And Mr. Newson's pen, going by the reviews (no personal experience). And Mr. Newson's camera. There is useful design and masturbatory "design".
I gather you have the Lamy Noto? How do you like it?
And Mr. Newson's pen, going by the reviews (no personal experience). And Mr. Newson's camera. There is useful design and masturbatory "design".
I gather you have the Lamy Noto? How do you like it?
inklord (June 7th, 2017)
Jon Szanto (June 6th, 2017)
I like it better than Lamy 2000. I hope it's a piston filler with a lot of nib options.
I still prefer the design of the 2000, but the proof is in thepuddingwriting. I'd like them side-by-side at a pen show.
Fred
A nice ballpoint, very inconspicuous. Lamy does not exactly make the best BP refills though (a little stiff, like the good old Parker refills) Design-wise I particularly like the fact that the clip is integral to the body, which makes the pen both shirt pocket and bag friendly. In Europe the pen is also quite cheap (I got mine fo €8.- if I remember correctly) It's certainly not an upscale BP like the Pico or the 2000 BP.
Ahriman4891 (June 7th, 2017)
I am surprised that some here would find the section uncomfortable - I am not into the cigar-type shaped pens, but the grip section actually Looks like it would be comfortable to me. It looks ergonomic to me, although I prefer the classic flared/contoured slope around most sections. I wonder how balanced this pen is ...
inklord (June 7th, 2017)
Jon Szanto (June 7th, 2017)
Here are a few more pictures that show the texturing by circular brushing, blasting and also (albeit on what I think are the ball point pens) clip design with the imprinted LAMY logo script:
https://mom.maison-objet.com/en/prod...on#xtor=AL-283
The colors are announced as being satin black and "olivesilver" - whatever that might mean (Lamy has a tendency to come up with these mutilated "Germlish" terms that are meant to sound English, but are direct transliterations from the German... so silly!)
Last bit of news: the Lamy factory outlet lists the the pen at €49.-, which puts it in the same price class as the Lamy Studio with stainless steel nibs.
On their webpage Lamy calls the aion's nib a "newly constructed, [highly] expressive nib made from stainless steel". The entire pen is drawn aluminum with the grip section being bead blasted and the remainder circular brushed. The clip is Lamy's typical (Scala, 2000, CP1,) solid stainless steel spring-loaded clip. The pen is a cartridge/converter pen, and currently not available with gold nibs. given its all-aluminum construction, the pen should be extremely light. The release date (from Lamy's online shop in Germany) is now given as the 27th of June. The colors are as stated above: black and grey. The nib widths are EF, F, M and B.
Not bad, I hope that grip is not rubber... and that it can be ordered with black nib
Last edited by titrisol; June 13th, 2017 at 08:13 PM.
Unix is user-friendly ; it's just picky about who it's friends are -
inklord (June 14th, 2017)
Interesting video.
Ahriman4891 (June 29th, 2017)
Has anybody heard of a release date for the US???
In September, according to Goulet Pens.
TBH, the US MSRB is kinda high. I won't buy the Aion before handling one.
inklord (August 19th, 2017)
To handle before buying is always a good idea . This is a piece for the design community rather than the pen community anyways (being aware that these subsets overlap, of course).
The price is, for me, astonishingly low, considering that there has never been a pen on the market built from deep drawn aluminum (compare with Lamy's Studio). I'd expected Lamy to market such a piece equipped with a 14k/585 nib in the €/$200.- to 300.- class, but that would probably have collided with Mr. Morrison's attitude of making good design affordable. With a steel nib it's not going to write any better than a Safari, of course, but it will surely stand alone based on its design merits. Having handled, viewed and sat on/in a selection of Jasper Morrison's designs, I am quite confident that this will be a minimalist's dream pen. Sorry if I sound a bit sycophantic, but as Po says in Kung Fu Panda: "...big fan"
The FPN thread mentioned that it costs €51 with shipping. That's 60 bucks. Not bad. In the USA, the MSRP is 90 dollars, for some reason. Good design was made a bit less affordable, that's my main gripe.
I get that the manufacturing process is cool, but why was it needed for a supernormal pen? It's longer and fatter than the 2000, and I am suspicious of metal grip sections in general. I was really excited about it in the beginning, but somewhat cooled off.
inklord (August 20th, 2017)
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