What Pen did you clean out today?

[Bo Bo Olson]

On 9/25/2025 at 11:39 PM, Penguincollector said:

my MB 34 EF

What flex does that have nib have. I have a light and lively  MB 32 Eyeballed F with a semi-flex nib and a 322 that is an EF nail.

....and a picture of a 34 would be of interest.

 

Having, I know what a 22 and a 32/322 look like, but not that 34.

 

234 1/2 Deluxe has lost first place in balance to an MB 264 with a tad livelier semi-flex nib. That pen worked wonders with that nib and line variation and shading using R&K Alt Goldgruen. Have to try that pen soon with another ink. It is very seldom I load a pen four times in a row and with the same ink. 

The 264, + MP And MB Étui. 

[Penguincollector]

Here are some pictures of my 34 (pardon my unsightly thumbnail): 

 

 

 

    It’s a nice semi flex intarsia nib with really pretty tines that have some length to them. 

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

I'm glad for you.

My just back from repair 322 nail, has long tines too. I so wish it was springy regular flex than a nail, in lately I've been digging out all my EF nibbed pens for editing. And my 322 nail is a long tined, eyeballed EF ... at least.

 

For years, I had avoided such spade and 'intarsia' (a new word for me) nibs thinking they had to be nails. (being a bottom feeder without money to gamble)  Then I had a semi-flex in a dirt cheap Mutschler pen, with what had to be a Degussa 14K, semi-flex spade nib, and the real nice, lively semi-flex MB 32 in the intarsia shaped nib.

 

Besides, it was cheaper in a Live Auction...or was... I could check the nib before bidding. Something I couldn't do on the Bay.

My Weak Kneed Wet Noodle 1927 Parker Sr. Doufold is EF, and being so flexible even lightly, I get flair to my letters.

I got to find someone doing mathematics (writing very tiny) and sell him my MB 322. 

[InkyProf]

Cleaned out a Sailor Pro Gear (had been inked with Suberakashi, replacing it with a Franklin-Christoph Model 20 with Sailor Rikyucha) and the Santini Italia Nonagon (had been inked with Pelikan 4001 Königsblau, will be re-inked with KWZ Green-Gold to see how the heat-setting affects performance with the first ink I'd put in the pen). 

[AkitaMom]

I really need to clean my Parker Golden pearl, sigh.  Just a bit 'handicapped', as my right hand and wrist have severe tendonitis, grrrr.

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

My Herlitz chased silver Luxor ran out of ink.

This was in a cleaned cup.

Francis rebuilt the piston, I'd sent it off as semi-flex.

 

Besides building a full piston, Francis fiddled around right, setting the feed and nib just right (Mauricio said there is a lot of fiddling to be done to set a superflex nib best, so one gets all the flex possible.) 

And it came back to me as a Wet Noodle. The nib is a Fox jumping through a capital P. I think that was a Pfortzheim nib company. Someone knows and I don't.

 

This was the first chased pen I ever won, being someone that hadn't spent more than €30 on a pen, I was right. I'd never owned a BCHR pen. I spent a humongous €70 on it, so breaking the fifty border was easier. It is still one of my sharpest chasings. 

It sat forever needing repair. Out of sight, out of mind.

 

I estimate @'41. No cap ring, and no vacant ring press mark, of the pens that had them normally had metal cap rings before the War. No rings, but pressure marks to 'strengthen' the plastic as the War wore on.

It's an F and writes 'fat' being a wet noodle so can't be used to edit.

 This a late '30's Gutenberg ink shoe bottle. Marked on the bottom. Gutenberg just started making inks again. I have their version of a Royal Blue. It is darker than 4001 Royal Blue.

There could be a little shading, but it is a too wet a nib for that, at least with just a page of writing. 

I cleaned out the bottle with salt. 

[Doug C]

1 hour ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

My Herlitz chased silver Luxor ran out of ink.

This was in a cleaned cup.

Francis rebuilt the piston, I'd sent it off as semi-flex.

 

Besides building a full piston, Francis fiddled around right, setting the feed and nib just right (Mauricio said there is a lot of fiddling to be done to set a superflex nib best, so one gets all the flex possible.) 

And it came back to me as a Wet Noodle. The nib is a Fox jumping through a capital P. I think that was a Pfortzheim nib company. Someone knows and I don't.

