You’ve mentioned a few times on your shows that you use a fountain pen. What’s your pen, nib size, and ink of choice?
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I’m also a big fan of the Twit community forums. Thank you Leo for this!.
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So glad somebody asked @SWfan85!
I have intentionally limited myself to 10 pens - otherwise my obsession could spin out of control. I have a few favorites. My Hobonichi Techo (Japanese date book with Tomoegawa paper) has a 1974 Pilot Murex fine point attached. It’s using the fast drying Noodler’s Bernanke Black. A lovely combination for journaling. I have it with me on vacation.
When I want wetter ink I use my Pelikan Souveran with a medium nib. It’s currently loaded with Pelikan’s Edelstein ink in sapphire.
I have some other favorites, including a VF Wing Sung 601 demonstrator loaded with Diamine Oxblood, a Lamy 2000, and two Pilot Vanishing Points. I’m partial to piston fillers and fine points.
My wife has gifted me some lovely pens (including a gold tipped Cartier with which I signed the Brick House lease, a Schaefer, and a Parker Travel pen I also have with me). The entire collection is below stored in Goulet Pen’s lovely leather case. (Not shown, my Rotring 800 mechanical pencil - I have a thing for them, as well.)
I don’t have a picture of my ink collection, but when I get home I’ll take one.
I started collecting pens in high school. Mostly Parkers. I went through a self-hating dry spell of several decades in which I limited myself to the steel-nibbed disposable Pilot Varsity’s, which I would buy several cases at a time. (I seem to remember a stack of them, used, next to Neal Stephenson’s handwritten manuscript for Cryptonomicon at the Seattle Experience Music Project!)
Once I had the means, not so long ago, I collected all my grail pens in a short few months and now I am happy!
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You’re such a nerd.
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I’m more into pencils, but get the urge. Had a young engineer working for me 20 years ago who aspired to be a screen writer. When he left our site, I bought him a Cross pen set, and told him he had to use it to write his first script. He really loved the gift and sentiment.
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I’m very curious about Kyocera’s ceramic ball-point as a workhorse that hopefully also gives a lovely line and writing experience while exhibiting some serious longevity. I’m simply looking for a cut above Uni-Ball and Gelly Roll; certainly I don’t expect it would prove anywhere near the league of those currently in your collection, though, @Leo.
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@ant_pruitt, just wait. Leo will have you “penabled” before long. Resistance is futile.
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@Leo, I don’t have the discipline to limit my pen collection yet, buy I do limit the number I have inked at one time. I rotate through them every week, depending on how much ink is left. This week’s everyday carry are (left to right): Pilot Metropolitan, Fine, with Pilot/Namiki Black cartridge; Parker IM, Fine, with Noodler’s Rome Burning; Kaweco Classic Sport, Extra-fine, with Diamine Eclipse; TWSBI Diamond 580, Extra-fine, with Papier Plume House of the Rising Sun. All in a Nock Brasstown case.
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I have a Cross pen/stylus. I love it. My momz gave it to me for Christmas a couple years ago. I rarely use it
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Yep, works well (Nikon, but sure Canon/Sony etc. are similar). WiFi into phone using SnapBridge, my DSLR does not have GPS but it syncs time/GPS with the phone and adds to the exif, then edit in your fave phone app and share/upload.
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I used to love fountain pens when I was young - nothing fancy, just a bog standard Parker 45, but loved the way fountain pens wrote and the smell of the ink…
I don’t write much at all these days, and since breaking my middle finger in six places some years ago, writing for any length of time is uncomfortable.
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So Leo, where is that beautiful new MBP 16” going to reside?? 
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Love that you have started this. Have been listening and watching since your Tech TV days!
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Hey Leo.
My name is Wayne and I operate a restaurant and bar here in St. Louis about 8 miles from WWT HQ.
Looking for a venue for a meetup???
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Hey possibly Wayne! I’m not sure what plans we’ve made but I’ll forward this to Laura, our events producer! Thanks for the offer!
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Thank you good sir. Could be a boatload of fun!
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The one on the right looks like a lightsaber.
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And people always say this one looks like a vape pen. Monteverde Regatta Sport in blue, extra-fine, inked with Noodler’s Bulletproof Black.
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You know what that looks like? A nice pen. Anticlimactic, I know…
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