Hello everybody,

I am new to this forum having discovered it whilst researching my new pen. I love fountain pens and don't write with anything else anymore. I'm not a collector as such, indeed I only own a couple of pens. I have just ordered a Conway Stewart Wellington as a replacement for my CS Churchill. I loved the Churchill with the exception of the lever fill mechanism. I was not happy with this from day one - indeed I returned it to CS shortly after I purchased it. They replaced the lever and sac and returned the pen in a beautiful satin-lined leatherette box with a compliments slip within two weeks. Great, you might think, however the repair did not seem to improve matters for any great length of time - this being the miserly amount of in the pen took onboard.
So, with regret, I have traded it against the Wellington, in the hope that the converter filler works with a little bit more reliabiliity. My new pen is due in around 7/10 days and I'll be using my Pelikan M405 in the interim period. I'll let you know what my impressions are on the Wellington when it arrives.

Regards
David

Welcome to FPN, David.
Please do check the Conway-Stewart sub-forum too. And please make yourself at home,and join us happy pen-geeks!!!

Welcome to the FPN!!

Welcome to FPN. I hope your pen situation improves.

Welcome aboard.

Which Wellington did you order? The Classic Green looks awesome...

http://www.mvburke.com/newproducts/wellingtonseries.htm

Welcome to FPN.

I've ordered the Classic Green. I must admit I am very indecisive and pondered long and hard before I made my choice. Looking forward to receiving it sometime next week.

Cheers
David

Welcome to the forums, hope you enjoy your new pen. Had a similar experience with my Duro (button filler), seemed to take up very little ink (and the button is a bit uncomfortable to use), anyway went back to CS, seems to take up a bit more ink now but still not as much as I think it should.

Still a nice looking pen which writes very well, just not one I would expect to last more than a few sheets pf paper on a refill (I think last time I tried I managed about 5-6, which didn't seem much).

Anyway enjoy the forums and let us know how you get on with the new pen.

Andy