🙋♂️ Hi Blake! Meant for slower writing, as you can see from your quick writing sample, and more so used for visual flair. In my opinion, pens don't have to look pretty as long as they write well, as most will look at your handwriting versus what writing instrument you have in hand. That is how I look at it anyway.... "FPR" has great customer service for a small family run business. Thank you for your review and great content. Kudos from NYC🗽.
Thank you for the comment! You are right that it is not meant for fast writing, I just like to see what happens when I try and write fast. It's a fantastic writing pen and by far the best modern "Flex" nib I've used.
Fountain Pen Revolution (FPR) is a good company to buy from because their customer service is excellent. If you receive an FPR pen that has a quality issue, a courteous request for help to the owner at FPR will result in a solution. I've bought lots of lower-end pens and nibs from them. Having several FPR Ultra- and (regular) flex nibs+feeds stashed in a drawer means I can - on a whim - change up non-FPR pens like my Noodler Ahabs to experiment. In fact almost every Ahab here has been retro-fitted with an FPR nib! I discovered recently that I have 6 Himalayas v1 and v2. (May have gone overboard on that...) I have been tempted to try their gold UltraFlex but in my case started devoting spare change to vintage to experience a wider range of nib feel and flow. This review showed amazing flow, though. I like you would recommend this to a newly-pen-interested friend who wasn't as used to swapping and tinkering.
Thanks for the comment Jonathan! Glad to hear you have been enjoying your FPR pens. It's hard to beat vintage nibs but I think this pen is a great alternative if you don't want to deal with the hunt.
I have this pen with the steel ultraflex nib. This review is very fair. I have a couple FPR pens and the Jaipur v2 is the highest quality of them. Yeah, the Jaipur dumps ink onto the page. I can go through a full fill in about 20 minutes of writing. For me, comparing the build quality to that of the Magna Carta Mag 600 with gold flex nib, I would spend the few extra bucks for the Magna Carta over the FPR every time. Honestly, the most impressive part of this review was the paper's performance knowing how much ink that pen can put down.
Thank you for the comment. The Mag 600 looks like a great pen. I will do some more research on it and consider getting one as I would love a pen with a nib like this FPR one but on a much nicer pen.
Great review as usual! Your videos have been a true help to me in my fountain pen and paper purchases. The ultra flex nib does seem to perform well, but I would have reservations about the pen. Several years ago I purchased four FPR pens at the beginning of my fountain pen journey and one was this exact pen minus the ultra flex nib. As you fairly pointed out the pen quality is not the greatest. The same was true for each FPR pen I purchased. I had more than one issue with Jaipur 2 including the piston mechanism becoming stripped. Today I only have one left and I never use it. Thankfully someone directed me to better pen brands (Pilot) at less cost and they made me a fountain pen enthusiast. I just can’t imagine spending a couple of hundred dollars for this pen even with the ultra flex nib.
Hi Stephen, Thank you for sharing your experience. I am sorry you had bad luck with you FPR pens. We will see how mine holds up. The expensive part of the pen is the nib and I suspect if the pen breaks I could have the nib fitted to another FPR pen. Of course it would be much better if the pen didn't break. I would not recommend the Jaipur as a budget fountain pen as there are higher quality pens out there for $50 or even $30.
These 14k nibs perform very similar to the vintage flex that I have tried. As others have said, it is definitely meant for slower paces. Also, the blind cap is a welcome feature. I am always scared that some time I will twist it a bit too much while posting. I have ordered just the nib unit with a plastic feed and Jowo threading just to tame that ink flow for my Opus 88. It works wonderful as an edc if I don't push far. Thanks for the review. You might want to consider doing a side by side review of this flex with Aurora Flex, vintage aurora flex, the ultra flex steel, etc for a future video.
Thanks for the comment and suggestion. I would be curious to know what you think of the nib with the Jowo threading. I will have to do a comparison of my more flexible nibs in the future. The modern Aurora flex nib is no where near as flexible as this FPR nib and I would say it is also more flexible than the flex nib on my Aurora Superna.
@@BlakesBroadcast I don't use flex in my day to day. The jowo threading is very nice, but the plastic used is not very high quality. It can crack with regular pulling out the nib, when comparwd to the excellent elastic feed of original Jowo housing. That being said, it is still very flexy, bouncy and wet. Here, with the floating design, you may get more range of line variation. But the day to day performance isn't hindered.
I use the same paper and have the same pen and nib. I love the nib. It flexes with pen pressure alone and the only downside is however the pen writes. Love the paper and the pen
I agree with your build quality comment. But mine is a gift from my favorite pen enabler (my daughter ). She caught a buy one get one free deal. I purchased a nmeosine nib from FPR with the order and it is too loose in the sec tion to be practical. It took a while to learn how to sort of write with the steel flex. To be honest, I have only used KWZ Iron Gall Turquoise which may not be the best ink for this pen and nib. When I am careful to not let the pen go too long without use it does pretty good. And as the saying goes, this pen feels good in my hand. I will eventually try a different ink to see if it makes a substantial difference. Thanks for the review.
