Visconti Divina Proportions LE-review

[pankajwillis]

Great pen! Very good looking. I would love a comparison between MB 149 and Divina.

 

 

[goodguy]

Great pen! Very good looking. I would love a comparison between MB 149 and Divina.

Hmm that might be interesting but not exactly to the point as the DP is a LE pen and the 149 is a regular made pen.

They are the same side.

I will think about it.

[Rufus]

:ltcapd: :roflmho:

 

GP, please stop unnerving SMG; he's our esteemed nibmeister and we need him in full control of all his faculties for Saturday's pen club breakfast meeting.

 

[goodguy]

Sorry about the pen porn. It was the excitement of holding a big, smooth, broad nibbed, lusciously wet instrument in my hand and contemplating the use to which it could be put. Seems to get me every time.

Wow I never knew the Proportions has such an effect.I will take it to bed with me and see if anything will happend

[Ghost Plane]

Maybe if you have your wife hold it... :hmm1:

[SMG]

Maybe if you have your wife hold it... :hmm1:

Now that's just asking for trouble

Sean

[Rufus]

Maybe if you have your wife hold it... :hmm1:

Now that's just asking for trouble

Sean

 

Sean, control yourself please and GP stop distracting our nibvoyeur...sorry nibmeister.

 

[goodguy]

Thank god we have a mod involved in this discussion or else I would be affraid this thread would be closed :ltcapd:

[bartlee01]

I bought the Visconti Divine Proportion LE from WorldLux and have had it about a week. It looks great but the nib is very scratchy. I was expecting it to be very smooth. My only other fountain pen is a Levenger. I'm not sure the model it's made of blue plastic and has a steel nib. The levenger has a very smooth nib but the Visconti seems to have a bur or something that scratches as I write. Both pens have fine nibs and I can't really remember but I think the Levenger has become smooth to write with from heavy use for a few months.

 

Will the Visconti nib smooth out with a bit of use? Or is there something wrong with it? I have had a close look at the tip of the nib and it looks smooth but it's very small and hard to see.

 

Other than that there is a very tiny split in the lip of the barrel of the pen. But it doesn't seem like it is going to open up any more...

 

The pen looks awesome and I love the hook lock cap instead of the usual screw thread. It's a great idea. I just wish the nib would write smoothly. It also puts out a lot of ink and this leads to a little feathering but I guess I'm not using the best quality paper so that's not the pen's fault.

Edited March 7, 2009 by bartlee01

[goodguy]

Will the Visconti nib smooth out with a bit of use? Or is there something wrong with it? I have had a close look at the tip of the nib and it looks smooth but it's very small and hard to see.

 

Other than that there is a very tiny split in the lip of the barrel of the pen. But it doesn't seem like it is going to open up any more...

A scratchy nib needs to be smoothed by a pen pro.

 

A crack in a new pen is unuaacptable!!!

[Solomander]

+1 on what Amir says. Your pen should look flawless. If there's a crack, it should be returned to World Lux. You should ask them to test the nib of the replacement pen for you to assure that it writes the way that you want it to.

 

Joel

[Ghost Plane]

The one time I got a scritchy nib like this, Visconti replaced it for free. That pen should have a nib so smooth it glides...

[bartlee01]

Visconti replaced the pen. Well I assume it's replaced because the crack in the collar is gone and the celluloid on the part I hold when I write has a different patern.

 

However this new pen is not really any smoother to write with that the last one and it get's ink around the bottom of the collar. Does anyone know why this would happen? These pens must not really be tested by writing with them before they leave the factory or I don't see how stuff like this could happen.

[georges zaslavsky]

I tried several of these but I never found the nib to be so enamoring, I don't like that much the visconti filling system. Enjoy your pen.

[goodguy]

I tried several of these but I never found the nib to be so enamoring, I don't like that much the visconti filling system. Enjoy your pen.

Thank you my friend

Everybody is different and knowing you like your nibs on the softer side I agree this pen is not so much for you.

But you have to agree it is a beautiful smartly designed pen

 

 

 

 

 

 

[bartlee01]

To be fair I thought I better add another post here. The only issue with the replacement pen Vistonti sent me was that the collar would get ink on it. I found that this is because there was ink on the seal inside the pen cap. I rinsed the cap out and let it dry and now there is never any ink on the collar of the pen.

 

This is a beautiful pen and the ONLY thing I don't like about it now is that it doesn't hold enough ink and it is plenty big enough to have been designed to hold a lot of ink. But that isn't so bad you can just refill it more often most of the time. The nib didn't seem very smooth when I first started writing with it but now it is very smooth.

 

I have used Noodler's Polar Black and Noodler's Black in it. Both work quite well. I find that the Polar Black feathers a little but dries very fast (fast enough to never not use it because of drying time) and the normal Black is not as smooth as the Polar Black possibly because the Polar Black has lubrication (and dries too slow for some purposes such as taking notes at work or filling out forms etc).

 

I have ordered some Noodler's Borealis Black (reviewed as drying VERY fast and not causing any nib creep) and also Blue Black so I will see how they go in the Visconti Divina LE.

 

If you can afford it I highly recommend this pen for all purposes that do not require more than a small ink capacity.

[breaker]

very nice review and pics

[bartlee01]

Noodler's Borealis Black does dry very fast but it feathers. I have found the most perfectly behaved ink - J Herbin Poussiere De Lune. It dries fast enough, doesn't feather, is fairly waterproof but will wash off your cotton shirt. And even though it's purple its a very conservative purple and you might get away with using it at work (I have been!).

 

I have a Visconti Divin it's nice to look at but my Aurora 88 is far more functional and less than half the price (and it looks good too). My Divina will make inks feather that don't feather in other pens and it gets ink on the collar (this is my replacement pen bceause the first one had a cracked collar). It's fairly smooth to write with but I'm thinking of selling it and getting an Aurora Optima.

[goodguy]

I'm thinking of selling it and getting an Aurora Optima.

Had an Optima and was not impressed by it, nib not too smooth and ink flow not too generous.

Over all was very disapointed by the pen and it was sold (at lost) short after.

 

I think comparing An 88 or an Optima to a Divina Proportions is comparing Apples and Oranges.

If you want a good pen to write with then why waste so much money on an Optima ?

 

Get a Lamy 2000 which will cost less then a third of the Optima will write better and like the optima has a piston filler and 14K gold nib.

 

And from my own personal experience is much more reliable!!!

 

The Divina Proportions is a gorgeous pen which is also an amazing writer.

Buying it means you want more then just a good writing pen, it means you want a pen which is very unique and uncommon on top of being a solid good writer (with a cool filling mechanism and an eye popping box).

[breaker]

nice review and pics thanks!