About pens, that are trying to be what they are not.
I can’t help myself. I did try putting a Z50-M nib on the Wing-Fari. It fits, it writes, but there are problems with the nib, as soon as it is on the pen. It writes very much like a B nib, scratches heavily on the upstroke when I hold it normally and there is a visible misalignment between the tines, when I look at the nib from the side. The nib is fine when pulling it off the feed, fine…
When I purchased four cheap pens a while ago, each of them had triggered an urge to try it for different reasons. I talked about the fake Prera, and the extremely cheap and usable Jinhao 992 already – the former being a near perfect but shitty facsimile of the PILOT Prera – a pen I adore – the latter seeming cheap and useful. The pen I am going to talk about today landed in my shopping cart because it combined…
Why would they even… There is something about certain pens that seems to attract the eye. Be it the iconic simplicity of the LAMY Safari or the distinct black knob and grip of the Pelikan Souverän M series. And where there is attraction, there almost certainly is someone trying to get a share of the money by imitating the key features. Sometimes I browse Chinese wholesale sites for fountain pens because there are some pretty great deals to be had….