Review of Platinum 3776 Century Fine Fountain Pen

[DavionWest]

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[matteob]

Great pens these and nice review. I have exactly the same but medium nib which is still on the fine side. Best vendor for these in Japan is J-Subculture. I think I paid about 75 dollars for mine.

[titrisol]

I got one as an impulse from AndersonPens in Blue
I went for the Soft-Fine nib as it seems to provide a new experience for me.

After a few days I can say this pen is above my ability level!
It needs me to think before each stroke and makes me slow down (maybe not a bad thing)

The nib felt a bit scratchy at the beginning but now it feesl smoother, so I guess it just needs to get used
I am used to glide over the paper, and this pen requires some presure and clays more/les ink depending on that (flex nib)

The Platinum blue ink that came with the pen is OK, the flow is good but the color is boring

[Medieval]

I bought mine for I think £49 with free shipping. It's a soft fine. I had problems with it to begin with as it was very dry, but after tweaking the nib it writes well.

[SIR]

I bought mine for I think £49 with free shipping.

Where was that from?!

[Jon Szanto]

I love these pens. For my hand, the shape and weight is just right and you have a wide variety of nibs to choose from. Sometimes they need a bit of finessing but once set right, these are writers to have and use for years to come. All of mine are shown below:

[Medieval]

I bought mine for I think £49 with free shipping.

Where was that from?!

Amazon

[titrisol]

Wow! that's a steal!

I got mine (Chartres Blue) for about $150 (L110) and yes the nib feels dry and scratchy but is getting better with use.
I guess I have to get used to hte nib and the nib has to get used to me

I bought mine for I think £49 with free shipping. It's a soft fine. I had problems with it to begin with as it was very dry, but after tweaking the nib it writes well.

I bought mine for I think £49 with free shipping.

Where was that from?!

[emmausa]

Platinum 3776 Century Fine fountain pen is good quality. The handwriting when writing this pen is very thin and beautiful, but the price is a bit high. mapquest directions

[Chrissy]

I see that emmausa the spammer is still around and being reported

[josephrodriquez]

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rooftop snipers

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This is one of my top pens. Other pens might be more fun, but this one tops the list for reliability and appearance. And for a gold nib, they come in a pretty good cost.

[Andrew_Lensky]

The main cons of the 3776 models the elements have too thin gold plating, and with everyday using it wears off too quickly (1-1.5 years). I have never had a chrome coating, so I don't know how it behaves. And for my taste, ordinary nibs are too hard and have thin/small tip, so UEF, EF and F nibs also wear out quite quickly. After a year of everyday use, these tip needs in nibmaster correction.

[Miss Fountain Pen]

I have several 3776s. I haven't had any issues with the plating, but the nibs have been hit or miss. My very best one (equipped with a SF nib) has been my workhorse pen for a number of years now, and the nib is one of the very best I own, which is saying something (I have some very nice pens). That's the best one. I have another 3776 SF, and it's okay, but a bit dry. I got another 3776 SF (because I wanted another color), and it was so bad that after trying and failing to fix it (and trying multiple different inks), I ended up literally tossing it into the trash. Ah, but I really wanted that color, and so I bought the same pen again. Well... It was better, but still skippy. Works better on cheap office paper than on high quality paper. Then, I have another one with a regular fine nib, and it's okay if you like nails. Finally, I have a soft medium nib, but unfortunately, the feed has trouble keeping up with the writing. (I also have a Nakaya briarwood with a SM nib, and the feed keeps up just fine, except that this particular Nakaya model dries out very fast, which is annoying. Nakaya nibs are basically Platinum nibs with a different logo, but Nakaya seems to have much better quality control, plus the feed is different.)

[Jon Szanto]

The main cons of the 3776 models the elements have too thin gold plating, and with everyday using it wears off too quickly (1-1.5 years).

I find this a strange comment, at least compared to my personal experience. I have 8 3776 pens and two Nakayas. One of the 3776 pens has rose gold plating, one is ruthenium plated, and one model is an early one from the 1990s. I have had *zero* problems with any plating loss whatsoever, and the rose gold nib has even been ground to a cursive italic by Mike Masuyama. He cautioned me that RG plating can be problematic, but that was done in 2016 and the pen is still in pristine condition, plating-wise. I have not noticed issues with the trim, either.

ETA: Wow, I didn't realize this was an old thread and I have a post from 5 years ago just a few posts up!

[Andrew_Lensky]

I had 2 my UEF 3776(Blue and Burgundy) and one old Balance (like 3776) and many other people's 3776 pens that were brought to me for service. I don't like nail nibs. Among Platinum nibs, I like only Music nib)).

This is how the UEF tip wears out over a year of use.



This is how the plating is wear (see the clip)

[Jon Szanto]

I had 2 my UEF 3776(Blue and Burgundy) and one old Balance (like 3776) and many other people's 3776 pens that were brought to me for service. I don't like nail nibs. Among Platinum nibs, I like only Music nib)). This is how the UEF tip wears out over a year of use. This is how the plating is wear (see the clip)

Thank you for some real world documentation. If nothing else, this shows how differently pens can behave under differing circumstances with differing users. I don't doubt any of the above, just as I also note that nothing like this has happened to my pens.

Is this the worst longevity performance you have experienced, and/or do you have other brand pens that have exhibited similar, if not as dramatic, signs of wear and use?

[Lloyd]

I've had a UEF for well over 5 years and it writes like new; I use a very light hand.

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[Andrew_Lensky]

Of course I have many own different fountain pens of different brands from vintage to modern, and even more different pens have been serviced from other owners. Any things are not eternal, and it wears out, but I was impressed only by Platinum 3776 from modern famous brands. Also the button in the Pilot Capless wears out quite quickly, the ring rusts in the Montblanc 144 and Pelikan M800, the platinum coating on the gold nibs is quickly scratched and black nib lacquering is not strong, the steel nibs from 70s-90s are subject to corrosion, as well as modern metal elements(clips, rings) made in India, modern Chinese fp's also lose their coating quite quickly, and I still don't like the soft iridium tips on L2K its also worn quickly.

I understand that many users may not notice the wear of the tip, and on the contrary, are surprised by the acquired smoothness over time, but when you make a nib for drawing with the necessary parameters (let's say 0.2 mm lines wide) and after a while you notice that the line has already wider to 0.3 mm (let's say thicker) and if you can to look on the tip under microscope, everything becomes obvious: The thinner and harder nibs are faster wears off - this is the law of physics about friction)). I read on the Internet that Saibi-Togi also wear out quite quickly, but I have never had one.

ps: by the way, out of the 3776 purchased, only one nib wrote flawlessly out from the box, the one which I bought on Rakuten with shipping inside Japan.

pss: let's assume that I was unlucky, and accidents happened with me.

[emmausa]

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[Chrissy]

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