Sailor pens have a great range of nibs of the highest quality. Several of the tipping types Sailor uses are not available from any other manufacturer. They make an extra-fine that is the finest available and a "Zoom" nib with unusual writing qualities. Although we don't subscribe to the notion that more karats mean better quality (we call this karat envy), these 21K nibs are a pleasure to write with. And because of the large-bore opening on the Sailor converter, ink starvation problems, common to many other brands of cartridge/converter pens, are avoided.

"There's no such thing as a virgin Sailor," Dick Egolf, former distributor of Sailor Pens, once told us. We were discussing how Sailor tests its pens before they are released for sale. He said that every Sailor pen is tested at the factory, with ink, on paper, and then thoroughly cleaned before it is shipped. Here at Classic Fountain Pens, we then re-test each pen and optimize it for the writing preferences of the individual user.