We have played happily with many Zebra pens before. The Zebra Sarasa retractible gel pen is one of our go-to models when we're not using fountain pens or drafting pencils. Zebra's (now-discontinued) Super Marble gel pens, which my kind friend Susan managed to attain for me, are amazing writers, with a rainbow of color swirls in each pen.
Thus we were excited to note that Zebra was producing a fountain pen, at the cost of a whole three dollars!
In an attempt to write a more, er, ORGANIZED review of a pen, Dr. Inkenstein followed some suggestions on FPN.
The doctor has discovered that this is not at all our style. No, our style is far more slapdash and impressionistic. And full of lolz.
But anyway, we present this handwritten review:
Dr. Inkenstein should amend that last written sentence.
We liked the Preppy's SECTION better. But only initially! The more we write with this cute little stainless-steel Zebra cylinder, the more we like it. The ink flow improves, we are better adapted to manipulating the admittedly-odd section, and it's just plain fun to work with such a cheap pen that also has a cool mecha name.
The proprietary carts can probably be refilled with bottled ink. It should prove interesting to see how it likes its first refill, but it's nowhere near that stage yet.
Having written with this Zebra V-301 for a couple of weeks, we liked it so much that we took it out and played with it at a recent BBQ, where it was much admired.
We had also passed a couple of extra Zebra V-301s along to other fountain pen aficionados. We got ours at Jetpens , but we hear your local office supply store might carry them.
A fountain pen! For three dollars! In this day and age! Don't miss out!
I have been curious about this pen! thanks for the review!
ReplyDeleteI love Zebra, but I use more of their lead pencils. :0
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