Category: Pen review

J. Herbin Black Metal Ink Rollerball Pen review

13 January 2014 By ian

The J. Herbin Black Metal Ink Rollerball Pen is a refillable rollerball pen for a very reasonable price. It’s rather small and impossible, for me, to comfortably use unposted. It has a good solid feel and heft to it though. The black matte finish is lovely, the chrome trim not so great – it looks […]

Noodler Ahab fountain pen review

6 January 2014 By ian

I do not entirely know what I think of this pen, despite having had it for a while. The Noodler Ahab is a flex pen. It is very reasonably priced. It is a plunger filler and holds approximately 5 gallons of ink. My model is the Carnilan Honey Demonstator. It looks groovy. (I’m growing increasingly […]

Pilot Plumix fountain pen review

23 December 2013 By ian

The Pilot Plumix is a very cheap fountain pen that is only available with a medium italic nib. I don’t get on too well with italic nibs but I’ve found this one to be smooth, though firm, and typical of the high quality of Pilot nibs even in this price range. The section is contoured […]

Pilot V7 Hi-Tecpoint rollerball pen review

16 December 2013 By ian

The Pilot V7 Hi-Tecpoint is a refillable rollerball pen, available in a 0.7 size, writing a 0.5mm line, and also a 0.5 size (the V5), and in red, blue, green and red. The black version is properly black, which, sadly, makes a nice change from the grey you so often get. There’s a nice ink […]

Faber-Castell e-motion fountain pen review

9 December 2013 By ian

Until I spent rather a lot of money on a Platinum #3776 Sai, this was my favourite pen. It is wonderful in so many ways. I love the shape. It doesn’t look as if you ought to be able to write with it for more than a few minutes but it’s actually very comfortable to […]