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BlueberryBear
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Sep 28, 2015
I bought 2 of those pens, the fine and broad ones, on Amazon at some point, thinking "Eh, cheap fountain pens! Maybe they'll be good everyday pens!". They both came with a pretty cheap feeling wrap (both of my wraps were different, one very soft and suede-ish in feel, which was actually kinda nice, but didn't look like it could handle being carried around all the time; the other like thick faux-leather with threads sticking out of the side of the fabric...), and a bunch of cartridges, although the ink in them wasn't any good...
The pens themselves looked okay, especially for the price I paid for them. The matte rubber-ish coat on them actually felt nice, but it was already starting to come off when I got the pens, near the base mostly, and that only got worse when I started using them. The fine pen wrote out of the box, and although the line was a little wide for a "fine" pen, it was pretty good, and actually pretty smooth. The broad nib, however, didn't write at all... I took me a couple of hours of playing with it to actually get the thing to work, and even then, it often has hard starts and skips. When it worked though, it was amazingly smooth.
So yeah, I wouldn't recommend getting those pens, unless you know what you're getting into. Maybe you'll get a really good one, maybe not. I haven't tried the webnotebooks yet, but they seem really nice. I'd suggest buying the notebook alone, and maybe getting something like a Platinum Preppy, or a Pilot Metropolitan or Kaküno, if you're looking for an everyday pen that won't ruin your wallet and that will actually work. (Although, at the lowest price point, this drop is pretty much like buying a webnotebook at full price, and you get the pen for free-ish, which isn't too bad either.)