Osprey Madison Fountain Pen Review 

You have guided my purchases with fountain pens. I really enjoy your low to mid-budget reviews.

This is a nice find. Thanks for sharing this, Chris. The blue is, of course, another box checked for me. Great review.

Thank you for another great review. I just picked up my second Osprey scholar. I love the dip nib for drawing. The feed railroads when I get into a hurry. Their broad ultra flex is great. Thank you again.

I recently fell back in love with fountain pens after a few years of hiatus--glad to have found this review and learn a new lovely brand!

I ordered myself a Madison after seeing this video on Jan. 11, pen arrived before noon on Jan. 14 by First Class mail (not Priority Mail). It covered the 2773 miles to Lewisburg, PA in what I consider record time. My nib needed about 60 seconds of polishing on 12000 grit micro-mesh to suit me. Thanks, Chris, this is a great value.

Thank you Chris for a nice review as always. I do have an "Osprey Scholar" with same flex nib that you have and enjoy their stub and fine nibs as well. It is nice to see an American company with a clear conscience of promoting writing in Public Schools and producing affordable quality pens with variety of colors and nibs.

Always showing us something interesting, Chris! Thanks ⭐

How nice there's an actual pen company here in California, selling at affordable prices. Yay!

I’m really enjoying your videos. This was great. I’d been considering an Osprey or an acrylic Konrad. Sounds like I’ll need both. Much appreciation for reviewing affordable pens.

Have been eyeing a Milano since before Christmas .... maybe time to pull the trigger on this model first. Question: did you mention adding a drop of detergent to the bottle of Noodler’s Turquoise? For what reason? The turquoise looked fairly deep/dark and not to light and pastel-like.

I had never heard of them either. I'm glad you mentioned Noodler's because I was definitely getting that feeling from it.

This is quite I nice little pen and company...will have to get one for myself. Thanks- great review 😊

First like!!! Thanks for your great videos, Chris!

How interesting. This sort of modularity - WITH - user friendliness was what I was looking for on my recent PenBBS post about the replacement feed.

Recently received the Osprey Scholar. Haven't gotten around to it yet, so I'm happy to see that you're enthusiastic about your pen. Thanks!

Thanks Chris this looks like one to try!!

Interesting little pen. Like you, I have also never heard of this brand. They're definitely somebody to look out for, now that I know of them! Thank you for this review, Chris.

Thanks for the great review, I agree with some of the boxes getting checked off, I plan on getting one

I enjoyed your video. I just ordered the EEF version based on this video.

With the blue color, looks a lot like my blue demonstrator Kaweco Student. I have this Osprey on order and look forward to trying out a flex nib for the first time.

I was looking at this pen last night, the low price made me wanted to get one to check the brand out. The more expensive Milano caught my eye. Glad to see good performance from the Madison. Great review!

I like the colour, and the clip!

Good video. A pen we "cannot" buy in Europe... unless we pay the same amount for the pen and the shipping costs! Interesting instrument and colour... maybe some Sheaffer No Nonsense inspiration here?

OK-I’m getting the broad nib-love the blue, thanks for another heads up!

Thank You...I just ordered one because of your review.

Great review, just ordered my own in a size broad. Interested to see how the broad flex combo works.

Am I to understand that the pen should be 'broken' down and cleaned before filling and using? Thank you.

I may buy one, although Noodler's pens are very troublesome for me.

Osprey are really good. They're great people to deal with too. Their Milano is a really nice pen. I have a couple of those and they are very reliable.

I can say that I absolutely love the Kanwriet nibs that this pen's nib appears to be from the same factory. I currently have 2 and have 4 more on order from India. Now I have to order yet another pen. Darn it all I was not trying to order too many other pens this year....

Thanks for reviewing this pen! I got one last December. Not bad. I've been interested in the Osprey brand for a couple of years but this is the first one I bought. I think it's a pretty colour, well made and a good size, but the plastic felt very cheap and unpleasant to me. That's obviously very subjective, and I didn't really consider it a flaw considering the price of the pen. This particular model, the Madison, is new or maybe a special edition, or so Osprey said in the email I received last year. I don't see it on their website anymore so maybe it was a special run, but all their pens use mutually compatible nib units, including some that will take Zebra G nibs. Writes well when not flexed, but nib was much stiffer and it railroaded much, much more with flexing than a well-adjusted FPR Ultraflex. I agree it's well tuned and smooth. Unfortunately the spring in the converter isn't removable, which can mean lots of rust in the future. Decent pen for the money and it satisfied my curiosity about Osprey pens. (They do have a great philosophy though, both of pen-making and in general, are very interested in promoting education and handwriting. A very worthwhile company.)

I ordered one, arrived in mail box fairly quickly. I thought the nib was kinda like the Noddler's Ahab but with cutouts on the sides. Nib wrote very nicely just like the Ahab. But within 10-15 minutes of the first fill, had a big burp 😞 Luckily it was on a test page. Maybe I was pressing a little too hard to get the feel of its flexing. Don't know did not repeat it yet. Very wet writer. I also like it because it posts well. I thought only eyedroppers burped

Very nice review and a nice pen. One problem that nobody seems to have noticed or if so, not mentioned: the converter (at least on the copy I had received) has an awful smell that is even worse than that observed in the Ahab.

Thanks for the interesting review. This is also my first intro to Osprey pens.

I picked up this pen after this review. Perhaps I just got a bad one as there seems to be no control with this nib and feed combination. While writing it just dumps a blob of ink all of a sudden. In essence it is similar to Noodler's Ahab; which have its own set of problems but I have been lucky with Ahab, out of four I bought I only had one bad one that needed some tuning.

I am told this is an Ebonite feed & therefore only certain inks will work with it, is this true & why please? I bought mine with a G nib, are there different types of G nibs?

I bought mine with a G nib for drawing, waiting for it to arrive.

Imho, an optimal pen should only be heavy enough for it to write a consistent line without applying extra pressure. And from what I've seen and read, that problem is rather caused by what I consider to be bad nib design. Thank you for this review!

Prohibitive shipping costs to U.K. They need a distributor outside of USA.

Thank for that - I’ll be giving one a try.

Would anyone really want to buy a $25 pen for $60 from Peyton Street Pens? Thanks for showing them as what they are, Chris.

After watching this🤳 I got one✒🕵️‍♀️