Pilot Custom Urushi - Vermillion

[maclink]

On 8/25/2021 at 6:01 PM, NickUK said:

 

This will be up your street then!

 

 

Interesting video.  The Custom Urushi was a pen I was looking at with interest but the size comparison makes this one too big for me.  That's a really large pen.  I'll more likely go for an 845.  

[Gunkanes]

On 9/7/2021 at 3:19 PM, NickUK said:

I'd love to see photos when you get it  

 

Black - Pilot Custom Urushi - F-M

Red - Pilot Custom Urushi - B

 

I found my true religion. I sold most of other pens except the Kanwriters and some #15 Pilots.  I tried Namiki Yukari and Namiki Emperor, but the #30 nib of these pens is what i expect for a grail pen. 

[XYZZY]

I'm late to this thread.  @Mew I am lusting after your Blue pen.  😜

 

I have a black one with the FM nib.  It's my favorite nib for aesthetics, and most fun to write with: I really love how bouncy it is.  The only gotcha with the nib is when I'm writing fast and cross a T (or t):  I'm a lefty over/side-writer, and crossing the T pulls the nib toward me, probably what many of you underwriters would consider a downstroke.  But when done as a quick flick the tines spread quickly and it skips.  If not for that, the pen would be perfect.

 

Has anybody with one of these tried it as an eyedropper?  I haven't worked up the courage to do that, but it has an O-ring where the section screws into the barrel.

[XYZZY]

Everybody asking about the size of the pen or how the nib compares to some other Pilot nib, you should bookmark the KMPN page with pictures and measurements of Pilot Custom pens:

 

https://kmpn.blogspot.com/2011/06/pilot-custom.html

 

[Mew]

On 7/9/2022 at 9:14 AM, XYZZY said:

I'm late to this thread.  @Mew I am lusting after your Blue pen.  😜

 

I have a black one with the FM nib.  It's my favorite nib for aesthetics, and most fun to write with: I really love how bouncy it is.  The only gotcha with the nib is when I'm writing fast and cross a T (or t):  I'm a lefty over/side-writer, and crossing the T pulls the nib toward me, probably what many of you underwriters would consider a downstroke.  But when done as a quick flick the tines spread quickly and it skips.  If not for that, the pen would be perfect.

 

Has anybody with one of these tried it as an eyedropper?  I haven't worked up the courage to do that, but it has an O-ring where the section screws into the barrel.

Thanks. I added the green one earlier this year. 
 

[Linger]

On 9/7/2021 at 12:59 PM, Mew said:

I really like the two I own. The black with FM nib and blue with M nib. 
Nib is quite soft, Maybe as soft as Pelikan M1000. 
 

@Linger - regarding the comparison with #15 nib, I found the #15 nib to be rigid as compared to #30. Connecting it to another thread of mutual interest, I asked hakase maybe an year ago if they would use #30, they said maybe in a few years for anniversary if possible. 

 

@Mew - I spoke to Ruud this weekend on a Dutch/Belgian pen meet at Sakura FP Gallery (really, really nice gathering bytheway, so cool to interact f2f with kindred spirits...) and he understood from Ryo that it was Pilot that did not (yet) wanted to supply the #30 nib as an OEM part to third parties. So fingers crossed, they might change their mind at one point.

 

Question though: you now have 4 Custom Urushi's, and you have the FM and M nib, but do you have a B as well? So as to compare M with B? I am about to pull the trigger on this pen (I really want to have the #30 nib...) and I most likely will go for the M but have just the tiniest of doubt...