Video Review: Pelikan M200 Smoky Quartz

[alanlight]

[Bo Bo Olson]

Seems to me it should have been cleaned before inking.

All of mine had no problems. 215, Amethyst or the golden brown.

 

He could have sent it back for repair.

 

Lamy Safari is a Large pen. The 200/400 are standard sized pens.

Edited August 29, 2018 by Bo Bo Olson

[alanlight]

It was cleaned before inking... It was also flushed and cleaned after inking, re-inked and tried again... It was not a real flow problem, it was a nib that was out of tune. I toyed with the idea of sending it back to Pelikan but there was a local pen show coming up and I wanted to see what could be done there first. It was such a minor a piece of tuning the Nibmeister only charged me ten bucks which was less than the postage would have been to ship it back to Pelikan.

Edited August 29, 2018 by alanlight

[sargetalon]

It's always disappointing when good money is paid for a pen that writes poorly or not at all. Perhaps it's the perspective of the camera, but it looks like you rotate your nib to write. Is that the case? The video just gave the impression that the writing surface of the nib wasn't flat to the paper. That said, no quality control is infallible. I don't think an n of 1 is enough sample to impugn the quality control of the brand. All manufacturers, regardless of the price point, have similar issues. I wouldn't say this is a problem endemic to Pelikan. Thankfully, this is often more the anomaly than the exception, a statement I'm basing on personal experience with over 200 Pelikan pens. I also take into consideration the fact that once these pens are shipped from the factory to the distributor and then to the individual vendors before finally reaching us customers, a lot can happen which may well be beyond Pelikan's ability to control. At the end of the day, I'm glad that you were able to get it straightened out relatively easily via a nibmeister and thank you for sharing your experience..