Another beautiful review! Too bad the pen is such a lemon, because you make it look so nice!

My second fountain pen was a Kuratake 13, and I love it! I’ve been using it daily for more than a year and had no problems with it at all. I’ve used it with Diamine Ancient Copper, Robert Oster Deep Purple, and Organics Studio Santiago’s Sea. The only thing to be careful of is that it will get your fingers inky for the first week or so after a refill. The breather holes are above the brush and they seep for the first seven to ten days.

Thank you for that wonderful review, and for sharing your passions with us! I’ve done product photography in the past, and I know that this post had several hours behind the lens, followed by many more in front of the screen editing. It is all greatly appreciated!

I thought it was a beautiful word to stumble upon

Honestly, this is probably the first and last Leuchtturm I’ll buy. The Midori MDs have fewer pages than a lot of other A5 notebooks, but they are also so much cheaper.

Right now I’ve got a Leuchtturm1917 A5 dot grid as my Bullet Journal, a Midori MD A5 graph for my journal journal, a Top Flight A5 dot grid as my Commonplace Book, and a no-name daily planner for my work notes. The Leuchtturm has a few minor issues with ghosting if I’m not careful. The Top Flight isn’t that great for fountain pens, but it was cheap at the grocery store. I only use my fine nibs on it. I do most of my correspondence on either Tomoe River A5 or Clairefontaine A4.

Another one to add to the list of future purchases!

We should be able to get by with one mod. We’re small enough that it takes less than five minutes to read every new comment on a busy day. Besides, the community here is laid back. I’ve been solo mod of the Calculator community for a year or so. I still have not yet needed to even mention the rules, let alone actually moderate anything.

You’ve been actively trying to build the community more than anybody, vext01. You have my vote for mod!

I’m in IT and have no real need for them either, but they touch me right in the happy nerd center of my brain!

I love it. I stuck with the standard Asvine Medium since I already have six of them and they have all rocked so far. I’ve also heard some random grumblings about Bock nibs in general.

Well, the Earl Grey did not stay in this pen for too long. It was too similar to J Herbin Cacao Du Bresil and the Platinum Carbon Black that I’m using. Replaced it with Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Brown, which is much closer to orange than brown. Seeing as I just benched a pen that was filled with Diamine Sunset, having an orange-ish ink fills a niche.

Buddha! In! Spaaaaaaaace!

You should check out the Calculator Community if that’s one of your gigs, too!

I’m not sure about a European distributor, but I can tell you that mine, from Amazon, has a nib that looks like the one that you’ve found on Aliexpress. I don’t know if there’s a difference between them. The Forest Rainbow that I have has an anodized nib that probably started off all silver, but both of them are extremely fine, and wrote beautifully right out of the box.

That’s right! Sorry for the brain fart!

Gorgeous! Do you know how it compares to other Lamy pens? I have a Safari, but I’ve been curious about their other models.

Which other model do you have? I have a 525 EF that was nothing but trouble and had to be benched.

I have two 1851s and they are the narrowest sections of any pen I own. 7.9 mm at the thinnest, but it has a pronounced bump at the end of it to keep your fingers from slipping into the nib and feed. They are comfortable enough for me to write with, even if I do prefer a wider section. For a pen that costs less than $20 USD, they write great, feel substantial, and come with a pretty good converter. Just be aware that the powder coating wears off pretty quickly with use. The other one that I have is the Forest Rainbow, which is anodized and shows no sign of wear.

Maybe it’s Buddha in a space suit?