pens I used today...

[kaisnowbird]

Inked up my Waterman Carene the other day with Eclat de Saphir and found it to be a bit 'leaky'. It's always been like this. Not real leakage, mostly just a nib creep issue, but when that happens to the tail end of an inlaid nib, the ink travels to the gripping section and the inner cap too, peppering the lower half of the section with ink droplets. Now I understood why a nibmeister advised me against buying one of these. *Sigh*, I didn't listen -- couldn't resist a good deal. My wife loves its shape, so I won't sell it yet. I suppose it just needs to go with a much drier ink.

As I don't care for blue fingers at work, the pen was cleaned out after being inked for one day.

In my rotation today are:
1. Pilot Custom Heritage 92 Clear, FM nib, filled with a deep cyan colour mixed ink. This pen has stayed in my 3-pen daily carry continuously for 3 weeks, which is a rare thing for me.
2. Duller pocket size FP, F nib, Violet from Justwrite.com.au. I find this ink too light - almost pastel. I'll mix some darker purple ink to jazz it up a bit.
3. Parker Sonnet, Broad Pendleton Butterline Stub, Parker Black cartridge. Very juicy nib. I love it!

[Roefisher]

Took my Vac700 and M600 Black & Blue to work today as I was on a course where I knew we'd be doing some sketches as well as writing.

Inks were Caran d'Ache Infinite Grey in the Pelikan and Iroshizuku shin-ryoku in the TWSBI. Grey writing with green sketches work well together and I really enjoyed using both of them.

Mark

[kaisnowbird]

In my rotation today are:
1. Pilot Custom Heritage 92 Clear, FM nib, filled with a deep cyan colour mixed ink. This pen has stayed in my 3-pen daily carry continuously for 3 weeks, which is a rare thing for me.
2. Duller pocket size FP, F nib, Violet from Justwrite.com.au. I find this ink too light - almost pastel. I'll mix some darker purple ink to jazz it up a bit.
3. Parker Sonnet, Broad Pendleton Butterline Stub, Parker Black cartridge. Very juicy nib. I love it!

Finally cleaned and put away my Pilot demonstrator. Since it's less than 12 days to Christmas, I broke out my Xmas gift from myself - Visconti Van Gogh Maxi in Tortoise:
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(Photo from exactly a month ago when it was first bought.)

Inked with Sienna by JustWrite.com.au.

[Sailor Kenshin]

Inked up my Waterman Carene the other day with Eclat de Saphir and found it to be a bit 'leaky'. It's always been like this. Not real leakage, mostly just a nib creep issue, but when that happens to the tail end of an inlaid nib, the ink travels to the gripping section and the inner cap too, peppering the lower half of the section with ink droplets. Now I understood why a nibmeister advised me against buying one of these. *Sigh*, I didn't listen -- couldn't resist a good deal. My wife loves its shape, so I won't sell it yet. I suppose it just needs to go with a much drier ink.

As I don't care for blue fingers at work, the pen was cleaned out after being inked for one day.

In my rotation today are:
1. Pilot Custom Heritage 92 Clear, FM nib, filled with a deep cyan colour mixed ink. This pen has stayed in my 3-pen daily carry continuously for 3 weeks, which is a rare thing for me.
2. Duller pocket size FP, F nib, Violet from Justwrite.com.au. I find this ink too light - almost pastel. I'll mix some darker purple ink to jazz it up a bit.
3. Parker Sonnet, Broad Pendleton Butterline Stub, Parker Black cartridge. Very juicy nib. I love it!

The Carene just does that. I wipe down the nib now and then and remove the cap vewy vewy carefully.

[da vinci]

CS Winston in black with silver trim. Inked for the first time with OMAS purple. A good writing experience with the IM nib

[Roefisher]

Just used my Pelikan M300 newly loaded with Caran d'Ache's Electric Orange ink to make a couple of quick notes at home earlier. Yes, a shamefully poor writing day...



Mark

[lisantica]

I did a lot of comparison writing today as I tested out nibs and ink.
I tried the following:

Pelikan M600
Pelikan M800
Visconti Van Gogh Midi
Pilot Vanishing Point
Lamy Safari
Lamy Al-Star

[kaisnowbird]

I did a lot of comparison writing today as I tested out nibs and ink.
I tried the following:

Pelikan M600
Pelikan M800
Visconti Van Gogh Midi
Pilot Vanishing Point
Lamy Safari
Lamy Al-Star

Would love to hear the results of your comparison.

[Goldfish]

Taccia Portuguese with Montblanc Violet and Myu 90 with Seiboku.

[lisantica]

Would love to hear the results of your comparison.

Essentially I love 'em all. I'm pretty new to fountain pens and instead of inquiring about which pens to buy, I just buy and try after quite a bit of reading.
I admit I find uses for all of them..mainly journalling. Of the ones listed in my post, I'm quite partial to the Pelikans.
I did just purchase a 1.9 nib for the Lamy, I want to try one of those out and I sure appreciate the affordability of Lamy nibs.

[Bogon07]

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A wooden pen from Deloraine, Tasmania f-m nib with an international black cartridge. The wood could be laurel according to the label. It is in the basic style of a Delta dolce vita & quite heavy, just as well It does not post.

[Tracy Lee]

That is a really a lovely pen, Bogon! Nice to find a new treasure on vacation and especially one so unique. Hip hip hooray for a heavy pen!! I have to admit I do love posting.

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[kaisnowbird]

Hey Mr Bogon, is the wood on that pen varnished? If not, does it still have a woody scent? I love one with a cedar or rosewood scent.

[Bogon07]

Hey Mr Bogon, is the wood on that pen varnished? If not, does it still have a woody scent? I love one with a cedar or rosewood scent.

It does not appear to be vanished, maybe it has had a bit of oil and has a slight woody scent.
We saw two other versions of this pen at the upmarket Makers Workshop at Burnie. One in rare Tiger Myrtle & one in Blackwood at four times the price.

The demo cartridge originally in the pen ran dry this morning so I have now loaded the other black one.

[Tony Rex]

Not today, but yesterday..



Platinum rivière, Montblanc red chalk / Leonardo.

[lisantica]

These four:

[mhosea]

Today so far...

Was writing on some more FP-friendly paper and just realized that the Celemo has a "baby's bottom" to fix. A tinkerer's work is never finished.

[Goldfish]

Estie Dollar Pen with 9128 nib, filled with Sheaffer pre-Slovanian Blue Black.

[reprieve]

Pelikan M800 Tortoise, fine nib, Diamine Oxblood
Nakaya Naka-ai Cigar in unpolished shu, soft medium stub nib, Iroshizuku Ama-iro

[Bogon07]

$5 cre8tiv Chinese calligraphy set from K-mart. stainless steel F,M,B italic nibs and 14 assorted cartridges.
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The ink is a little watery but the pens write pretty well for the price. The nibs are tending toward cursive italic/stub style. The right box photo shows a black Lamy Safari or Joy!