What pen(s) are you using today?

[jchch1950]

Twsbi Swift 1.1 nib, with a brown Waterman ink.

[Ceilidh]

22 hours ago, JasonR said:

Today I'm using a new to me Onoto "The De La Rue Pen" blue marble lever filler with a left-footed oblique medium.  I got lucky on the nib as I've really been wanting to try an oblique nib.  

I hope you like the oblique. I have a few oblique broads and medium and like them very much!

[InkyProf]

Today has mostly been the orange Conklin Endura Senior with Waterman Inspired Blue (and a little bit of the Emerald Vac Major).

[AkitaMom]

Today it's my Waterman Phileas Blue Marble inked in Herbin Larmes de Cassis.

[AmandaW]

A Pilot Explorer Clear with a fine nib and Iroshizuku Sui-gyoku. 

[USG]

Asvine C80<F>

Diamine Kensington Blue

Midori Cotton Paper

 

Color comparison:  Here 

Midori Cotton Vs Canopus Vs Bank Paper 84.9

 

CLICK TO ENLARGE

 

[Scribs]

Montblanc Origin Classique, F, inked with Herbin Ambre de Birmanie

Scribo Flow Dimensione, EF, inked with Akkerman Stormachtig Blauw

[Misfit]

It took me awhile, but after going to the basement to work on laundry, I filled the Conklin Duragraph Amber with Colorverse Mars Curiosity ink. Some inks are stored in the basement. 

[InkyProf]

My black, clipless Onoto Heritage (120 Years Anniversary) has a tendency to disappear in the charcoal grey felt of my pen tray, so I've rescued it from its obscurity for the day. Fine Onoto No. 7 SS nib, filled with Diamine Damson. Every time I use this, I enjoy it even more than I expect to; I'm not sure why, since I don't feel any ambivalence about the pen, or have low expectations of it. Maybe it's just that its modest appearance belies its performance, like a shy wallflower belting "When Doves Cry" at karaoke night.

[inkstainedruth]

So far today it's been the red Diplomat Magnum, M nib, still with Platinum Classic Forest Black (an IG ink).  In a bit, when I get up the energy an wherewithal (don't ask -- you'll get an hour long rant) I will be using the the Pelikan M120 Iconic Blue, M nib, to write the check for my brother (and his poser of a housemate) rent this month.  I've already written the note that's going in the envelope along with the check, explaining that paying the ENTIRE rent (not just my brother's part of it) is a ONE TIME THING and it's NOT happening again.  EVER.  And even when the poser sent me a screenshot of the lease agreement?  It looks really hinky -- my brother's last name is spelled WRONG and his (so called) signature looks as if it was written by a ten year old girl showing off -- NOT by a guy in his 60s....    And every time I say something about how maybe I should send my brother's half of the rent DIRECTLY to the landlord?  I get some malarky from the poser housemate about how the guy doesn't want to be bothered....  (Of course, if I have to move my brother to some sort of nursing home/memory care place?  It's gonna be out by where I live -- NOT northern NJ, and no, the poser doesn't get to tag along because it doesn't work that way (and maybe I should contact HIS brother -- the high-faluting cardiac surgeon who supposedly has lots of ritzy patients -- and have HIM explain to his brother how nursing homes and memory care facilities work and how, no, you DON'T get to tag along...).  Because we are talking about a guy who supposedly does financial planning, but on the "business's" FB page uses an alias (which the moron forgets that I KNOW is an alias) blathering about how wonderful the service is....   I should probably check at some point and see if my "laughing my (bleep) off" emoji post got removed.... 

Sorry for the rant, but I just needed to vent about the poser....  

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[JasonR]

My first Majohn pen, a P139 in Orange and Black with a fine nib came in today.  I inked it up with Octopus Fluids Cerberus.  I’m really happy with the pen after using it for a half a page or so.  It feels nice in the hand and the giant nib places my grip at a nice comfortable distance from the page for cursive.  

[Penguincollector]

  I am currently using my first love: the blue marbled Parker Duofold Centennial I received as a deb gift. It has a glorious sharp italic M nib and is filled with Robert Oster Rose Gold Antiqua. 