I have both pens. The BlueDew is similiar to a Zebra drawing nib. It doesn't have any nib material at the tip. It took me a while to get used to the scratchiness and how to write with it, but the FPR gold flex is much smoother to write with and a better writing experience.
I have the same nib in Himalaya V2. It worths every penny. Now that they offer the nib in ebonite Jowo #6 nib unit by Flexible Nib Factory. You can put the nib unit in any of your beautiful Jowo #6 housing pens. Although it’s still better to put it in an eyedropper like Opus88, or a piston filler, due to the high ink flow demand.
I originally asked about their 14kt #6 JOWO ultra flex nib but I was told it is not as flexible as this friction fit one. That said I may still go for one since I could use it in some nicer pens.
@@BlakesBroadcast It’s the same nib. I don’t see why it won’t be as flexible. If you can wait, you can wait for Flexible Nib Factory to release the ebonite FPR Ultra Flex Feed in JoWo #6 Housing. It’s called F6E. That way, you don’t have to buy a new nib unit (which costs $$$). Just buy the housing and swap the nib in there.
This nib is not perfectly symmetrical. I've had several nibs where the slit isn't perfectly in the center. On this one it is pretty minor, and I have found that it really has to be off to affect performance.
Sounds interesting, I would expect great value and unique writing experience as its not mainstream brand surely would buy just for the idea of it to support them. Not crazy about flex nibs, maybe if it was like pilot metal falcon sef where the starting line is thinner.
The amount of ink it puts down is similar to a vintage flex pen. I don't own any very dry inks but with a more normal ink like Waterman Serenity blue the performance is pretty close.
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🙋♂️ Hi Blake! Meant for slower writing, as you can see from your quick writing sample, and more so used for visual flair. In my opinion, pens don't have to look pretty as long as they write well, as most will look at your handwriting versus what writing instrument you have in hand. That is how I look at it anyway.... "FPR" has great customer service for a small family run business. Thank you for your review and great content. Kudos from NYC🗽.
Thank you for the comment! You are right that it is not meant for fast writing, I just like to see what happens when I try and write fast. It's a fantastic writing pen and by far the best modern "Flex" nib I've used.
this pen dumps ink even in slow writing. Open up the feeder and you’ll know why.
Fountain Pen Revolution (FPR) is a good company to buy from because their customer service is excellent. If you receive an FPR pen that has a quality issue, a courteous request for help to the owner at FPR will result in a solution. I've bought lots of lower-end pens and nibs from them. Having several FPR Ultra- and (regular) flex nibs+feeds stashed in a drawer means I can - on a whim - change up non-FPR pens like my Noodler Ahabs to experiment. In fact almost every Ahab here has been retro-fitted with an FPR nib!
I discovered recently that I have 6 Himalayas v1 and v2. (May have gone overboard on that...) I have been tempted to try their gold UltraFlex but in my case started devoting spare change to vintage to experience a wider range of nib feel and flow. This review showed amazing flow, though. I like you would recommend this to a newly-pen-interested friend who wasn't as used to swapping and tinkering.
Thanks for the comment Jonathan! Glad to hear you have been enjoying your FPR pens. It's hard to beat vintage nibs but I think this pen is a great alternative if you don't want to deal with the hunt.
I have one of these not in gold nib. I have to say as fast as you were writing the feed really kept up well even when you were flex writing.
I am impressed with the performance too.
I have this pen with the steel ultraflex nib. This review is very fair. I have a couple FPR pens and the Jaipur v2 is the highest quality of them. Yeah, the Jaipur dumps ink onto the page. I can go through a full fill in about 20 minutes of writing. For me, comparing the build quality to that of the Magna Carta Mag 600 with gold flex nib, I would spend the few extra bucks for the Magna Carta over the FPR every time.
Honestly, the most impressive part of this review was the paper's performance knowing how much ink that pen can put down.
Thank you for the comment. The Mag 600 looks like a great pen. I will do some more research on it and consider getting one as I would love a pen with a nib like this FPR one but on a much nicer pen.
Great review as usual! Your videos have been a true help to me in my fountain pen and paper purchases. The ultra flex nib does seem to perform well, but I would have reservations about the pen. Several years ago I purchased four FPR pens at the beginning of my fountain pen journey and one was this exact pen minus the ultra flex nib. As you fairly pointed out the pen quality is not the greatest. The same was true for each FPR pen I purchased. I had more than one issue with Jaipur 2 including the piston mechanism becoming stripped. Today I only have one left and I never use it. Thankfully someone directed me to better pen brands (Pilot) at less cost and they made me a fountain pen enthusiast. I just can’t imagine spending a couple of hundred dollars for this pen even with the ultra flex nib.
