cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/927840

[Image description: A white fountain pen with a silver clip on the cap and a silver zebra stripe band around the middle lies on a blue dotted grid desk pad.]

I impulse bought a Pilot Metropolitan (F) about a month ago and have had the worst experience so far. First it took 3 days of experimenting (squeezing the cartridge, flushing, cleaning, shaking, incessant scribbling) to get it to write at all. Then I noticed the nib was a bit off-center in the feed so I aligned it and it wrote pretty well for a while. This morning I grabbed it to take some notes and it won’t start, even after a flush with water and re-seating the cartridge. This isn’t my first fountain pen (not even my first Pilot!) but I’m really disappointed because the Metro seems to be such a popular recommendation as a solid, inexpensive starter pen. Did I get a dud?

    • sillyhatsonly@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      I wouldn’t recommend it based on this experience. My other Pilot pens have been a real treat to use (Kakuno, Petit, Explorer) but the Metropolitan was a huge disappointment 😕

  • MeanEYE@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    Sounds like a dud. I’ve bought number of MRs and never had such issue. That said, I never buy japanese fine nibs. They are too thin for me.