I have a vintage Papermate double heart slim with an original papermate refill. It writes upside down. I use it for signing off delivery notes on the side of lorries. I carry it in my top pocket and never lend it. I use a Calliarts Ego piston filler with a great nib. My best fountain pen is a Pilot Custom heritage 912 with the falcon Rhodium plated gold flex nib pen. Con 70 converter with Pilot Blue Black ink.
Sal. Great video. These types of videos are helpful as they give feedback on usage. Being a fellow lefty I typically agree with your choices/reviews. Congrats on the rebrand.
Funny how you got a pilot g2 cartridge in that precision case. I've found that my favorite case is the pilot juice, but the ink is lacking. I've bought several juice pens just to replace the ink with my favorite refills (g2's, energel's and the sarasa clip). The juice casing really seems to improve my handwriting. When I wright with a g2 case or a saras case, my hand wright is not as good.
Really interesting video, Sal. I find the Pilot Hi-Tecpoint VRT a really fun pen to use and I absolutely love the design. Moreover, I've found that it accepts without any modification the Schmidt 888 refill, that I really like. Hope to see more video like this in the future!
Really enjoyed this vid. It's nice to see the differences between a "great" pen and what you actually reach for - for those of us with a decent sized collection, sometimes there's overlap, but not always. I *hate* the way the space pen refills write - the ink flow feels "sticky" and annoys the hell out of me when I'm using it - but I always have one on me for the same reason you do; because it always writes. Similarly, my metal Parker Jotter goes everywhere with me. It's far from the best pen I have, but it's reliable, feels good in my hand, and something about it makes me smile a little whenever I reach for it. My favorite fountain pen is my Lamy 2000 by a mile, but that's my "sit down and do some contemplative writing" pen. If I'm just jotting something down, I'm more likely to grab my Soyuz (an old Russian knockoff of a Parker 51, but it's small and smooth and unobtrusive to write with) or my Diplomat Magnum. I just got one of the new Yookers Refillables to play with (claims to be a felt tip, actually a plastic nibbed pen that takes fountain pen ink). I'm interested to see if it becomes a daily user just from the utility aspect, or if it ends up in the general "yeah, that's neat, but I couldn't tell you when I last wrote with it" category. For $13.50 it was worth a punt.
If you like smooth, effortless writing ballpoints, you MUST try the Schmidt EasyFlow 9000 refill which comes in the parker-style g2 size. I have not gone back to writing with anything else because the smoothness is just incomparable. It is a fairly pricey refill, only seconded by a well-tuned nib in terms of ease of writing.
I've been using the Uniball Edge and I was disappointed. I gave it the writing fast test and it failed miserably. The pen cannot keep up with fast writing and it skips so much it was annoying. Then it just stopped working all together. It's a good pen for a signature but nothing more.
I watch all of your vids theyre great and this one is no exception i think you should do this ‘what im using’ periodically - i like how its casual and also interesting 🤓
Is your Sarasa Dry really using the 0.5 refill? I've got this pen and the line seems much thicker and inkier than your result here. Thanks for the video.
The 3776 is a great pen, so great I have three (UEF, M and C). I just wish it were slightly longer unposted! Personally I prefer the pilot custom 74 but it's a close run contest.
I may be in the minority here but I find I like a pen to have some toothy-ness or feedback. If a pen is way too smooth like a rollerball, Pilot V5 Precise or something like those I find it sometimes hard to properly control my writing. Perhaps I'm just too used to writing with mechanical pencils?
