Pentel Excalibur

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I won't be able to provide pictures unfortunately for a few months. This is a short run down on the product.

 

This pen model is not part of the line of the more expensive Pentel Excalibur pens. It's a modestly priced 25 dollar pen purchased on Guam by my father who gave me the FP for Christmas. Well it did make an impression on me, I have used it off an on for about a year, and it has sparked a lot of interest because I couldn't quite figure out where on the internet could someone buy a pen like this.

 

The pen is sized and shaped like a run of the mill ball point pen, about 5 and a half inches in length, and the one I have has a medium tipped nib. The line width is roughly equivalent to writing with a 0.7mm rollerball pen.

 

This pen does not use cartridges or a converter, it fills from a bladder. Unscrew the section from the barrel, a metal housing holding the bladder has a lever mechanism, dip the nib into the ink push the lever and it fills up easily. On the downside, depending on the type of ink used or the paper, this form of filling can drain the pen fast. Removing the bladder is easy, and filling it with ink using an eye dropper will mean more ink and last enough for a few days of heavy use. This pen cannot be converted to an eye dropper style as it has a metal barrel.

 

Ink flow is kind of heavy, it was like this right when I started using it, I have not done anything extensive with it, save for manually removing the feed and nib from the section.

 

Overall it's a decent writer skippage rarely occurs except when ink has dried from not being used often or dust getting stuck in the nib, but I'm not big on using this pen except for letter writing, I like to write my mathematics notes with a fountain pen and the sized nib just does not cut it for me.