SolidSnake3
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I was actually looking at those and they looked pretty good. I like the look of the black one and the price is about all I want to spend for just trying that type of pen out.
So, I've got this on order as of today:
Obviously, not my photo. It's a Visconti Homo Sapiens with an F nib. I'm going to give it a try with Aurora Black which is my blackest ink but I have found AB to be too wet and slow to dry in most of my other pens so I am thinking I will have to find another blacker than black ink to pair with this pen. I'm thinking Fountain Pen Hospital's Noodler's Old Manhattan.
I should have the pen early next week for first impressions.
Nice looking pen!
That is one nice Visconti! Love the clip.
Arrived earlier today and shown with my work pens. From left, Lamy 2000 (Visconti Blue ink), Visconti Homo Sapiens, Rotring Newton (Aurora Black), and Lamy Safari (Noodler's Legal Lapis). Sorry for the poor cell phone pic. You can see that this pen really isn't a solid black color but it does have white/gray specs. It also feels very different in hand. It has a 'warmer and softer' feel to it than my other pens. I like!
I filled it with Aurora Black as I mentioned above and it writes like a dream. The nib is quite large, the same size as the nib on my Van Gogh Maxi but it doesn't feel quite so bulky as the Van Gogh. This is a big pen but it's still a race car. Aurora Black is perfect in this pen, I think, except it feathers badly on the cheap copy paper here at work.
I'm very much thinking this HS is a keeper. The F nib is very flexy and writes SMOOOOOTH. Apparently, it's some new alloy of 23K gold and palladium. I think the nib of my Van Gogh is 14K gold and I know it feels very different. This HS will mate nicely with an Omas F nibbed pen that I have which has a nib so stiff that it would probably pierce armor.
I do have a new pen shop/dealer to recommend: http://www.pentime.com/ Bryant was very patient with me and did everything exactly as promised. He even went so far as to send me a refund for shipping after he overestimated the FedEx shipping cost (he usually uses USPS). Good price, too!