Pilot V Pen Disposable Fountain Pen - Black, Box of 12

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Ideal for school, home or office use, this disposable fountain pen features an ink level window so you'll never get caught short. Perfect for everyday home and office use, this rollerball features a lightweight plastic barrel that ensures easy, tension-free handling. Pilot's V-PEN combines the comfort and convenience of a rollerball with the fine-writing stroke of a fountain pen.

The V-SIGN PEN from Pilot lays down a smooth, vibrant line of pure liquid ink to really make your writing stand out from the rest! This review is of a pen that is many hundreds of dollars or even over a thousand dollars less than some pens I’ve reviewed. Give your writing an air of formality with this Pilot fountain pen, which produces liquid ink for skip free, fluid writing. However, because it’s not ideal to have disposable single use plastic items, you can actually refill it by removing the feed and treating it as an eyedropper. The difference is that this nib doesn't have the same slit that you would expect from a fountain pen.This felt conduit brings the ink from the feed inside the grip section to the tiny slit all the way on the end of the nib. However, when you take off the nib you can see that the capillary action works differently from most fountain pens! The tip of this pen is simple stainless steel that has been pressed from the side and some rudimentary grinding done after that. My pen took too much effort for me to want to refill it and I think that’s unreasonable to expect everyone will turn this into a reusable pen and as such a disposable pen in this day and age isn’t ideal!

The simple clip has a ball at the end and each of the finials are blue with the body finial having “L B” written on it. This is a great pen to get people into fountain pens or to chuck in every bag to make sure you always have one on you. Most fountain pens would have a feed with a channel that delivers ink to the slit and down the the tip. This Pilot Rollerball also has a removable cap with metal clip, and an ink level window to warn you when you are low ink. It isn’t exactly unpleasant but it’s not the smoothness of a Pelikan nib nor is it the pleasant feedback of a Sailor.Please let me know which inks you'd like to review nextvia the comments, Twitter, Instagram, or contact me directly. You can see from the nib shots above that the nib is thin and long which gives it this architect look and feel.

It’s also uniform along its length being a simple cylinder shape with no tapering before the finial. The V-SIGN PEN features many of Pilot's ingenious features, including the ink viewer window and the ink control system, guaranteeing you a consistent ink flow right to the last drop. The slit of a pen would usually extend from the tip to the breather hole (or where one would usually be) but this one extends no further than the tip itself.Grab this pen for practical purposes that take advantage of it’s simplicity and that it just works rather than any other reason! The entirety of any logos are two printed “V Pilot” logos on two sides of the body near the grip as well as “Japan” on the cap.