What Pens Am I Using Today?
Part of the pleasure in having a collection of pens that you can actually write with is choosing which pens you want to use on any given day, and many collectors enjoy sharing this information with each other: “What are you writing with today?”
I always carry a leather Piquadro two-pen pouch case in my pocket, and I tend to keep the same two pens active for several days or even weeks. One of the pens I carry never changes; my pouch is never without THE “51”, this ultra-reliable, ultra-smooth 1946 Blue Cedar Parker “51”:
I can go for a couple of months using a variety of pens, but I always come back to a flexie. At present, the flexie in my Piquadro is the Waterman’s ideal Nº 52 that I got from Al Mayman at the 2008 Philadelphia show. The artist’s nib in this pen is to die for, as they say; it’s my second favorite flexie.
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