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I bought the light blue with a Fine nib. It rapidly became one of my go to travel pens. You mentioned you would be afraid to travel with it, but mine has taken a huge beating. It has been to beaches, hikes, camping, sat on, you name it. It is also the first fountain pen I have taken on an airplane that has not leaked. I even left it uncapped once during a flight just to watch it, not even a little ink came out of the nib.

 

I also liked it because you can replace the nib with a Japanese Extra Fine and medium italic from the Plumix and Penmanship. It was a good intro into those line widths in a much nicer pen than the originals.

 

As a medical student, I usually need to write in pretty small lines and the F nib wrote beautifully, the perfect width for minute lines. I bought it after a F Pilot Custom 74 and that 74 has remained uninked in a cabinet since (I'll probably be getting rid of it soon).

 

Anyways, the Prera is a durable, fun, portable pen for a great price (around $30). My wife liked mine so much she bought her own and then proceeded to steal mine and in my book you can't get a better endorsement than that! Congrats on the pen!

Great to know those options. Coincidentally, I just graduated pre-PA, so I'll have to try the extra fine nib in med school! Edited by collectibles114
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I have two fine nib Preras. They are the smoothest fine nibs I've ever used. I use the fine nibs with really wet inks like the permanent DeAtrametis Document inks. One of my fines is a transparent green that I like to use with Noodler's Bad Green Gator and a CON-50 converter to show the ink color.

Favorite pen/ink pairings: Pilot Custom 823 F with Noodler's El Lawrence, TWSBI 580 AL F with Noodler's Baltimore Canyon Blue, TWSBI 580 F with Noodler's Bad Blue Heron, Pilot Custom Heritage 92 F with Noodler's Lexington Gray, TWSBI Mini F with Noodler's Black diluted 1 part distilled water to 4 parts ink.

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The Prera is bulletproof! I can't tell you how many times I've dropped one, and it just looks at me and smiles.

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I want one, but it's just a little too small.

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The Prera is bulletproof! I can't tell you how many times I've dropped one, and it just looks at me and smiles.

That's reassuring, I have yet to drop mine. 😅

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