What is your favourite cheap pen?

[welch]

Majestic, around 1940

Beautiful pen! The third-tier pens were not made as well as Parker or Sheaffer, but the colors used for barrels and caps are as attractive as anything. And the pleasure after you've re-sacced the pen, cleaned the gunk and 80 years of grime, evened out the tines, and gotten everything to shine!

[dam]

Oh, I have to say that the Perkeo is a lovely writer! It's only $16.00 and comes in fun colors.

I also have several Sailor Clear Candy pens that I still enjoy using, though perhaps they don't make those anymore.

I agree the Sailor Clear Candy is a good pen. I have 2 and use them regularly. I also like my Pilot 78g pens.

However, the cheap pen I've used the most for years and years is a Wality 69T (the model with a clear ink reservoir). Great simple ED pen that is just the right size for me.

[wingwiper]

Time for a new thread and I am sure that this topic has probably been discussed before but I was using my cheapest pen yesterday and thought it would be interesting to get differing views on this subject as it seems everyone concentrates on their dearest pens

I recently bought a Pilot Plumix with the intention of also buying a Metropolitan and swapping the 1.1 Italic nib from the Plumix. Unfortunately I forgot to order the Metropolitan so I just had the Plumix. Yesterday was the Plumix's turn to be my pen of the day on my usual rotation of my small herd. As the pen only cost about $9 I wasnt expecting much. I was pleasantly surprised and found that it wrote very well without any skipping and reasonably smooth for an italic 1.1. It shows the usual variation of an italic nib and now I am not going to worry about the Metropolitan. My other cheapest pens are the Jinhao X450 I have which I like also because they are big heavy pens and give a very juicy ink flow. Unfortunately they offer no line variation at all so the Plumix gets the nod because of this

Sheaffer no-nonsense......

[fountainpagan]

Majestic, around 1940

Beautiful pen! The third-tier pens were not made as well as Parker or Sheaffer, but the colors used for barrels and caps are as attractive as anything. And the pleasure after you've re-sacced the pen, cleaned the gunk and 80 years of grime, evened out the tines, and gotten everything to shine!

Thank you, Welsh.
This was my first Ebay bought pen (after, Majestic's prices have gone up and up). It arrived perfectly cleaned and I could immediately use it. It was also my first steel nib. I was struck of how smooth, and buttery like it flows on the paper. I am always happy when I use it. It beats some more expensive pens I have got later.

[Chrissy]

Lamy Nexx. Better than any safari.

I'm quite a fan of my Lamy Nexx M pens. I also think the rubberised type grips are better than those on the Safari or the Al-Star, and I believe the 'M' pens have much nicer caps and clips than the standard Nexx pens have.
The only thing I have against the Nexx pen at all is that the grip won't fit into Diamine 30ml plastic bottles. So when the bottle is not full, it's difficult to fill the pen. Safari and Al-Star grips don't have this problem.

I like the Nexx M pens, too (I have three of them). I like the grips and I just like the look of them.

I think I had 4 at my last count. Two of them are turquoise. The only one I don't have is the Olive Green. Maybe I should fix that, but it's not one of my favourite colours.

[picautomaton]

Hero 616 Doctor

[tartuffo]

[TSherbs]

I like the Petit, too

[Bob]

I was gonna say twsbi or lamy but I’ve got to go with my x 750s


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[jmccarty3]

I have a couple of Esterbrook Js that I like very much, but for sentimental reasons, my favorite inexpensive pens are a couple of clear plastics Sheaffer student cartridge pens from the '50s, when I learned to write using ones like them. I have one in fine and one in medium, and they write very well. I won lots of Best Handwriting awards in elementary school with these pens. I'm a left-handed underwriter, and winning the awards used to tick off the right-handed kids in my class.

[SIR]

Want cheap thrills? Get a brush pen!!

[Pterodactylus]

Want cheap thrills? Get a brush pen!!

Getting a brush pen is easy, but mastering it isn’t .....

Looking forward to see some writing samples with a brush pen (I have to admit that I do not master them, I like them for drawing/sketching (like the Pentel Pocket Brush) but can´t really write with them)

[SIR]

Looking forward to see some writing samples with a brush pen (I have to admit that I do not master them, I like them for drawing/sketching (like the Pentel Pocket Brush) but can´t really write with them)

Here some samples...

IMG_20160630_083909.jpgIMG_20160630_084649.jpgIMG_20160624_155400.jpg

Is just like using pointed flex nib; more pressure = thicker line.

[Pterodactylus]

Thanks for your samples, really appreciate it

Just talking about this and that pens is not half of the fun than seeing them and their usage.
Such threads would gain a lot if more would post pictures of the pens and their writing.



Show_response_1188 by Ptero Pterodactylus, auf Flickr

(Tombow ABT 856, Serwex MB flex EMF ..... ESS Registrars Blue-Black)


I´m not considering myself as a flex newbie and I claim for me that I already have a light hand.
I´m quite ok with my abilities to handle a flex nib.

But using a brush pen my writing is far away from looking nice and consistent (not even near about even thinking using the calligraphy word) .
And it seems that I´m not the only one who still have a long road to go mastering brush pens.


@Fountainpagan
Great looking pen


@Welch
I would not sign such a statement that 3rd tier pens are always worse than the 1st tier ones.

[Cyril]

I have lot of favourite cheap pens and I have adapted them to good and greater writing.

One of them are Jinhoa 8889 ( with the wodden barrel ) All my other Star pens are below this pen.

[stevekolt]

Another vote here for the Baoer 388. I keep one on my TV table filled with Diamine Registrars ink, and it has been absolutely reliable.

[RocketRyan]

Looking forward to see some writing samples with a brush pen (I have to admit that I do not master them, I like them for drawing/sketching (like the Pentel Pocket Brush) but can´t really write with them)

Here some samples...

IMG_20160630_083909.jpgIMG_20160630_084649.jpgIMG_20160624_155400.jpg

Is just like using pointed flex nib; more pressure = thicker line.

An Ace Rimmer quote, brilliant.

[fountainpagan]

Thank you, Ptero.

I like Tombow, too.

[SIR]

An Ace Rimmer quote, brilliant.

I know! What a guy, right?

[Dragonmaster Lou]

I'm a fan of the Pilot Metro. I also recently got a Nemosine Singularity and so far, so good, but I'm waiting to pass judgment on them.

I used to own a Jinhao x750 and a Jinhao 159, but both fell apart months after purchase, so I can't recommend those at all.