What Pen did you clean out today?

[Penguincollector]

  Cleaning my MontBlanc for BMW Starwalker M today. It’s definitely getting a regrind- M is too round for my liking. 

[Doug C]

Pen7, Bexley Deluxe, Psp/Sheaffer.

[RedPie]

MB 144 Meisterstück, easy job.

[PAKMAN]

Montblanc 220 and 144 Masterpiece. 

[ParramattaPaul]

CS Duro and Belliver, and an Onoto Scholar.

[DlaurenSG]

It's pen cleaning day and new inks have arrived; so coffee and wonderful pen and ink combination decisions ahead.  I find as much joy in this process as I do in the actual use and writing.  It's calming, restorative and revitalizing simultaneously.

Leaving the rotation: 
Laban Skeleton 300 Bleu Austral Dup, (formula from the forum)
TWSBI 580 AL Taccia Fukaki Hanada
Lamy Al-Star Diamine Violet
Lamy Safari Teranishi Nostalgic Honey
Lamy Vista Diamine Oxblood

And I always look forward to hearing what's surprising you most this week.

[OCArt]

10 minutes ago, DlaurenSG said:

  I find as much joy in this process as I do in the actual use and writing.  It's calming, restorative and revitalizing simultaneously.

Now that you’ve verbalized it I realize that I do too. Puttering around with the tools, trying different inks, adjusting the nib to my liking, and cleaning are all little joys.

[frank flood]

New pen day for me will flush and ink up TWSBI ECO Espresso Bronze M nib

[InkyProf]

A Leonardo Momento Magico that I've decided to break up with ("it's not you, it's me"); plus a Pelikan M600 red tortoiseshell that got its baptismal flush, if that counts as "cleaning out." 

[InkyProf]

1 hour ago, DlaurenSG said:

Lamy Safari Teranishi Nostalgic Honey

Oh, I hope you like it; I went through my first fill of it recently, after hemming and hawing about a bunch of different honey- and caramel-colored inks, and I thought it was fabulous. I've moved on to a darker shade of caramel (Taccia Tsuchi), which is promising too, but the Teranishi is a real winner.

[Bo Bo Olson]

My Pelikan marble blue 200...B, is still red stained after weeks of trying to get rid of the red stained ink window, so I surrendered.

 

It turned out I gave my Burgundy ink to a noobie at my old folk's gymnastics class, I'm feeing inks and papers too. For years, fearing red/Burgundy/Bordeaux inks, I had only a couple, and having started two noobies....gave them the two Burgundy/Bordeaux inks. (I was right to fear reddish ink.)

 

So the only reddish inks I have is the Parker Penmann Ruby that caused the staining, and MB Carlo Collodi, that to me is more a reddish ink than the 'brown' they called it.

[DlaurenSG]

@InkyProf
Thank you for the Taccia Tsuchi mention, it looks lovely; I'll check it out.  I really like Taccia's color sensibility.

 

Regarding the Teranishi Nostalgic Honey ink, I like it but found myself reaching for it when writing on average paper and it didn't have enough depth and presence; it's much lovelier on higher grade paper.



 

[InkyProf]

I can imagine that would be true. I haven’t used it in anything “below” my everyday dot grid pad, which is Fabriano EcoQua… relatively inexpensive but still shows most inks very nicely. Enjoy the Taccia if you try it!

[ruby.monkey]

Levenger-branded OMAS Articula, although it was a slightly indirect task as I wanted to pull the nib for tweaking.

[MarcoA63]

MB 149

[InkyProf]

Frankin-Christoph model 20, tiger red

Kaweco Dia 2 LE amber

[Inky_Ben]

Ackerman standard pen with Manga-G nib.  Honestly, though, you have to clean these things out and air dry the bits or the Manga-G nibs (which are carbon steel) will rust like crazy. 

[Bo Bo Olson]

Lamy Studio, gold L55 B nib, loaded with Lamy Dark Lilac ink.

That is two pens I have so loaded with that ink.

 

The other is Lamy 1990 Persona. Pendelton Brown took it from a 18K OB nail, no line variation at all, to a real nice CI ... B.

Pendelton Browns writing and pictures. A 1990 Persona had no small dot on the press out clip, so the pen will roll off the desk. The small dot on the clip...is very small for a desk rolling stop. 

Someone's else's picture with the small disk rolling dot, next to the serrations.

It must have worked big enough, in they didn't make a bigger dot.

 

[thx1138]

17 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

Lamy Studio, gold L55 B nib, loaded with Lamy Dark Lilac ink.

That is two pens I have so loaded with that ink.

 

That is a great looking nib. Thanks for posting it.

[Penguincollector]

 Today I am cleaning out my Monteverde Strata with an Omniflex nib, and a Nonami piston filler with an IF nib. Both had lots of shimmer in them, so they are soaking in cold water after the first pass.