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WLSpec Vintage

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Just saw this. It is virtually the same design as the stipula ventidue with a different filling mechanism. I had a ventidue and ended up selling it because I didn't like it, so maybe this will be a good replacement (I really like the design)

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Mine arrived today. I'm impressed. A nicely finished pen with a remarkably simple filling system. The first thing I did was to replace the Jinhao nib with the last of my Knox obliques, so it writes beautifully. I don't care for metal sections much, but for the price, it seems to be a rather good pen.

 

Edit - I also owned (and sold) a Ventidue. I think this is a much nicer pen.

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Mine arrived today. I'm impressed. A nicely finished pen with a remarkably simple filling system. The first thing I did was to replace the Jinhao nib with the last of my Knox obliques, so it writes beautifully. I don't care for metal sections much, but for the price, it seems to be a rather good pen.

 

Edit - I also owned (and sold) a Ventidue. I think this is a much nicer pen.

 

is it not the T2 suppose to had to Moonman no.6 original ???

 

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is it not the T2 suppose to had to Moonman no.6 original ???

 

 

 

Strangely, mine came with a Jinhao installed and a Moonman as spare.... Weird. But the Knox is massively superior anyway.

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Strangely, mine came with a Jinhao installed and a Moonman as spare.... Weird. But the Knox is massively superior anyway.

Did you order from a seller that offers medium nib as an option? Moonman nib only comes in fine, so some sellers swap in Jinhao nibs and offer them as medium. Edited by Cyclohexene
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I don't prefer pens that used glossy metal as their grip section.

Should have kept the finish as matte in my opinion.

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So - is it a nicer pen than the Stipula Ventidue? How about the Vedo? (I especially love my Vedo.)

 

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Using right now:

Visconti Voyager 30 "M" nib running Birmingham Streetcar

Jinhao 9019 "EF" nib running Birmingham Railroad Spike

Pelikan M1000 "F" nib running Birmingham Sugar Kelp

Sailor King of Pens "M" nib running Van Dieman's Heemskerch and Zeehaen

 

 

 

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I saw a very good review from Inky Rocks on this pen, convinced me I wasn't interested in the pen but if they come out with a better design with that filling system, I'll be very interested.

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I should have mine next week.

"There are thousands of thoughts lying within a man that he does not know 'till he takes up the pen and writes."

- William Thackeray

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Looks nice, I may get one, knowing I will need to swap the nib out...(good to know Knox fits)

I still dearly love my 22s and the 14k nibs though.

The metal section does not bother me a bit.

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So - is it a nicer pen than the Stipula Ventidue? How about the Vedo? (I especially love my Vedo.)

 

Erick

I'm very fond of my Vedo too. Lovely little pen, and no metal section (#5 steel nib, but very nice and somewhat springy).

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Strangely, mine came with a Jinhao installed and a Moonman as spare.... Weird. But the Knox is massively superior anyway.

btw, not strange, I bet you asked for an M nib. Moonman only offers fine. If you ask for M (or fude) they swap in a Jinhao M or fude, and leave the Moonman F in the pack.

 

PS just saw Cyclohexene had already answered you...

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I've had mine for 2 days. It has very wet flow, and it just burped, which is no fun (. I'll keep watching its behaviour, because otherwise I like it.

 

I don't think it a problem when someone copies a design I have never ever seen (I do have a problem with Moonman copying Leonardo's pens, because those pens are all over the internet, so in this case it's in fact an attempt to entice those who wanted _that_ look, but don't want to spend the cash). I bought it not for its resemblance to anything, but for two characteristics, (1) a transparent part of the barrel, i.e. seeing at a glance how much ink I have left, and (2) the filling system, which is, AFAIK, not from Stipula. So #1 is a generic characteristic that Stipula doesn't hold copyright to, and #2 is _not_ copied from Stipula.

 

The burping problem makes me ask a question right away about whether someone was able to swap not just the nib, but also the feed in this pen.

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Burping in this fashion means some air feedback unchecked , usually , and those air can only goes in from 2 places AFAIK, well more precisely likely to be only 2 , cause anywhere else you will see ink elsewhere like the seems between section and barrel but not.

 

It's either from the top piston side , though I doubt it since clearly you can ink it up straight so air tightness seems intact there or it can come in from the nib side.

 

Might be screw off the nib housing, check and made sure feed and nib tight in and apply good amount of silicone grease to the outer wall of the housing when putting it back on.

 

Some burping in these large capacity pens almost inevitable but should not be the way you describe it

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