pens I used today...

[KrazyIvan]

Parker Vacumatic. Sorry, I am bad with identifying specifics when it comes to Parker pens. All I know is it has a great stub nib!

[fountainpenkid]

Not sure why this thread died...
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[Kaputnik]

Not sure why this thread died...

Neither am I, but I'd given up in the face of what seemed a lack of interest. But maybe it can be revived.

Here's a picture that I'd also put up on Badger and Blade a couple of days ago, but neither of these is emptied yet. Pilot Custom Heritage 92 with Sailor Jentle Miruai, Eversharp Skyline with Namiki Blue.

[ShugPug]

First use in anger of my new TWSBI Eco - comment from the lady in the gym was that if I were to take my eyes off it for 2 seconds it might walk... Needless to say it went back in my pocket straight away!

[Amanda]

It's TWSBI Tuesday. My pen du jour is a lime green TWSBI Eco running Super5 Dublin.

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[penwash]

[Freddie]

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Fred

[penwash]

Glad to see another Pelikan 100 user.

[Kaputnik]

Not the only pen I used today, but the other two were in my last picture. This is a Pilot Striped MYU, Sailor Jentle Doyou (brown) ink.

[ShugPug]

Two new pens, with two new inks Plus I used my TWSBI Eco and Diamine Imperial Purple in my journal - today was a good day

[Kaputnik]

Trying a Imgur link for a picture for the first time.

Just got back tonight from a three day trip. I took pens that I liked, but had more than one of. L-R, Pilot Custom Heritage 92, a prop pen, Pilot Capless Decimo, and Esterbrook pencil.

The "prop pen" was the hotel ballpoint that I used to hold the Capless Decimo in the position that I wanted. I actually used up the ink in the Capless, and the lead in the Esterbrook and didn't have refills.

[Freddie]

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Fred

[fountainpenkid]

I wanted to try something completely new and colorful...

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The ink is Iroshizuku yama-budo

[Onionartz]

Pelikan M800 Renaissance Brown IB with Faber Hazelnut Brown ink and Pelikan M805 Demonstrator BB with Sailor Jentle Blue ink. And the paper is always Tomoe River, no matter what i write. :-)

[Freddie]

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Fred

Pelikan...not Peelikan

[Empty_of_Clouds]

Somehow I seem to have acquired three Pelikans, all vintage. <shrugs>

Left - a 100N with a CN nib, purchased from Pena Lusa. I didn't know what CN stood for so was quite disappointed when I received the pen without a gold nib. However, the CN turned out to be nicely springy and a very pleasant writer.
Middle - a 400 tortoise with a double broad nib purchased from a chap called Bill on Pentrace. A gamble on this based on the reports that vintage Pelikan broad nibs are stubby rather than blobby... and it certainly is that.
Right - a 400NN with an extra fine nib from the PENguin. In fabulous condition (IMHO). The cap gives a little click half way through unscrewing, not sure why, doesn't seem bad. The nib... was supposed to be extra fine but is in fact an oblique fine if anything. Takes a bit of getting used to, not sure if I like it.


Never thought I'd see a single bird, now have three. Tempted by others but I am in that zone where any new pen has to offer something unique (I don't do multiples of the same thing).

[catbert]

The cap gives a little click half way through unscrewing, not sure why, doesn't seem bad.

Sounds like you got one with a secure locking cap. Feels weird at first but I wish my 400NN had it.

[penwash]

Somehow I seem to have acquired three Pelikans, all vintage. <shrugs>

Left - a 100N with a CN nib, purchased from Pena Lusa. I didn't know what CN stood for so was quite disappointed when I received the pen without a gold nib. However, the CN turned out to be nicely springy and a very pleasant writer. .

EoC, the CN stands for Chrome Nickel alloy. It's a steel nib (I have two of these) that can produce quite a bit of line variation. These are good nibs.

[Empty_of_Clouds]

Thanks. Now that I've used it for a while it's one of my favourite nibs. Not especially fine but just a real comfortable ride, like a cadillac I guess. What I would dearly love to try is a genuine super soft vintage flexible nib. Had a few attempts to acquire, never successul (sometimes my fault for not knowing what I was looking at, most of the time just sellers lying about or not understanding the flexibility of their wares).

[Freddie]

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Fred

..in that Texas town..about that shack outside La Grange
You know what I mean.............................