Platinum President

[davisgt]

My new Platinum President was just delivered and it was quite fun to unbox my new pen. It looks remarkably similar,  in fact shockingly similar,  to my Sailor 1911L. I will actually need to look closely enough to see the stamped name to know the difference.  Very intriguing.  

[davisgt]

[inkstainedruth]

Interesting.  I only have low-end Platinum pens (some Preppies that were freebies with four oz. bottles of Noodler's ink a number of years ago -- this was before Noodler's brought out the Charlie eyedropper pens); and one Plaisir I got early on (back when they sold them with the coated nibs to match the barrel & cap color).   When I got the Plaisir, I found that the very wide cap band was really cheesy looking in person.  But what was WORSE was that after a while the coating on the nib started to flake off and I was really worried about the possible contamination with the ink in the bottles (I gather that Platinum has stopped making those coated nibs).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

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[senzen]

As much as I like my Sailor pens, and the 3776 Century is very nice, the President's nib is really good looking.

 

 

I got mine used, a little beat up; in my hand it's a very distinguished pen, bigger than I thought, with a particularly smooth M nib, probably polished by a previous owner. Fuyu Gaki looks great with this pen.

[davisgt]

Yes, the nib is gorgeous.  I was thinking about yama-budo as an ink for this pen. Either that or syo-ro. 

[langere]

Yes, the President is an underappreciated pen.  Platinum has brought out so many new, different stunning pens that the President, kind of unassuming, has lost its status as the flagship pen of the company.  But it is a really good pen and is a wonderful writer.

 

Erick

[davisgt]

I do like the 3776 pens, especially the Laurel Green and the Black Diamond, but the President has an understated elegance about it that I really find appealing.  

[Harold]

I've always found it really strange that the President nib is shorter than the #3776 nib. On the plus side, it's by far the most unique triple broad nib I own and one I'll never get rid of; it gets used every day. It has feedback(which is already rare for wider nibs) that I would genuinely describe as a pencil with a lead that's on the softer side, no matter the lubrication of the ink or coating/sizing of the paper used. By comparison, a Sailor Zoom nib ranges from sandpaper to a stick of butter depending on the ink and paper, much more inconsistent and harsher. I'm guessing I got a unicorn nib though, I've only ever used one President coarse nib.

[davisgt]

Yeah my Sailor 1911L nib has a good amount of feedback similar to what you describe as a pencil. It's a medium,  which was a bit of a shock.  I would expect it more from an EF.