What Pen did you clean out today?

[Bo Bo Olson]

1 hour ago, Penguincollector said:

Edelstein Moonstone

A very good shading Gray, perhaps second...behind MB Oyster/Cool gray.

[Penguincollector]

54 minutes ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

A very good shading Gray, perhaps second...behind MB Oyster/Cool gray.

  I love it, on certain papers, it almost shimmers.

[Bo Bo Olson]

I expected to have to re-clean out the Italian made Pelikan 151, in it is a piston pen. It did have the blush.

Those converters of the Lamy Studio, and the P-45, didn't quiet clean out...converter and nib section. That wasn't expected.

Tomorrow comes.

[ParramattaPaul]

The black Onoto Scholar is getting a cleaning today and will have a rest while its brother the Highland green scholar has a turn doing the duties.

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

The P-45 springy regular flex, made in England P-45 M got used for the light shading, green Lamy Peridot.

And I had to find another M. In springy regular flex, being drier than semi-flex, shows shading better.

I looked in my Pelikan three drawer pen box. And my glass topped cherry wood one ...lots of semi-flex, too many F's, and I didn't want to dig too deeply into my dirty cups...

 

Look up in the bookshelf.

In the top picture, one can see pen colors better.

Half of them are M's.....the Pelikan 400 tortoise M in a '91-97, and the first pen I ever won in a live auction is the third pen from the right.

Imgure wouldn't lighten the picture, and I'm not going to drag it over to my computer, in I might not be able to get it back to Imgur. I do have problems with that.

 

It, too, needed the final cleaning, in there was a blush of ink left in it.

So my new ink review is delayed yet another day.

[nm4]

Rinsed the Tsuki-Yo out of my aki-tamenuri Nakaya Long Writer.  Also did the same for the MB Burgundy red that was in a Platinum President coarse nib.  
 

I’m starting to derive some satisfaction from matching ink color to pen color…might just be an excuse to buy more ink

 

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[Tashi_Tsering]

Today I cleaned up a vintage Parker Duofold Jr. (the photo is not from today, but it is the pen)

[RedPie]

I cleaned out the Picasso 916 and my Lanbitou 3062. No issues, easy job. 

[ParramattaPaul]

An Onoto Scholar has been soaking overnight. 

[inkstainedruth]

Yesterday it was the Noodler's Vulcan's Coral FPC, flex nib, finishing out a fill of diluted Noodler's Legal Lapis.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[senzen]

Trusty Carène with its M nib has given me zero problems, but I know it can consistently produce a very specific hue of Kon Peki, shading told me a simple cleaning would help.

 

 

[Penguincollector]

I have a bunch of pens that were rotated out in the last couple of days:

 

Sheaffer Junior Balance ebonized pearl EF

Radius 1934 Settimo Cielo Blu with a FPR Ultraflex EF that didn’t quite fit, so I moved it to a different pen. 
Reform 1745 green EF 

Reform 14 K F spade nib with a brown barrel and gold cap

MontBlanc 144 IB

 

[Targa]

I go through a lot of pens - just indecisive I guess.  The big event was last week, when I was rinsing out my CS Churchill "Evergreen" Christmas pen, which had shimmer ink in it for Christmas greetings and such.  When doing the "shaking down the thermometer" move. The section with nib slipped out of my hand and crashed onto a ceramic tile floor, with catastrophic result.  Luckily the nib itself was well wrapped in Kleenex and suffered no harm, but the section itself cracked.  

HIGH PRAISE to the Bespoke British Pens folks - they are making me a brand new replacement!  Should be on the way next week.  You cannot beat the customer service from them!

BTW the pen itself was made by Santa Claus himself.

 

[RedPie]

2 minutes ago, Targa said:

BTW the pen itself was made by Santa Claus himself.

How nice!!!

[inkstainedruth]

@Targa Sounds as if you were exceedingly lucky under the circumstances!  A few years ago, while flushing out one of my Pilot Decimos, I knocked the nib assembly off the bathroom counter and onto the floor, and of course it landed nib down....  Fortunately I was able to get the nib unbent by Richard Binder at a pen show.  But of course I was in a complete panic when it happened....   Especially since it was a rhodium plated gold nib....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Targa]

Many of us have done that.  Oh, the pain

[Targa]

On 1/11/2025 at 4:21 PM, inkstainedruth said:

@Targa Sounds as if you were exceedingly lucky under the circumstances!  A few years ago, while flushing out one of my Pilot Decimos, I knocked the nib assembly off the bathroom counter and onto the floor, and of course it landed nib down....  Fortunately I was able to get the nib unbent by Richard Binder at a pen show.  But of course I was in a complete panic when it happened....   Especially since it was a rhodium plated gold nib....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

One of the other nice things about the CS pens from BBP is that they will happliy sell you the nib units, so they can be replaced if need be, or even just so you can have different nibs without having to buy whole new pens.  The nib fir the big pens (e.g. Winston and Churchill) are JoWo #7s, which JoWo does not sell individually, so you can't just get directly from JoWo, unless you are a manufacturer and buy in big lots.  

Some of the smaller CS / BBP pens have JoWo #6 nibs which are more broadly available, though clearly you would not get the BBP in-house nib tuning nor brand marks.  

BTW my new section arrived today and is in service already.  They sent by next-AM DHL, after actually making a new section in the special green for me.  You don't see that kind of service from Parker / Rubbermaid, do you?

[Targa]

7 minutes ago, Targa said:

One of the other nice things about the CS pens from BBP is that they will happliy sell you the nib units, so they can be replaced if need be, or even just so you can have different nibs without having to buy whole new pens.

You can do that with Pelikan nibs too, though it seems they are getting harder to source lately.  

[inkstainedruth]

The nice thing about the Pelikan nibs is that you can swap out the entire nib unit to some extent -- I know that the nibs on the M200 size pens ALSO fit on the M400 size ones, and vice versa.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Misfit]

A Retro 51 orange lacquer pen, and previously a Lamy Al-Star in Azure.