Parker Parkette - did I break my beautiful new pen?

[Jon Szanto]

THIS is why lever fillers scare me. I have more than a handful of them and I simply don't use them because they are so easy to spring. It might be a different story if I had the means and inclination to work on them myself, but I don't. The only ones iI do use are my Esties, which I usually pull the nib and fill with a pipette. But more often they're sidelined.

That is an irrational fear of lever fillers, when properly restored, will operate as well and reliably as any other pen. At least a third of the pens I keep inked and in use are levers or button fillers.

Pulling nibs to fill a pen? No, just no.

I urge you to reconsider your thinking.