This may get lengthy, I’ll work to be brief.

In 2019 I purchased my first fountain pen. Pilot Vanishing Point in black and gold, fine.

Sadly short of replacing the nib unit, this pen has been a mess to use. So I don’t, and it’s simply decoration at my office.

Years later I purchased my wife the same but in navy blue, but medium.

I do like this pen, no major complaints. But there’s no spark there.

I had at one point gotten a Pelikan M1000 which was a beautiful pen, I had gone with a medium, and it was too wet for me. Ultimately returned it, with the intention of exchange and just never did.

My biggest issue is I like ink, probably more than the pen. I’ve got several bottles. I get annoyed because I like many I’m sure predominantly use black or blue/black. I don’t like doing a purge and a flush to use another ink to just repeat to return to black.

I was heavily leaning towards getting a few twsbi pens, for my fun colors. I have been seeing though of cracking issues.

Grail pens would be Either Pelikan M1000 again but maybe in fine. I also like the Visconti homosapien, preferably in black, or the magma? I have heard that both these pens should likely be bought from a store that can tune a nib or sent to a nibmeister as they’ve had qc issues. I’m also not entirely sure how true that is.

For more entertaining uses of my ever expanding ink collection though I’d like more inexpense easy to clean pen, something I can buy a few of, that are able to last sometime.

Has anyone used the nibsmith to purchase a pen?

If you read through all that, thanks!