Ive no money to buy any more expensive pens and its been two years since I bought any so when I saw your video I thought.. interesting design, nice colour, writes well... so I bought one.
My pen arrived today. Ive been using it and its really rather decent. The medium nib on mine is a very stiff but has no feedback at all. Very smooth, good wetness and very comfortable to write with. ✍
I have this pen. They sold me Pelican cartridges as being the normal cartridges. I took 4001 Brilliant Black. They also sell "King's Blue." Thank you for this fountain pen review. Very nicely delivered.
Thank you for an excellent review. Stabilo make really good pens - this one, the Easy pens etc. All write reliably, and can use a K5 convertor to boot. At A$15, this is a great buy - IMO, a way better pen than the A$65 ! Safari here.
Thanks for reviewing this. It's good to see another decent pen at that price point. It's clearly a copy of the Lamy Safari and adding $5.00 for a converter it comes in at $10.00 less than a Safari with a converter. Good price. The great advantage of a Sarari though is that spare nibs can be bought. If this is not going to be another short/life / disposable product they need to start selling the nibs as well. I wonder whether a Lamy nib would fit it? IMO - We need to move away from cartridges and disposable pens, yes, even for school children. We have excessive pollution on this planet and we must stop. Cartridges are polyethylene and are not generally recyclable. If a child can use a fountain pen they can certainly use a converter. But, I bet a choice of nibs would help their handwriting development. The big upside of a pen like this is that people might start cottoning on that a decent inexpensive fountain pen writes far better than the best rollerball and you can choose the ink you want as well. Thanks for this great review. 👍
Looks like a winner. Whoever buys one of these is going to get a lot of use for their eight-dollar purchase. I'd say the Stabilo is an example of "Quality is your best investment".
I brought this but didn’t know how to use it so I but the cartridge in but I put it in the place holder and in got stuck it there so I tried to take it out but accidentally squeezed it and it leaked really badly then I had to cut the place holder and finally put it in the pen and it worked
An interesting video. Reminiscent of a few pens: the shape reminds me of a Waterman Carene. The nib of Lamy and not sure about the Swan logo. Can it be used thinking of all the adverts I've seen of Swan pens. I have a few poster size in my studio. I doubt if the logo would still trade marked. Interesting though.
Apart from the slant on the cap I dont see the similarity with the Carene. Stabilo actually predates Swan fountain pens. The company has been around 1855 with it’s full name being Schwan-Stabilo.
Ive no money to buy any more expensive pens and its been two years since I bought any so when I saw your video I thought.. interesting design, nice colour, writes well... so I bought one.
My pen arrived today. Ive been using it and its really rather decent. The medium nib on mine is a very stiff but has no feedback at all. Very smooth, good wetness and very comfortable to write with. ✍
I have this pen. They sold me Pelican cartridges as being the normal cartridges. I took 4001 Brilliant Black. They also sell "King's Blue." Thank you for this fountain pen review. Very nicely delivered.
I dunno is it possible to be better than amazing SCHNEIDER (Ray) nibs
I am absolutely delighted - a LAMEY killer
Thank you for an excellent review. Stabilo make really good pens - this one, the Easy pens etc. All write reliably, and can use a K5 convertor to boot. At A$15, this is a great buy - IMO, a way better pen than the A$65 ! Safari here.
Thanks for reviewing this.
It's good to see another decent pen at that price point.
It's clearly a copy of the Lamy Safari and adding $5.00 for a converter it comes in at $10.00 less than a Safari with a converter. Good price.
The great advantage of a Sarari though is that spare nibs can be bought.
If this is not going to be another short/life / disposable product they need to start selling the nibs as well.
I wonder whether a Lamy nib would fit it?
IMO - We need to move away from cartridges and disposable pens, yes, even for school children. We have excessive pollution on this planet and we must stop. Cartridges are polyethylene and are not generally recyclable. If a child can use a fountain pen they can certainly use a converter. But, I bet a choice of nibs would help their handwriting development.
The big upside of a pen like this is that people might start cottoning on that a decent inexpensive fountain pen writes far better than the best rollerball and you can choose the ink you want as well.
Thanks for this great review. 👍
It can use a convertor. I use a standard one in mine. It is a smoother writer than my M Safari IMO.
I have got the EasyBuddy and it is a great pen.
for those of us with small handwriting, is the nib compatible with Lamy nibs?: would want to swap out M for EF:)
Looks like a winner. Whoever buys one of these is going to get a lot of use for their eight-dollar purchase. I'd say the Stabilo is an example of "Quality is your best investment".
I brought this but didn’t know how to use it so I but the cartridge in but I put it in the place holder and in got stuck it there so I tried to take it out but accidentally squeezed it and it leaked really badly then I had to cut the place holder and finally put it in the pen and it worked
Nice review 🙂Does it allow long international cartridges?
An interesting video.
Reminiscent of a few pens: the shape reminds me of a Waterman Carene. The nib of Lamy and not sure about the Swan logo. Can it be used thinking of all the adverts I've seen of Swan pens. I have a few poster size in my studio. I doubt if the logo would still trade marked. Interesting though.
Apart from the slant on the cap I dont see the similarity with the Carene. Stabilo actually predates Swan fountain pens. The company has been around 1855 with it’s full name being Schwan-Stabilo.