Kaweco Sport Luxe

[drunkenconcierge]

After having inherited some apparently brilliant and expensive fountain pens from dead relatives and getting peeved of with the amount of hassle they gave me but still enjoying the writing feel of a FP over a Bic or whatever, I dumped the old inky shitheads at the local charity shop and bought a bog-standard Kaweco Sport while on holiday in Europe.

Bottom line is that it writes better and doesn't give me any inky hassle.

Now, can anyone point me in the direction of a company that converts them into a lightsaber?

Oh yeah, and if anyone would like to discuss how my Sport reacts with different papers using various coloured inks under different types of light at alternating levels of humidity then please feel free to be my best friend.

[drunkenconcierge]

In fact, I'm getting really upset at the way Inky.Ink.com's allegedly climate/time zone/paper type/nib metal neutral 'Estonian Yellow' ink is darkening in tone as I change hemispheres.

Is it the paper? The ink? Or a reaction between the nib metal, the paper, the ink and the climate?.

[Petar111]

Ah forget ICE, AL nad ART, if you want to get hold of Kaweco Sport as IT should be then get Sport Luxe. Expensive? Yes! Worth your money? Every dime!

The Sport Luxe feels great in hand, it's solid and well built. Allmost same weight as Al and incredible smooth to write with. Coverter is not much to talk about but if you are handy fill cartriges with ink of your choice and enjoy it. This is not a first Kaweco i have:

2x Sport

Liliputh

Student

Fantasia

Sport Al

Special

*sorry for my poor english!

[bullet08]

i thought Luxe uses same nib as all the others. my AL and Classic both writes smooth as they can, and they are both EF.

[Petar111]

The nibs are perhaps interchangeable but feed differs.

[amk]

The Sport Art is expensive, but addictive. I have eight now: my first was lapis, then amethyst (I blogged about those two at Fountain Pen Love , then I found an amber on ebay, then a 'samba' and 'tango' from the original (now discontinued) lineup, then aksehir, granit, and alabaster. I love the acrylic, the nibs, everything about them.

 

I find the regular sports, and particularly the sport ice, feel a bit light and cheap to me. The sport art series has a more dense feel.

 

The original series had four pens - blues, samba, tango, and mambo. One of the two from that series that I possess has a gold nib rather than the usual steel; I don't know whether they originally came with gold nibs, or whether someone has upgraded the pen.

 

I've not paid full retail for any of them, thank goodness. But they're not the most expensive version; there's a Visconti set in green bronze celluloid which I want. Want. Want.