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But how does it write? Dude... its a pen... write.

Which fountain pen would you recommend for an artist that has some flexibility of the nib to this degree? Considering this pen can’t be obtained anymore?

Hi! I just got a couple of these and was wondering if I can soak them in soap and water to clean them. Thabks

Thanks for this review. When I saw this pen in an advertisement in a popular science magazine back in the late 80's I just had to get one. I used it throughout university and my first real job. My taste in pens was forever shaped by this pen. It probably explains my love for metal Karas pens. Thanks you for showing the Kaweco. I did not know it was so similar.

I have the ballpoint and lead 600.

Great review sire. 👍

I’ve got quite a few FPR pens. Himalaya V1 & V2 as well as some Guru, Indus, Muft and Jaipur V2. I have several with the ultra flex nibs some with the flex nibs and a few with standard FPR nibs. Most of mine are in ebonite if they are available in that material. They feel amazing in the hand and don’t seem as slick as the acrylic ones. I have an acrylic Himalaya V1. I’ve made many orders with FPR. They’ve always been great to do business with. Kevin is an awesome guy and he’s always ready to help you out if you’re having trouble with one of his pens or products. He really wants happy customers.

It’s a good pen for the price, I use it with my Visconti Homo Sapien

year or two ago I got a group of Online pens, one of which is the "maze" with the valentine heart that you show in your illustration. Thanks, Jonathan.

Great review. Amazon UK has them and I ordered one via Amazon US, for about $21.

Thanks for a great review of one of my favourite pens. I've owned one since 2018, bought in a Muller drugstore in Frankfurt for about €10.00 (c.60% of what a Safari or Peilkano would have cost). I'm a 60 year old user, and really love the beautiful cat design, and think that the medium nib is great. I use mine all the time. I can recommend all Online pens, and particularly rate the more expensive Vision model. "School" pens like these have become some of my favourites, as they just WORK all of the time, and do not cost the earth. I've had enough of over-priced pens that don't work and the hassle of dealing with nibs that are not working properly etc. This school segment is mega-competitive in Germany, so any pen which did not work properly would not be on the market for long. As to your question about the American market, I have not really seen Online sold much outside Germany - although I note that some models are sold worldwide, and that Cult Pens in the UK stocks a limited selection. BTW, Severus is great!

Congratulations on 1K :) I really really like this pen. I have 8 of them with Asvine, Bock, Gravitas, Pilot, Pilot, Zebra G, Pilot, and Sailor 1911 nibs on them. All pilots are 823 nibs [F, Posting, and Signature nibs]. IF you never held a Conid, comparatively you are only missing some of the bulk, and the name. The Pilot 823 nib on a V200 is currently to me the peak of price for performance/look. I may be wrong, but not in doubt. Every one should try that combo Not ironically, the Bock nib is the worst of them all. I strongly recommend a Gravitas Vac filler Ti Ultra Flex nib on this pen, which fits over the Asvine feed. It is an amazing combo. Cheers Jonathan!

Super interesting !

Looking to get one of these, so thank you for the review and demonstration.

I love Kakimori nib. G nib i have on Jinhao x450 fountain pen, bought it that way from Aliexpress, couldnt do it myself, but it stiil demands high quality ink fot waterproof drawing.

Thanks for watching and for your passion! I agree the original design is wonderful. I wish I could buy that pen! But a retractable pen probably was too expensive for them to make at the time. I actually enjoy the final design. Watch the interview with Debbas that I just posted, and it will give you a better sense of the history. What really amazes me is how Bic bought his Ergo pen, but then let it die. Sheaffer has recently been sold to a new company and I think they are trying to find ways to revitalize the brand. Hopefully they are paying attention to your post!

This design, @6:42, is wonderful. I'm so disappointed in Sheaffer, even more so than before, learning that they've imposed so many compromises on this design and end up with a model that I don't find interesting at all. All the fun aspects have been wiped out. That's a shame. Why Sheaffer insists on being a second-rate company that rests on its laurels instead of being a leader is a total mystery to me.

Thanks for the heads up. Still $14 at the moment. That’s a nice sale. I’ll have to try one of noodler’s eel inks or a waterman ink. They do well in dry pens, I’ve found.

Hey! Thanks for the heads up. I just ordered my silver hexo at that stunning price. I've wanted one for a while. I love Faber-Castell pens, but most are out of my price range.

Hi, Jonahtan. I enjoy your videos and artwork. I picked up one of those at that price and thought it was a mistake that would eventually be caught--maybe not. I enjoy the pen and the nib is excellent, a touch of softness, very reliable edc pen.

