A slim but substantial Eversharp

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This is Eversharp Ventura Slim, which is slimmer than say the Parker 51, but still feels nice in my hand which usually don't work too well with skinny pens.



The cool part is the Sterling silver cap. The funny thing is, I had this pen for a while, and when I got it and restored it, the cap was ... well, silver colored. And I wasn't aware that it is actually made out of Sterling silver.

A few days ago, when I rediscovered this pen, the cap has that "black" patina that is very distinctive of Sterling silver wares. Then it dawned on me that the cap is not a mere steel one. I personally like the tarnished silver look, and I know that with just a polish using jewelry cloth, its silvery sparkliness will be back.

The pen has a neat filling system that reminds me of Parker's Aeromatic filler, basically a bulb filler in a metal enclosure that we can press on to pump air/ink in and out of the ink sac.

The nib looks like this:



and when writing normally exhibit some stub character. It's a semiflex at the most, capable of some nice line variations. And I enjoy sketching with it.