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Yesterday, I received from Goldspot Pens two of the new stainless steel-nibbed Parker 51 fountain pens. I have an order in at Pen Chalet for the gold-nibbed version, which won't be available until the end of February (this month). I purchased the Burgundy and the Teal versions, each with a Medium Nib, and have provided a few of the 17 photos I took of the two pens. I filled the Teal version with Noodler's Forest Green. It wrote immediately and smoothly. The line it makes is a definite medium in thickness. It looks good and feels nice. Its weight is substantially similar to older Parker 51 fountain pens. A fundamental difference between this new 51 and the other iterations of the pen is that this new one has a screw-on/off cap. One of the photos here shows the threading on the barrel and cap interior. I found right away that my experience-based instinct was to treat the pen as having a slip on/off cap, so I had to catch myself a few times and remember that the pen has a screw on/off cap. I paid $87.20 per pen -- the Stainless Steel version. The gold-nibbed version from Pen Chalet costs $248. I have not compared its length yet with the prior iterations of the model, so either I or someone else on the forum will do so.