that particular VP is one with an alloy nib unit. It is not the typical ones with the gold nib units. It is about 60-70 dollars vs a gold nib one that is around 125 give or take .
@@MarcoRuschkowski - I personally bought the pen a few years ago because I wanted the mustard yellow color pen. I always just replace the nib unit inside with the size I want. ( always the 1.0 nib size). I have only ever seen the "special alloy " versions, on Amazon, and a few online retailers
Omg...u hit jackpot!🎉 See...this is because u gave that lady the $100 tip. The universe us rewarding u.😊 Welcome to the Pilot rabbithole! Now u will need to acquire an E95s. It's life changing.🥰 congratulations on ur lucky mistake!
Thank you for sharing! Karma is wonderful! You put such positive energy into the universe, and the universe will smile at you. I have the Pilot Capless in Yellow, and it is such a pleasant everyday fountain pen. You will get lots of compliments when you use it. Since you love brown inks (I do, too!), my current favorite is the Monteverde Brown Sugar. Wishing you and your family a lovely, healthy, safe, and prosperous new year!!!
Yes, It's a Vanishing point, in the rest of the world it's called Capless. I have it, and this one has an alloy nib unit, but it writes beautifully. Congrats on your surprise. ❤😄
You are so lucky! I just got my first vanishing point on Christmas after having it on my wishlist for years lol. Enjoy your new pilot pen and happy new year!
I love the Kakuno, I have 2 of them and looking to get the new madoromi color series. It's such a versatile and affordable pen and writes nicer than some of my more expensive pens.
So fast and fun! When you said you ordered a Prera I was excited, but wow-- Capless!! I wanted to suggest medium nib only because my last Prera says M but is thinner and very fine. Both of mine are transparent so I just ordered a slate gray for under $20. I actually want another Prera, but won't complain if it's Capless, HA! Can't wait to see and hear what you and others receive this time, especially if you like the Prera. Keep us posted! (Oh and Preras post like a dream, too.) 😋
I ordered the capless intentionally. When I first looked it up it was around sixty dollars. When I went to order it, it was $80. So my husband gave it a try and got it for $71. You had a great left turn!
You have the best luck on Amazon! LOL Enjoy! You should also try a Platinum Preppy. Ooh, and if you want to get fancy try a stub or italic nib (1.1 mm or greater), which makes your writing look like calligraphy without even having to learn it. Because the nib is squared, not rounded, it makes broad vertical strokes and thin horizontal strokes. I like to journal with mine - so pretty! Unfortunately, the TWSBI doesn't make a great nib for this, but there are plenty of others out there.
Hey! The capless is another name for the vanishing point, but there are steel nibed and gold nibed ones. That one is a steel nib and a lower price point than the 18K gold ones. I have collected a few of the gold nib VPs and they are amazing everyday pens! Enjoy this happy accident LOL!
I actually bought this same Capless a few days ago, and I'm loving it. I paid 70 bucks for mine, and it is such a nice daily writer for me so far. I have it inked with Diamine Sepia at the moment, and its a pretty spot-on color match for the pen body
Wow, what a lucky mistake! I bought 2 Kakunos after your last video - I love them both! I bought a fine nib & a medium nib & weirdly I'd say the fine nib is smoothest. Inked them with Writer's Blood & Sepia both from diamine & am really enjoying them. Thanks for the inspiration x
Kakuno was my first fountain pen, I made a video recently saying the same thing and recommending it to begginers, its to this day one of my favorites to this day. Many of my friends decided to try kakuno as their first fountain pen, I bet Im getting them to enjoy fountain pens with me in the near future hahaha
Well, I think I'll try the much cheaper Majohn A1 first to see if I like writing with a pen like this. There are also A1 versions without the clip now. Oh, there are new colours of Kaküno out now. They are more hazy or dusty in their colours. They look interesting. I might try the Kaküno eventually since i love my cute little Preras. The soft click when closing the cap is amazing. 😁 Your new Capless costs 129€ at my favourite online pen shop in Europe. The gold nibs are 210€ and up. 🎄🎁
I got the A1 specifically because I wanted the clipless body and immediately swapped in a gold VP nib in broad because the A1 only comes in EF (or at least that's all I could find).
Yeah, as you now know, you SCORED! You should still try to get ahold of a Prera, though. One of my favorite models from Pilot. In the United States, the Capless is the steel alloy nib version of the Vanishing Point, which has a gold nib. I love CVS Caliber paper, but the good stuff is in the notebooks which say they are made in Vietnam. The scratch pad is made in the USA, so it doesn’t perform as well.
