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i got a green phileas from abroad and i found out just after writing with it that it is fine nib. a bit weird about it as i normally use medium nib. i thought phileas only do medium nib. it writes beautifully on rodhia paper. the ink is prussian blue by diamina.

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I dropped by the Pen Place in Queen Street, Melbourne last week to buy some yummy new, fat-free ink for my pens, and I had a peek at the Waterman Phileases (Phileai?) in the 'WATERMAN' display case. I like the look of the blue one very much. Perhaps one day I shall buy one with a Fine nib.

 

What are peoples' experiences with the Waterman Phileas?

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I dropped by the Pen Place in Queen Street, Melbourne last week to buy some yummy new, fat-free ink for my pens, and I had a peek at the Waterman Phileases (Phileai?) in the 'WATERMAN' display case. I like the look of the blue one very much. Perhaps one day I shall buy one with a Fine nib.

 

What are peoples' experiences with the Waterman Phileas?

i think it is an awesome pen. i was between the blue and the green and the green won cos it has too colors like black green. where the blue is a more uniform blue.... in any case i love the pen i love the huuuuuuuuuuugeeeeeeeeee nib it is far too big for the pen but i like it it make the pen looks important. great value. recomended in this website i can not be more happy about it...

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The Phileas although quite inexpensive is an incredible writer. It is my only pen that does not choke on poor quality paper stock that I have to put up to at work. it is worth every penny for being such a reliable fountain pen.

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The Phileas is IMHO a solid reliable pen. Have been using mine (an early red/black/white marble) for several years and have not been dissapointed. Starts up well, nib is smooth, decorated just enough to keep it from looking plain. Have posted it enough so the blind cap/barrel end shows some wear ---bit a simichrome polish takes care of that. T'is good value for the money---especially when Office Depot has a just before Xmas sale at 1/2 retail.

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Great starter pens. I used one my Dad got me for years until I sold it to finance a Carene. Good performance for the money. :thumbup:

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As fate would have it, I got my pair of Waterman Kulturs with fine nibs in the mail today. I haven't done much with them so far, but I love the look. I have Levenger's green in one and a Waterman cartridge in the other. The Kultur is essentially a lesser Phileas as I understand it. The cap is a lot lighter because it has no brass in it, and the pen is translucent.

 

I want to pick up a Phileas at the right price when the time comes. I do believe Waterman has discontinued the Phileas, though.

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ppenloverr I know where you can get a medium nib for your Phileas in place of the fine. Look here for a Marketplace listing from last week in which a member wants to trade his medium for a fine.

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I'm another happy Phileas owner. I think they're great pens! I have two...one in blue & one in black, and I don't use them nearly as much as I should. They start up immediately every time, and they're smooooth writers right out of the box. For an excellent, low-priced FP, you can't go wrong with the Phileas. :thumbup:

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I have a Phileas with an M nib. It starts and writes reliably if I roll it to the left about 20 degrees. That makes it a round, left-footed oblique nib. I didn't even have to pay extra for that feature. Didn't request it, either.

 

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ppenloverr I know where you can get a medium nib for your Phileas in place of the fine. Look here for a Marketplace listing from last week in which a member wants to trade his medium for a fine.

thank you. but to be honest the more i write with this nib the more i like it.... it is just awesome. but thank you anyway...

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Is it discontinued or not? it's no longer on the Waterman site

i bought mine from a shop in madrid. so still there are some around but you can not get it in england at all. maybe on the web there are loads of them.... :thumbup:

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The Phileas is the second pen I picked up in my return to using fountain pens. For the price, the Phileas has to be one of the best bargains out there. I have found it to be a great day to day writer and despite using fine nibs in the past, the medium nib that came with mine has been quite pleasant to write with.

 

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The Phileas was one of my first; and it's a horse. I can carry it pocketed, in a bag, in my jacket pocket, on a plane, and I will know without a doubt that there will be no leaking, no gushing, no slow-starting. It's a smooth, solid line (using black Noodlers, btw), great for notes and sketching. (Noodlers dries a little slow, especially in the Moleskine, but that's not a Phileas issue, obviously.) Cap snaps closed with feeling and doesn't loosen over time (not yet at least); posts firmly and smoothly without scratching or wiggling. My particular one is blue/black marbled with gold trim, and while not the most beautiful thing in my estimate, it's certainly easy on the eyes.

 

For a first pen, trusty, low-maintenance, I really really love it.

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ooops, forgot to mention, the price is amazingly reasonable. Among the lowest of what I'd call mid-range pricing, really a worthwhile bargain.

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You've finally done it, people!

 

You made me buy a Waterman Phileas.

 

Interesting story, actually. Dad and I went to the local flea-market today (Sunday), to look around and see what cute little treasures we could find...I lie...I was looking for my Duofold...Anyway, we found four pens. One of them looked like an English Duofold in very bad condition, one of them was a Conway-Stewart lever-filler with a petrified sac, one of them...I don't know what the hell it was...

 

And the last one was a green Waterman Phileas. I recognised it from the ribbing on the section and the conical barrel-end. It's green with black ends on the barrel and the cap. The clip is firmly in-place. The nib is in wonderful condition and has 'F' for fine, engraved into it.

 

Now, I don't know how many of you do this, but I actually brought a bottle of ink and paper with me today when I went to that market, JUST so that I could test any pens I found. OUT came the bottle and paper. Dippy-dippy-shake, scribble-scribble.

 

The pen wrote wonderfully and is nice and smooth. It doesn't have a converter but it did have an empty cartridge which once held blue ink. It took me about 20 minutes to wash the cartridge AND the nib & feed of blue ink when I got home. I flushed it out, dried it and using a syringe, I refilled the cartridge with black ink.

 

I'm very happy with my purchase. I paid this very nice lady $50 for it. Ten down from her original $60.

 

I just have one question - Will I be able to buy a converter for my new Phileas? What should I look for?

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Love my Phileas but have to admit to not having it in rotation in a long while. I have a blue marble color one that I picked up in Atlanta on a business trip. It is a medium and these days I prefer a Fine nib. Another reason is that I don't have a converter for it so I have only used Waterman Florida Blue long carts in it. I just pulled out my Carene thinking "I'll try the converter from it and see if it works." Silly me, I forgot that I don't have a coverter for the Carene either! I pulled out all of my various converters and found one that fit the nipple nicely but the pen body won't thread back on with it in place. Down in the barrel is a brass insert that blocks me from using the converter!? Now like Shangas I am wondering if there is a converter for this pen? How about the Carene does it have a converter?

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My Phileas isn't...anything, really. It's not marbled. I had a look at the current lineup of Phileas colours and I THINK mine is just solid jet-black, apart from the gold banding. But the main sections of the barrel & cap look like VERY dark green...or it might be my eyes playing tricks on me.

 

I seem to remember that new Phileases come with a converter. Is this a specific kind of converter, or can I just drop by a pen-shop and ask for a standard Waterman-style converter?

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