Pilot Metropolitan Fountain Pen, Retro Pop Green, 1.0mm Stub nib

I received a Chinese low quality pen instead of the original Japanese Pilot brand Low quality Wrong color and bad design

Nice pen but not as advertised as it is fine nib but no 1mm stub. Otherwise looks nice but not fit for purpose. Disappointed

the best thing of this pen is the quality you get against the price you pay..no leak...no dryness .....very smooth writing ...really enjoying it Happy with the purchase Product 100% Recommended if anybody wants a good pen in affordable price

This is a beautiful color (fluorescent green). The 1.0mm stub nib writes exceptionally well. I have three Metropolitans in my collection. This is the fourth! I adore my Pilot Metropolitans.

With the advent of keyboards, many people eschew the pen as unnecessarily antiquarian. I love a good keyboard, but having grown up with every kind of writing implement (the huge diameter pencils from kindergarten, ball points, mechanical pencils, felt tips, gel pens, and assorted fountain pens), I prefer to write letters, cards, and journal entries with a pen, but especially a fountain pen. I have had assorted Pilot Metropolitans (F nib, M nib), Pilot Plumix (F nib & CM nib), Lamy, Kaweco pens, and others. I am still a fan of the fantastically affordable, comfortable to hold, easy to write with, well-built Pilot Metropolitan fountain pens. They are good for beginners as well as those who use fountain pens regularly. I recently bought the Pilot Metro Pop 1.0 mm stub fountain pen (CM on the nib stands for Calligraphy Medium). It glides beautifully across the page and works every time I use it. It comes with one black Pilot Namiki cartridge, but you can also purchase other Pilot Namiki cartridges (black, blue, blue-black, red, green, and even purple) or use the Pilot CON-40 screw-type converter if you want to use your own ink. NOTE: for those of you who are new to fountain pens - please use ONLY fountain pen ink. I like dip pen inks, like Dr. Ph. Martin's Bombay inks, but they are for dip pen use not fountain pen use. Clean your pen now and then and especially when switching from one ink color to another. There are YouTube videos on how to do this. Maintaining your fountain pen will ensure that it will serve you well for years to come.

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This pen is such great quality for the money. It never dry starts, the nib is smooth as silk, the flow of the ink is wet but not too wet, it's easy to clean and change inks. It's literally the perfect fountain pen. I highly recommend this to anyone wanting to try a fountain pen. Start here and branch out, trying other cheaper brands (or more expensive ones!) could leave you with a bad taste because they don't write as well or they need to be fussed with before they write as well. Pilots will write straight out of the box with no trouble and be 100% dependable.

This Pilot Metropolitan fountain pen comes with a <CM> nib, which is a calligraphic medium 1.0mm stub nib. The writing performance is quite similar to a Pilot Plumix <M> medium stub nib, but of course this pen is metal and heavier but still comfortable and well balanced even when the cap is posted. The pen comes with the normal squeeze ink converter already supplied, and one can swop the squeeze converter with a Pilot CON-40 ink converter if you need more ink. Writing with the stub nib is quite pleasant and thin and thick strokes are possible by varying the angle of the nib on the paper, and the ink flows nicely on both fountain pen friendly Rhodia paper, as well as on normal office exam pad type of paper.