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Sailor 1911 Medium Black/Gold H-MF inked with Pilot iroshizuku ku-jaku
Time for a change of pens. Next up for use is one of my Sailor 1911 Medium Black/Gold pens. This one has a H-MF, MF being a size between medium and fine given this is a Japanese pen the sizing is...
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Fountain Pens in Rotation
Am feeling at a bit of a loose end just now. My wife and I have just returned home from a beautiful luncheon at our favourite restaurant. It is where we had our wedding reception and holds great...
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Sailor 1911 Medium Black/Gold H-B inked with Caran d’Ache Amazon
I inked this pen up on the first day of 2012. I intend to start the year with some of my favourite pens. This little Sailor was the first of the 1911 Mediums I bought (Actually I now own two Black/Gold...
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Sailor 1911 Medium Black/Gold H-MF inked with Waterman Blue-Black (1997)
Time for a new pen to go into rotation, this time it is my Sailor 1911 Medium in Black with Gold trim. I actually have two of this pen, one with a H-B nib and one with a H-MF nib. The H-MF equipped one...
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Sailor 1911 Medium Black/Gold H-B inked with Waterman Blue/Black (1997)
Time for a new pen into rotation. Next up is my Black with gold trim Sailor 1911 Medium. I have two of this colour and on this occasion it is the one equipped with a H-B nib. The nib in this pen is a...
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Sailor 1911 Medium Black/Gold H-MF inked with Montblanc Racing Green
Yet another Japanese black and gold pen into rotation, this time it is my Sailor 1911 Medium with the H-MF nib. The pen: Sailor 1911 Medium Black/Gold The nib: Sailor 14K H-MF The ink: Montblanc Racing...
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Sailor 1911 Medium Black/Gold H-B inked with Noodler’s Liberty’s Elysium
I am blitzing through the pens this week with another one emptied of ink. To replace it I selected my Sailor 1911M in black plastic and gold plate trim with a H-B nib. The H-B nib writes slightly...
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Sailor 1911 Medium Black/Gold H-MF inked with Noodler’s Fox Red
The fourth new pen into use is a Sailor 1911 Medium in Black with gold trim. I am not certain why Sailor call this model the medium as I don’t think they make a small. The nib in this pen is a H-MF...
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Sailor 1911 Medium Black/Gold inked with Diamine Strauss
My journey through the new Diamine Music inks continues, next up is the ink known as Strauss. The pen on this occasion is the black with gold trim Sailor 1911 Medium fitted with a H-B (broad) nib....
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Playing with my camera
A sunny Saturday morning called for a bit of photography on the front deck. I normal take images of my pens in my study under primary halogen lighting with some daylight but getting a true to life...
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Pens in use (now twelve)
Thought I was going to need a wider lens. Filed under: Aurora, M101N, M4XX, M6XX, M8XX, Pen Portrait, Pilot, Sailor, Waterman Tagged: 1911M Black/Gold, Custom 742 Black/Gold, M101N Tortoiseshell Brown...
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Pens in use
Filed under: Aurora, Lamy, M4XX, M6XX, Pen Portrait, Sailor, Waterman Tagged: 1911M Black/Gold, Hemisphere Stainless Steel, Lamy 2000, M400 Black/Green Striated, M600 Black/Green Striated, M620 New...
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Sailor 1911 Medium Black/Gold inked with Noodler’s Tiananmen
I know that I have spelt Tiananmen wrong in the writing sample below so no comments to that effect. On to the pen – just a black with gold trim Sailor 1911 Medium size – a good little pen that doesn’t...
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Sailor 1911 Medium Black/Gold inked with Noodler’s Apache Sunset
Looking a the database proposals for the next few pens it’s all black and gold. I do own quite a few black with gold trim pens so they will appear now and again. The first up is a Sailor 1911 Medium in...
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