I bought this kaweco about a year ago, installed a black cartridge, and then promptly lost it for a couple of months, found it, wrote with it for a couple of days and then misplaced it about 4 months ago. Remarkably the cartridge has not dried out, and the pen writes as if i just installed a fresh cartridge in it. Nice, eh?
I bought this pen when i was planning on getting back into fountain pens after a couple years away from drooling over my dad's waterman. Had no clue what I was looking for, just knew that i wanted an EF nib. Did not know anything about German vs Japanese nibs and their widths.
I also ended up getting the clip for an extra $4.00, thinking that this would allow me to not lose the pen. The pen is very small, tucks away in a pocket or small pocket of ones' purse.. hence the losing the pen often. Just now as I am writing this review, i have lost the pen again.. and cannot figure out where i placed it. I thought i put it on the boy's desk, but now after going back to look for it, I cant find it.
This pen wrote like a dream the day i took it out of the box that i got from Jetpens. I pulled the pen out of the box, popped in the cartridge that came with the pen and off I went, writing away. The unfortunate thing is that the pen uses a proprietary cartridge, so you need to use kaweco ink (or want to clean and refill the ink cartridges). The nib was like butter, no skips no bumps. I only used it with work copy paper, i believe it had minimal bleedthrough.
Now if i could only find the pen again....
I bought this pen when i was planning on getting back into fountain pens after a couple years away from drooling over my dad's waterman. Had no clue what I was looking for, just knew that i wanted an EF nib. Did not know anything about German vs Japanese nibs and their widths.
I also ended up getting the clip for an extra $4.00, thinking that this would allow me to not lose the pen. The pen is very small, tucks away in a pocket or small pocket of ones' purse.. hence the losing the pen often. Just now as I am writing this review, i have lost the pen again.. and cannot figure out where i placed it. I thought i put it on the boy's desk, but now after going back to look for it, I cant find it.
This pen wrote like a dream the day i took it out of the box that i got from Jetpens. I pulled the pen out of the box, popped in the cartridge that came with the pen and off I went, writing away. The unfortunate thing is that the pen uses a proprietary cartridge, so you need to use kaweco ink (or want to clean and refill the ink cartridges). The nib was like butter, no skips no bumps. I only used it with work copy paper, i believe it had minimal bleedthrough.
Now if i could only find the pen again....
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Hi, the pen uses standard international cartridges, you don't have to stick with the kawecos.
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