Five pens in my pen case for the first time in a while, and I haven’t posted anything here in ages, so...
Wing Sung 618: I love this pen? Completely transparent, Parker 51-based piston-filler, somewhere around $12 when I bought it. Inked with Robert Oster Tranquility. I’ve actually been having some weird flow issues this past week, but I think I fixed it. (I still have no idea what was going on, but the flow would consistently give out after a couple of words. I took off the section, nib and feed, and flushed them--without taking the ink out of the pen. So the ink is a little watered-down now, but the pen is writing well again.)
Lamy Profil 80: I also love this pen. It’s got the smoothest oblique broad gold nib, and it’s comfortable to hold in the same way the Lamy 2000 is. Inked with Organic Studios Walden Pond, which sheens at least as much as you’ve heard.
Pilot Falcon: I don’t know that I love this pen, exactly, but it’s a very good one, and my only problem with is is that somehow I usually end up with ink on my fingers after writing with it. Noodler’s Mandalay Maroon, the remains of a several-year-old sample.
Esterbrook SJ: Actually the larger of my two Esties. I’ve got an Osmiroid nib in it currently, a Soft Fine Italic that’s sort of been worn into an oblique. I inherited it from my step-grandfather, and it’s beautifully smooth from exactly one angle and horribly scratchy from every other. Robert Oster Fire and Ice.
SKB Triangle: I don’t know if that’s’ really the correct name. The AliExpress listing I bought it from called it a “lipstick pen.” It’s sort of like an untwisted Pelikan Twist, with an equally aggressive triangle grip. I just got this, and it may actually be too uncomfortable to hold, but the nib is reasonably nice--feedback-y, but not in a bad way. Delta Brown, also the tail end of an old sample.
