![]() ![]() That said, the scratchiness could be entirely down to how fine I like my nibs to be… Seriously? They really do.īut it is relatively cheap and easy to get a steel nib replacement, should one be unsatisfied with their fat EF or their thin B. None of the Lamy nibs I have tried come close to having any sort of give at all, and they all have a toothy sort of feedback my black EF nib is especially susceptible to laying down really dry lines. The stubs are true stubs, with rounded edges, and are quite forgiving with regards to writing angle. The Lamys write a little on the dry side, and the nibs are very firm, almost like writing with an inky nail. ![]() The 1.1mm stub nib is on the purple Al-Star. These results are the same regardless of which inks I use. As you can see, I’ve put the fatter EF onto the dark lilac Safari, and it writes roughly the same size as the F on the blue Al-Star. That said, the nibs are well-known for having slightly questionable quality control: my two EF nibs sit on either side of my F width, and one of my Ms is more like an F. There are even 14k gold options! (I haven’t handled one of the gold ones though.) All of these nibs are swappable between pens which use the same mount, and so you can have a gold nib on a Safari and a steel nib on an Imporium if you so wish. These nibs come in EF, F, M and B sizes as well as 1.1, 1.5 and 1.9mm stubs. All one has to do is put a little bit of tape on the nib and pull it off the section, but if you’re like me and bring nibs around without tape in my bag, you can also pry it off gently with a fingernail and some jiggling. The best thing about the Safari/Al-Star, in my opinion, is the swappable nib, which is cheap to replace, easy to take out, and even easier to clean. All of these three pens have taken some beating in my pencil case, since I mistakenly left a Muji fountain pen inside - with its nail-file grip section! - and are consequently less than pristine. I acquired the dark lilac Safari along with some cartridges when it was first released, but later regretted not going for the ink bottle a kind Canadian on the r/fountainpens Discord chat tracked down a bottle for me, costing me 42 of those dollars. However, I will include my other Al-Star and also the Lamy Safari in the same post: In order of acquisition from top (earliest) to bottom. ![]() And as this is a well-known starter/workhorse pen, I won’t really have much to contribute to the great chunk of Lamy reviews already on the Internet. It is also worth noting that they did an amazing job with matching the color to the LE Pen of the same name (one was given away here previously ^_^).Welcome to the first non-flex review on this site! After the first three incredible flex pens, I stumbled an almost-new Lamy Al-Star on eBay, mostly because it was purple, came with a nice EF nib, and was a little cheaper than buying a new one from online stores. I may need to add this to my eBay stalk list lol. The flow is amazing, the shading sensational, it reminds me a lot of Bungubox L’Amant but just much darker. Just look at that rich golden sheen! I can see why this ink is so coveted. It was once again out of ink and needed some love.Īnd the fun part, the ink blob! Enhanced and not enhanced. Sadly I do not have photos of the bottle, but I did get some shots of the ink!įor this review I chose my frequently used Pilot Vanishing Point Raden Galaxy. A friend was kind enough to include this in a mega ink trade. I’ve heard the color being spoke of in legendary terms and I wanted to see what the hype was about. I entered the world of FP’s too late to get a bottle at cost, or even to get a bottle at all. Lamy Dark Lilac is definitely the former. I am usually the kind of person who just blindly buys a bottle, however there are some inks that are either very difficult to obtain or are so questionable that even I balk at having 50-100ML of it laying around forever. Recently I have received some lovely samples from my friends and readers. ![]()
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