Diplomat Elox vs Lamy 2000

Unfortunately mine, which is an EF, needed a little tuning out of the box. You shouldn’t have to do that and if I weren’t comfortable tuning it myself I would have sent it back. I do give a little extra grace with EF nibs because it seems like all Western makers have more trouble with the finer nibs than do Japanese makers. After spending about 30 minutes tuning and testing it writes very smoothly and on the wet side with the Diamine Pumpkin ink but still has a bit of a sweet spot

Here is the pen. Now this pen is really kind of a neat design. It's let me zoom in a little bit for you. It's a very kind of industrial look, but it's...