Diplomat Traveller Fountain Pen

A good quality, inexpensive, slim fountain pen which writes smoothly. It took a couple of weeks to 'break in'. Very good value.

writes well only got one issue concerns with the cap, seems not very tight adhered if you want to increase the weight of pen. in certain types of paper, how smoothly the pen can write compared with one of my other pen of lamy, is definately in different level.

As an Accountant I'm constantly writing numbers in narrow columns so I chose the fine metal nib. For this it's very good but for general writing I'd prefer the medium. It writes very well although not as silky smooth as I would have liked; maybe it will improve with use. It came with one ink cartridge (blue). The standard cartridge is very small (3cm long)and I would certainly get through a whole pack very quickly. All my local stationery shops didn't sell anything remotely compatable so I invested in a converter and bottle of ink. This is the way to go. Incidentally, the ink bottle was The Pen Company's 'Delta'. It's supposed to be black but it goes on as a dark grey magenta then turns more black after a while but never fully black. I don't like it and will replace it with something from the Parker ink range.

This is the second one of these pens I've bought (the previous one through a shop). Its compact and writes well once the nib has been used for a while. Being a steel nib it takes a bit of time to come around.