Fountain Pens with Nib Size: SF

Keeping up with the rapid development of modern fountain pen manufacturing is difficult, but we are happy to have gotten our hands on this Magna Carta Emotions fountain pen. Preowned it looks nearly perfect, EXCEPT, it has a very loose pocket clip. We love the clear demonstrator with white-swirl design. It section grip is about the same size as a Pelikan M1000. It's a big pen. It comes with a standard international converter and takes like cartridges. Click the headline for a close-up to see its steel semi-flex nib. You'll write a smooth extra-fine to roughly 1mm wide line. 14.2cm capped.

We search far and wide for all the latest and greatest pens. Today we are very excited to showcase a gigantic pen from India's Ranga Pen Company. We don't know the model name, but we do know that it is made from a fantastic blue-and-tan hard rubber. Like a really old vintage pen, you fill this with an eyedropper. It can definitely hold a lot of ink. As a special treat, it comes preloaded with a two-tone steel "FPR Flex" nib. FPR stands for Fountain Pen Revolution. While it has flex, we consider it more of a semi-flex than a wet-noodle flex. Nevertheless, you will write from about a medium to more than 1mm wide! This pen looks brand new to us. 15cm capped.

Holy cats! Check out this really old find made some time in the early 1900s. It is a Waterman 12 POC. It is in amazingly good condition, too! True, the chasing is all but faded away, but it still opens easily and has a good barrel imprint. You can no longer read the 12 in the tail imprint, but with a loupe you can read the POC. Neater still...it was made in Canada. Click the headline for a close up of the #2 nib made of 14k gold. You will write an extra-fine to nearly 2mm wide line with its semi-flex nib. Just go easy on the ol' girl. You should be so lucky to be this flexible at around 115 years old. The nickel pocket clip is a bit tarnished and worn. No cracks! Some chocolate hazing. 13cm capped.

We love a good name engraved on a pen. Hazel Goff owned this Gold Bond ringtop pen. We don't know anything about her...other than that she was a biter. The cap and tail of this pen have a lot of bite marks. We restored it with a new ink sac. Hazel clearly made this a beloved tool for writing. It has a few deep scratches and wear. No cracks. No brassing. You might love writing with it, too. It has a semi-flex nib that writes a fine line to about a 1mm line. It is a little scratchy, but the flex is worth it. 11.5cm capped.

On the surface, there might not be a lot to get you too excited about this Parker Vacumatic. And then you write with it. Wow! With a light touch it is a nice medium nib that leans toward fine, but with a little gentle pressure you can get about 1mm line variation! Not a common trait in a Vac from 1942. We restored this vintage pen with a new diaphragm. Its grey pearl design is nice with nickel trim. Dark ambering still permits a little light to see through the empty barrel. It has some wear from use, but there are no cracks or deep scratches. The blind cap-barrel alignment is just a little off. 13cm capped.

We've always admired the simple Conklin Crescent filling fountain pen. Easy to use, great nibs, and as Mark Twain said, it didn't roll off the desk. Our vintage pen is a Conklin P4, which we believe meant it was a pocket pen with a Conklin size 4 nib. Fully restored with a new ink sac, most people will be attracted to its 14k gold nib. You will write an extra fine line with a little feedback, but it can be slowly and gently be flexed to a 1mm wide line! It is semi-flexible, not a wet noodle. Made of ebonite, which sounds so much more exotic than black hard rubber, you will see it still has its chasing design clearly imprinted. The brand imprint is a little weak, but you can still make out the P4. Lovely initials are engraved in the wide, floral cap band. Minimal brassing on the clip and band. The crescent only has writing on one side. 11.1cm capped.

Artistic doesn't always work for product photos, but we like the crisp Eversharp in the clip of this black Eversharp Skyline with a gold-filled cap. We restored this vintage pen with a new ink sac. The cap is dent-free, but the barrel shows some wear from use. Most remarkable is the 14k gold nib. It is a fat, juicy writer that goes from about a medium to an incredible 2mm wide! It is not a wet noodle, but if you go easy on its semi-flex nature with patience, it will deliver great results. This is the short version of the pen at 12.5cm capped. Click the headline for close-ups.

Behold the mighty Sleeve-Filler! Honestly, some days we still have to pinch ourselves to make sure the dream we are living is really not just a dream. This Waterman 12SF in its original box creates a pinch-ourselves moment. Gary Lehrer's Waterman book says these were made between 1910 and 1915. The old hard rubber is fragile. As such, we did not force the section to open to restore this pen. This pen is in far too good a condition to accidentally destroy. It remains without a working ink sac. The sleeve on the barrel has a crisp imprint and can be gently coaxed and wiggled to reveal the squeeze bar filler. It is a little stiff in moving so don't force anything. No cracks! 14k gold nib is a stiff semi-flex. Original box a little faded and ink stained but still nice to have. Additional photos available upon request.