Pelikan Souveran M800 “ Renaissance Brown” Special Edition Review

[PAKMAN]

Must resist! Already have too many M800's! lol

[sansenri]

thank you for a very nice review and very nice photos.

 

I have a couple of M800s in the standard green and blue stripes.

It's a pen I like together with the M600, shape and size is right, my hands get quickly accustomed to the size difference when I use one or the other, I like the balance and weight of the M600 slightly more, but as I write unposted I appreciate the slight additional length of the M800 and do not feel it is overly unbalanced.

I was looking at some of the special editions to choose one in a more attractive material, I skipped the Streiserman and the Tortoise browne, and still feel attracted by the blue o' blue and the vibrant blue, but this Renaissance looked immediately nice.

 

I checked out reviews including this very nice one

(by the way, do you really, really, fill your piston filler Pelikans by unscrewing the nib and filling with a syringe! wiping the nib sounds easier to me...)

 

I was waiting for a good occasion as list pricing is generally too high, opportunity came yesterday on black friday sale by an Italian shop.

Paid 340 euro, not cheap, but much much lower than list price. I am waiting for it now. If I can resist it will go under the Christmas tree...

[MingLau]

thank you for a very nice review and very nice photos.

 

I have a couple of M800s in the standard green and blue stripes.

It's a pen I like together with the M600, shape and size is right, my hands get quickly accustomed to the size difference when I use one or the other, I like the balance and weight of the M600 slightly more, but as I write unposted I appreciate the slight additional length of the M800 and do not feel it is overly unbalanced.

I was looking at some of the special editions to choose one in a more attractive material, I skipped the Streiserman and the Tortoise browne, and still feel attracted by the blue o' blue and the vibrant blue, but this Renaissance looked immediately nice.

 

I checked out reviews including this very nice one

(by the way, do you really, really, fill your piston filler Pelikans by unscrewing the nib and filling with a syringe! wiping the nib sounds easier to me...)

 

I was waiting for a good occasion as list pricing is generally too high, opportunity came yesterday on black friday sale by an Italian shop.

Paid 340 euro, not cheap, but much much lower than list price. I am waiting for it now. If I can resist it will go under the Christmas tree...

Congrats on getting another nice pen, 340Euro sounds like an attractive enough price.

And yes, I usually refill this pen like an eyedroppper pen

One big reason is that I'm using a lot of Diamine, Jherbin inks (slender bottles with small opening), it's so easy to cause an accident when the diameter of both the pen and the bottle opening are similar(it did happened)

[Jeje3325]

Thank you for this review. I resisted for long but I have a green striated in the mail. Can't wait to try it out.

Went for a fine nib, for European nibs this is normally my perfect nib.

 

Cheers,