Platinum Plaisir

[etoyoc]

I noticed the Platinum Plaisir on a vendor site today and had not heard/read of this model before. It looks a lot like the feed/nib from the preppy but with an aluminum body.

 

Anyone have any experience with these pens?

[AltecGreen]

I noticed the Platinum Plaisir on a vendor site today and had not heard/read of this model before. It looks a lot like the feed/nib from the preppy but with an aluminum body.

 

Anyone have any experience with these pens?

 

 

This is a new model that was introduced in May. The big selling point of this pen is that it is designed to be usable even after letting the pen sit horizontally for one year. At least that's what the press page says. The pen has some kind of mechanism to seal the nib away while capped so that you can just let the thing sit and it will start even after one year.

 

I'll probably pick one up since JetPens just added this to their inventory. eBay sellers have been selling it for a while but the EMS shipping cost for a 1050¥ pen was kind of silly.

[Parse Error]

judging from the looks of it... you're gonna have to buy a converter for it, and it uses the same feed system as the Preppy...

 

The only difference that I see between the Preppy and the Plaisir is the aluminum barrel -- which means that I have to go and buy a converter if I buy the pen. I honestly don't care too much for the horizontal sitting portion because I draw lines with my pens every first sunday of the month -- keeps them well lubricated and ready to go.

[etoyoc]

judging from the looks of it... you're gonna have to buy a converter for it, and it uses the same feed system as the Preppy...

 

The only difference that I see between the Preppy and the Plaisir is the aluminum barrel -- which means that I have to go and buy a converter if I buy the pen. I honestly don't care too much for the horizontal sitting portion because I draw lines with my pens every first sunday of the month -- keeps them well lubricated and ready to go.

If it is the same feed as the preppy, it would be pretty easy to convert to an ED. Of course, that is assuming that the barrel doesn't have some weird holes in it.

 

The selling point of being able to let ink sit a year doesn't do anything for me either. I am not sure that the aluminum barrel alone makes a $3 preppy worth $20.

[AltecGreen]

 

If it is the same feed as the preppy, it would be pretty easy to convert to an ED. Of course, that is assuming that the barrel doesn't have some weird holes in it.

 

The selling point of being able to let ink sit a year doesn't do anything for me either. I am not sure that the aluminum barrel alone makes a $3 preppy worth $20.

 

 

If you read the blurb on several eBay auctions for this pen, it seems that Platinum did something to the feed since the pen is referred to as a hydrostatic action pen. I really can't judge unless I have the pen in hand.

[Parse Error]

I might buy the black one, but a lot of this really doesn't move me -- All my pens write after a month or so in storage -- it just starts hard and goes back to its regular attitude -- even my grandpa's 1960s Hero 100. Very good pen, old, but it's still my well writing XXF nib.

[WillSW]

judging from the looks of it... you're gonna have to buy a converter for it, and it uses the same feed system as the Preppy...

 

The only difference that I see between the Preppy and the Plaisir is the aluminum barrel -- which means that I have to go and buy a converter if I buy the pen. I honestly don't care too much for the horizontal sitting portion because I draw lines with my pens every first sunday of the month -- keeps them well lubricated and ready to go.

If it is the same feed as the preppy, it would be pretty easy to convert to an ED. Of course, that is assuming that the barrel doesn't have some weird holes in it.

 

The selling point of being able to let ink sit a year doesn't do anything for me either. I am not sure that the aluminum barrel alone makes a $3 preppy worth $20.

 

I remember asking about converting a pen with a metal barrel into an ED, I was recommended against it. I think that barrel was brass, though, maybe aluminum is different.

[dcwaites]

I have been using the Preppys for some time now, and find them useful for experimenting with inks. They write nicely, for the price I paid for them.

I have also been interested in a better quality Preppy, and it seems that the Plaisir is that. However, while the RRP appears to be US$15, vendors are charging from $20 ~ $26 for them. And I don't want to pay that much, plus $15 shipping, for a $3 nib.

 

However, it seems that Platinum have also introduced the Standard model, which is --

1) much nicer looking

2) has a more promising looking nib

 

If I could get a Plaisir for $10~$15 + $5 shipping, I might be interested.

