So how much _DO_ those big birds weigh ???

[MikeB]

Well folks,

 

I am enjoying my Pelikan 200, but find myself wishing that it was a little bit larger, and especially that it had more heft. I know that the 600/800/800 are larger, but can anyone enlighten me as to the increased weight and feel?

 

Cheers, Mike

[Leslie J.]

You wouldn't notice much of a difference at all between the 200, 400 and 600. I don't have anything larger, so don't know about the 800.

[Stylo]

Well folks,

 

I am enjoying my Pelikan 200, but find myself wishing that it was a little bit larger, and especially that it had more heft. I know that the 600/800/800 are larger, but can anyone enlighten me as to the increased weight and feel?

 

Cheers, Mike

The info is out there somewhere, but the weight differences will come largely from the fact that some of the piston mechanism in the 800 an 1000 are brass versus "all-plastic" for the 200/400/600. But even then, the M800 doesn't feel like a really heavy pen.

[wimg]

Hi Mike,

 

As I am the proud owner of a few Pelikans, an M75, an M200 and an M800, I would say the weight difference is not significant. However, the grip size is. The M800 is by far the thickest of the 3. Up to the M400, there is no real difference, but the M600 is a little fatter, the M800 even more so, and the M1000 is a monster . This makes the grip more or less comfortable, depending on the build of your hands and the way you write, and illnessess that affect your gripping strength, like arthritis, etc.

 

Heavy pens generally are those (partly) made out of solid brass, like some of the modern ST Duponts and Watermans, or out of silver for that matter.

 

OTOH, weight often is about perceived weight. If a pen is heavy, but the balance and the nib are such that it writes marvelously, the weight generally doesn't matter anymore. Weight generally makes you refrain from pressing a nib down onto the paper. A heavy pen that is well balanced kind of writes by itself, with just a little guidance .

 

HTH (maybe not, I guess )

 

Kind regards, Wim

[Leslie J.]

Um, yeah, what Wim said! Wim you're absolutely correct. I have much heavier pens that don't cause hand fatigue because they are so well balanced. I actually have more trouble with slimmer pens.

[Keith with a capital K]

I find the Pel m800 and m1000 to be heavier pens but not overly so... one has to put a solid Pewter Sheaffer Royal Selangor in the hand to appreciate how heavy a pen can be and still remain well balanced and pleasurable to write with.

 

The additional weight in the m800 and m1000 is caused by the brass components in the filling systems and they are of course, much bigger pens (girthwise).