My brother uses the Pelikan Level I fountain pen, which he especially likes because it has a large ink capacity and he writes pages and pages of stuff at work. There’s a review of it on Penoply which surmises that it’s Pelikan’s way of getting fountain pens into the hands of teens and gen-exers. It’s a plastic fountain pen with a steel nib so I was skeptical until I wrote with it. It’s smooth smooth smooth. Nice. To refill the ink, you dock it to a special bottle. So, if you’re a fountain pen snob but don’t like to carry a snobby fountain pen all the time, you can give this one a whirl. But if you think the docking refill system is cool and want a high-end model, they also have the Level 5 series. But for some reason they couldn’t design the cap to fit back on the top for the Level 5s, which is a big minus.
