Favourite C/c Fountain Pen

[3nding]

Hello all,

 

I've found that I haven't heard from many c/c fountain pen's that people really really love except for the Parker 45 (and the entry level pens like the Lamy Safari and Pilot Metro), which is indeed quite cool. So I was curious as to what are your favourite cartridge converter fountain pens? I am more of a piston/lever/button filler lover myself, but I do find c/c pens very useful when travelling or just going out of the house for a longer period of time than usual. I know this a subjective topic and that is why I am asking for favourite and not best, although I do hope that you won't shy away from suggesting what you think is your best c/c pen.

Thank you all in advance!

[OCArt]

As you said, the Parker 45 is my favorite cc pen but many of the Chinese pens are also cartridge-converter fillers. My favorites are the Kaigelu 316, Baoer 338, and the Picasso 915. All are nice pens at very affordable prices.

[jar]

I can't say that I have a favorite but I do love all the Caran d'Ache, Graf von Faber Castell, Montegrappa, Pilot, Nakaya, Danitrio, Sailor, Waterman, Ferrari da Varese, my modern Parker Duofolds, my ST Duponts, the Grifos, the Aurora cartridge/converter pens, my Sheaffer Targa and Imperial and Legacy family pens, my Deltas and Conway Stewarts, the Yard-o-Leds and don't forget the Platinums.

[Gudi]

My favorites are (Graf von) Faber-Castell fountain pens. I also like their inks a lot too.

[Barkingpig]

Maybe I have been blessed to not experience a "bad" converter, but I enjoy them as much as any of my pens with a piston filler. I especially appreciate them when I clean a pen to use a different colored ink.

[ksm]

Easy: Pilot Capless :-)

[NinthSphere]

Favorite c/c is the Scriptorium custom w/Masuyama broad italic. Close behind are the Franklin-Christoph Panther 40 w/Masuyama broad stub, 02 Intrinsic w/broad SIG, Bexley Gaston's Special Reserve w/stub, & Italix Captain's Commission w/broad italic.

 

Honorable mention to the Pilot Elite 95S, Sheaffer inlaid c/c pens, Monteverde Catalina, Momento Islands, Jinhao 159, Jinhao 886, & Jinhao 599 for being solid pens.

Edited March 19, 2017 by NinthSphere

[Bo Bo Olson]

Pelikan Celebry, nice 'true' regular flex nib, steel = gold...both good. Lacquer covered brass body.

Not a twist out nib. As good as the '82-97 M400 or the earlier 381....or the then and modern 200.

[bigt]

Waterman Le Man 100 with a big fat stub nib is my fave- next best a Waterman Carene also with a nice stub- otherwise I really like Parker 65s esp the gold cloud cirrus pattern- loverly !

Tony

[bigkahuna]

Love:

#1 Pilot Elite 95S

#2 Platinum 3776 Century

 

Like:

#1 Cross Townsend

#2 Edison Collier

#3 Italix Captain's Commission

[sandy101]

Platinum #3776.

[benbot517]

Pilot Custom 74 with a cosu nib and a kaweco sport with a double broad nib. On the custom 74 I have the con 70 converter, which only lasts a day with how much ink the nib goes through, but I'm fine with that. The kaweco sport bb has a squeeze converter, and while it's not the best converter I feel more comfortable using this pen with inks like the j herbin 1670 line, as the pen can be broken down completely for cleaning.

[OmegaMountain]

Yeah, there are a TON of very good high-end pens that use c/c systems. Most of the well known hand made Japanese pen houses use them pretty much exclusively except for the ones that are eyedroppers.

[BillH]

another vote for Platinum 3776... lovely pens, write great, easy to clean. The MB c/c models write as well if not better, but they don't clean as easily imho.

[Ada]

I can't narrow it down to just one. So in no particular order, my favorites are:

 

Pilot Prera: small, reliable, excellent writer, available in a wide variety of fun colors

 

Waterman Phileas: excellent writer, reliable

 

Sailor 1911M: also reliable, also an excellent writer, and I enjoy seeing the ink slosh around in the demo version

[ENewton]

Of my cartridge converters, my favorite is the Waterman Man 100.

[mauckcg]

Sailor 1911's or my Modern Wahl Eversharp Skyline.

[ISW_Kaputnik]

My C/C favorites that are still made would be the Pilot Custom Heritage 91 and their Falcon (which I think is now the "Elabo"). The CH 91 will take any of Pilot's converters; the plastic version of the Falcon won't take the CON-70. Oh yes, and there's the Pilot Capless Decimo, the skinny version of the Vanishing Point.

 

Favorites that are no longer made include the Pilot Murex and Montblanc Noblesse. So that's four Pilots and one Montblanc. I don't know if it's the wide mouth on Pilot converters and cartridges, but I've never had the kind of flow problems with them that I sometimes get with international converters. But the Pelikan converter in my Montblanc works just fine.

 

Right now, I have two C/C pens inked, but also a piston filler, a vintage Vacumatic, and a vintage lever filler. Filling systems are interesting, but it's what happens when the nib meets the paper that's most important to me.

[praxim]

C/C is a chance feature. As discussed elsewhere, I the only time I have leant toward one filling system rather than another has been my tendency to prefer plunge rather than lever within the Onoto brand. For all other brands, filler is pretty irrelevant. Therefore, my answer is like jar's with a lot fewer brands involved. I have Waterman (mainly Man 100), S T Dupont, Lamy and Graf von Faber Castell C/C pens and happily I really like all of my pens. I have some favourites but not to denigrate others.

[chromantic]

My favorite c/c pen, of all the ones I own? The translucent blue flat-top Sheaffer school pen, F nib, with Skrip Turquoise.

 

C/C pens, in general? The Sheaffer and Waterman (JIF series) school pens, Kaweco Sport. I'll always have a soft spot for the P45 though I've stopped using them.