New Piston Filler From Taiwan

[Mech-for-i]

 

Look like there is a new piston filler coming out of Taiwan ... no schedule or price yet

Edited October 11, 2018 by Mech-for-i

[JollyCynic]

It looks like Penlux? There seems to be pricing on www.italianpens.com/brand/271/penlux ... and even stock on the second one, just called Metallic.

 

Edited to add that Sophos suspects that website has been compromised, so I wouldn't order through it. You may not even want to visit the website. The short version is that the nice acrylic one appears to be called the Masterpice Grande, shows as $170, and is "coming soon" and the other is listed as the Metalic for $140, and shows as in stock ... But I wouldn't purchase from a potentially compromised site.

Edited October 12, 2018 by JollyCynic

[marcelol]

I just bought one at the Miami Pen Show, and within 5 days of inking this up, it slipped off my lap at work and fell on a carpeted floor.

 

It had the cap and and it developed a bend at the edge of the section and the reservoir window.

I purchased it from a seller (not Italian Pens) at the show from Georgia, but it was one of those "cash and go" deals and I didn't get a box (they only had 4 on display).

 

Upon unscrewing the cap and trying to write with it, I noticed it had developed a leak of ink RIGHT FROM that edge of the reservoir and section. Obviously I discarded the ink and cleaned up the pen.

 

It writes well enough, but if it suffers catastrophic failure from a 2 foot drop onto a carpeted floor while capped, this doesn't bode well.

 

I tried finding information online, but the website:

 

www.penlux.com.tw

 

doesn't work.

 

If anyone knows how to contact them I'd sure like to know, because even for the show price of $100, a pen like this ought to be sturdier than this turned out to be.

[fudefan]

You could try to contact them via Instagram: https://instagram.com/penlux.pen