Hi Stephen, Thank you for sharing your experience. I am sorry you had bad luck with you FPR pens. We will see how mine holds up. The expensive part of the pen is the nib and I suspect if the pen breaks I could have the nib fitted to another FPR pen. Of course it would be much better if the pen didn't break.
I would not recommend the Jaipur as a budget fountain pen as there are higher quality pens out there for $50 or even $30.
These 14k nibs perform very similar to the vintage flex that I have tried. As others have said, it is definitely meant for slower paces. Also, the blind cap is a welcome feature. I am always scared that some time I will twist it a bit too much while posting.
I have ordered just the nib unit with a plastic feed and Jowo threading just to tame that ink flow for my Opus 88. It works wonderful as an edc if I don't push far.
Thanks for the review. You might want to consider doing a side by side review of this flex with Aurora Flex, vintage aurora flex, the ultra flex steel, etc for a future video.
Thanks for the comment and suggestion. I would be curious to know what you think of the nib with the Jowo threading.
I will have to do a comparison of my more flexible nibs in the future. The modern Aurora flex nib is no where near as flexible as this FPR nib and I would say it is also more flexible than the flex nib on my Aurora Superna.
@@BlakesBroadcast I don't use flex in my day to day. The jowo threading is very nice, but the plastic used is not very high quality. It can crack with regular pulling out the nib, when comparwd to the excellent elastic feed of original Jowo housing.
That being said, it is still very flexy, bouncy and wet. Here, with the floating design, you may get more range of line variation. But the day to day performance isn't hindered.
Very helpful. My experience with fpr have been fine. Good examples of Indian pens.
I would say this one is similar quality to my Noodlers pen (also made in India I believe) but this one has a nice nib.
I use the same paper and have the same pen and nib. I love the nib. It flexes with pen pressure alone and the only downside is however the pen writes.
Love the paper and the pen
It is a great combo. I do feel this nib deserves a nicer body though.
I agree with your build quality comment. But mine is a gift from my favorite pen enabler (my daughter ). She caught a buy one get one free deal. I purchased a nmeosine nib from FPR with the order and it is too loose in the sec tion to be practical. It took a while to learn how to sort of write with the steel flex. To be honest, I have only used KWZ Iron Gall Turquoise which may not be the best ink for this pen and nib. When I am careful to not let the pen go too long without use it does pretty good. And as the saying goes, this pen feels good in my hand.
I will eventually try a different ink to see if it makes a substantial difference. Thanks for the review.
I think trying a more standard ink is a good idea.
Your review is most thorough, thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
It looks like it wants to be Italian! As always, a frank and useful review.
Haha! Thank you!
Hello Blake, thanks a lot for the quality of your video. Do you prefer this pen for flex writting or the BlueDew Pens? Have you try them? Thank you!
I have not tried BlueDew Pens but I will look them up.
I have both pens. The BlueDew is similiar to a Zebra drawing nib. It doesn't have any nib material at the tip. It took me a while to get used to the scratchiness and how to write with it, but the FPR gold flex is much smoother to write with and a better writing experience.
I have the same nib in Himalaya V2. It worths every penny. Now that they offer the nib in ebonite Jowo #6 nib unit by Flexible Nib Factory. You can put the nib unit in any of your beautiful Jowo #6 housing pens. Although it’s still better to put it in an eyedropper like Opus88, or a piston filler, due to the high ink flow demand.
I originally asked about their 14kt #6 JOWO ultra flex nib but I was told it is not as flexible as this friction fit one. That said I may still go for one since I could use it in some nicer pens.
@@BlakesBroadcast It’s the same nib. I don’t see why it won’t be as flexible. If you can wait, you can wait for Flexible Nib Factory to release the ebonite FPR Ultra Flex Feed in JoWo #6 Housing. It’s called F6E. That way, you don’t have to buy a new nib unit (which costs $$$). Just buy the housing and swap the nib in there.
I have this pen with the stainless steel Ultra-flex nib. I find it very flexy for steel.
I will have to give one of their ultra flex fine nibs a try at some point.
Am I the only one that noticed some asymmetry on the nib? 2:53
This nib is not perfectly symmetrical. I've had several nibs where the slit isn't perfectly in the center. On this one it is pretty minor, and I have found that it really has to be off to affect performance.
Sounds interesting, I would expect great value and unique writing experience as its not mainstream brand surely would buy just for the idea of it to support them. Not crazy about flex nibs, maybe if it was like pilot metal falcon sef where the starting line is thinner.
I would say the starting line is about a fine maybe an extra fine but you are right it is not as thin as a Falcon, that said this nib is way smoother.
Damn that ink flow is not very well moderated. How does it write with a very dry ink?
The amount of ink it puts down is similar to a vintage flex pen. I don't own any very dry inks but with a more normal ink like Waterman Serenity blue the performance is pretty close.