Manga G Zebra Piston Demo Fountain Pen, use any drawing ink, slip the nib and feed in and out Black 5.50inch x 0.50inch CD-PF-MGZ 0

If you have ever liked to use Manga-style G nibs in a pen, but wondered how you could do so with a continuous ink supply as opposed to dipping your nib in an ink well, this is worth a try. A couple of points: the nib and feed must be removed and cleaned before you ink this pen up. Also the nib and ebonite feed sometimes need to be heat-set to play well together. But once you do those things, you will have a tool that is one of the best ways to use a flex nib. Note too that the G nibs (both the chrome plated ones that the pen comes with and the Ti coated ones you can get as an aftermarket add-ons WILL rust and need replacing if you leave this pen continuously inked up. That's not a design flaw of the pen, that's the reality of a carbon steel nib, however treated. Folks from the dip-pen world know this and have no trouble replacing a rusted nib from whatever manufacturer. My advice is to buy a 10-pack of the slightly more durable Ti coated nibs and swap one in at the earliest opportunity. With care that 10-pack will last you a good long while. Buy it. Get used to treating your tools with respect, and you are set. Go in thinking that this is like a cheap pen with a stainless nail of a nib and you'll pull your hair out. Know your tools. Oh, and get the pen.

I'd read reviews elsewhere online, and if you do the same, you'll find there really aren't many that are positive. Still, the idea of a piston-fill pen with a flex dip pen nib was just too appealing. I thought, "I'm a pretty clever person, I'm sure I could get it to work."Apparently, I am not that clever as I thought, because I haven't been able to get this to work satisfactorily. It took me a long time to just get the ink to stop POURING out the pen. Even when I did get it to write, it will periodically drip a large blob of ink during sketching.It did not come with any instructions. Information is available on the manufacturer's website, but it takes a lot of searching around, and it's not all in the same place.My problems could be due to my use of fountain pen ink. I've used De Atrementis' urban grey, noodler's heart of darkness, and noodler's polar black, all with similar results.Though disappointed, I have to give a nod to the designer. This is a really cool idea, but to me, it's not worth the hassle. I've other fountain pens for sketching which don't require this much attention and maintenance (though, I can't get a line as thin as a dip pen nib, so maybe it's just time to get a cheaper fineliner).

Seller swapped out a purple for a black pen without messaging me. Not a huge deal but I would have liked to have known before I received the pen. Luckily I like purple and I'll probably decorate teh cap with paint markers.My pen arrived with the feed and nib installed at a slight twist, really jamming it in. I used a chopstick to push it out and reseat it, but not before i railroaded and dribbled ink everywhere. I watched a video on doing this kind of mod on my own and realized the nib needed to be seated much deeper into the pen- the G on this nib needs to be almost completely covered for this pen to work. the nib and feed need to align properly for good ink flow. The breather hole and the well area on the feed need to have a SLIGHT overlap to get good flow.Once set up and filled with Platinum Carbon ink this thing is great. As my students would say, "It slaps."It is prone to burps when adjusting to temp changes. I put the pen into my pocket for a few minutes before sketching and it does adjust to the temp. Also I keep it full.I liked it enough I ordered a couple of feeds directly rom Ackermann and made a couple of my own pens from old pens I wasn't using.

Well this little thing just would not work properly for the life of it within the first hour of owning it. the sheath for the piston was cracked and the whole thing has been an issue. would just spill all the ink i put into it out the nib and once i got that fixed it ended up leaking out the rear of the pen. maybe my unit was defective but i havent had it long at all (just got it today at the time of posting) but it just failed me in every way. nothing but a mess and couldn't even ink it up to use without it spilling out everywhere.don't mind the water in the Barrel i just got done cleaning this thing out and this thing seems to love storing stuff up behind the piston. however yes that is the crack that formed less than an hour of owning it. perhaps the plastic was weak, it happens.

Order was a replacement for the pen I gifted to a Calligraphy friend. My friend and I are pleased with the pen!