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Parker Rialto with Diamine Damson
Wahl Eversharp Skyline with Herbin Ambre de Birmanie
Parker Duofold International with Parker Blue
My trim preference is usually silver over gold, but with blue pens gold is hard to beat.
Gone from last time: Spoke Icon. The Zebra Sarasa Grand is still in the mix but not pictured today.
The Rialto was covered here and the pairing of this pen with Damson has been excellent. Great for note taking at work. I’ve had a few cases where the nib dried out a bit if left unused & uncapped for several minutes but it got going again with minimal fuss.
The fill of Teranishi Fujiyama Rin ran out and I still wanted to keep using the Duofold for journal duty so I popped in a small cartridge of Parker Blue. It’s a solid ink. Not particularly inspiring as blues go, but I had not used it in some time and the small cartridge just needs to get me through the end of the month.
After cleaning out the Icon I went to my list of pens not seen in a while and selected the Skyline. It has looks and performance in spades. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up. (Okay, it’s not a classic Ferrari, but the same idea applies.) I wanted an ink with some contrast to the other two in use but had to keep in mind that the Skyline is a wet writer. Herbin’s standard ink line leans to the drier side in my experience and can help keep a wet nib under control. Ambre de Birmanie has a warm, rich look and its shading properties are still shown even with the Skyline’s generous and changeable line.
Sending out pens for custom grinds. I swear I’m working on it…or really thinking hard about it…or almost close to something.
