I am extremely disappointed with my visconti bronze age. The medium point 23k palladium nib has been rather underwhelming. I'm happy that I got it at a cheap price cause I think I would had died to have gotten it at retail. And been disappointed.
This is why I'm shying away from V's. Their QC seems to be lacking. For such an expensive pen nibs should not be hit and miss. People have noted other deficiencies with V's that you never hear about with Mont Blanc's, for example.
On the contrary my 23k palladium nib in fine has been phenomenal from day 1. I suppose it all depends on who grinded your nib at the factory. There are a lot of reports of baby bottoms and other problems with their nibs from that time.
Send it to a professional and your HS will go from disappointing to awesome.
Sooo there's already over 1k votes and 1st and 2nd place already have over 200 votes. Can anyone tell me whether or not this poll will go through at some point?
Unfortunately, we are not able to source any Pilot Namiki at this time (we've been working on this for a while, but we probably won't be able to bring back the VPs anytime in the near future), and Visconti is not interested in working with Massdrop to offer their pens. We'll leave the polls open to keep showing Pilot and Visconti how much interest there is for their pens though, and hopefully we can work something out in the future.