[inkstainedruth]

Ooooh.    Just looked that one up.  Sadly, way beyond my price point....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[ParramattaPaul]

Onoto Magna, again, still, some more.

[AmandaW]

Kaweco x Moleskine Blue F with Kaweco Midnight Blue. 💙

[Penguincollector]

2 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

Ooooh.    Just looked that one up.  Sadly, way beyond my price point....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

  They’re old enough now to start showing up at estate sales, so keep an eye out. They have such good nibs. 

[Scribs]

Today it's been just two pens for me;

 

Visconti Homo Sapien Traveler, F, inked with Diamine Pansy

Scribo Flow Dimensione, EF, refilled with Akkerman Stormachtig Blauw

[USG]

Cleaned and refilled, 

Pilot Elite <M>

Fresh Pilot Blue Black ink- will reach a much darker color in a few days

Midori MD paper

 

(Comparison of Madori MD paper to Madori Cotton paper  Here)

 

 

[InkyProf]

This morning, I've been using a new arrival: a (modern) Onoto Magna Classic in Blue Pearl with gold trim, with an Onoto no. 7 stainless steel nib customized to a fine stub. It's filled with Bungubox Omotesando Blue, an intense azure without much shading or sheen (on Midori paper, which doesn't show sheen especially well). Initial thoughts about this pen below the photo if you're interested.

 

 

First reactions: 

 

• The material is gorgeous; the pearlesence is vivid and deeper in person than in photos, as you'd expect.

 

• Having seen some inconsistent size information on Onoto's webpage, I double-checked with Onoto's very helpful customer service before purchasing and confirmed that this pen would come in the slightly longer size to which they transitioned the Magna (127mm uncapped rather than 122mm), which is, as I'd hoped, long enough for me to use unposted.

 

• The cap, with its heavy clip and bands, is 13g, fully 50% of the total weight of the pen with a full converter of ink, which means two things: that posting the cap really requires a tight fit of the cap into the back of the barrel to feel secure; and that posting also backweights the pen a little awkwardly, at least for me.

 

• If I had it to do over again, I would probably add the "extra weight" option. It's not that the barrel strictly needs extra weight to be used; rather, I think there's a misfit in my perception between how the pen feels when capped (substantial) and how it feels when uncapped (where'd all that substance go?) A brass insert would make the barrel feel more proportionate in weight to the cap and thus to the pen as a whole. 

 

• The fine stub nib is very well done. I had been considering a cursive italic, but based on reports that John Sorowka's CI grinds tended toward the sharp end of the spectrum, I opted for a stub instead, and that was the right decision: this is likewise very crisp for a stub, and for my purposes, I wouldn't have wanted this nib to be any more positionally sensitive than it is (a little but not much). It is tuned beautifully and writes flawlessly. For all that, the cost of the nib customization was eye-watering, and it's also possible (I am looking into this) that some of my description of the customization I was requesting was cut off by the Onoto web interface, which seems not to warn the user if the text they've entered has exceeded the string limit, with the result that my preferences concerning maximum line width didn't register. Indeed, based on a first test, this fine stub does seem to me more like a medium stub; but it's close enough to be usable even given my small handwriting, and I enjoy writing with it, so as disappointments go, this is minor, and will be forgotten quickly.

[Cjtamu]

12 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

  They’re old enough now to start showing up at estate sales, so keep an eye out. They have such good nibs. 

Yes, they do. Wonderful pens, keep an eye out. Today’s pen is the jade green Sailor Magellan I received Friday. Broad 14K nib inked with ku-jaku. This Broad is great for me, which means it’s more like a European Medium. Smooth, wet, and just a little of that Sailor feedback. The nibs on these are wonderful and the pen is a little longer and slimmer than a 1911S and really comfortable in my hand. I think it was @USG that commented in another thread on the color of a 21K nib he has? These nibs are a much paler color than the current 14K 1911 nibs. And they’re not the nail that the current nibs are. This one was made for US market. Was extremely lucky to get with original presentation box and outer sleeve, ink carts, instructions, and I believe original converter with a white piston. Other than the dried kon-peki in the feed and converter you’d never know it was used.