Ink Not Coming Out If Writing Fast?

[Ghost Plane]

How is the rinsing coming? Any improvement?

[thatotherguy1]

Are brand name fountain pens of european and Japanese origin? I was watching the Youtube video posted above and the author said he had a Pilot fountain pen. Pilot is mediocre brand, and fountain pens to me seem more of a luxury. Having a hard time putting the two together.

There have been fountain pens of varying quality levels made in every part of the world, from the Soviet Union (back when they actually were the Soviet Union) to India to Pakistan to the U.S. to England and a bunch of places in between. However, most modern pens you'll see a lot about will generally be either Japanese, Chinese or European- most often, it seems like, German.

 

Pilot is a mediocre ball pen manufacturer. Their G-2 is what they're most known for here in the U.S. (I was talking to a fountain pen dealer once and he told a story about Pilot USA asking what color, size and how many G-2s he wanted when he called them- they assumed he just wanted G-2s... but I digress) and they're just OK in my opinion. IMHO Uni-Ball's Signo is a better gel pen. However, Pilot fountain pens are very well regarded in the community, especially for the price. They're a lot of people's end level workhorse pens, and they write extremely well. Don't write them off just yet