Lamy 2000 vs Lamy Joy

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...

I find the nibs on these pens need a lot of working-in before the ink has a consistent flow. I was also using high quality papers to practice on. I have been a calligraphy practitioner for 40 years and I was really disappointed with the inconsistent flow of ink from the nibs which affects the thickness / width of the lettering intermittently, resulting in a poor overall appearance of gothic, italic and uncial scripts. The 1

Lamy 2000 is just as effective. Smooth nib? They both have it. I found out after using both pens that the Visconti is far too heavy for me.

I love the thinness of my Lamy CP1, but it's a bit heavy even at just 17g. I love the look of it posted, but it throws my handwriting off because of the extra weight on the end. My Lamy Joy and Safari are super light at about 11g each (I bought them for this reason) but the shafts are still quite thick; even with the ergonomic grip they aren't super comfortable for pages of writing.

(I know there is a stainless steel version of the Lamy 2000, but (1) it's much more expensive, and (2) it doesn't have a window to view the ink level. For me, the stainless steel version is not worth buying.)

I need a good pen that is always ready for taking immediate notes, when we have problems or issues at the observatory... 1) The ink cartridges for this pen (both "pre-packaged" & refillable styles), have only small capacity- I run out of ink within a few pages of notes, usually within less than a full day of work

The price was great. And the pen was delivered a full week sooner than I expected. At this price, if you are looking for a fountain pen you can't go wrong. In fact, this is as good, or better than many pens twice or three times the price

The nib is decent, I suppose for the price. The 1.1 italic nib gives me exactly what I was looking for whereas the fine nib on the Safari was a big disappointment. The 1

I work from home, but right now my Lamy 2000 is the only pen I allow out of the house, not only because it’s a solid writer but also because it’s solidly built, and so I’m not afraid of banging it around. My Pilot Custom 823, on the other hand, is like the One Ring…and they all wantsss My Precious for themselves. But it is mine, I tell you.

We have a LAMY Safari and got this because of videos and reviews on line but when we received it seemed cheaply made. Plastic seemed cheap, the red piece at the end of the pen looked very cheaply made and everything about it looked like a mass produced toy. We did not even ink it up and test it but found that it had previously been inked by someone else, there was a blue tinge to the feed mechanism. So happy that returns are so extremely easy with Amazon which is all the more reason to get things through Amazon Prime