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I have a bunch of them - actually got 12-14 of them in one shot from them. Decent ED pens - the nibs have required some work on my part to improve ink flow, but now are working quite well.

 

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I have the Guider Acrylic with the press bar filler. The pen wrote well right out of the box. When I bought the pen, only nib size offered was fine, but I understand you can now get a medium or stub. Even though I am not that partial to fine, I like the pen and the way it writes. I think it is well worth the price.

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the only Guider pen I have is this sweet little eyedropper. It performs well and consistently and has never given trouble.

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I have a Guider Cortege, a Marala, and now a Raja. All courtesy of Fountainpenrevolution.

Very nice pens, although the Marala gave me some trouble at first, happily resolved by Kevin at FPR.

The Raja turned out to be a very big pen, but surprisingly comfortable to hold.

All my Guiders are eyedroppers.

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I bought the yellow celluloid with pressbar filler for my mother to play with, along with a Golden Star 204. The filler part was taken from a Wing Sung pen from China, although I cannot tell if genuine Wing Sungs had to be sacrificed for their construction... which would actually be a bit of a shame.

 

It surprised me somewhat that a standard feed was installed, without the modifications to incorporate a breather tube. As a result, filling efficiency is pretty low, as the sac can never be filled to any great extant. I just wish Guider can do something about that in the future, and hopefully not destroying Wing Sungs, which I like!

 

This particular example writes very dry out of the box, I tuned the nib a bit to give a bit of breathing space between the tines and then it wrote very nicely.

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