Frontier for today
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Frontier for today
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Montanez (September 19th, 2020)
Today it is a black Parker 45 with a size fine steel nib, inked with Chesterfield Capri Blue.
Two vintage ball points with new black gel.
Giving my vintage Parkers some love today, to keep the ink flowing.
Parker 51 Special (M) - Lamy Black
Parker 21 (F) - Pelikan Edelstein Onyx
Parker 41 (F) - Aurora Blue
Just inked up the 41. Previously, I'd run some Lamy Blue in it. Worked fine, but the nib is as close to EF as any of my Parkers in the 51/41/21 family, so I wanted something a little wetter. Initial tests are looking good with the Aurora.
Scribbled a bit with my first year 75 with the #97 fine italic nib.
Sheptonian (October 19th, 2020)
My trusty late Parker 61 Mk III Custom Burgundy with a smooth broad-ish side of medium nib. By no means collection quality it has been my everyday work writer since it replaced a Sonnet rollerball a couple of years ago.
azkid (October 18th, 2020), carlos.q (October 18th, 2020), forester (February 1st, 2024), fountainpenkid (February 13th, 2021)
Parker 61 capillary fill, fine point. I was taking notes in a notebook that tends to blot, and the very fine point worked well. And the capillary filling system worked perfectly. No moving parts! I have grumbled about the capillary, but maybe it really was a serious advance on previous filling systems.
45 BP
My 45 and 17 lady with blue quick and James herbin
Golden Pearl Vacumatic with date code 3rd qtr 1941 on the barrel and the nib. The diaphragm was recently replaced again, maybe because of the ink I left in the pen for too long.
I've been carrying a vintage Parker 45 "flighter" a couple of month. I like to use it for when a more permanent ink is handy.
I am using a Parker 51 gold plated Insignia, with a broad nib. For many years one of my holy grail pens, which I was fortunate enough to buy, and which I love. It is second only to my Mont Blanc which my wife bought me before we married some forty years ago.
azkid (November 19th, 2020)
It is a great nib, but imagine my surprise when I had a well respected nib expert tune the flow and he told me it was a Parker 61 nib, not a Parker 51 nib!
Parker 51 Midnight Blue, US medium nib, and a teal Parker 51 Special, also medium. I'm auditing a class at Columbia with a brilliant philosopher named Axel Honneth, who is stuck in Frankfort, Germany, for the semester. Course is European Social Philosophy, and today Axel talked about Hannah Arendt's mid-'50s book, The Human Condition. I write in Levenger Notabilia To-do notebooks, descended from the Notabilia Grid Notebooks I used as a "software engineer". The graph paper is great for indenting, which we use when writing anything that follows on from the C Programming Language.
(Long ago, my first computer programming boss had us write with a Pentel .5mm pencil on graph paper, explaining that customers associated the graph paper and fine pencil with precision.)
Just got back home and used the sterling and blue '42 "51".
Parker 75 Sterling Silver Cisele, fine nib
'42 Parker 51 gold and dove.
Three Parker Jotter desk pens, Yellow with red refill, Blue with blue refill and Green Jotter desk pen with green refill. I know, that's so conventional.
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