A tale of two Lamys

[Breck]

This review is aimed at those who already own an older Lamy 2000.

 

 

Sometime last year, Lamy released an update to the design of the 2000.

 

- The piston is the best change of all. It is noticeably smoother in both directions. A small change, to be sure, but if you're using this pen as your daily writer you'll appreciate the difference almost immediately.

 

Unfortunately, it seems some retailers are still selling from the old stocks of the 2000.

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for your very informative review, but please allow me two comments:

 

The changes in piston smoothness could be a normal variation between different Lamy 2000's and I am not aware that Lamy has changed anything on the piston design.

Some of these variation may be caused by various amount of lubricant that is used during final assembly.

I own three Lamy 2000's and two are very smooth, but the one I bought in-between is somewhat less smooth, but still no cause for concern,

 

Pam Braun and even major stores in Munich that I visited on a recent trip to Germany are still selling and shipping the previous version of the Lamy 2000 at this time (May 2010).

Pam Braun shipped my latest 2000 with broad nib in early May 2010, but I would expect turnover of the versions with broad nib to be slower.

I too was curious about the changes that the new design brought, but it doesn't look that his version is widely available yet.

 

 

 

 

 

B.

 

I got an EF L2K from Pam only a couple of weeks ago, and it was the new version. She also stated at the time that the EFs were all she had in stock.

 

So....yeah. Not too sure what my point is. Seems that either you got something near the last of her old stock B nibbed L2Ks, or you ordered after she re-upped, and her distributor is still shipping out the old-style ones.

 

Your point about turnover with the broad pens is well taken, but I think it's fair to call the newer version widely available at this point.