Fountain pens are for drawing!
TL;DR: Here, side by side, are two Pilot Capless pens, made fifty years apart (1966 and 2016).
The Pilot Capless is one of the iconic fountain pens. The Capless has sleek, innovative design: push-button (knock-on) mechanism to reveal or hide the nib, mobile hatch to prevent drying yet allow the need to appear when actuated, large clip so the grip and nib stay upward in the pocket.
Read MoreTL;DR: Drawing this maple leaf was a pleasure. The main drawing instrument for this is a PILOT SUPER 200 with a 14k-gold POSTING nib. The prop fell from a tree just a couple of days before the drawing took place.
Read MoreTL;DR: And here is this pen, 1970s PILOT Elite fountain pen with ‘fingernail’ 18k SCRIPT nib, visiting Basel, CH.
Read MoreTL;DR: I got to try these two Platinum Soft-Fine nibs, pens attached, one made in the late-2010s and placed in a PNB-13000A Platinum #3776 Century in Chartres Blue, the other in the 1970s and fit into a PB-5000 long black pen.
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