I have owned several fountain pens over the years, but the Lamy Safari (the ABS plastic version of the Al Star) and the Al Star (made of aluminium) are my go to fountain pens for general fieldwork and during lectures. They are indestructible, particularly the Safari, which I would possibly reccomend over the Al Star for their resiliance. The best feature of these and many other of the Lamy pens (excluding the 2000) is that you can easily change the nib yourself, with sizes ranging from extra fine to bold. There are even several italic calligraphy nibs available from pen shops and online. To change the nib you simply pull it off the feed and place the new one ...  Read the complete review

In recent months I had decided to try and use a fountain pen more frequently in attempt to improve my amazingly illegible handwriting and so a search began to find a pen that would suit my needs. I eventually settled on a rather expensive pen with an italic nib which did seem to improve legibility matters somewhat, unfortunately the price of this writing implement meant that I was somewhat loathed to take it anywhere which kind of reduced its usefulness as a replacement to my usual assortment of biros which I used at work and studies. And so the search for the pen recommenced with the added criteria of its being not too expensive to actually use. And then I ...  Read the complete review

I got this pen a couple of years ago, and I've used quite a lot of pens for all of my college work, and I must say that this pen has been my all time favourite. I have used many parker pens, and I have to say, that compared to this pen, they don't write smoothly at all! This fountain pen writes extremely smoothly on all surfaces, and makes your writing look professional and neat all the time, which for me is a very good bonus! It's very comfortable to hold, as it's got a good size hand grip, and a good width to the pen itself. The grip depends on what type of Lamy pen you buy, mine (Alstar) has a plastic grip that's smooth to hold onto, however some ...  Read the complete review