I have a Esterbrook Estie with a 'journaler' nib; wonderful pen. Good video, you had already my sub. Greetings from Belgum.

They look like nice pens. The inner cap with a spring is something that Platinum does on a number of their pens as well. It also helps keep the nib wet.

You can loosen the top and adjust the clip to cover the nib if you want. I have this pen and have been really enjoying it. Mine came with the Asvine nib and it is relatively smooth. I wanted to try the Asvine nib first before I switched it out for something better. Now I wan to try the titanium nib.

After you break it in, the original nib does do reverse writing quite well. If anyone knows where I could get a #5 nib with an Architect grind that will fit this pen I would love to know.

I still have the rapidographs but have not used them since my senior thesis presentation at college, as we all switched to drawing on computer then. Perhaps the new Magna Carta Mag 600 would work as a nib with bounce and line variation.

Thank you so much for this nice and informativ video. What ink did you used for the painting at the end? It should be whaterproof.

How would this compare with a Rotring art pen?

I have two of these and at one point I had four because I like them so much. At one point in my life I tried to buy some FW India Black ink that I used a LOT as a graphic designer in the 70's in my Pelikan 120 pen, and especially all my Rapidographs. The local art store found a stash of vintage 120 pens and were selling them as art pens because of their flexibility. In the late 90's I went looking for FW black india, only to find out it was no longer being made, and Dalery Rowney had completely changed the formula to an acrylic ink that would kill Rapidographs and fountain pens if left a short time without flushing it all out. I was devastated at the loss of this truly MAGICAL INK. I did a lot of research and found out that ink had been created by a famous pair of brothers who were cartoonists with famous books in the 70's. William Steig, Steig Brothers. I found out that at the end of their lives they sold the FW formula to Daler Rowney. Elwood Smith the famous cartoonist from Push Pin Studios and an artist that the New Yorker Magazine hired a lot, used FW ink on all his artwork and used the Pelikan 120 pens for the line work. I managed to get hold of Daler Rowney and asked them if they could reproduce FW ink. (Bear with me here....). They had no idea about FW and they had to dig into archives to find out that yes, they HAD ruined the formula. They looked further and said they would try to reproduce it. They sent me several bottles of their attempts, and all but one of the samples clogged my pens. I had four of the Kohinoor Art pens and because they were so easy to remove the nibs and completely clean out the nibs, I use those pens as test pens, because if they clogged the actual steel nibs are easily removed and cleaned, and no rubber sacs to deal with. Sadly they found some old stock black substance that could not be reproduced and they told me it was an "illegal" substance, what ever the fluck that meant. They sent me the last of the ink stock that I still have. They did not explain that statement. The Art Pens were a great help in that experience. It saddens me no end that FW vanished into the past and almost no one these days knows anything about that ink except us old graphic designers who used FW because it NEVER clogged Rapidographs nor real fountain pens. Several famous cartoonists and illustrators used it exclusively. The Steig brothers named the ink "FW" and after Elwood found a Steig family member, she disclosed that "FW" stood for "fucking wonder" ink. NOBODY KNOWS THAT, LOL. Now here's the TRULY AMAZING FACT......Existing bottle of 70's FW ink STILL WORKS, NEVER CLOGS! I have a collection of vintage bottles and even FW colored inks and they are all as good and non-clogging as the day they were made in the 70's. The stuff NEVER DIES. The Art Pens are well worth getting. Never had any problem with cracking of the plastic, that guy must have a really heavy hand!!!

I love my Jin Hao 9016.....it is just the right size for my hand....the 9019 is just to large for me.....I love EF nibs, and this EF nib is very smooth.....only bested by an EF steel nib from Diplomat.....or the new Soft EF steel nibs from Hongdian. In fact in comparing the Soft EF Hongdian steel nib to the Pilot F gold nib on the 823.....the Hongdian is just a hair less smooth than the 823.....and at $225 vs 28.00......I am in love with the Hongdian N12..( except it needs an ink window)....

That pen is quite appealing. have you any experience with the Osmiroid Drawing pens that came in a set? It had a soft fine and soft medium nib, and a few others.

Thanks for this great video!!..

Lovely watercolor. I do like pocket pens, though the lack of ink capacity can be annoying. At least with any of them, if you have an empty cartridge, you can rinse it out and put your favorite ink in.

I have an orange one and I really love it.❤ as you said cause it’s different!