What luck!!! That's such a fortunate mishap~ Anyway, I'm a super noob too (~1 year) and I syringe fill all my pens! I think it's so much easier than trying to vacuum up the ink? But maybe I'm just not good at it yet 😅
lol! i saw the capless/vanishing point in the thumbnail and got confused when you said you bought a prera! from another pilot fangirl, the capless is by far my favorite fountain pen from them!
I was wondering how you got the Capless in the thumbnail when you said you got it for under $30. 😂 BTW, that looks like a CON-70 converter. It will fit the Kakuno, but not the Capless or Prera. You will need the CON-40 for those pens. Oh, and if you are using a converter in the Capless, you don't need the cartridge cover. But I tend to just use refilled cartridges, so I don't have to keep up with that cover. Heh. - When you fill from a cartridge, there is no ink in the feed at first. You have to wait a bit for the ink to flow through the feed to the nib. When you fill pens by dipping the nib directly in the ink, the feed and nib already have ink and it is ready to write immediately.
Hi Michelle, Hope the holidays are treating you and the Fam well. I do not currently have a pen on my wishlist but I love and enjoy everything you present so it gives me ideas ❤🖋📓🦋🌹
I have a pilot prera. I like it but it is a small pen. I prefer a larger size. It writes well so not a bad low budget fountain pen. I’m not a fan of the cap less.
You don't have to activate ink, it just needs time to get through the feed because you filled it with cartrige. Normal thing. Congrats. Capless is my dream.😊
Kaweco pens are nice. They write well. The body size is just a tad bit too small for my preference as a long-form writing tool. But for on the go or travels, it's perfect! Can't go wrong
Pilot vanishing points fountain pens are not 60 or $70 they are more like 100 too $150. how in the world did the seller make that kind of mistake he just lost a lot of money. You gotta extremely expensive pen for cheap.I could never get that lucky.
They said the nibs of Kakuno/Prera/Metropolitan are the same, so maybe it's good to have a Capless😅And I also got my clear Kakuno few days ago, too, I really enjoy it.
For me it was the opposite everyone loves the Twsbi and I just refused to buy one, I went Kaweco first then Lamy, then Sailor, then Radius, and hating the Sailor feedback o decided to that Pilot would be perfect for me because people say is so smooth, bought a pilot lightive as a pre capless test… and thought it was TOO smooth 😅. Ended up surrendering to Twsbi and is JUST RIGHT I don’t even want to write with anything that is not Twsbi anymore 😭
@ my preference is definitely Fine, but I have a cream/rose gold Twsbi Eco in Extra Fine and a Blue/Bronze in Fine. Weirdly the Extra Fine writes thicker lines than the Fine, but I think it could be the ink! I have Colorverse brunch date on the EF and Diamine Prussian blue on the F. Maybe the Colorverse ink is just too wet? I am very new to fountain pens I started last year so I am not sure
It's not a gold nib, just a gold colored steel one. I checked my black colored, 18k gold VP nib and it has extra stamping between the pilot logo and the nib size. Still a lucky mistake for her though!
@thecattpark I have the black matte vanishing point that has actually 18k nib, and because they look the same but different colours I thought hers had the gold nib too
@@sayuriakirayuu7944 yeah I think they make all colors in both steel and gold, so you have to look for the tiny font on the already tiny nib and through a camera lens 🙃 which is not the easiest
This is your gift 🎁 from the universe because you are so nice giving us the Moleskine sales! ❤
That’s what I was thinking 😊
@@art-alchemy agreed
Yup definitely just ordered the exact one you originally ordered hoping for a capless as well haha
Well if you got the Capless but paid for the Prera you got your money’s worth because the Capless costs $70!!!
My thoughts too! 😆❤️👍
Maybe we can get the ‘friends and family’ discount 😂
OK I’m incorrigible and just had to order this pen for myself despite the price!
70$??? That's a bargen, usually they are £150+ in UK
@ it was discounted
that particular VP is one with an alloy nib unit. It is not the typical ones with the gold nib units. It is about 60-70 dollars vs a gold nib one that is around 125 give or take .