 

This was the first chased pen I ever won, being someone that hadn't spent more than €30 on a pen, I was right. I'd never owned a BCHR pen. I spent a humongous €70 on it, so breaking the fifty border was easier. It is still one of my sharpest chasings. 

It sat forever needing repair. Out of sight, out of mind.

 

I estimate @'41. No cap ring, and no vacant ring press mark, of the pens that had them normally had metal cap rings before the War. No rings, but pressure marks to 'strengthen' the plastic as the War wore on.

It's an F and writes 'fat' being a wet noodle so can't be used to edit.

 This a late '30's Gutenberg ink shoe bottle. Marked on the bottom. Gutenberg just started making inks again. I have their version of a Royal Blue. It is darker than 4001 Royal Blue.

There could be a little shading, but it is a too wet a nib for that, at least with just a page of writing. 

I cleaned out the bottle with salt. 

The pen and the bottle are terrific looking!

[nm4]

Cleaned out an Admok m800 (Pelikan m800 clone) that I had fitted with the Pelikan nib adapter and a genuine M800 EF nib.  At the end of the day I love that the amok is inexpensive but the build quality, ink volume, and beauty pale in comparison to the real deal.  I can live with it for the $60 or so invested.

 

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[MarcoA63]

I have to say that the flushing of the Omas 361 in the way described yesterday has sorted the problem of the nib being dry and awful to write with. So operation was successful.

[USG]

Cleaned the section on an unfilled Pilot 823 <M>, again ! 

I was trying to find an appropriate ink for this pen by dipping it, but it was such a pain in the a$$ to clean that I bought an easily washed out 743 with the same nib to test inks with.  Then Diamine China Blue found it's way into the 743 and won't leave... Now I'm back to dipping, cleaning and complaining....  🤓

[thx1138]

I decided to clean out some of my inked pens. After this lot I only have a dozen or so inked.

 

The nib on the blue sonnet is an 18k monstrous 85 extra broad. Silken smooth and doesn't dry out if left for a week or two.

 

[MarcoA63]

This is the second website that doesn't show me any photos and instead shows the following image.

where are the photos stored?

 

[Mercian]

17 minutes ago, MarcoA63 said:

This is the second website that doesn't show me any photos and instead shows the following image.

where are the photos stored?

 

@Bo Bo Olson's photos are stored on imgur.com.

 

The company that owns imgur has decided to 'Unperson' everyone in the UK:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo

🤬

 

The photos are presumably still perfectly visible to everyone who is not in the UK.

[MarcoA63]

so I'm 'ducked' as they say. I could change DNS/proxy settings 🙂 but I'm too lazy

[Penguincollector]

   I cleaned out my Parker Streamline Junior (or vice versa) F in Modernistic Blue today. 

[inkstainedruth]

6 hours ago, Mercian said:

 

@Bo Bo Olson's photos are stored on imgur.com.

 

The company that owns imgur has decided to 'Unperson' everyone in the UK:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3qo

🤬

 

The photos are presumably still perfectly visible to everyone who is not in the UK.

This is now making me think back to "The Great Photobucket Hijack" on here a number of years ago.... 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[USG]

Pelikan M1000 <F>

Pelikan 4001 Brillant Braun

Cosmo Snow

CLICK TO ENLARGE

 

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

17 hours ago, inkstainedruth said:

"The Great Photobucket Hijack"

I lost lots of Chicken Scratch...before I turned it into Banty Rooster Scratch.

A 17 different paper, 17 different width and flex nib scribble of ESSR, was my best.

(It did take me years before I got up the nerve to show the worst handwriting in the Western World.))

 

 

[RedPie]

On 10/2/2025 at 5:22 AM, USG said:

Pelikan M1000 <F>

Pelikan 4001 Brillant Braun

Cosmo Snow

CLICK TO ENLARGE

 

 

That nib and that ink made me look twice. What a great combination. Brown never looked better.

[InkyProf]

MB 252. Took well over a dozen cycles of the piston to be able to tell whether this has a clear/grey or a blue ink window (the ink was Akkerman Passage Blauw) and I think I’m still going to have to do a little more after letting a full load of water conduct out of the nib and feed.