[AltecGreen]

I just received a Plaisir in the mail today. The collector and nib seems to be the identical on the Preppy. Can't tell about the interior of the feed. The aluminum barrel and cap are surprising nice. There is a really cool slick feel to the barrel. When capped, the pen is definitely does not feel like a disposable pen like the Preppy. The pen writes a very nice smooth even and wet flow. This is one of the advertised points. I'll try and do a full review this weekend.

 

Not bad for a $20 pen. I know people will accuse me of slumming. :roflmho:

Edited September 24, 2010 by AltecGreen

[Samovar]

I resisted buying one when they came out in Japan, but they are indeed very nice pens. It's a perfect pen to introduce people to FP at a lower cost. I don't know how long I will resist...

[Deirdre]

Not bad for a $20 pen. I know people will accuse me of slumming. :roflmho:

Well, you were. What's your point?

 

So long as your expensive pens don't get lonely, it's all good.

[Possum Hill]

I just received a Plaisir in the mail today. The collector and nib seems to be the identical on the Preppy. Can't tell about the interior of the feed. The aluminum barrel and cap are surprising nice. There is a really cool slick feel to the barrel. When capped, the pen is definitely does not feel like a disposable pen like the Preppy. The pen writes a very nice smooth even and wet flow. This is one of the advertised points. I'll try and do a full review this weekend.

 

Not bad for a $20 pen. I know people will accuse me of slumming. :roflmho:

Is the section the same as the Preppy's (will it accept a Preppy barrel?)? It appears to be very similar in the pictures on the JetPens site.

 

Except that it was prone to cracking, I always thought the Preppy itself had a very well designed cap and inner cap.

[jpeck]

I just received a Plaisir in the mail today. The collector and nib seems to be the identical on the Preppy. Can't tell about the interior of the feed. The aluminum barrel and cap are surprising nice. There is a really cool slick feel to the barrel. When capped, the pen is definitely does not feel like a disposable pen like the Preppy. The pen writes a very nice smooth even and wet flow. This is one of the advertised points. I'll try and do a full review this weekend.

 

Not bad for a $20 pen. I know people will accuse me of slumming. :roflmho:

Is the section the same as the Preppy's (will it accept a Preppy barrel?)? It appears to be very similar in the pictures on the JetPens site.

 

Except that it was prone to cracking, I always thought the Preppy itself had a very well designed cap and inner cap.

 

From the pictures on the JetPens, I think the section is different from the Preppy (the feed may be the same, though).

It looks like the capping mechanism is totally different, so the section cannot be the same.

 

I don't know. I don't have it.

 

But I'm really interested in this pen, and waiting for more reviews.

[Siv]

Seriously - how many of us leave an inked pen without use for a year?

 

I also can't see how they justify the cost differential from a preppy - you can almost get 7 preppys for the price of one of these.

[atypical]

Just received my shiny black Platinum Plaisir.

 

In the nick of time I should add, since all Platinum products simply vanished from the site where I bought it within days of placing the order.

I now have no idea where I could possibly buy another one within the EU.

 

Price of the pen was 13.9 GBP ( = 16 EUR, $22 US or 3.5 Preppys (Preppies?)).

 

Some initial observations:

- Section, feed, collector and nib are visually indistinguishable from those of a Preppy.

- Barrel and cap can apparently be swapped with a Preppy without obvious problems.

- The inner cap looks identical to that of a Preppy. I assume that the only difference between the two is the material that the inner cap is made of.

- The pen was, perhaps rather unusually, delivered with an adapter to enable use of international cartridges. When this adapter is removed, a regular Platinum converter or cartridge can be fitted.

 

I bought this pen specifically for use with Platinum's Carbon ink. Since this ink is rumoured to be difficult to remove once dry, I figured that anything preventing evaporation would be welcome. Piles of ruined rotring isographs have made me -perhaps overly- paranoid in this regard.

[nonymice]

That was going to be my big question: can you use the converters that JetPens sells for the Preppy (so you can use international carts) with the new Plaisirs? Sounds like you can.

 

To answer an earlier query, yes, some of us do leave pens alone for up to a year. Maybe it's a by-product of being ADD, but just about anything in my house gets lost on a regular basis, fountain pens included. I got so tired with constantly cleaning out pens, refilling them, then having to do the same tedious thing again. But hey, I know I'm a "special needs" kind of FPN'er. Nice to know there's a pen out there that fits my chaotic lifestyle.