Don't be nervous buddy just have fun making the video

The Kingfisher definitely stands out.

I love both these colorways. Another pen added to the wishlist 😅

I have Kokuyo and Maruman B5 lined paper. Love their writing performance! I have a sample of the Lamy Bronze! And a broad Lamy! Will definitely try. I will also consider purchasing the Kakuno KB paper! Very nice video! Thank you for sharing!

Thanks for the review. Do you know if you can remove the piston for maintenance?

can the nib be rotated? the twsbi clone wingsung 3008 allows you to rotate the nib.

Are the nib and feed keyed? If I can I usually rotate the nib, so that the facets in such a grip actually line up correctly for me.

This is really amazing! I like the paper in the Kokuyo Campus and Soofa, but I believe the Kokuyo Business is a better grade of paper (and the Campus paper is fine…not made for fountain pens, but I don’t have problems writing on them, and they have no issues with fineliners, highlighters, gel pens, Zigg dot markers, etc. I’ll definitely pick some of this up. I’ve been wanting to start doing some sewn bookbinding and this would be a great paper to try! I have a question: Since coloring with the pen will also wear on the paper making it more likely to bleed, I wonder if you’ve tried a heavy, medium, and light swatch with a Q-tip to see if that bleeds through at all?

I do like the look of the MP1 I have been thinking about snagging one for myself.

Great review Gregory. I'd think I'll go with the Twsbi. The Majohn lacks a clip. Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Nice thing about the Majahn T1 is it's pretty easy to swap out the nib with most other #6 size nibs. I have a Kaigelu long knife nib in mine, and it's pretty cool.

I’ve been aware of these for a while. what has kept me back from purchasing is that they’re blank & I don’t have a printer to print lines on them….& I need lines or grids

That's a handsome looking pen!

Excellent review. The color is very nice on it!

That’s quite different t. How does it write?

Goorgeouspen, and nice review. About the skip on the down stroke sometimes, could be what I do when that happens for me, maybe the od skip could be from slightly rotating the pen. I know that happens with a couple of my pens when I accidentally rotate it a little.

Well, Thanks a million for that. Yes, the second time you pronounced it well, LOL. Agree with you the color is unbelievable.

I’ve been hearing great things about Kokuyo notebooks and papers lately. Great video.

Platinum Preppy's are great pens, but I personally like the Pilot Kakuno (clear model) over the Preppy. I added a Kaweco Sport clip. It is a smooth, wet writer for a fine nib size, plus I can fully disassemble it for cleaning after using a shimmer ink. I once had visable ink trapped in a preppy and it drove me crazy because I couldn't access it. Smiley faced nib FTW. 🙂 I have Platinum Carbon Black dedicated to a Platinum Procyon.

I have started the Diamnine Inkevent calendar the first two arent really in my wheelhouse but I will continue on with the reviws .., my favorite inks to use this time of year are Diamine Spiced Apple, Diamine Pumpki8n Shimmer, Pelikan Edelstein Golden Beryl , Diamine Merry And Bright , J herbin Turquoise de Perce, J herbin Kyanite du Nepal m Diamine Pink Ice , Sbre Brown , Carbon black and Private reserve Velvet black :) those are my favorite inks for this season :)

That think vacation pen, please do a review on it. Its something I would like to own.

I also also in process of ordering a Heritage Ebony Kingfisher thanks to Wet Pen! I demand that BBB nib though, so I have to order through email.

