on salePilot Parallel Fountain Pen - Blue, 6.0mm

I have three different ones. They're fun to play with!

I've used these for highlighting & for sketching. You can dilute ink to create a ink wash so you can use for shading in on your sketches.Buy several & put different degrees of lightness of ink wash in them.

The pen writes smoothly and puts down an acceptable amount of ink. Once you fill it, it may be a good idea to set the pen with the nib up and let it settle, or you could end up with a gush of ink that slows soon after, producing uneven results. That said, it puts down enough ink for some decent shading, but still writes fine on printer paper. Due to the wide width, it is difficult to write any small than a large title, so depending on your intended use, you may want to consider a slightly narrow width instead of or in addition to the 6mm pen.

I've only recently started to get back into calligraphy after a couple of decades away, so I needed some new pens to get going. I'm a big fan of fountain pens, but memories of some of the entry level calligraphy fountain pens from the 90s made me a bit reluctant to try again. After reading some reviews and watching a couple of review videos, I decided to purchase the 1.5 mm and 2.4 mm pens. These pens are an incredibly good value for the quality they provide. The barrel and cap of the pen are simple, budget plastic, but they're sturdy enough. This helps keep the cost down. The feeder system and nib is where this pen shines. The feeder seems like your standard Pilot system, which has been pretty reliable in my experience. The nib is a new design. It took a little bit of coaxing to get the ink down to the tip of the nib, but once it was there, this pen wrote incredibly smoothly. No skipping, no dragging, and it lays down a consistent line on the page. After an initial practice session, I didn't have the chance to write with them again for over a month. Six weeks later, they immediately wrote as smoothly as had I only set them down for five minutes. I've since bought the rest of the set (the 3.8 mm and the 6.0 mm) and I couldn't be happier. I'm a fan of cartridge converters, so I bought the recommended converter for each pen as well (Pilot CON-40). The ink tests were with the standard Pilot ink that came with the pens. I'm looking forward to trying out some other inks to see how well they work with these pens. I've just cleaned out the nibs using the included cleaning tool and Speedball pen cleaner. They clean out very quickly and easily. Overall, I happily recommend these calligraphy pens!

Great for checking out new inks.