Pelikan Go! Fountain Pen ...

[Margana]

I love my Go!  The nib is too broad for me, but I use brightly-colored inks in it for all the household jotting that goes on around this place.  Works like a dream and never falters.  One of these days I will have a Go! modified for a somewhat narrow stub.

I was just thinking last night how much better I'd like my Go if it had a fine nib. I considered having it modified but I'm not sure it's worth it. It is absolutely the most reliable fountain pen I own so it has that going for it. It never fails to start even after sitting for weeks and I can turn it at all sorts of odd angles and still write well. It isn't classy enough to take to a business meeting and the design does seem better suited to the youthful market for which it was intended. Yet if the nib was more to my liking, I might be tempted to take it along to meetings and such. Hmmmm. I wonder what it would cost...

[pigpogm]

A little update in case anyone's interested...

• I've scratched the rest of the paint off the clip - fingernails and an X-acto knife, followed by wire wool. Looks pretty decent, in a rough sort of way.
  
• I tried Sharpie for the ink window, but it wouldn't get into the corner. On a whim, I tried using the X-acto knife again, and the turquoise is paint again - scrapes off to reveal - more windows! Yep, the other two windows are actually clear underneath, and let you see a bit of the piston mechanism. Cool.
  

I've taken a few snaps of the results - the windows are a bit scratched up after scraping off the paint. They don't look too messy in reality, but I suspect the photos will show them up badly - I'll try to get the pics added to the PigPog page tomorrow.

[kissing]

Ooo, I wonder why I haven't done this before:

 

I'll move it to the fountain pen reviews section, as technically the link leads to a "review"

 

 

regards, Kissing

[*david*]

Following pigpogm's lead, I tried a little experiment, which failed:

 

Ooo, I thought - the window paint comes off. I'll try a little of that xylene-based paint remover and see if that works.

 

Result: Removes paint, sort of. Removes pen also.

 

Conclusion: Xylene a bad idea. Oh well - no real damage done.

[BobR]

GO! fans may be interested to know that a cartridge/converter version was made. It's the P70 model (the piston version is M75). I purchased one last year from a seller in the Netherlands. It's identical in every other way except that the blind cap holds the ink eradicator. The clip on mine is turquoise. I was a bit disappointed that the plastic blind cap broke but it's a wonderful writer like its sibling.

 

The instructons say: "The Pelikan GO! is a high quality fountain pen for young people which has many advantages in both design and function." Guess I messed up their marketing plans when I got ahold of 'em.