Pilot Lucina

[trent]

How different is the Lucina nib from the Prera one?

 

 

My question, too.

[Ed Ronax]

Nicely done, thanks.

[scribbler77]

Jet Pens has them for $70.00 with free shipping in the U.S. (No connection except as customer.)

[holgalee]

I ended up getting the Lucina. The plastic is lighter than I expected, and the pen is longer than the Prera. The nib that I have is an M, which writes a 0.5mm line that is too broad for me as I prefer 0.3-0.4mm. I've posted a WTT ad for an F nib.

[bluemagister]

Jetpens doesn't say it, but I assume that this nib is gold?

[Catsmelt]

How different is the Lucina nib from the Prera one?

 

 

My question, too.

 

The Lucina nib is the same as the nib in the Ecrino model -- gold (plated, I assume) with a finned feed. The Prera nib is unplated steel with a nib/feed construction that is similar to, if not the same as, the Knight.

[encre]

Not too sure about the band but for that price and quality its hard to complain! Great review!

[Sailor Kenshin]

Jet Pens has them for $70.00 with free shipping in the U.S. (No connection except as customer.)

 

 

I got mine there because they had a B nib---but ended up returning it. For half that price I MIGHT have kept it, but I expected much more from a $70 pen. In assessing the Lucina, I realized that my $20 78G wrote better and smoother, as did many of my cheapie Chinese pens.

 

Alas.

[Drone]

Just a small note: it is funny how Japanese like italian sounding names for their products. Especially in the cars this is the standard (think of corolla, micra, almera...). Lucina means "small light".

 

 

Merriam-Webster:

 

Lucina - Latin, Roman goddess of childbirth

 

Rhymes with "angina". The "c" is as in Lucy.

 

Listen to attached pronounciation (also found at the MW site).

 

Wikipedia:

 

In ancient Roman religion and myth, Lucina was the goddess of childbirth who safeguarded the lives of women in labour. Lucina was also an epithet for Juno. The name was generally taken to mean "she who brings children into the light" (Latin: lux, lucis, "light"), but may actually have been derived from lucus ("grove") after a sacred grove of lotus trees on the Esquiline Hill associated with the goddess. Her Greek equivalent was Eileithyia.

 

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[Rob G]

I purchased another one of these, ten years after the first two. This one's yellow, with a fine point. It's one of the few Japanese fine points I've owned which writes smoothly even without ink. Now that's smooth.

Edited November 14, 2018 by Rob G

[Honeybadgers]

Very handsome, but looks a little overpriced for what you get.

[Safari_Camo]

They should make a rhodium plated version...