Recife Pens?

[James P]

I've always been a fan of demonstrator pens and the simplicity of an eyedropper filler is appealing, so the Recife line of pens has caught my eye recently. Does anyone have any experience with the Recife brand in general, and their ED demonstrators in particular?

 

Thanks!

 

James Partridge

Edited June 20, 2006 by James P

[Guest Denis Richard]

Hi James,

 

as much as I think their designs are nice, my experience with Recife has not been good. The quality is way out of line with the price point and customer service is abysmal.

 

Denis.

[smudgy]

I have a Recife and never use it. I don't care for the nib, and the flow is terrible - it's dried up by next day and impossible to start.

[NG-Huy]

I have a Récife Iron Age and I never had problem with dried ink (contrary to my Parker Sonnet). My impressions are ink flow well, nib is smooth and design is okay (especially the Iron Age).

[desertvox]

My friend has a 20 year old Recife with same problems of drying, clogging in in the nib,and leakage. I guess they're good to look at, but not very practical. Style over substance...I'd stick to the Recife rollerball models...can't lose with a roller. BTW, does anyone know if there is a Recife company website? Thanks.

[Deirdre]

I've always been a fan of demonstrator pens and the simplicity of an eyedropper filler is appealing, so the Recife line of pens has caught my eye recently. Does anyone have any experience with the Recife brand in general, and their ED demonstrators in particular?

I have owned five Recife pens, three of them demonstrator eyedroppers. While they're not expensive pens, I never had problems with them. I wish they were better pens, but at the time, I couldn't have afforded those.

[penmanila]

there is a recife website, here:

 

http://www.recife.fr/

 

i have a recife as well, an impressive-looking, big and heavy pen, apparently made of hard rubber, in a red swirl pattern. nice finish, but it writes like a nail (which some people may like, but i don't) ! can't wait to trade this away, but it was a gift so i'm of two minds about doing that

 

 

My friend has a 20 year old Recife with same problems of drying, clogging in in the nib,and leakage. I guess they're good to look at, but not very practical. Style over substance...I'd stick to the Recife rollerball models...can't lose with a roller. BTW, does anyone know if there is a Recife company website? Thanks.

 

[Deirdre]

i have a recife as well, an impressive-looking, big and heavy pen, apparently made of hard rubber, in a red swirl pattern. nice finish, but it writes like a nail (which some people may like, but i don't) ! can't wait to trade this away, but it was a gift so i'm of two minds about doing that

Once I figured out I preferred softer nibs, I gave up on Recife and Stypen.

[Orval]

I've always been a fan of demonstrator pens and the simplicity of an eyedropper filler is appealing, so the Recife line of pens has caught my eye recently. Does anyone have any experience with the Recife brand in general, and their ED demonstrators in particular?

 

Thanks!

 

James Partridge

I bought a Récife demonstrator ED in Paris in 1995 and it was my daily pen during 10 years. Nearly perfect ergonomics, smooth writer, never 1 single problem under heavy use and abuse. No skipping, steady flow even when nearly empty. It was my pocket pen and my desk pen. It felt maybe 50 times on the hard floor - not even a scratch.

The end of this happy story (and the reason why I started looking for and collecting other pens) was when I put Quink black ink in it. The feed schrunk, had a bad smell, started leaking and the fountain pen was useless all of a sudden.

The resurrection came when I met by chance 2 months ago a salesman of Récife in a fountain pen shop in Brussels. I told him what happened and he said: "No problem, our pens have lifetime guarantee." I ran to my office and brought him my pen. I received a new one 10 days later by post at home for free.

The new nib is as smooth as the old one but it starts sometimes with difficulty, although it is now better than in the beginning. I don't know if they changed the feed in plastic instead of ebonite or if there is a baby bottom problem. I suspect the latter, because once it writes, it keeps writing.

Récife is certainly worth a try, at least their ED model. They sell it in Brussels at € 80.

Greetings,

 

Orval

 

[phaseshift]

The Beatles company is issuing a Recife pen to mark the 40th anniversary of the White Album.

US Beatles store link

UK Beatles Store link

I am an admirer of fine fountain pens, but not yet a user or collector. What do you folks think about this pen? Is it worth the price of $395/£259?

 

[desertvox]

there is a recife website, here:

 

<a href="http://www.recife.fr/" target="_blank">http://www.recife.fr/</a>

 

i have a recife as well, an impressive-looking, big and heavy pen, apparently made of hard rubber, in a red swirl pattern. nice finish, but it writes like a nail (which some people may like, but i don't) ! can't wait to trade this away, but it was a gift so i'm of two minds about doing that <img src="https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="sad.gif" />

 

 

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[desertvox]

www.recife.fr

 

best is to order a free catalogue.

[jlepens]

I have and am currently carrying a Recife Crystal eyedropper with gray J Herbin ink in it. Tis a joy to write with, I have a broad nib and it is rigid but writes smoothly. the pen has not stained and I have had no problems with it.

[wordherder62]

I've always been a fan of demonstrator pens and the simplicity of an eyedropper filler is appealing, so the Recife line of pens has caught my eye recently. Does anyone have any experience with the Recife brand in general, and their ED demonstrators in particular?

 

Thanks!

 

James Partridge

 

 

Good pens. Quirky U.S. distribution. Pens slow to come from France sometimes--used to keep no inventory in the U.S. and don't know if that's still the case. A huge line with lots of beautiful pens that no one ever buys outside of the ED pens you mention and lots of folks already have one of those. When I sold them I had customers who loved them; customers who hated and lots of customers that just didn't care. Last category was real problem. Some of the nicer models were a little steeply priced but the rest of the European market seems to have caught up and Aurora has surpassed. U.S. distributor (representative, actually) was excellent with customer service requests, so if he's still in the game that helps.

 

I kind of like the eyedropper pens and they fun. Ones I tried wrote well.

[waznojake2001]

I've always been a fan of demonstrator pens and the simplicity of an eyedropper filler is appealing, so the Recife line of pens has caught my eye recently. Does anyone have any experience with the Recife brand in general, and their ED demonstrators in particular?

 

Thanks!

 

James Partridge

 

I own a Recife fountain pen with a black arabesque finish. The pen is made of a substance known as bakelite. I love the pen it wwrites very well; no skipping, leaking or other problems. I wrote a review of it on my fountain pen blog: Have Pen, Will Write click here to read the review http://havepenwillwrite-jake.blogspot.com/search/label/Recife