I purchased one of these at Staples this week and it is a great pen. It does not wirte as smooth as a Waterman Phileas but I find the feel of the nib on the paper is more to my liking. At any rate does anyone knwo which converter would work for this pen? I currently use Black Quink in all my pens except the cross which is still using the blue-black cart that it came with. Any help would be appreciated in this matter.

If you go to the Cross site, you'll probably find it listed &/or a picture. That's how I discovered that I mistakenly received the wrong converter for my Townsend. Or you can call, they were very nice despite all my goofy questions. You can also buy a converter from their site... I'm surprised your pen didn't come with a convertor, although I don't really know anything about the Avenura. Are you sure it's not buried in the box somewhere?


Petra

The box is empty, the lining is glued in and there is no where to hide a converter. Too bad, but I will eventually buy one.

JHazelwood, how's that Aventura working out for you? The last comments I read about the Cross Aventura were that they feel flimsy and somewhat cheap. How has yours held up?

I've just got one of these Aventura pens for everyday jotting and doodling.
I really like it. It's got a really nice flow, no flooding but lush regardless, nice balance, and I think it's well built - I can't fault the cap action on mine and the lightness is great for keeping it in a breast pocket
It didn't come with an adapter - it's obviously a cheap introduction to Cross pens, which again suits me as I tend to lose pens quite easily.
I would also like to know which adapter fits it. I suspect that neither does.
So I'll be re-filling cartridges where possible because I have a large amount of cheap similar size cartridges that don't fit - I was using Rotring pens but they wore out rather too easily.
This is the best pen I've had - easily better than Parker ones for a similar price.

Anyway it'll get quite a rigorous testing regime in my hands so we'll see how it copes.

I just bought one of these Cross Aventuras as well, it's my second pen after the Phileas I bought. I actually like the feel of it better than the Phileas and it seems to write more smoothly. I agree with one of the other correspondents that it has a good balance and light weight is good for my shirt pocket. From an aesthetic viewpoint, I find the nib a little more elegant looking than the Phileas.

Note that you cannot find this pen on www.cross.com, but you can find it on www.crosspen.com. Go figure.

Very good everyday pen but I wish it came with an adapter.

I bought an Aventura today, and it came with one Cross cartridge pre-installed.

But here's what I found: When I took the pen apart, the ink cartridge was not attached to the front section of the pen, but it was in the barrel. It appeared to do a better job at staying in the barrel than on the front section! I knew that the cartridge wasn't just being stored inside the pen, because the plastic ball seal had already been broken, and the ink was flowing. I took that as a sign that the cartridge didn't fit well.

So then I tried fitting an orange converter (the one with the screw threads), but I noticed that the front section was too wide for it, and that there was no point in using the screw-on converter. So I switched to using the older green converter (without threads).

Neither the converter or cartridge fit well in my Aventura. This didn't come to a surprise to me, since the opening for both the converter and the cartridge are the same, and the pre-installed cartridge didn't fit well to begin with.

So my final answer for you is: It doesn't really matter which Cross converter you use... it fits like the cartridges, which doesn't fit well! The pen itself is great, though.

If anyone has a different experience, or a fix, to share, I'd love to hear it!

I just purchased an Aventura from our local Staples and a screw-in converter from Stylus Pens in Edmonton (Canada). My experience was quite good -- the pen worked well with the supplied cartridge and the pen/converter combination worked flawlessly as well.

Perhaps you can prevail upon your local Staples to give you a replacement, as it would seem a single flaw in the pen is much more likely than two independent, but similar, flaws in the cartridge and converter.

Good luck.