En mi opinión: M1000 una gran pluma para firmar y M800 una gran pluma para escribir. Teniendo en cuenta que son la misma pluma a diferente escala con exactamente los mismos materiales, incluidos los metales de mecanismo y de plumín, muy superiores a los de la serie M600 e inferiores.

Is their links from which i can buy one of these ?

Is the Palladium heavy? I prefer light pens like the Safari but I do not mind a little weight. I will be using it for journaling, so wanted to know your opinion on the weight and comfort.

I just noticed here that the 9016 and 9019 converters appear to be threaded? That’s a useful feature as well. Pilot has the small Con-40 and the larger con-70 converters currently. There used to be a con-50, but I think that is discontinued. The Metropolitan, though, comes with a squeeze converter. Not sure how much ink any of those hold, but the Jinhao large converters have them beat.

This was my first founain pen, I still use it everyday with my planner and I love it. I actually enjoy the finish and that it is not glossy. Anyway I think it's quite underrated. I didn't know the nibs were swappable!

You are right! I was going by what I read on the internet, not my own eyes. It is smaller than the one on the 9019. This means they are producing different size converters for different pens, which is really even more innovative. I realize that Pilot does this for their own pens, but I cannot think of someone who is producing international style converters that are of different sizes.

Thanks for the video. I do like it very much with a Kanwrite/FPR UltraFlex nib. The larger converter works well when putting down as much ink as the Utlraflex uses. However, the converter is smaller than the 9019. They aren't interchangeable but it is still much larger than standard and fits in a more comfortable body. I did fill each converter to the brim. The 9019 fills with 1.7ml and the 9016 with 1.4ml. Quite a lot either way.

Extra large converter. Why is this not more of a thing? A lot of pens could take a converter that's got about twice the capacity, if the maker so much as tried. It's crazy how many extremely expensive pens still come with a converter that's well under a milliliter. These pens would be so much more worth the money with bigger capacity. Converters have a lot of real advantage and that they're easily swappable and easy to clean. Only too small.

That converter capacity is excellent, and will hopefully encourage more manufacturers to follow.

Nice report, thank you!

Use a knife stone. Get one that has very little grain. Use a magnifying glass and plan to flatten any area that looks out of flatness on the tip. Very light pressure (think just the weight of the tip) and patience will serve you well. You can’t put metal back on. A little time should produce a pen you will love.

Will not purchase this one. Thanks for the review. I love that final artsy part of your vid. Very therapeutic and relaxing.

Thank you for an excellent overview. I would love to own one of these, as I like thin, minimalist pens (like the Bic Cristal, Aurora Hastil, Shaeffer Targa slim, Montblanc Noblesse (Gen 1) and the Slimline families, the Lamy family (CP1, ST, Uniq), 1970s/1980s Waterman from France (like the Graduate, Executive and Exclusive). I'm not bothered by using cartridges, as they hold a lot of ink, and you can re-fill them with any ink, and you can swap them between pens with zero hassle. I'll try to buy one next time I'm in Germany. I really like the colours. Pelikan made slim pens in the 70s and 80s (when this was the fashion) like the Signum line and Classic line. Both lines are very nice, and had steel and gold nib pens, as well as the matching ballpoints and pencils.

Thanks for the honest review about the pen shortcomings, you have saved me $70.00 dollars!

I have actually seen and written with the elusive Conid and I was able to directly compare it to the Asvine V200, ( the same person had both pens ) and you know what? I prefer the V200. I just received my V200 in the mail today.

I love my Fountain Pen Revolution Himalaya V2s and Jaipur V2s too. Wonderful flex, fun pens. Five things I would add to your excellent review: 1. Both models also come in several ebonite colors and patterns in addition to the acrylic style like you have, at no extra cost. I love the look and feel of ebonite. 2. These pens are not ideal for carrying around or traveling; ink might get into the cap and from there onto the threads. Absolutely no problem when they are kept at home. If you do want to take one out for drawing outside the home, make sure it stays point-up and test for ink on the section and threads. 3. FPR sells their formulation of an ink additive for preventing railroading, I assume by increasing surface tension. 4. You pointed this out but I want to emphasize how wet these nibs are, especially when flexed. That can mean some feathering, depending on the paper, and an extended drying time. 5. If you want to experiment with these nibs in other pens, FPR also sells nibs in different sizes, with or without feeds and housing, and also the feeds alone. I’ve found their supplies of these varies, so check back if they don’t have what you want.

Btw, what did Maurice Sendak draw with? Was it a dip pen?