Ceramicist said:

I love that pen!

 I was just about to post the same comment! 

[Ceramicist]

2 minutes ago, Penguincollector said:

 I was just about to post the same comment! 

☺️Hi! Hope you're well!

[Misfit]

Today’s pen is the Kaweco Sport Chess pen in black with 1.1mm stub nib, and filled via a cartridge of Diamine Oxblood. 

[Scribs]

Todays pens have been;

 

Lamy 2000 (brown) EF, still inked with Iroshizuku Hana-ikada

Platinum 3776 Mt. Fuji Unkei Kino Gumo SF, once again inked with Akkerman Stormachtig Blauw

and in an effort to stop oggling a pen about to be released next month which has caught my attention, I'm distracting myself with my Sailor King Of Pen Iro Miyabi Usukou, M, inked with De Atramentis Whisky Ink (which has completely lost its aroma).

[Amberjack]

Today's pens were

• '47 P51 from the Townsend Annex (Quink blue-black with Solv-X!!)
• early 50s Parker English Victory (Waterman Havana)
• 2002 Waterman Charleston (Skrip Royal Blue)

 

 

[Ceilidh]

2 hours ago, Ceramicist said:

I love that pen!

Me three.

 

I saw one in that gorgeous green on the unnamed auction site not long ago, but passed, as I'm trying to be semi-responsible for a while. However, I may put it on my list to look for at the next pen show...hmmm....

[USG]

3 hours ago, Ceramicist said:

I love that pen!

 

2 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

 I was just about to post the same comment! 

 

23 minutes ago, Ceilidh said:

Me three.

 

I saw one in that gorgeous green on the unnamed auction site not long ago, but passed, as I'm trying to be semi-responsible for a while. However, I may put it on my list to look for at the next pen show...hmmm....

 

Hi Guys... 😀👍

[Cjtamu]

4 hours ago, USG said:

 

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

Similar, but not the same. 1911L is slightly larger longer and heavier. Section and barrel diameters are a little bigger. If I had to guess I think it’s the barrel diameter. The 1911L is simply more comfortable for me, just as I prefer it to the 1911S or a Pro Gear. No rhyme or reason, I love my slender pens like DuPont Montparnasse or Waterman CF, and there are large cigar pens like the modern MB 149 that I don’t care for. The combination has to feel good in my hand or it doesn’t stay. I’ll add my what is now, fourths to the Waterman Patrician? Beautiful.

[InkyProf]

Still using the newly restored green-striped Pelikan 400 with a KEF script nib and Akkerman Ruisdael’s Stormachtig Blauw. Loving this nib, whose degree of flexibility hits a sweet spot for me, no pun intended, for an everyday pen: it introduces a little line variation even with regular writing, but requires a little pressure, though not too much, to go further.

 

 

[inkstainedruth]

So far today it's been a stainless steel Parker Vector (?) nib that was apparently some promo pen for some business called "Computing Services" (which I have NO record of having acquired...  -- or else somehow never noticed the imprint and the lion's head logo on the barrel or on a little square attached to the clip before this morning), newly filled with Organic Studios USS Constellation (the special LE "show ink" made for the Baltimore/Washington Pen Show last weekend -- apparently, since the run was limited to 200 bottles, you could pick what the bottle number on the box!); and the Dark Blue (Midnight Blue?) 45 with the replacement steel F nib (for the borked gold one), still with IIRC vintage Quink Permanent Blue Black.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[USG]

1 hour ago, InkyProf said:

Still using the newly restored green-striped Pelikan 400 with a KEF script nib and Akkerman Ruisdael’s Stormachtig Blauw. Loving this nib, whose degree of flexibility hits a sweet spot for me, no pun intended, for an everyday pen: it introduces a little line variation even with regular writing, but requires a little pressure, though not too much, to go further.

 

 

 

Great IP, nothing explains it better than a photo. 😀👍

 

I don't remember if you discussed it already but what went into the restoration? 

 

Also, is that your Midori paper?  It reminds me of another paper of a similar color, Life Paper.  Any experience with that?

[Penguincollector]

18 hours ago, Ceramicist said:

☺️Hi! Hope you're well!

  Ironically, I have caught a cold. It’s the start of soccer season, so all of a sudden I’m in huge crowds again after mostly staying home for months. I’ll get over it soon enough. Happy to see the sun again, and the garden coming in. I have to message you about a pen I am curious about when I am actually coherent. 

 

  

[ParramattaPaul]

I am surprised that none of the Pi pen owners haven't mentioned using their Pi pens on Pi day.

[InkyProf]

1 hour ago, USG said:

what went into the restoration?

 

I didn't do this one, but as far as I know: replacing and lubricating the piston seal, cleaning and polishing the pen body and cap, and possibly cleaning and flushing the nib unit -- I can't remember what condition the nib unit was in when I sent it out; I might have done that myself. I got it quite a while ago, when I was just beginning to learn some basic repair techniques, and I didn't want to take any chances with this pen, so I sent it to a pro; now I'd probably do this one myself -- but I have no regrets.

 

And yup, all my little squares are Midori MD I use their 10cm square desk pad that for testing pens (and a million other things) because I also seem to have settled on Midori MD notebooks as one preferred format for my writing, so the desk pad gives me a good sense of how things will behave there. I do have some Life pads and notebooks of various kinds but have not used them much yet. They're even more creamy yellow than the Midori, to my eye, but yes, in the same vein!

 

[USG]

1 hour ago, InkyProf said:

 

I didn't do this one, but as far as I know: replacing and lubricating the piston seal, cleaning and polishing the pen body and cap, and possibly cleaning and flushing the nib unit -- I can't remember what condition the nib unit was in when I sent it out; I might have done that myself. I got it quite a while ago, when I was just beginning to learn some basic repair techniques, and I didn't want to take any chances with this pen, so I sent it to a pro; now I'd probably do this one myself -- but I have no regrets.

 

And yup, all my little squares are Midori MD I use their 10cm square desk pad that for testing pens (and a million other things) because I also seem to have settled on Midori MD notebooks as one preferred format for my writing, so the desk pad gives me a good sense of how things will behave there. I do have some Life pads and notebooks of various kinds but have not used them much yet. They're even more creamy yellow than the Midori, to my eye, but yes, in the same vein!

 

 

Haha, I guess I'll have to get some Midori... have you tried the Midori cotton?

 

[Ceramicist]

19 hours ago, Ceilidh said:

Me three.

 

I saw one in that gorgeous green on the unnamed auction site not long ago, but passed, as I'm trying to be semi-responsible for a while. However, I may put it on my list to look for at the next pen show...hmmm....

One must always have a list!

18 hours ago, USG said:

 

 

 

Hi Guys... 😀👍

👋🏼

3 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

  Ironically, I have caught a cold. It’s the start of soccer season, so all of a sudden I’m in huge crowds again after mostly staying home for months. I’ll get over it soon enough. Happy to see the sun again, and the garden coming in. I have to message you about a pen I am curious about when I am actually coherent. 

 

  

Oh no! I do hope you feel better soon.  Lucky you have things coming back to life. Not yet here! I'll await your message! 

[lionelc]

parker vacumatic golden brown, diamine sepia to celebrate the start of autumn - it has been a hot one this summer.

[InkyProf]

1 hour ago, USG said:

 

Haha, I guess I'll have to get some Midori... have you tried the Midori cotton?

 

Nope!

 

(also adding get-well-soon wishes to @Penguincollector)