my word, these are gorgeous !! that Kenwrite pen wow

I have had about 10 Preppy’s and have found ones that I haven’t touched in a few years and they write off the bat every single time. I’ve never had a Preppy have a hard start, except for one 02 (which is horribly scratchy and probably has a bad nib.) I think the Kakuno is really cute and love the smiley face, and I like the larger diameter grip, but anything with a tripod grip on it is a hard NO for me. I have a Pilot Prera (which uses the same nib as the Kakuno minus the smiley face, bummer) and it is a wonderful pen with a butter smooth 1.0 CM nib (Prera’s, Metropolitans and Kakunos all use the same nib, I believe) but obviously, a 1.0 CM isn’t the same as an F. However, I’d try smoothing that nib out. You could try a different ink with the Preppy (just eyedropper it, I use them for that a lot…something the Kakuno can’t do) and see if it works better, cause they’re known for being able to sit around forever and still flow smoothly with no hard starts. Another good comparison might be the Kakuno vs the Kaweco Perkeo, both are similarly priced and made for (originally at least) school kids.

My suggestions: Flair Ink Tanker, Cello Fountain, Hauser Germany Grip it,Hauser Cyber. Cool fountain pen these are wonders. Have similar controlled flow ink system of Platinum preppy and Grip it looks similar to Lamy Safari. You would get 3 free cartridges and converter with these pens and flair ink tanker would get extra ink tank.

In India we have Cello pens better writing than Platinum preppy for 50Rupees. While platinum preppy cheap pen with similar controlled flow ink mechanism is available for 500plus ruspees. Kakuno is available here for 1000rupees plus while better pens like click aristocrat is available starting 350rupees , can get half ebonyte or full acrylic for 700rupees.

I also review fountain pens ink and paper over on my channel and I have reviewed this paper its pretty good :)

my favorite paper at the moment is Pen and Gear Heavyweight notebook paper its so good and its a4 $1.97 Cant beat that with a 10 foot pole only problem with it is that its wirebound so ; /

I also love this paper! I gave it a whirl on Amazon and it is one of my favorite papers to use for letter writing!

Hi, I do havethe Kokuyo A5 soft ring and agree with you its a great notepad.

I really like the twsbi swipe its one of my favorite fountain pens super easy to clean out hand disassembleable easy peasy the Platinum preppy not so easy to clean out those fins inside the section they sometimes bleed into other inks so thats disappointing I love the pilot kakuno my favorite is the translucent green its really nice and those are easy to clean out too :)

I was dissapointed with a Preppy I bought. Never owned a Kakuno just yet.

I was just thinking about your channel the other day! We have a few inks in common right now. I also have Sailor Date Gokoro and Lie de The inked up. Love both those inks. Date Gokoro is really interesting in how it's different on different papers. Iroful, it's kinda a blue black, Tomoe River very much a purple.

I feel you with the amount of inked pens, I’m currently at a comfortable 16 and used to be an #overinkingisunderrated gal 😜this seems to be working out - for now! Lovely lineup, though I want to encourage you to give the Lamy 2000 a chance! 🖋️

great commentary on your pens and ink. i may have added a couple of those gorgeous inks to my cart. thanks for sharing your lineup!

Thanks for this video You forget to say what the pen is a few times. The sky won't fall in, but it would be good to know. Agreeing with you on Diamine Graphite. I prefer Diamine Earl Grey for that spot in the inkosystem. Thanks for the video. I wish you well with the channel.

Thank you for sharing. You chose beautiful inks.

I have had the same experience with Lamy pens. I am not a fan.

Love that Benu !!

That Sailor ink looks amazing. Great video.

Thank you for making a video about this pen! Why is it that capless/vanishing point copies are more common lately (or is it just me)?

Was really wanting to see the closing mechanism inside the tip. Is the nib wet, & starts right up when you haven't used the pen for awhile?

Thanks for the review.

It reminds me of that blue and white pen; we all had as kids; that contained red, green, and blue ink and you had a separate mechanism to activate each color.

Thanks for the review, I get my fine nib in 2 days, so excited!

It looks to have the Pilot Vanishing point mechanism. Anyone can copy it anyway since it's been around for a long time. It just uses half the barrel instead of just the Pilot's button at the end.

I tried a Pilot vp nib unit in the pen, it fit and functioned. A swap would make sense if you could find one with a steel nib.