I bought this pen fully ready to hate it. I have been searching for "that" pen for years now. In my job and my personal life, I do a large amount of writing. I've been using digital-only writing for the last 3 or more years because I've been unable to find a pen that I didn't hate -- be it due to the weight, the "smoothness" of the penstroke (or lack thereof), the way it felt in my hands...or even just that unnamed "thing" that made me absolutely hate a pen - every pen I touched had that "thing". In my desperation to find a pen I liked using, I went so far as to buy 2 different kinds of Mont Blanc pens, as so many people claim them as the "lamborghini" of pens...I ended up with very expensive desk ornaments.
Fast forward to my husband showing me an advert for Ellington Pens. I didn't hide my eyeroll. The cost was more than reasonable for a good pen, but way too expensive for another deskpiece, and hey, if Mont Blanc couldn't do it for me, I wasn't spending more than $5 for a pen I'm going to chuck across the room in frustration anyways.
My husband wore me down in 2 weeks or so, and I prayed that the company had a good return policy.
When I opened the box and started writing, it was amazing. I was still pessimistic, even as I loved the look and the weight of it in my hands was so perfect...that satisfying "snap" as the disposable ink cartridge secured perfectly into the well (that's one of my issues with the internal cartridges and fountain pens..."is it in right?" "did it go all the way" as I'm pushing and twisting and praying and hope for the best). But still...nope, I couldn't let myself get my hopes up. It's going to write like crap, I told myself.
It wrote so well. I couldn't complain about one single thing. But surely the ink will clog the nib in just a few days, I thought...well, I've now had it for 3 weeks. Multiple ink changes (I hate to admit I haven't even properly cleaned it yet), heavy usage every single day...the stroke hasn't changed, the ink is still beautiful, and I haven't had so much as a skip in a single stroke.
To say this was a good buy is such an understatement. This pen and ink has literally made me fall in love with traditional writing again. I'll be buying another one on pay day just so I can have one at home and at work.
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