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I bought one in Cult Pen's sale this week, with a decent discount on it. Pen looks initially nice, but the mould lines on the section are thick and sharp and noticeable as soon as I inked the pen, before putting pen to paper. It would strike me as poor quality for a <£1 pen, but for a pen that retails in the UK for almost 150x that it is hopeless. 


I have obvious mould lines on some Lamy pens, but not on any pen I own at the point where I hold the section. I don't own any other Platinum's aside from a Preppy. Are they generally a low-quality pen maker? Is my pen a duff one, or is this normal? Thanks.

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Platinum's pens are usually very good. 

 

I suggest contacting Cult Pens, who will probably send you a replacement. 

 

I don't have sharp mould lines on my #3776.

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I pulled mine our of the drawer to check and found only my Bourgogne has a mould line. And it's very fine, so fine I hadn't noticed it before. The other three - two black and a white - are all good.

 

Sandy1 is correct, contact Cult Pens. In my experience they are not infallible, but do respond when there's a problem. And at the end of the day that's what matters.

Will work for pens... :unsure:

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Cult Pens have been excellent when I've contacted them before. It is a Bourgogne I have too- I also just found another review that mentions the mould lines are quite noticeable. The nib itself seems very nice, and the body and threads are perfectly clean. Thanks for your feedback. :) 

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Mould lines on the gripping section of my Platinum PNB-13000#71 (i.e. ‘newer’ #3776 Century Bourgogne with gold trim, and cap ring inscriptions in shallow relief as opposed to sunk relief), also bought from Cult Pens (mid-2020) are visible but not detectable by touch.

 

Mould lines on my PNB-10000#71 (i.e. the older version) are barely visible. The material of the gripping section seems ever so slightly darker in colour than in the new version of the model, though.

 

Mould lines on the gripping section of my Platinum #3776 Century Laurel Green with gold trim (which was not a colour made back when the model number of the ‘standard’ colours was PNB-10000), which I ordered from an AliExpress seller and was sent from China last month, are not visible at all; but that may have something to do with the colour of the material being darker yet again.

 

No visible mould lines on my wife's PNB-15000#1 (#3776 Century Black Diamond); its translucent black plastic is even darker.

 

Yet, on my PNB-20000#1 (#3776 Century Black in Black with Music nib), the mould lines on the gripping section are visible and noticeable to the touch, one more so than the other; and that pen is more significantly expensive (at least by MSRP) than the rest, and with the darkest (opaque) black plastic.

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10 hours ago, AmandaW said:

I pulled mine our of the drawer to check and found only my Bourgogne has a mould line. And it's very fine, so fine I hadn't noticed it before.

 

+1. Would never have noticed and cannot be felt.

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I just checked my 4 Platinum 3776's

- Chartres Blue - barely visible mould lines but they're discernible when I run the tip of a finger nail over them.  I had to look carefully under good light.

- Nice Pur - mould lines quite easily seen when looked for and again, I feel the hitch when running a finger nail over the finish.

- Black Diamond - same as with the Chartres Blue

- Shungyo LE - same as the Nice Pur - mould lines easily seen.

 

I am surprised that I missed them, especially with the Shungyo and the Nice Pur.  I could not feel any of the mould lines when simply running my finger over the section.  I had to use the tip of a nail that would lightly hitch against the step or change in contour at the mould line.

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Just checked my Borgogne - I have had it for a few years (bought 11/2016) and had to look under strong light (cell phone flashlight) to even see it. Couldn't feel it at all.

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5 hours ago, Runnin_Ute said:

Just checked my Borgogne - I have had it for a few years (bought 11/2016) and had to look under strong light (cell phone flashlight) to even see it. Couldn't feel it at all.

This is how mould lines on fountain pen sections usually appear, from my experience. 

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