Sailor Junior Skeleton Demonstrator Nickle Chrome Platedmf Nib Fountain PEN

I wanted to add a sailor to my collection. When I tried this pen, It was scratchy and it was not smooth as this is a FINE nib and Medium was not an option. Probably I should have gone for a higher model in Sailor. Not very happy with it.

If you want a good steel nib pen then this could be it . This is a MF (Japnese Medium Fine) nib which writes like an European extra fine. The nib has some feedback but not at all scratchy and has moderate ink flow. Pen has a plastic body which makes the pen light weight. This pen doesn't come with the convertor but comes with a Sailor ink cartridge. Cap posts securely and makes up for the short length of this pen.

Writes very well and crisply in all kinds of papers

La forme est sympa, le nom évoque quelque-chose, tout neuf il est magnifique. Mais la plume est vraiment médiocre, elle gratte sur un papier pourtant de qualité sur lequel j'essaye tous mes stylos et mes encres. Pour moins cher il y a des Twsbi avec une plume qui glisse beaucoup mieux. Ou des Kaweco. Ou ce que vous voulez. Mais ce Sailor n'a que sa forme pour lui, malheureusement.

Pros: It is nice to look at with a nice clear body. Cons: - Terrible ink flow, compared to weather it suffers a sever drought. To write yo have to press down to get a feeble ink flow. - Super scratchy nib. Previously I bought a Sailor High Ace Neo with fine nib and, despite it has negative reviews, I find it write way more better than this one.

This is a cheap little pen that is interesting due to 4 things: 1. Nice Sailor steel nib that writes similarly (but not as well, of course) to Sailor's gold nibs. 2. You can leave it uncapped for long periods without any drying of ink flow. I have left it uncapped for up to 30 minutes with no hard starting. I haven't tried longer, but it stays wet unlike any other fountain pen I have, and I have many at a wide range of price points. 3. EYEDROPPER CONVERSION is easy and makes the pen look beautiful, if you like to see colored ink sloshing around in a pen. There is no metal in the pen except the nib, so eyedropper conversion is safe. A few drops of glue at the bottom of the barrel are needed for this. I provide my eyedropper conversion instructions below...I'm sure there are many good ways to do it. My way is an attempt to avoid getting glue on the sides of the barrel. 4. Sailor 1911 standard nib sections can be fit onto the barrel, if you want to make a Sailor demonstrator with gold nib at lower cost than a "true" Sailor demonstrator. Truth is, my 4 Sailor demonstrators with 18k and 14k gold nibs all have visible glue residue in the barrels from the factory, so this type of conversion may be a reasonable option for some. I have 4 of these Sailor Junior demonstrators, and none of them have glue residue from the factory. FYI, the nibs on the Sailor Junior demonstrators appear to be glued into the nib section, so you can't just pull it put and replace it with a different nib--an entire new section must be screwed in to make a replacement. The pen itself is very light. It writes well for such an inexpensive pen--much better than a Monteverde Monza, for example, in my opinion. If you don't mind spending some more money on what is a cheap pen and prefer a bit more weight, you can add a Sailor converter, though the ink capacity will be lower, of course than an eyedropper conversion. Summary: Cheap pen that writes nicely but is only interesting (in my opinion) if you want something that can stay uncapped for long periods AND you want a nice but cheap eyedropper OR if you want to put a Sailor 1911 gold nib section on it (in this case, either eyedropper or converter seems fine to me, as the weight from the converter may improve the writing experience in this "fancier" iteration). I put Baystate Blue into my eyedropper conversion, and I'm very happy with the combination. EYEDROPPER CONVERSION INSTRUCTIONS: I used Revell Contacta Glue (available here on Amazon), which has a nice long, skinny applicator, a coffee stirrer straw, and a larger (regular sized) drinking straw for this procedure to keep glue off the walls of the barrel. First, use a very small amount of transparent tape (I roll in back on to itself to turn it into a double-sided tape) to tape the coffee stirrer straw inside the regular-sized drinking straw and have it centered inside the drinking straw. Putting tape on two sides of the inside of the regular drinking straw does the trick nicely. Trim both straws so they fit the size of the barrel with 1/4" or so to spare, and have the coffee stirrer straw be a bit longer on both ends. Now lower the taped-together straws into the barrel and hover it just slightly above the bottom of the barrel. Squirt some glue into the coffee stirrer straw (squeeze the glue container for about 6-7 seconds). It takes some time, maybe 30 seconds, to get to the bottom. When you see a little bead of glue at the bottom of the coffee stirrer straw, lower the straws until the coffee stirrer touches the bottom, thus releasing glue onto the bottom of the barrel. Then carefully lift the two straws out of the barrel, being careful not to bump into the side of the barrel (bumping the side can put glue on the barrel--it's a little unsightly. On my first try without this dual-straw contraption, I put a little glue on the insides, but in truth, it can't even really be seen once ink is inside the pen, as long as the amount of glue is small--so don't worry about this too much). Stand the barrel up vertically for 24 hours or so to make sure the glue is very dry. After this fill it up with ink and you're good to go! You can use some silicon grease on the thread (I did). I tried using an O-ring, but it interfered a little with the cap, so I took it off.

Buena estilográfica, para mucho uso. Buen plumín, no se atasca y fluye suavemente sobre el papel. Una buena elección. Maravillosa compra. Un acierto.

Gute, ansprechende Verpackung, schönes Design, empfehlenswert für Anfänger, guter Preis