Thx for your comment, I wasn't aware that there was a budget Vanishing point
@@MarcoRuschkowski - I personally bought the pen a few years ago because I wanted the mustard yellow color pen. I always just replace the nib unit inside with the size I want. ( always the 1.0 nib size). I have only ever seen the "special alloy " versions, on Amazon, and a few online retailers
@@AngelAllis I've already learned that this version isn't that easy to come by. At least here in Germany. 😔
Omg...u hit jackpot!🎉 See...this is because u gave that lady the $100 tip. The universe us rewarding u.😊 Welcome to the Pilot rabbithole! Now u will need to acquire an E95s. It's life changing.🥰 congratulations on ur lucky mistake!
Thank you for sharing! Karma is wonderful! You put such positive energy into the universe, and the universe will smile at you. I have the Pilot Capless in Yellow, and it is such a pleasant everyday fountain pen. You will get lots of compliments when you use it. Since you love brown inks (I do, too!), my current favorite is the Monteverde Brown Sugar. Wishing you and your family a lovely, healthy, safe, and prosperous new year!!!
thank you so much! Happy New Year to you and yours!🎉
Yes, It's a Vanishing point, in the rest of the world it's called Capless. I have it, and this one has an alloy nib unit, but it writes beautifully. Congrats on your surprise. ❤😄
I bought the kakuno after the last video and now get to write with it for these video. My first fountain pen!
❤️👍
You are so lucky! I just got my first vanishing point on Christmas after having it on my wishlist for years lol. Enjoy your new pilot pen and happy new year!
That extra $50 you tipped at Christmas just came back to you!
My Prera does not look like that LOL!!! I wish it did. 😁😆🤣 Boy someone made a BOO - BOO!!!!
The pilot capless is now on my wish list 😂
Love my clear pilot Kakuno too, especially with the CON70
Yes it’s a vanishing point! I really want one!
Wow, a Capless for a Prera price!!! Hold on to that little beauty. Welcome to the Pilot Rabbit hole.
Oh, I am and will! This beauty is my new love!
I’ve bought two since your last video, I looooove it! I bought a fine and extra fine, love them both. Thanks for the great recommendation!
Wow! Congratulations. The vanishing point is a great pen. Well deserved. You are an amazing person!
HOW AMAZING IS THIS!!! I am so happy for you. Come on down the rabbit hole LOL.
I know! I'm still pinching myself! Further down the hole I go..😂
I love the Kakuno, I have 2 of them and looking to get the new madoromi color series. It's such a versatile and affordable pen and writes nicer than some of my more expensive pens.
Wow, congratulations!
The capless is $70 on Amazon the pilot vanishing point is $170+. They similar but not the same.
Not me thinking about ordering from that prera link now lmao
Same!
Yup just did exactly this lol
@@Danyel_Joy same! Fingers crossed 🤞🏼 either way that prera is a cute lil pen and I won't be disappointed I swear 🤣
@@Danyel_Joy mine just arrived - it's the Prera 🤣 it's a nice lil pen tho!
@@chloexsoliel Well it was worth a shot! Mine arrives tomorrow.
We both got the same pen in the same color with the same nib from the same company on the same day. Only, I paid $73. Congratulations!
So fast and fun! When you said you ordered a Prera I was excited, but wow-- Capless!! I wanted to suggest medium nib only because my last Prera says M but is thinner and very fine. Both of mine are transparent so I just ordered a slate gray for under $20. I actually want another Prera, but won't complain if it's Capless, HA! Can't wait to see and hear what you and others receive this time, especially if you like the Prera. Keep us posted! (Oh and Preras post like a dream, too.) 😋
Thanks so much! I agree, the Capless is an incredible pen! I’m so happy with it. Now considering another one in different nib size😅
I ordered the capless intentionally. When I first looked it up it was around sixty dollars. When I went to order it, it was $80. So my husband gave it a try and got it for $71. You had a great left turn!
You have the best luck on Amazon! LOL Enjoy! You should also try a Platinum Preppy. Ooh, and if you want to get fancy try a stub or italic nib (1.1 mm or greater), which makes your writing look like calligraphy without even having to learn it. Because the nib is squared, not rounded, it makes broad vertical strokes and thin horizontal strokes. I like to journal with mine - so pretty! Unfortunately, the TWSBI doesn't make a great nib for this, but there are plenty of others out there.
Thanks for the great pen suggestions! I’ll definitely add those to my wishlist.
Hey! The capless is another name for the vanishing point, but there are steel nibed and gold nibed ones. That one is a steel nib and a lower price point than the 18K gold ones. I have collected a few of the gold nib VPs and they are amazing everyday pens! Enjoy this happy accident LOL!
