Here Come The Vac 700's

**fountainpenkid** · April 29th, 2012, 08:40 AM

MORE PICS!!!! says the baby!

Will

**fountainpenkid** · April 29th, 2012, 11:13 AM

and how big is it? speedy said it was bigger than the m800 sized 540!

**manoeuver** · April 30th, 2012, 04:13 PM

Cool pen. coupla thoughts.
It CAN hold more ink than the 540, but usually won't. This does not matter because you've got a lifetime's supply of ink in there regardless.
The cap posting ring cures the piston twist problem of the 540, but as far as I can tell it wouldn't even be a problem with the vac-filler.
The nib is enormous. Wow!

I hope they sell a million of em. I hope they make a slip-cap pen sometime. I'll keep my 540 as it's just a brilliant piece of write, but my brain melts a little every time I need to write something but I'm twisting a cap off instead..........

**etoyoc** · April 30th, 2012, 05:02 PM

Yay! My wife was home early and was actually here when the mail arrived. I won't have to go to the post office on Wednesday to pick it up. I have my 700!!

For those that haven't seen it yet, Dan posted a video overview of the 700 today. http://fpgeeks.com/2012/04/hands-on-...ideo-overview/

**writingrav** · April 30th, 2012, 06:12 PM

As for me, despite I'm sure providing a shipping address, mine came today to my house and no one was home. Off to the Post office tomorrow. Ugh.

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**etoyoc** · April 30th, 2012, 07:38 PM

well bleh... it feels like it is dragging and skipping on the first letter.. time to wash it out and then try again tomorrow. But something just doesn't feel right. The tines look aligned. The slit starts wider and gets narrower towards the tip. However, the slit changes rapidly at the tip and goes to nothing. I dunno... I guess I am about to ruin a nib.

**writingrav** · May 1st, 2012, 02:07 PM

Finally! I picked it up from the Post Office this afternoon (actuality I went before work thinking they opened at 8:30, but no, they opened at 9.) Inked it with Private Reserve Chocolat which looks very sharp in the amber barrel and began to write. Smooth and effortless right out of the box. I won't do a detailed review, but I'm very pleased.

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**Ordinal** · May 5th, 2012, 10:42 AM

Got mine this morning, preordered from TWD here in the UK. The blue one. Very nice it is too - a lovely sapphire blue, with an enormous, silky smooth M nib. Flow is very regular and it has excellent balance and general feel. It's the sort of pen that would be a pleasure to write a novel with, which is handy as that's what I'd planned to do with it in a couple of months (nanowrimo summer camp).

**PeppWaves03** · May 8th, 2012, 05:21 AM

Just ordered my vac 700 in smoke with a fine nib along with a medium nib for the 540 ans a retractable black .05 mm twsbi pencil

**inky** · May 10th, 2012, 06:42 AM

Did anyone else have to do a ton of work to their nib to get it to write properly? I spent the last two days reshaping the tines so they wern't bowed towards the top of the nib. I finally have it writting with just a hint of dryness at first. I didn't mind having to play with the nib but it's the most work I've had to do on an out of the box pen in a long time. Just curious if others are seeing the same thing. My nib was a broad nib btw, it is putting down a line just a hair wider then a medium on the 540 now. I love the pen though. It is so cool watching the ink shoot up into the barrel! I got mine in Amber from the Goulets.