Sailor Fountain Pen Profit -InchFude De Mannen-Inch Fine Nib - Broad Nib (10-0212-740)

This Sailor fountain pen has an astonishing price and an amazing nib. For about US$12.00… I forget the exact price but it is remarkably low for a fountain pen that can write very fine to very broad lines, all with great smoothness and with no fuss, no muss, and no problem. Despite its exotic German name, this is a no frills fountain pen. Everything was plastic except for the clip, the cap edge, and the nib. You can put a cartridge in, as well as an ink converter, which I bought. The package is clearly intended for the mass market because it is how one would display a lemon peeler or magic marker.However, this pen is anything but a mass market pen. The nib was bent backwards (probably by hand) in a very specific way. If you hold the pen 70-90 degree from the vertical, it write like a Sailor Series 1911 or Profit Fine or Medium 21K Gold fountain pen that costs $138 at discount... very smooth, very predictable, and very comfortable to note taking. If you reduce the angle of writing to 60 degrees or less, you start writing on the entire edge of the bent nib and it produces broad strokes that are 2 mm in width.Of course, the pen does not have the 45 degree angle (SW>NE) of a properly held calligraphic nib but if you rotate the pen clockwise in your hand by about 45 degrees, the tip can generate reasonable italic script. If you hold the pen without rotating the barrel but with your hand at the standard 45 degree angle that you would normally use with a calligraphic pen, what you get is a thick down stroke, a thin NW>SE stroke, and a thick horizontal stroke.It will take time and experimentation to learn how to write with this pen and to develop calligraphic styles for it but, in my opinion, it should generate novel and interesting cursive scripts. Because both the down and cross strokes are thick but the NW>SE stroke is thin, it should generate bold cursive script with prominent cross bars and delicate feet and skirts. In the meantime, of course, you can use the pen for taking notes.

I am dyslexic, and fountain pens and their super smooth ink really helps my handwriting in ways I can hardly express. This has become one of my two favorite pens. It not to heavy, and easy to switch between line thickness with a bit of practice. Its the best benefits of a steel ribbed fountain pen combined with a calligraphy pen, because its designed to write kanji script. It has a wonderful draw and flow even at my high desert ultra dry 5000ft altitude. I am using noodler ink though the ink it came with isn't bad, its a bit thin and translucent for my preference.I will say I am using with the branded converter, and its the most fragile I have ever used, coming apart while I was filling it the first time, and I am an experience fountain pen converter user LOL. So you probably want to refill the cartridges and they seem to fit tightly and holding up well so far.I have been having fun drawing with it as well, and while it is a ink hog, its really nice and smooth sliding across the paper, and very wet....but that is my preference and works best at my latitude/longitude in the desert South West USA.If there are any drawbacks, the cap is a place they made a bit light, so I accidentally dented it along the whole length when I dropped it and rolled a light chair across it. What can I say I am a clutz. But the body and nib are are good, and working fine and the clip did not break off or anything. Not like my 3 times more expensive German pen clip that broke off the first week, as it lived in the padded cell pocket of my purse, and now is held on by duct tape in a plastic baggie, so enough said.I would buy more, but I would like other colors so I could remember what color ink was in them without having to tes it before writing.

I am no fountain pen expert by any means but wanted to try this nib style. Was it worth the cost to try. Absolutely.The pen plastic feels cheap to me, I am unsure if it is the lack of weight for the size of pen or the plastic. The Nib feels good and writes very well. The pen is a twist off and that feels cheap as well. Disappointing but at this price point something has to be sacrificed.There is a very interesting learning curve. Its not hard to learn the angles. It is hard to stay in that angle for any duration for writing. Your body position tends to need to be static you cant just pick it up and write lets say offhanded directions with any consistency.I really like the reverse writing and it is certainly fine <EEF> which I prefer. Writing at the thickest angle is a very large font.