One of the common responses in the 'What do you know now that you wish you'd known when you started' thread was about cheap pens - people who wished they hadn't bought all those cheap pens before they found out what they really wanted, what quality meant in a pen.
But are there cheap pens that you still love after all these years?
My most expensive pens are now a Manu Propria urushi and a Pelikan Toledo. But I still love my Parker 45s and Waterman Laureats and Kulturs. They're not going anywhere. On the other hand all those blingy looking pens with 'Germany iridium point' on the nib can go take a jump. (Mind you, not before I've practised my nibtweaking skills on them... I just look at them as medium italics waiting to be born...)
I'm interested to find out what are other people's "cheap but still loved" pens.
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