Bexley Pens

[Lee]

How do you rate your Bexley in comparison to other pens of the same price range? Why should I be convinced or not convinced to purchase one? Enquiring minds want to know!

[TheNobleSavage]

Well, I am not here to convince you to buy squat!!! But I can tell you that out of my collection of 80+ pens, I own 4 Bexley Fountain Pens.

 

Prometheus (brown)

2 Sheherazade (one Translucent grey/silver and one Translucent blue/silver)

Bexley/Swisher Limited Edition Snowfall (cracked ice)

 

I happen to think that these are some of the best fountain pens made today. Bexley is a smaller company that is based out of Cleveland Ohio. This is one of the last American made fountain pens. Everything is made in the USA with the exception of the nibs. The nibs are made in Germany at the Bock nib factory (Peter Bock) The Bock nib factory makes some of the best nibs around!! They make nibs for Pelikan, Laban, Omas just to name a few.

 

I own 1 broad nib and 3 mediums and I find them to be nice springy nibs that are smooth as butter. The 18kt gold nibs are two tone and they look like a million buck!! I find that the craftsmanship is top notch and the pens carry a lifetime warranty if you are the first owner and register your pens.

 

I have Pelikans in every size, MB 149, Parkers, Platinums, Sailors, Sheaffers and quite a few other brands. The Bexley are some of my favorite fountain pens. I just aquired a Bexley Prometheus about a month ago. The nib on the Prometheus is even bigger than the nibs on the regular line of Bexley pens. It uses an ebonite feed and has a piston filler that sucks up a crapload of ink!!! It writes as smooth as butter and the ebonite feed makes this pen a very wet writer!!

 

The Sheherazade is another interesting looking pen. It is a stout pen that is a great writer. This is a piston filler like the Prometheus and it doesnt hold as much ink as the Prometheus but it hold more ink than a converter would ever dream of holding. Again, smooth writer and a pleasure to write with. Read some of my reviews in the pen review section of this board. that might help you out a bit.

 

In closing, you will have to make the decision for yourself but I am very happy with my Bexley pens and I dont think you would ever go wrong buying one!!! I am sure you will find it a pleasure to write with and they are also some attention getters too!!

[Titivillus]

Bexley is a smaller company that is based out of Cleveland Ohio.

Just to correct the location Bexley is in Columbus, Ohio almost right between Cleveland and Cinncinnati.

 

K H

[Roger]

I'm going to have to buy a Bexley one of these days. It would happen even quicker if they'd make that Americana into a piston feed!

 

Love the look of the Prometheus, but it's a bit pricey. If I would just stop everything in pen buying for a few months, the Prometheus would come more easily!

 

Edit: couldn't spell Prometheus the first time.

Edited July 2, 2005 by Roger

[TheNobleSavage]

Bexley is a smaller company that is based out of Cleveland Ohio.

Just to correct the location Bexley is in Columbus, Ohio almost right between Cleveland and Cinncinnati.

 

K H

Thank you for the correction, I had a brain fart!!!

[TheNobleSavage]

I'm going to have to buy a Bexley one of these days. It would happen even quicker if they'd make that Americana into a piston feed!

 

Love the look of the Prometheus, but it's a bit pricey. If I would just stop everything in pen buying for a few months, the Prometheus would come more easily!

 

Edit: couldn't spell Prometheus the first time.

Hey Roger,

 

I bought my Prometheus from Swisher pens and it was one of the dipped pens that was on clearance. It was well over 50% off of their list price. That was the only was y I could ever afford it!!! I am going to be posting a review on the Prometheus either tonight or tomorrow

[Titivillus]

Bexley is a smaller company that is based out of Cleveland Ohio.

Just to correct the location Bexley is in Columbus, Ohio almost right between Cleveland and Cinncinnati.

 

K H

Thank you for the correction, I had a brain fart!!!

No problem! I just remember them being closer than Cleveland when I lived up in Morgantown, WV. Too bad I didn't get seriously into pens until I moved farther South but that was before Pendemonium moved as well!

 

 

Kurt H

[Roger]

Hey Roger,

 

I bought my Prometheus from Swisher pens and it was one of the dipped pens that was on clearance.  It was well over 50% off of their list price.  That was the only was y I could ever afford it!!!  I am going to be posting a review on the Prometheus either tonight or tomorrow

I'd open the piggy bank in short order if I could find one like that, Savage. I mean, dipped only and it still qualifies as new, right?

 

I'll look forward to your review. Love a big piston filler like that. Well, Lord hates a coward; I'll drop an email to Chuck and see if he has any more like that.

[Lee]

Thanks for the advice. Bexley has a nice classic style which I like but I didn't want to save for a pen that really wasn't worth the money spent on it. You guys are great!

[Titivillus]

Thanks for the advice. Bexley has a nice classic style which I like but I didn't want to save for a pen that really wasn't worth the money spent on it. You guys are great!

I just bought a Bexley Celebration- will give a complete review once I have the pen and write abit

 

 

Kurt H

[wimg]

Hi Kurt,

 

Looking forward to your review! Great!

 

Warm regards, Wim

[Titivillus]

Hi Kurt,

 

Looking forward to your review! Great!

 

Warm regards, Wim

It's a Mardi Gras and for obvious reasons is sort of a limited edition to me ( it's a pen that has a connection to one of my other hobbies. When received I am going to try and do a full spread review of the pen. Who knows I might also give some progress information on getting the nib changed as well. I have heard great things about the Bexley Stub.

 

K H

[Stylo]

Bexleys seem like very nice pens and I had my eyes set on the Americana. But if I am about to shell out more than $100 on any pen, its looks better dazzle the hell out of me So while Bexleys are nice, I am not convinced yet they look special enough to do that, like say a Conway Stewart or an Optima Auroloid would.

