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I just finished cleaning and inking a couple pens due to excess nib crud buildup.

 

One was Mango Lamy Safari that got a fresh batch of Diamine Sunset (I love the shading!) and the other was a Hongdian C2 in silver. Ancient Copper was removed and replaced with Diamine Twilight.

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My 1950's Sheaffer Craftsman touchdown. I inadvertently put Edelstein Golden Lapis instead of Topaz in it yesterday. I discovered it when I went to use it this morning  and shimmer showed up.  Probably not a good pen for a shimmer ink. I'll put it either my Pelikan M205 DUO (BB) or something with a converter. Have had good luck with those.

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A few cheapies through the ultrasonic cleaner today. A few interesting nibs though.

18k cross broad italic

18k P75 medium italic (French)

14k P75 stub (USA)

18k Duofold medium italic 

14k? P51 demi stub or medium italic.

 

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My goodness!  You've been busy!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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6 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

My goodness!  You've been busy!

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

Stuck at home for 6 weeks post op. Can't lift or do anything strenuous so have lots of time for messing about with pens. I will probably even start to sort my parker collection. 

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7 hours ago, thx1138 said:

Stuck at home for 6 weeks post op. Can't lift or do anything strenuous so have lots of time for messing about with pens. I will probably even start to sort my parker collection. 

That is a good plan. Enjoy being home!

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Singwitz, an East German pen, with a screw off piston cap, with a EEF or EEEF???. So very narrow, would guess it springy regular flex. Not having three hands where I could look through a loop, while pressing it on my thumbnail, will have to guess. It is by far the narrowest nib I have. Inked from Liz's great chart Lamy Crystal ink Benitoite, which has great lubrication.veQaiEf.jpg

A maxi-semi-flex Geha 790 EF inked with De Atramentis Purpurviolet. And a MB 14 eyeballed EF....nothing else just 14, a semi-nail, which shocked me. Well-balanced, but a semi-nail. Such a beautiful pen, too bad it's semi-nail. Inked with DA Schütze (the Archer, Sagittarius)

 

Clairefontaine Triomphe 90g, is the paper scribbled on...not for view as it's full of other pen and ink scribble lines. A very fine paper to see what the ink and nib feels like.

 

The Geha 790 needed 6-7 seconds on a buff stick, then it turned out just fine with that purple-violet DA ink.

The MB 14's DA Purple ink was very well lubricated in I didn't feel the semi-nail at all.

The 'cheap' East German Swingwitz, wrote very well, and writes wider (EF) than expected, and smooth with Lamy Crystal Benitoite.

 

The 1959 three true ring Geha 790. Buy the pen get the picture, and the three rings polished up nicely with a gold shine cloth. The next year they went to cheaper three rings. WsRXJxi.jpg

A later Gaha 790 with indicated three rings. Being a bottom feeder, there was a Geha equivalent of a Pelikan 140, with just two rings, but I could never afford to chase it. I do have four 790's. WotaRYp.jpg

 

The MB 14 EF...the bottom one. Auction house picture, the top 22 needs repair. Should be packed up today. That particular, 22, was MB's attempt to copy the Lamy 2000.6vrcXas.jpg

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@Bo Bo Olson That Singwitz pen is a nice color!  I picked up a Singwitz and another East German (I think) brand pen, a Heiko, about a year ago at an estate sale.  Both are piston fillers.

Haven't had a chance to get them checked out/repaired yet (there were other pens that ended up jumping the line).  

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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  I cleaned out my  green Eversharp Symphony 717 Flex Fine and Cross Wanderlust Malta M last night before hitting the hay. 

Top 5 (in no particular order) of 30 currently inked pens:

Parker Duofold Centennial IM, RO Rose Gold Antiqua

Parker Duofold Lady needlepoint, MB Cool Grey

Pelikan M800 needlepoint, Kuretake Shikon

Platinum PKB 2000, Platinum Cyclamen Pink

Waterman 52 EF, Herbin Bleu Pervenche

always looking for penguin fountain pens and stationery 

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On 3/5/2025 at 12:15 PM, Mr. Pink said:

Flushed out a button filler Duofold.  What a pan.

Too bad I can't type.  I meant, "what a PAIN"

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CS Seamus Heaney Series 58 will have a bath lare today. 

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A Parker 61 only to find cracks in the section😡  . I was going to try a new ink but everything is on hold now.

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  Parker 45 Fine flighter with orange tassie.

Top 5 (in no particular order) of 30 currently inked pens:

Parker Duofold Centennial IM, RO Rose Gold Antiqua

Parker Duofold Lady needlepoint, MB Cool Grey

Pelikan M800 needlepoint, Kuretake Shikon

Platinum PKB 2000, Platinum Cyclamen Pink

Waterman 52 EF, Herbin Bleu Pervenche

always looking for penguin fountain pens and stationery 

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14 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

  Parker 45 Fine flighter with orange tassie.

I've never seen one in person. Congratulations on having such an uncommon pen.

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23 minutes ago, thx1138 said:

I've never seen one in person. Congratulations on having such an uncommon pen.


 Thank you! It’s a bit of an odd duck, but I like it. 

Top 5 (in no particular order) of 30 currently inked pens:

Parker Duofold Centennial IM, RO Rose Gold Antiqua

Parker Duofold Lady needlepoint, MB Cool Grey

Pelikan M800 needlepoint, Kuretake Shikon

Platinum PKB 2000, Platinum Cyclamen Pink

Waterman 52 EF, Herbin Bleu Pervenche

always looking for penguin fountain pens and stationery 

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Cleaning out my Asvine V200 and Pelikan 205 Petrol today. Nothing inked!  Got to find something to ink in the morning!

 

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I don't have a lot of pens or inks, so I mainly just refill. Today a Pelikan 400nn got more Pelikan 4001 Royal blue. Not sure if I need to clean out a pen so often if I just use it all the time with the same ink.

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On 3/8/2025 at 6:20 AM, jchch1950 said:

A Parker 61 only to find cracks in the section😡  . I was going to try a new ink but everything is on hold now.

Wow.  What a bummer.  

I feel your pain -- the only two 61s I have that did NOT develop cracks are the most recently acquired (a black barrel one I picked up at a estate sale company's showroom sale last August) and a 61 Flighter I got a couple of years ago.  And for that black one, I'm still at the point of reconstituting the ink in the teflon sponge to get the pen to write. 

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"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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