Rotring 400

[olivier78860]

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[breaker]

nice review and pics!

thanks!

[olivier78860]

Thanks ! What a pity that section is designed to cripple the fingers. Otherwise, the simple design of this pen, its weight and the very high quality nib would have made it one of my favourites.

[gumwater]

Great review. Thanks for your efforts, especially the array of pictures.

[watch_art]

That section does look awful.

Yikes.

 

I wonder what they were thinking.

[olivier78860]

Yeah indeed. Sad sad sad.

[rowdy123]

The Rotring 400 will also take the Rotring Calligraph nibs.

[atypical]

The section looks identical to the front part of my Tikky MP.

I have no problem with it although admittedly I use MP's mostly for drawing, not writing.

[trickster]

The Schmidt K5 converter will suit almost every Rotring fountain pen.

 

By the way, I used brute force on an old Rotring 400 nib last night:

There, I fixed it.

It's probably not something to be emulated.

[Mags]

Thanks for the review.

 

A pen to perhaps not add to my collection.