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Schlagwort: Comparison

Collage with the cheap pen, and a mockup how a LAMY vista would look if it had the back of the Wing Sung 3008
The pen that couldn’t decide

The pen that couldn’t decide

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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…

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Fake Prera - Real in front and fake in the back
Faking it – the PILOT Prera Iro-Ai, and its cousin

Faking it – the PILOT Prera Iro-Ai, and its cousin

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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….

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