TWSBI 580

[thagbert]

Just got my 580 today in the mail. I ordered it from their eBay site. It arrived promptly. I also ordered their really cool inkwell and some ink from Goulet Pens.

The ink well is awesome! See the video about it on the Goulet Pens site;

http://www.gouletpens.com/TWSBI_Diam...w-m7443380.htm

Can't wait to ink it up. I figured out that this pen is made in Taiwan.

This also my first piston filler. (oops)

[KrazyIvan]

Congratulations. The 580 is looking like a winner for TWSBI. I am trying hard to not get one since I have the 530 and 540 already. Oh, and the 580 is a piston filler not a vac filler.

[snedwos]

It's sort of a vacuum... Or rather, it's playing on the principle of horror vacui "Nature abhors a vacuum".

[KrazyIvan]

It's sort of a vacuum... Or rather, it's playing on the principle of horror vacui "Nature abhors a vacuum".

Yes but then all pens, except eye droppers, would be vacuum fillers and that's no fun.

[snedwos]

Yes but then all pens, except eye droppers, would be vacuum fillers and that's no fun.

And cartridge fillers.

[Wolfeeh]

My First Post

I picked up a Diamond 580, clear, fine nib today with some Noodler's Bulletproof Black ink from http://purepens.co.uk as I snapped my Lamy Al-Star in half where the grip meets the barrel and I needed a replacement quality pen in a hurry. Turns out the office/headquarters of PurePens is less than 5 minutes drive from my house and I've been driving past it every day for the last five years without even knowing it was there!

Anyway, fantastic pen, very happy with it, top notch build quality, killer good looks, writes like a dream.
I think it would also be appropriate to say that PurePens offered top notch customer service, bearing in mind they do not have a shop front, this is their office but they welcomed me in, let me have a good look at the product, test it out and even filled it up for me prior to leaving (I'd never used a piston-filler before). Good Stuff.

But yeh, back to the pen.... don't hesitate, buy it!

[writingrav]

Welcome. Excellent choice.

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[Wolfeeh]

Hehe, hello, thank you.

I vaguely felt like I was going out on a limb a little as I'd only seen one video review of the pen by some guy called sbrebrown but it looked good so I thought what the hell. It was that, another al-star or a lamy studio.

To be honest I will be trying to get the al-star exchanged as I only bought it last week, but I've lost the receipt, if not I will see if lamy will repair it and if they won't I will eventually buy a replacement as that was meant to be my work pen. The studio appeals a lot but the diamond 580 looked so crazy I had to try it first and I'm glad I did.


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[Eclectica]

Ditto: Got my Diamond 580 in the mail a few days ago. Really exciting ! Went for F nib in the end.

Took a few days to find some quality peaceful time to calmly fill it and try it - impressed.

Smooth, good flow, comfortable, ahhh... sweet!

[thagbert]

This sucker is huge compared to my Pilot Prera! Seven (177mm) inches long with the cap posted! I think I'm going to order a TWSBI Diamond Mini. I have a proclivity for demonstrators.

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[KrazyIvan]

It's not really meant to post.

[thagbert]

I figured that out. Yet it still posts.

[KrazyIvan]

It is a good way to crack the cap threads.

[Wolfeeh]

I saw the mini in the shop. It was fantabulous. if I'd had another £42 I'd have bought one then and there. but that said they had black only and i fancy a clear one like my 580.

[Freddy]

I saw the mini in the shop. It was fantabulous. if I'd had another £42 I'd have bought one then and there. but that said they had black only and i fancy a clear one like my 580.

I have the demonstrator Mini and love it. I also have a demonstrator 540 that writes like a dream so really have no need to consider the 580. However, I'm always on the lookout for new TWSBI products.

[Tracy Lee]

My 580 arrived earlier than expected. I have inked and played and have to say I rather like it very much. Thick wet lines, good ink flow. 1.1 stub nib, my first real nib of this type. I think it will be a well used addition to my collection. Who knew? Of course, pretty much everyone but me.

[Saintpaulia]

I am (perhaps alas) totally immune to the blandishments of TWSBI's 500 series pens - they are all much too large for my hand. Hence when they came out with the Mini I was, all of a sudden, no longer immune to TWSBIs. They finally got me. I know this thread is about the 580 but I've seen some posts that have snuck in mentions of the Mini, so... I bought one a couple of weeks ago in a medium from the Ebay TWSBI store, and when I got it I found it wrote as a fine. Since TWSBI would not take it back, despite being basically new (inked once to determine, yes it is a fine), I said, "OK, I'll sell it". Which I did. With the proceeds of that and a bit of extra cash I turned around and bought the same pen, another Classic in a BROAD nib. And I got it from Goulet Pens this time and not TWSBI's store on Ebay. It arrived today and I inked it up this hour with J. Herbin Larmes de Cassis, breaking my own habit of always inking a new pen with my 'tried and true' Waterman Serenity. Anyway, it writes as a medium thank you very much. Not very smooth yet, but it is a new nib.

[thagbert]

I agree that the 580 is large. I ordered the mini yesterday.

[Tracy Lee]

Size does matter. I am off nominal in my enjoyment of oversized heavy pens so the 580 struck me as almost the right size, a little light. But it wrote well on my Doane paper scribbling last night. Deliciously wet. Gonna be an ink sucker!

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[Wolfeeh]

Surely you can never have enough pens? and it really is worthy of your hard earned dollah.

I have the demonstrator Mini and love it. I also have a demonstrator 540 that writes like a dream so really have no need to consider the 580. However, I'm always on the lookout for new TWSBI products.