I actually bought this same Capless a few days ago, and I'm loving it. I paid 70 bucks for mine, and it is such a nice daily writer for me so far. I have it inked with Diamine Sepia at the moment, and its a pretty spot-on color match for the pen body
Wow, what a lucky mistake! I bought 2 Kakunos after your last video - I love them both! I bought a fine nib & a medium nib & weirdly I'd say the fine nib is smoothest. Inked them with Writer's Blood & Sepia both from diamine & am really enjoying them. Thanks for the inspiration x
So happy to hear you enjoy them! Actually, you're right - I noticed the fine nib is smoother! Happy Writings!
I have a blue one and love mine. I also recently got the white jinhao capless and it feels very similar to the pilot.
I got the white Jinhao capless and the paint chipped after a few months. You may want to be precious with yours.
I like the pilot pencils S20 and S30 are very nice too
I just loaded a converter like this last week and was as nervous as you were😂❤ That looks like such a cool pen!
Best luck! I have the same one and love it. May I ask which syringe set did you get?
Kakuno was my first fountain pen, I made a video recently saying the same thing and recommending it to begginers, its to this day one of my favorites to this day. Many of my friends decided to try kakuno as their first fountain pen, I bet Im getting them to enjoy fountain pens with me in the near future hahaha
You cracked me up with that giggle! I would be jumping for joy if that happened to me too!
Well, I think I'll try the much cheaper Majohn A1 first to see if I like writing with a pen like this. There are also A1 versions without the clip now. Oh, there are new colours of Kaküno out now. They are more hazy or dusty in their colours. They look interesting. I might try the Kaküno eventually since i love my cute little Preras. The soft click when closing the cap is amazing. 😁
Your new Capless costs 129€ at my favourite online pen shop in Europe. The gold nibs are 210€ and up. 🎄🎁
I got the A1 specifically because I wanted the clipless body and immediately swapped in a gold VP nib in broad because the A1 only comes in EF (or at least that's all I could find).
I've had that thought too. 😊
My guess is that they send you the wrong one. Lucky mistake 😊
Yeah, as you now know, you SCORED! You should still try to get ahold of a Prera, though. One of my favorite models from Pilot. In the United States, the Capless is the steel alloy nib version of the Vanishing Point, which has a gold nib. I love CVS Caliber paper, but the good stuff is in the notebooks which say they are made in Vietnam. The scratch pad is made in the USA, so it doesn’t perform as well.
It’s cleaner filling with a syringe, but it doesn’t prime the feed, so there’s that. But hey, you got a cool pen! I just ordered that Prera…maybe…🤞🏼🙏🏼
Surprise! You got a Vanishing Point! I have this exact pen, same color, and it is my very favorite pen. Enjoy! 🎉
This pen has been on my wishlist for SOOOOO long! Luck is on your side for sure ❤
I think I have this same Pilot pen, and I personally don’t like the location of the clip, so I never use it. But I’m curious about the Kakuno!
Congratulations on your pen bonus!😂❤ Wow, what unbelievable luck!
What luck!!! That's such a fortunate mishap~
Anyway, I'm a super noob too (~1 year) and I syringe fill all my pens!
I think it's so much easier than trying to vacuum up the ink? But maybe I'm just not good at it yet 😅
lol! i saw the capless/vanishing point in the thumbnail and got confused when you said you bought a prera! from another pilot fangirl, the capless is by far my favorite fountain pen from them!
You scored!
I was wondering how you got the Capless in the thumbnail when you said you got it for under $30. 😂
BTW, that looks like a CON-70 converter. It will fit the Kakuno, but not the Capless or Prera. You will need the CON-40 for those pens.
Oh, and if you are using a converter in the Capless, you don't need the cartridge cover. But I tend to just use refilled cartridges, so I don't have to keep up with that cover. Heh.
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When you fill from a cartridge, there is no ink in the feed at first. You have to wait a bit for the ink to flow through the feed to the nib. When you fill pens by dipping the nib directly in the ink, the feed and nib already have ink and it is ready to write immediately.
Writers Blood and Ancient Copper are great inks IMHO 🙂
My hubby got me the prera for my birthday and it’s my favorite! I will need to check out that cap less lol😅.
🙌 Yay! Congrats on ur surprise pen lol
Congrats!
I have the same capless one. I love mine ❤
Hi Michelle, Hope the holidays are treating you and the Fam well. I do not currently have a pen on my wishlist but I love and enjoy everything you present so it gives me ideas ❤🖋📓🦋🌹
I have a pilot prera. I like it but it is a small pen. I prefer a larger size. It writes well so not a bad low budget fountain pen. I’m not a fan of the cap less.
