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Originally Posted by Dave455
First advice - don’t give away the Pilot Metropolitan.
Pens that work well, and you like, you keep. Only give away those that you don’t like, or don’t work well. Remember also, that a fountain pen nib wears to an individual writing style. Although less noticeable on steel nibs, it’s still there. After 3 years yours is nicely broken in to your writing. It probably won’t be any where near so good for anyone else, so keep it.
The Lamy Safari is not a huge step up. In terms of quality of maybe not at all as they are injection moulded. The Lamy nibs are quite nice, so it’s an inexpensive way to try different nibs. Maybe try an italic, if you have yet to do so. They’re also an inexpensive way to keep pens with different ink colours, if that’s something you can use. If you fancy one, go for it.
A low end Pelikan (200) would probably be a little step up in writing performance, and it’s a classic style piston filler, but to really notice a difference you would have to go up to a gold nibbed pen, such as the Pelikan 400, or similar.
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Thanks Dave. Unfortunately, I've committed to gifting this one. I did buy a second one a year or two ago and for some reason, it never wrote as well. Maybe to your point, it has been the backup and not gotten much writing time to be broken in.
I like the idea of the Lamy being a good (cheap) way to start experimenting with different nibs, which I don't have much experience with other than the Pilot.
Not to stir the pot, but would going pre-owned be too much of a venture given my lack of experience/preferences?