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I am sure Bexley, Pelikan, Waterman, Sheaffer, Sailor and <name your pen here> are all fine pens but I don't see the need for elevating them to special status for starting.

 

My experience with the $3.00 Pilot Varsity is similar to that of Girlieg33k and others. My humble Varsity started right away after being left un-used for a year.

 

It's all about matching the ink to the nib and feed.

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I am sure Bexley, Pelikan, Waterman, Sheaffer, Sailor and <name your pen here> are all fine pens but I don't see the need for elevating them to special status for starting.

 

My experience with the $3.00 Pilot Varsity is similar to that of Girlieg33k and others. My humble Varsity started right away after being left un-used for a year.

 

 

 

I'd agree if it wasn't for all the reports on FPN of pens (at every price point) that don't start when asked!

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I'd agree if it wasn't for all the reports on FPN of pens (at every price point) that don't start when asked!

 

If you think about it, you are saying the thing as I am but from the other direction.

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In my limited experience: Lamy. Faber-Castell.

Looking for a cap for a Sheaffer Touchdown Sentinel Deluxe Fat version

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Visconti anybody?

 

I love their designs, and although some are a little too extravagant, pens like the Homo Sapiens just can't be beat for me

 

 

Nick

"It is much more interesting to live life not knowing, than having answers which might be wrong."

"Courage is grace under pressure" ~ Ernest Hemingway

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Attempting to write with a pen, and it failing, is my major pen-related peeve. I strongly dislike hard starts and skips also. My trusty reliable three are Italix, Franklin-Christoph, and Pilot. I love pens made by these companies.

Franklin-Christoph, Italix, and Pilot pens are the best!
Iroshizuku, Diamine, and Waterman inks are my favorites!

Apica, Rhodia, and Clairefontaine make great paper!

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One thing that I really enjoy about this forum is that Necro posting can end up being really informative, and that it's not really looked down upon.

 

That being said, my most reliably starting pens are my Sailors, Pilots (especially the varsity, despite my expectations), and my Lamy's.

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Pilot best fine nibs. PERIOD.

twsbi nibs CANNOT COMPARE.

lamy is ok

 

so of those three I've used, Pilot is the best, lamy is middle, and twsbi is terrible (innovative designs but crappy fine nibs)

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I must be unlucky to have owned about four M800 variants and three M1000 variants and every single one was a hard starter with a baby's bottom on the nib. They keep the nibmeisters in business I guess.

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