My current favourite pen - the sailor pro gear slim

Originally this pen write very scratchy with hard starts and skipping, but with a wetter ink and some light pressure it writes beautifully. The weight and size of this pen are great for those with smaller hands and the colours are all beautiful.

It did come with a matching ink but I have unfortunately lost it - the two inks in this writing sample are wearingeul three musketeers and sailor iroshizuku syo-ro.

Three musketeers was slightly too dry for this pen, and is a nice blue black with some shading that doesn’t come through much in this small of a nib.

Lamy Dark Lilac (2016) is a beautiful ink - I can see why people paid so much for those elusive bottles, though I find that for me the rerelease will likely fill the same if not a similar space in my ink collection. It has a medium flow with a beautiful golden sheen. I found that on cheap workbook paper the sheen was very visible, but for whatever reason the paper I use for writing samples doesn’t show sheen very well.

Pelikan Edelstein ink of the year 2025 - Apricot Achat

A lovely light tangerine, this ink has a medium to wet flow and is surprisingly readable for such a light ink. It has good shading and no shimmer or sheen. Well behaved on even the worst printer paper. I love the entire Edelstein collection - they’re inspired by gemstones, combining two of my favourite interests into a wonderful collectible. They’re always well behaved and they come in some great colours.

Writing sample of Scarlet Metropolis an Heroic Blue from the Ferris Wheel Press x Superman Collection - Written with a Parker 45 (Medium Nib)

I find both of these inks, much like the other Ferris Wheel Presses I’ve tried, very dry, to the point of being somewhat unusable. Due to this I picked my wettest pen for this sample - hopefully as I continue to write it will behave itself.

Unfortunately these photos don’t do the shimmer justice; there’s a blue shimmer in Scarlet metropolis and gold in the Heroic blue.