Will A Kop Pro Gear Ruin Me For Smaller / Lighter Pens?

[LostArk]

I generally use smaller / lighter pens for my daily carry, e.g. Platinum 3776 (10g uncapped). Despite having large hands (men's glove size L), I even find something as small as a Sailor Pro Gear Slim enjoyable, though such a pen is really pushing my lower size limit. I'm thinking about picking up a KOP Pro Gear (21g uncapped), which will dethrone my Pilot 845 (17g uncapped) as my largest and heaviest pen. I worry using a pen that's double the weight of my daily carry pens and much thicker to boot might ruin me for the lighter and more affordable pens in my collection. Perhaps ignorance is bliss?

[tubular]

The KOP may very well seduce you away from your other pens, but I don't think it will be the extra few grams or millimeters that will be to blame.

[jar]

I do find my KoP PG gets used far more often than the 1911 style one but neither gets significant pocket time. For the last six months or so it's been an old Aurora 888P that's gotten to go WalkAbout. Love that old cheapie.

[Erik Dalton]

Yes, the experience of writing with a KOP has spoiled it it for all other pens in my world, and may do the same for you. The slightly longer 1911 version works better in my hand. If the pro gear works for you then go with it. The writing experience with that fat pen and giant size nib is just fantastic. Being a converter filler, clean up and changing inks is much easier than a piston filler. I’ll probably get stoned for saying this, but I often reach for the KOP before my MB 149’s now.

Hope you are able to get one.

[sightsome]

Yes, the experience of writing with a KOP has spoiled it it for all other pens in my world, and may do the same for you. The slightly longer 1911 version works better in my hand. If the pro gear works for you then go with it. The writing experience with that fat pen and giant size nib is just fantastic. Being a converter filler, clean up and changing inks is much easier than a piston filler. I’ll probably get stoned for saying this, but I often reach for the KOP before my MB 149’s now.

Hope you are able to get one.

 

Just out of curiosity: what other otherwise great pens has the KOP spoiled for you?

[Erik Dalton]

 

Just out of curiosity: what other otherwise great pens has the KOP spoiled for you?

 

Not sure what you’re asking. But I’ll give your question a go, and try to explain. Like most of us my taste in pens has evolved over the years. and so my collections have grown. My first pen was a Parker 21 that leaked all over my hands every day at school. I loved that pen. All of my pens started off as favorites. Age and circumstances have a way of changing what feels good in your hands. The environment we write in changes as well. Some pens never leave my home office, some were regulars at work. It’s a choice, a personal choice. I love all my pens, but these days when pretty much all of my writing is done at home, I do prefer the KOP, MB 149, 146 or Pelikan M-800 for longer notes, letters and such. (yes, I still write letters). Perhaps “spoiled” can be taken in several ways, some more negative than others. Not being a negative person, I meant no disrespect to any other make and model of pen. It’s more of a preference thing, and where my pen preferences have evolved into.

My everyday carry now, is a Parker 51 vac in my shirt pocket. It hasn’t always been this way...But. I can, so I do.

[penwash]

I don't know about you, but if I look at all the pens that I like, some of them are baby-sized, and some of them are larger than the KOP. I have room in my collection and rotation for different kinds of pen sizes. One thing in common, they all give me enjoyment when I use them.

[Erik Dalton]

I don't know about you, but if I look at all the pens that I like, some of them are baby-sized, and some of them are larger than the KOP. I have room in my collection and rotation for different kinds of pen sizes. One thing in common, they all give me enjoyment when I use them.

 

Well said

[ENewton]

I don't know about you, but if I look at all the pens that I like, some of them are baby-sized, and some of them are larger than the KOP. I have room in my collection and rotation for different kinds of pen sizes. One thing in common, they all give me enjoyment when I use them.

 

 

I agree. I have pens considerably heavier than the King of Pen--my Waterman Elegance, inked now, weighs more than 50 grams--and they haven't diminished my pleasure in my Waterman 3V, which I think weighs less than 10 grams.

 

Similarly, I have not found that longer pens make it less enjoyable to use shorter ones.

 

For me, the aspect of a pen that can spoil the pleasure of using other pens is the nib. I find myself using my vintage pens and my Sailor pens more often than others.

[sightsome]

 

Not sure what you’re asking. But I’ll give your question a go, and try to explain. Like most of us my taste in pens has evolved over the years. and so my collections have grown. My first pen was a Parker 21 that leaked all over my hands every day at school. I loved that pen. All of my pens started off as favorites. Age and circumstances have a way of changing what feels good in your hands. The environment we write in changes as well. Some pens never leave my home office, some were regulars at work. It’s a choice, a personal choice. I love all my pens, but these days when pretty much all of my writing is done at home, I do prefer the KOP, MB 149, 146 or Pelikan M-800 for longer notes, letters and such. (yes, I still write letters). Perhaps “spoiled” can be taken in several ways, some more negative than others. Not being a negative person, I meant no disrespect to any other make and model of pen. It’s more of a preference thing, and where my pen preferences have evolved into.

My everyday carry now, is a Parker 51 vac in my shirt pocket. It hasn’t always been this way...But. I can, so I do.

 

I didn't mean anything pernicious by the question. Just wondering what pen you adored before that, post KoP, not doesn't shine as brightly in your experience because of qualities in the KoP. I know that once I wrote with a Pelikan M1000, there was no going back to an M800 after that. And it's not becuase the M800 is a bad pen—it's not, it's a great pen. But the M1000 had what I was looking for.

[JunkyardSam]

This could vary from one person to the next, but my King of Pen did not invalidate my love for other pens. In fact, it makes me appreciate them more because there is a contrast between the pens. There are King of Pen days. There are Royal Tangerine 1911s days. And many pen days in between!

[jar]

 

I didn't mean anything pernicious by the question. Just wondering what pen you adored before that, post KoP, not doesn't shine as brightly in your experience because of qualities in the KoP. I know that once I wrote with a Pelikan M1000, there was no going back to an M800 after that. And it's not becuase the M800 is a bad pen—it's not, it's a great pen. But the M1000 had what I was looking for.

That's interesting. While Pelikan has never been a particular favorite of mine I have owned quite a few including a Pelikan M1050 but of the modern Pelikans I preferred (and actually kept) my original size M600 (and M400 & 200) while the M1050, M800 and large size M600 went to ForEver Homes.

[Tom Kellie]

...while the M1050, M800 and large size M600 went to ForEver Homes.

 

~ jar:

 

When I read the above I burst out laughing.

If every dog has its day, so must every Pelikan, eh?

Tom K.

[como]

+1

 

I don't know about you, but if I look at all the pens that I like, some of them are baby-sized, and some of them are larger than the KOP. I have room in my collection and rotation for different kinds of pen sizes. One thing in common, they all give me enjoyment when I use them.

 

How familiar is that feeling...

...All of my pens started off as favorites. ...

Edited November 2, 2019 by como