What Pen did you clean out today?

[PAKMAN]

Gray lizard StyloChap

[thx1138]

Cleaned a few today. Stubs are very overrepresented.

[jmccarty3]

Cleaned a blue Waterman L'Etalon and a green Sheaffer Statesman snorkel.

[Runnin_Ute]

Not any yet. I have way too many that need it. (~2 dozen)

[ParramattaPaul]

Conway Stewart broad nib Duro.  It's provided three months service and has earned a rest.  An Onoto Excel with a broad nib that leaves a much wider line has taken its place on my desk.

[Penguincollector]

  I cleaned, really deep cleaned, my new to me Parker 75 Ciselé F. I cleaned the innards and polished the silver, and now it’s gleaming. 

[Antenociticus]

PenBBS 323, in the anodized aluminium version (the purple one).

[Penguincollector]

I cleaned a translucent cobalt blue Cross Century II F and a Yiren school pen with a spade EF nib. 

[ParramattaPaul]

Evergreen Onoto Scholar.

 

[inkstainedruth]

On 6/12/2024 at 2:07 AM, Penguincollector said:

  I cleaned, really deep cleaned, my new to me Parker 75 Ciselé F. I cleaned the innards and polished the silver, and now it’s gleaming. 

It's funny, but the ONLY 75 I was remotely interested in was a Ciselé, after seeing one at an estate sale but didn't buy because I didn't know enough about the model at the time to know if the asking price was reasonable (turned out it probably was).  So I spent the next six months educating myself about those and going "Okay, you've got three different ones at your table -- why are they priced differently?"  And then got MASSIVELY outbid on one with an F nib on the Bay of Evil but then got one that NOBODY was apparently watching but ME with a B nib a week or so later (go figure).  And got THAT one for the opening bid, plus tax and shipping, and I waited till about the last hour to even start at the minimum -- a later model with the dished tassie, but who cares?  Not me!  I'm not a c-worder....  

It writes GREAT -- but really likes the MB Jimi Hendrix LE ink which was EXPENSIVE and now basically "unobtanium".... 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Bo Bo Olson]

Didn't clean either out.

A good decade ago, I won a section less Thyua on ebay. they guy sent the whole pen, but refused to sell me the section...so I shipped it back to him.

Last yer I got the FP+BP from a widow, I knew from work.

The BP is the same color as the FP....OB. I did clean it out this year.

 

[Penguincollector]

I cleaned out my XXF Morison short-long today.  It was inked since late last year or early this year. I wrote with it regularly, but it’s so narrow that it takes forever to get through a cartridge. 

[ParramattaPaul]

Onoto Excel.

[Cjtamu]

Pilot 845 and 743. Montegrappa Brenta.

[A Smug Dill]

[Wil D]

Rockman Ultima

[thx1138]

Cleaned out a few 45's. 

[Bo Bo Olson]

Only 30 still inked.....and 11 in the to clean cup...that was empty 10-12 days ago...and I had a dream...waking of course, of cleaning pens during the weekend....sigh cubed...got to that. I dug out four of my Purple inks.

Other inks are sitting there out, on the book shelves...alarmingly ticking.

[Runnin_Ute]

Cleaned these tonight:

Ranga Monterey and Zayante Z2

Newton Elizabethan and Majestic 

Lamy 2000

Parker 51 Special 

No name

 

Not pictured:

Pelikan M400 White Tortoise 

[Bo Bo Olson]

Just because one thinks a pen is clean, don't make it so.

I inked a 'clean' Pelikan 481 M with  Diamine Ultra Green, and thought it a good shading ink, sort of murky, like Vert Empire..........then over the course of a couple days of occasional note taking, the ink changed to a brighter even better shading ink....and suddenly I can see why that ink was raved about.

I like green inks...so the plan is to re-ink with Ultra Green when it runs out.