Doodling with the Faber Castell Loom - A Review
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- This is a review and demonstration of the Faber Castell Loom as a tool for artists.
First, I take a look at the pen before trying it out with a quick 10 minute doodle (squished down to two and a half minutes to spare you the boring bits).
I was pretty excited to review this pen as I'd heard good things about it but does it live up to the hype? Watch the video to find out!
In this video I'll introduce you to the pen before trying it out with a test doodle of a barbed-wire fence.
I report the performance of each pen as I find it. Every pen is different and you may find the same model of pen handles differently for you.
** UPDATE **
Some people have suggested that I should have flushed the pen through before using it. I never flush any of the new pens that I try before using them. Perhaps I should consider doing that in future.
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Very useful review, because I often use fountain pens for sketching.
Thanks! I'm glad it helped. It turns out that the Loom is a nice pen for sketching (once I flushed the feed out). I'll be posting an update soon showing the pen in a better light.
How about cleaning the fountain pen before reviewing?
You're not the only person that suggested that. 🙂
I did give it a good clean after the disappointing review (and reading people's suggestions) and the pen now performs exceptionally better. I'll be doing a follow-up review to reflect this sometime soon.
It hurt me to watch you hitting the nib on the hard surface, you should never do that, the nib will easily get misaligned. Shaking it in the air or scribbling might get it to run again.
The ink flow problem might due to the cartridge, try using bottled ink with a converter, that might solve your problem.
I have an emotion which uses the same nib, the pen is a dry writer and should not be paired with dry inks like lamy. Diamine inks seem to be a better match for these nib/feeds.
i have a few pens and the most reliable after uncapping are the lamy safari and twsbi eco, they will put down a line immediately without problems though they will dry out if you leave them uncapped for more than a minute.
Faber castells are known to dry out even when capped and this is also the case with my emotion, but i keep using them because of their ultra smooth nibs!
Thanks for your comment - I actually pushed this pen up the queue for review after your comment a few weeks ago!
Don't worry, it sounded worse than it was. I was just tapping the nib but the microphone made it sound far more brutal! Some of my pens have 14K & 18K nibs so trust me, I am gentle with them! :)
Someone suggested that I should try flushing the feed in case there's any production debris in there so I'll give that a go.
Bear in mind that, as I use pens for drawing, I need a pen that can handle whatever ink I throw at it (as long as it's a fountain pen ink). Kaweco Pearl Black is a nice ink to draw with and it works great with my Lamy, Muji, & Pilot pens.
I'm actually quite torn about this review because I really like the Loom. It feels great and that nib is so smooth, when the ink is actually flowing. If it performs better after a clean, I'll post an update video.
@@PensForDoodling I didn't ise my emotion for months as i thought it was defective when used with lamy turquoise XD
turns out that not all pens get along with inks.
I now remember using a black faber castell cartridge which dried out in a week completely, to the extent that the ink inside turned into a thick powder like substance.
These FC pens while ultra smooth, dry out fast and only like wet,flowing inks like those from diamine, i got a bottle of Chocolate brown for the EMotion and it works very well now.
Please keep doing more of these reliability and doodling reviews as no one else talks about these.
I once tried using a lamy safari that sat for atleast two years after the cartridge got emptied and it still wrote upon first touching the paper, i have zero doubts about lamy reliability
Sadly some pens are fickle about what inks work well with them. I was surprised, given how wet the flow was, that this Loom was one of them!
I have some Waterman inks that I reserve for my picky pens. I've yet to find a pen that doesn't flow well with them so when I get a moment, I'll retry the Loom with a black Waterman ink. Sadly that ink is not as water resistant.
Even if it doesn't work out as a good pen for drawing with, it will probably still be a nice writer.
Based on your comment, I won't be buying any FC cartridges! As I have several pens inked up at any one time, I need them to start after being left for a few days.
Lamys are great. I have a NEXX and a Studio in the review queue but I need to take a look at some other pens first. I don't want Lamy hogging the spotlight! XD
Do you use microliners at all?
I do! Although I've focused on fountain pens so far, I do have some Derwent "Line Makers" that I'll be reviewing at some point.
@@PensForDoodling, I'm a scribbler that aspires to doodle. ;) So far I tend to like size of the 3 and 1, sometimes 005 microliners. With that in mind I've picked up a couple cheap fountain pens with EF nibs, which at .38 have line widths close to the 3 microliner. The problem is that those nibs really seem to tear up paper with wet ink/saturation. I don't have the same problem with the microliners. Is it just because the nib is cheap, or are high end EF nibs still pretty scratchy?
@@gamingstokr7299 EF nibs on the more inexpensive pens tend to be less "finished" than the nibs on more expensive pens.
Being made of steel, they're less forgiving on paper than the nylon or fibre tips on microliners.
It's one of the reasons that I draw my test doodles on smooth card rather than cheap copier paper. The smooth surface doesn't tend to snag up in the nib so much and being a heavier weight than paper, it's more tolerant of the wetter nibs.
If you're really soaking the paper with a lot of hatching, you might want to consider a smooth watercolour paper.
@@PensForDoodling, very helpful. TY!
@@gamingstokr7299 You're welcome. The paper can make all the difference!