[Titivillus]

Bexleys seem like very nice pens and I had my eyes set on the Americana. But if I am about to shell out more than $100 on any pen, its looks better dazzle the hell out of me So while Bexleys are nice, I am not convinced yet they look special enough to do that, like say a Conway Stewart or an Optima Auroloid would.

You need to delve deeper into the catalog of Bexley before deciding completely against them as not being dazzling enough. They have used the same material as MB LEs and Sheaffer too.

 

 

K H

[Roger]

Kurt, I've heard that the converters in the Bexley's are pretty good and do not suffer the problem so common to many converter driven pens. That problem being the attraction of the interior walls of the converter to ink, such that the ink often hangs up in the top of the converter, thus eventually starving the feed of ink. AAMOF, the same good things have been said of Sailor and Pelikan converters. Thus, recommendations by people like Wim to replace international converters with Pels. It seems that the international converters have a bad rep. in this regard.

 

Like NS, I like piston fillers since, even in my short exposure, I've already seen a number of these converters acting up. If, however, I can be assured that the converter is good in this respect, or can be replaced by one that is good, I don't have any problen with removing the barrel and twisting a converter stem; if only it works well!

[Titivillus]

Kurt, I've heard that the converters in the Bexley's are pretty good and do not suffer the problem so common to many converter driven pens. That problem being the attraction of the interior walls of the converter to ink, such that the ink often hangs up in the top of the converter, thus eventually starving the feed of ink. AAMOF, the same good things have been said of Sailor and Pelikan converters. Thus, recommendations by people like Wim to replace international converters with Pels. It seems that the international converters have a bad rep. in this regard.

 

Like NS, I like piston fillers since, even in my short exposure, I've already seen a number of these converters acting up. If, however, I can be assured that the converter is good in this respect, or can be replaced by one that is good, I don't have any problen with removing the barrel and twisting a converter stem; if only it works well!

The one reason I am excited about getting my celebration is that it has a pump converter similar to those of Dunhill & older namikis. It actually has a little wire and plug that allows you to pull a large amount of into the converter!

 

 

In the half a hundred pens that I've owned most have had integral filling mechanisms. For the converters that act up a little surfactant can go a long way in removing that problem.

 

K H

[Roger]

The one reason I am excited about getting my celebration is that it has a pump converter similar to those of Dunhill & older namikis.  It actually has a little wire and plug that allows you to pull a large amount of into the converter!

 

I'm confused. Binder calls the Celebration's system a pump filler. But Parkeville, Swisher and the Bexley website, no less, call it a button filler!

I guess by stretching the facts to the max, a button filler is sort of a pump filler, but we sure don't think of them in the same breath.

 

For the converters that act up a little surfactant can go a long way in removing that problem.

 

True, but some converters can be washed till the cows come home with no improvement. They're the bad actors that need work from their makers. Nobody can tell me that the makers of the problem converters do not know of their problems. As long as the returns and bad PR is minimal, there's little incentive to fix the problem. Like government, we tend to get the pens we deserve.

[Dillo]

Hi,

 

The only problem with my international convertor, is that it vapor locks in your pocket, so ink stay near the nib end and does not want to go back down. It has not vapor lock in writing position though. Strange behavior.

 

Dillon

[Titivillus]

The one reason I am excited about getting my celebration is that it has a pump converter similar to those of Dunhill & older namikis.  It actually has a little wire and plug that allows you to pull a large amount of into the converter!

 

I'm confused. Binder calls the Celebration's system a pump filler. But Parkeville, Swisher and the Bexley website, no less, call it a button filler!

I guess by stretching the facts to the max, a button filler is sort of a pump filler, but we sure don't think of them in the same breath.

 

For the converters that act up a little surfactant can go a long way in removing that problem.

 

True, but some converters can be washed till the cows come home with no improvement. They're the bad actors that need work from their makers. Nobody can tell me that the makers of the problem converters do not know of their problems. As long as the returns and bad PR is minimal, there's little incentive to fix the problem. Like government, we tend to get the pens we deserve.

I'm confused. Binder calls the Celebration's system a pump filler. But Parkeville, Swisher and the Bexley website, no less, call it a button filler! 

I guess by stretching the facts to the max, a button filler is sort of a pump filler, but we sure don't think of them in the same breath. 

 

I guess if you look just at the outside of the pen than it would look to be a button filler as you press the button on the end but if you look at the filler itself it is a pump filler. I has some similar confusion by a seller as to what a piston filler/ Visconti vac filler was.

 

 

 

True, but some converters can be washed till the cows come home with no improvement.    They're the bad actors that need work from their makers.

 

I guess I have never had a converter that needed more than a little washing. So I will stop opining on this matter:lol:

 

 

 

Nobody can tell me that the makers of the problem converters do not know of their problems. As long as the returns and bad PR is minimal, there's little incentive to fix the problem. Like government, we tend to get the pens we deserve.   

 

This is my bette noir as well. A person should not have to accept a pen that does not write great out of the box. There shouldn't be the need to tweak a nib or bemoan poor fit & finish! If it isn't a good pen send it back to the manufacturer or at least make the manufacturer aware that there is a problem. Maybe if enough people make it known then the overall quality level of pens will rise.

 

 

You can always hope!

 

K H

[Edwaroth]

Two of my best writers... A Bexley Cities Delaware and a Lamy 2000 in the the 120USD to 175USD range. Buy the Bexley from Richardspens and I doubt you will have a better writing pen for 150USD. Plus the "Hometown Cities " edition look dropdead fantastic.

Edited September 11, 2013 by Edwaroth