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Hi all a couple of years ago I bought a Delta Dolce Vita Federico Oversize and love everything about it (except one point see below) especially the orange glow of the barrel however after the first few months of using it periodically I got fed-up with the pen and it is sitting in the glass box it came with on display in my cabinet ever since. I cannot take the C.Converter of this pen as this pen drains/drinks ink like a waterfall, i often have to refill every week or less and what made it worst the pen cannot be converted into an eyedropper (well "technically" it can but too many places to seal up) but the nib is a beautiful 14k gold M and butter smooth. So I am thinking of fitting this delta #8 nib on to any affordable pen that has high or decent ink capacity and use it (can be any filling type and preferably a demonstrator). Any pen suggestion you know of that fits a #8 delta nib besides a custom made/turned pen ? My last resort is to sell the pen and let it find a new home since I rarely use it.

I thought I would share my experiences and thoughts on Martemodena pens. I definitely have a love / hate relationship with their pens - aethetically I love them, and I now have three: the Citizen of London, the Freedom to change with rosegold trim, and the classic Dolcevita Federico Orange, which arrived last week. Here a size comparison with the Platinum 3776 I really love the colours of all of these pens, and they are well made. The Federico is one of my holy grails, and only recently have I managed to get one at the reasonable price of 77 Euro including shipping on a 50% off special offer by Martemodena. The hate part of the relationship is without a doubt the poor quality of the nibs. Even the Federico I just got is a major disappointment in this regard - poor ink flow and scratchy. Have to admit based on the experience with the other two, I was not surprised. For a pen normally costing 155 €, the nibs are just plain unacceptable. If you compare this with a Platinum 3776 Bourgogne, which I have, and cost me 77 €, and has probably the best nib of all of my pens (and that in EF), then clearly something is wrong in the nibs department. And on the Citizen the gold plating seems to be coming off the front of the nib..... When I received my first Martmodena pen, the Citizen, it did not write at all, for this reason: The customer service I cannot complain about - first I got sent a new nib, which made no difference. Then I got sent a complete new section and feed, which also made no difference. In the end, I took a feed out of a Jinhao pen and lo and behold, it now works the best of all three. I cannot remember, but it looks like I changed the feed on the Freedom pen too. The Federico has a feed which looks more like that of the Jinhao, so some improvement there. In summary, visually stunning pens, but for the price normally charged, the nibs are unacceptable Marc