Suggestions for my next pen?

[John Cullen]

hi shaun, does your lamy 2000 fine write a wider line than most of your fine nibs? People say the Lamy fine is more like a medium. Comments? JC

[Goodwhiskers]

Lamy's sizes are wide like Pelikan's.

I have Lamy Safari pens with broad, medium and extra fine nibs and enjoy using them all. I skipped the fine size as useless for my purposes.

 

Nib sizes from East Asian brands are one step narrower than non-East-Asian brand sizes. My Lamy extra fine is like my Duke fine and Hero fine.

 

East Asian extra fine fountain pens have no equivalent among current production pens from non-East-Asian brands, although custom nibs of that size or even narrower seem to be available to fit non-East-Asian brand pens.

[Goodwhiskers]

How about Platinum's Carbon Ink Pen for about $80 USD?

The pen's action is advertised as extremely free-flowing, the nib is firm (stainless steel; the gold is plate) and the scale of nib size is East Asian.

 

http://www.platinumpenstore.com/index.asp?...PROD&ProdID=436

 

is what I was happening to have looked at just before coming to the FPN this morning. That store is physically located in Georgia, USA.

 

Platinum's Carbon Ink, which evenly suspends soot in water, is physically required to be more viscous than normal fountain pen inks, which are colored by dyes that are easier to keep evenly suspended in water.

 

Platinum seems to have made this Carbon Ink Pen model to stop the complaints from customers who were putting Platinum's Carbon Ink in pens designed for dye inks (probably Platinum's own pens, too).

 

Therefore, I guess that this pen should be as generous with dye inks as a middle-aged man should be with money if he were to receive a miraculous and complete healing from final-stage cancer at the same time as he exclusively won a large lottery jackpot.

[amin]

How about Platinum's Carbon Ink Pen for about $80 USD?

The pen's action is advertised as extremely free-flowing, the nib is firm (stainless steel; the gold is plate) and the scale of nib size is East Asian...

 

Steve, I appreciate the suggestion, but I think I've found what I'm looking for with the Lamy 2000. I went to my local pen store, and unfortunately they were all out of the Lamy 2000s. In the meanwhile, I picked up a Pelikan Future w/ medium pt today to feed my desire for an unassuming sturdy pen to throw around, and I'm going to send two of my Pelikans to Chartpak for nib exchanges to fine. Pam Braun has a fantastic price on the 2000, but I think I'm going to wait a while and let my wallet recover before I get it.

 

Thanks to all for the suggestions and information.

Edited January 2, 2006 by amin