What I Really Like About Pelikans

[amk]

I like modern Pelikan and vintage Pelikan nibs. Modern gives me a nice bouncy smooth feeling and the nibs write nice and wet, which is what I like. Maybe I'll get a nibtinkerer to make some of mine into cursive italic, maybe not, but I enjoy them. Vintage is something else, more tricky and characterful, but for me, it's like having two bikes, let's say, a Honda CG125 for nipping around town and daily commute and a dirt bike for the weekends - my lifestyle can accommodate both.

 

Anyway, whatever, it's not only the nib you're getting with a Pelikan. It's the engineering and the look and the materials ... and the wonderful thing about Pelikans is if I compare them with Parkers, or, say, with the best French pens, they never seem to have discolouration issues, plastics that start to decay (Waterman 100 Year Pen and a whole bunch of modern Watermans with section rot), deforming celluloid... Somehow, Pelikan did most things right most of the time (with the exception of the cracking up white material on the White Tortoise, and that seems to have been put right).

Edited December 26, 2017 by amk

[Bo Bo Olson]

AMK, it is good to know of the problems of other pens, in I have few of them.