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A Peek at the Pen Cups

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My pen cup runneth over.  Both of them. And they show what’s going on here for the next week or two.

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I’ve got four Kaweco Sports inked right now.  Three of them contain inks I’m going to be reviewing, or might be reviewing or really thought I’d already have finished reviewing.  Those pens are blue, clear and purple, respectively.

The other is my new AL-Sport.  Which is new.  I am not sure I expressed that clearly enough.  I meant, new!  Well, actually, newest.  Newest!

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Does that photo up above look sufficiently dark and mysterious?  Good.  There are two pens there that I think are going to be pens of the week this very week, so I don’t want to give away too much now.  I hope it’s just like Pretty Little Liars here, in terms of suspense.  So you can tune in tomorrow, when I reveal “A.”

Pen of the Day: Parker Vacumatic Maxima

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Parker Vacumatic Maxima with fine nib. This week has turned out to be “fancy pen week” for me, because this is my most blingy pen.  It’s a Vacumatic Maxima in Emerald Pearl, and it just shines.

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The Maxima is the second-largest Vacumatic, and it’s the perfect size for me.  This one was a birthday present from my parents, and so it is both my first and last Maxima.  There wouldn’t be another I could like any better or would choose to use instead of this one.

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The ink is Diamine Tropical Green, a green with just the right amount of blue for me.

Pen of the Day: Parker Duofold Centennial

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Parker Duofold Centennial with medium stub. You might have guessed by now that I am a Parker fan. This is the gorgeous Black and Pearl Duofold Centennial, which is about the size of the original Big Red.

I just recently got this back from the nibmeister. I was never perfectly happy with how it wrote, so I asked Dan Smith to decrease its over-enthusiastic ink flow and make the stub smoother. Thanks to Dan, it finally writes as beautifully as it looks.

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It’s inked with Caran d’Ache Saffron, my all-time favorite orange ink.

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Pen of the Day: Parker 51 Double Jewel

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Parker 51 Cedar Blue with fine nib. This is a vacumatic 51. It belonged to my mother. When we found it this January, it hadn’t been used for decades. It was inside an old jewelry box, unseen and forgotten. The body jewel and tassie were missing, and I didn’t have to test the filler to know it needed a new diaphragm.

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Pen of the Day: Parker 51 Plum

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Parker 51 Plum with fine nib.  This particular Parker 51 is the color Plum, which was produced only for about a year or so.  No, you can’t tell by looking at the photograph, which is how I chanced upon mine.  The color is so dark it tends to look black, brown or burgundy in photographs.  It was entirely by accident, then, that I bought this on eBay.  Even in real life, however, the Plum color isn’t particularly noticeable.  However, I’ve always liked writing with the 51’s straight-forward, business-like fine nib, no matter the pen’s color.

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I’m using Pelikan Edelstein Amethyst, Pelikan’s 2015 ink of the year.  It’s a red-leaning purple with a soft, friendly look and beautiful shading.  It seems to clean up easily for a purple ink.  I’m smitten.  Because it’s a limited edition ink, it won’t be around forever, and I’m sorely tempted to buy a bottle.

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