Lamy 2000 Or Pilot Vanishing Point

[Silvermink]

REALLY? I thought it felt so much better with the cap posted. I mean, it's great either way, but posting lets me hold it back a little farther and it's juuust perfect.

 

I prefer it unposted, too, but then I hold my pens quite low and prefer unposted unless a pen is too short to be comfortable that way.

 

The cap is pretty light, not like, say, a Townsend or something where posting it throws the balance wildly off.

[mikey]

Best advice I can give is to get one of each (along with a Parker 51). These are my three favorite pens. Great variety, excellent designs and superb writers.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Thanks,

Mike

[Verbose]

I snagged a 51 off ebay for a decent price, it writes amazingly, but theres something about the grip that feels a little odd.

[langere]

I agree that the VP is better fro meetings because of the button, but that the 2k is better for long bouts of writing. I have both.

 

I also agree with Silvermink that my Lamy 2k Fine nib seems more like a Medium - so there is a lot of variety in the nibs.

 

Erick

[Ernst Bitterman]

Apart from the weight, which is not negligible, the only thing I'd hold against the VP is the ink supply-- there's not a lot of ink in there, and if that's a serious hour of writing you may start to get nervous at the 50 minute mark. I find posting the 2000 is a bit of a non-starter, as the gripper-springs inside the cap tend to squirt it off the back of the pen, not unlike pinching a pumpkin seed (I understand this can vary from pen to pen). Otherwise, I find them both extremely satisfactory, and you might opt for whichever you find more visually appealing.

[watch_art]

my l2k posts beautifully. as well as my pelikans. sometimes i prefer it unposted though.

[nicholasyeo]

Why post when you don't even need a clip! Definitely the Vanishing Point/Decimo.

[cubic archon]

For the record, a friend of mine was round my place recently and was playing with my pens. Unprompted, with the Lamy 2000, she said (paraphrased) "this one is different to all the others, it's like you're not holding a pen at all".

 

There are pros and cons to this. Sometimes it can be just that _too_ "transparent" and well-balanced as a writing implement. I like my full-sized VP partly _because_ it is slightly nib-heavy in terms of balance - I've found that my handwriting gets worse when I'm not physically reminded that I am actually holding a pen. On the other hand, sometimes you want something that does have a weight but, because of the balance, feels like it's not there. I'm certainly considering getting a 2000 in M or B as well as the F one I have.

 

N.B. I bought my dad a 2000 in F for his birthday recently and he's really happy with it it seems. I remember him having various Rotring pens when I was younger, so I thought the 2000 would be the sort of design he'd like.

Edited November 9, 2010 by cubic archon