Posted 20 December 2015 - 07:53

Pelikan has recently released the Stola series of professional writing tools and there is a fountain pen among the pencils and rollerballs. I picked it up yesterday while on holiday in Italy and couldn't find a review, so I finally created an account here!----PELIKAN STOLA IIIAppearance:The pictures say what they say on the Pelikan website: it's a nice grey/silver colour with a really stylish clip and the Pelikan logo on the top of the cap. PELIKAN is also engraved on the lip. It's quite a slim pen, comparable to the M200s, but nothing quite as light it's made of brass, and thus has a nice weighty feel in the hand.Posting: In my opinion it doesn't quite feel like a pen that likes to be posted. The rubber ring in the cap does not feel very secure and the cap falls off fairly easily if your hand changes position a lot while writing. I wouldn't recommend using it posted at all.Nib:Standard Pelikan stainless-steel nib. It seems like the Stola will only be available in a medium, so as a person who likes small writing in daily use, it makes me write much larger (I use a Signo 0.18-0.28 when I'm not on an FP). And it doesn't look like the nib can be changed, or if it can, I'm not sure how...Writing and comparisons:It lays down a nice wet line on my Leuchtturm journal, and writes well on others. It's not too smooth; there's a little feedback, and overall the nib is well-engineered (as you'd expect Pelikans to be) and not characterless like the Pilot Metro. There's also some give to the nib, which is nice it's not like writing with a nail or a super-stiff nib.Price-wise this cost me 25 (twice as much as the Massdrop Pilot Metro), and it feels much more heftily built and of a higher quality easily 2-3 times the weight of an Al-Star. In the end it's really a dependable daily driver kind of pen and isn't too special in that regard, even if its looks will definitely earn you a compliment or two.

Edited by coqdorysme, 20 December 2015 - 15:50.