Rotring Core

[tburke0]

So which is your most or least favorite of the bunch?

 

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/9399/2006042200081wb.jpg

 

From left to right:

 

* Coridium (Black & Black Cap / Black Barrel)

* Technor (Blue & Black Cap / Black Barrel)

* Tanakor (White & Black Cap / Silver Barrel)

* Balium (Orange & Red Cap / Silver Barrel)

* Rubidium (Red & Black Cap / Metallic Red Barrel)

* Eternium (Orange & Grey Cap / Silver Barrel)

* Rexor (Lt Blue & Blue Cap / Silver Barrel )

* Lyseum (Grey & Lt Green Cap / Silver Barrel)

* Titanium (Black & Grey Cap / Silver Barrel)

 

My faves are the Rexor & Rubidium

 

sure they look like sneakers, but sneakers are cool!

Edited June 10, 2006 by tburke0

[emrecan]

Hi T,

I'm absolutely in love with core!!!It's very nice pen for me.I do have Technor(our pen G!).Which is lovely and from the colors I dun have:

Rexor and Rubidium is amazing,especially Rexor which contains a lovely blue!!I wish they had completely blue one Whatever...

 

Take Care,

Emrecan

[RLTodd]

Ugly as sin and writes like a dream, +1-1=0, hence ambivalence.

 

A pen I only use in shuttered and darkened rooms.

[Dillo]

Hi,

 

Not bad at all, but it is not with my personality. I like Rotring.

 

Dillon

[Phthalo]

I have a Balium with a XS nib. It's filled exclusively with Herbin's Indien Orange ink, and gets used almost every day at my desk in a day planner. It's a pen I can leave on my desk with my daybook, and not be too concerned about having it stolen or borrowed. Also, it's eye-catching, and gets a few comments from non-FP people. I love mine.

[Slush99]

I have three: a Balium, a Titanium, and a Coridium. I love mine.

 

:wub:

 

but... I do think the lysium looks pretty weird.

[tonyv]

but... I do think the lysium looks pretty weird. 

Hmmm, interesting...I don't have one, but I like the Lyseum. Seems subtle...

[kissing]

Its beauty on the inside that counts

[krz]

Thumbs up! I think mine are all Coridium.

[Maja]

I like my Coridium FP; my Mom found it in a thrift store for a quarter ($0.25 USD)

 

It has an XS (which is a Fine to me) nib on it, and I wanted another Core with an XL nib ( you'd think it was a Broad nib, but it's more like a Medium, I've read) so I ordered a Lysium from a seller on eBay. It's not quite as cheap as what my Mom paid for the Corridium, but I like the way the Core writes, and it is a sturdy take-it-anywhere kind of pen

[Richard]

I had to vote "apathetic/neutral" because the Core is, while not patently repulsive like most of Michel Audiard's so-called pens, unquestionably ugly. Yes, it looks like an athletic shoe. They're ugly, too -- whatever happened to plain old "tennies"? Is it really necessary to encase the feet in objects the size of sarcophagi? What did Cro-Magnon Man do, all those millennia ago, before there were Air Jordans?

 

http://www.richardspens.com/images/logos/tooshort.gif

 

But I digress. I can't honestly vote "hate it" because the doggone thing writes really nicely. I have a Tanakor with the larger nib in it, and it's one of my best writers.

 

http://www.richardspens.com/images/collection/zoomed/core.jpg

[Viseguy]

Interesting that opinion is evenly divided, north and south, with a wide demilitarized zone in between.

 

I'd call the Core funky rather than ugly. I've gotten favorable comments on mine from teenagers. It's a kid's pen, after all. And they are smooth writers.

 

>> I would LOVE to know how to go about turning one of these into an ED. <<

[Dillo]

Hi,

 

It is a strange pen with that techy look et al.

 

I certainly thought that it was weird, but it has a very well designed nib and feed.

 

Dillon

[stephen82]

I am very new to fountain pens - but I got hooked quickly. Lamy Safari's, Pilot Knight, Pelikan M200, and a Rotring Core. I purchased all but the Core because I like the looks, style, and reviews those pens received. I purchased the core because (1) it was on sale for $12.50, and (2) because it was ugly in the way a dog or cat can be ugly -- so ugly they are cute! Well now that I have been using the pen, I really like writing with it and am going to get another while I can. I no longer think its ugly. Now I think its 'stylish' .

Edited August 13, 2006 by stephen82

[Dillo]

Hi,

 

By the way, the pen is still in production, but in four colours only, Rubidium, Balium, Titanium, and Coridium. The new Core does not have the write-on system with the Orange wing thing that pushes up the cartridge. (My Core had a write on system that did not eject the cartridge completely--just pushed it up a little.) In the section, there are stabiliser fins for the cartridge or converter. The feed stem is also shorter and so is the cartridge pucturing device. You also don't meet a stop when you are unscrewing the barrel. The pen has been redesigned, the grip, feed, and the barrel. The grips are interchangeable within Gen I and Gen II Cores and so are the barrels.

 

What I don't like though is how unreponsive Parker in the US is. I finally contacted Parker in the UK, and I found that I could buy a few more Core nib sections from my favourite stockists in the UK.

 

Dillon

[Ruaidhri]

HATE IT

 

I tried. Honestly !

Bought one. #%$ wrote very well indeed.

Couldn't get to like it.

 

Daughter (also a pen nut) came to visit - "Wow that's really lovely"

Me - "Have a pressie"

 

maybe if I get another and give it another try ..... mutter, mutter, mutter

[Judybug]

I didn't vote because it would be unfair to pass judgement on a pen I've never written with. Just wanted to say I feel sure that these were left behind by the crew members of a UFO.

 

Judybug

[umenohana]

It looks like a bicycle handle. :ltcapd:

 

-Hana

[Catsmelt]

Just received a Lyseum today, and it's unbelievable how smoothly it writes.

 

Ugly. Fugly. But it's a good ugly

 

R

[superfly]

I have three of those, as well as roller and ballpoint. I LOVE them all, they write excellent, and they look kewl and sporty. I refill my rollerball with fountain pen ink too. Just pull out the front, and put some ink in with syringe.

 

Nenad