Omg… this is amazing!!! Also… I’m almost new here, and i’m wondering of you can give a tour through those colors and inks!!!! 😍😍😍
You don't have to activate ink, it just needs time to get through the feed because you filled it with cartrige. Normal thing. Congrats. Capless is my dream.😊
Ahh, that totally makes sense! Good to know! Can you tell I've been too used to my TWSBI pens?😅
What a lucky mistake!!!
I was curious if you do an update on what you think of the Kaweco now that you have tried so many others?
Kaweco pens are nice. They write well. The body size is just a tad bit too small for my preference as a long-form writing tool. But for on the go or travels, it's perfect! Can't go wrong
I love earl gray too, but I thought the diamine golden brown was beautiful in the twsbi
I'm in shock!! Wow, that is an amazing "mistake"!!!!! One of my all-time favourite pens. ENJOY!!!!! 😍
I'm still pinching myself! This pen is all I want to use now!😂
wow you hit jackpot!! Very pretty pen and definitely not a Prera. Someone else is going to be getting your Prera! LOL
😂 that's funny!
I have the exact same one & I love it!! We're twins 😁❤
Pilot vanishing points fountain pens are not 60 or $70 they are more like 100 too $150. how in the world did the seller make that kind of mistake he just lost a lot of money. You gotta extremely expensive pen for cheap.I could never get that lucky.
They said the nibs of Kakuno/Prera/Metropolitan are the same, so maybe it's good to have a Capless😅And I also got my clear Kakuno few days ago, too, I really enjoy it.
Capless in Europe costs 179€ or even more☺️
I’m curious if anyone tried to order through the link and get a capless? Thinking about trying it.
I reordered through the same link and got the actual Prera today😂
@@SeaweedKissesohhh darn. I’m about to watch your new video. 🩷
For me it was the opposite everyone loves the Twsbi and I just refused to buy one, I went Kaweco first then Lamy, then Sailor, then Radius, and hating the Sailor feedback o decided to that Pilot would be perfect for me because people say is so smooth, bought a pilot lightive as a pre capless test… and thought it was TOO smooth 😅.
Ended up surrendering to Twsbi and is JUST RIGHT I don’t even want to write with anything that is not Twsbi anymore 😭
Yay!! So happy you're loving the TWSBI pens! What's your nib preference? Fine?
@ my preference is definitely Fine, but I have a cream/rose gold Twsbi Eco in Extra Fine and a Blue/Bronze in Fine. Weirdly the Extra Fine writes thicker lines than the Fine, but I think it could be the ink!
I have Colorverse brunch date on the EF and Diamine Prussian blue on the F.
Maybe the Colorverse ink is just too wet? I am very new to fountain pens I started last year so I am not sure
Wow 😍💚
Hmmm.... I wouldn't have felt right about keeping it. I definitely wouldn't have even opened it.
I paid $70 for my Pilot Capless pen! As all the people have stated. I do have 2 of the Pilot Prera in Med and Fine, which I looove. Enjoy!
It would be interesting to hear if they dry up easily or fast. The knock offs unfortunately do.
Mine hasn't dried up yet, 4 days later with constant use. I have a Jinhao 10 on the way as I'm curious to see how other brands compare
@SeaweedKisses uh I'd love to hear how they compare.
Congratulations! You might have to buy a lottery ticket today!
It's definitely a good sign, right? 😉
Holy cow, lucky mistake on their part!😂 ENJOY!❤
This. Was. Hilarious.
I had to talk my self out of going on amazon…. I’m on a no spend for 2025 so this one is going to say on my wish list for a bit longer.
Lol, somebody made a big boo boo, much more expensive than the prera.
If you held the pen with the proper triangular grip, the clip wouldn't get in the way.
Girly pop you got a 100+$ fountain pen with a 18k gold nib right there, that's not 25$ 😅
It's not a gold nib, just a gold colored steel one. I checked my black colored, 18k gold VP nib and it has extra stamping between the pilot logo and the nib size. Still a lucky mistake for her though!
@thecattpark I have the black matte vanishing point that has actually 18k nib, and because they look the same but different colours I thought hers had the gold nib too
@@sayuriakirayuu7944 yeah I think they make all colors in both steel and gold, so you have to look for the tiny font on the already tiny nib and through a camera lens 🙃 which is not the easiest
$100 pen instead of a $20 pen?
CONGRATS!!! IT IS A BEAUTIFUL PEN, AND YOU GOT IT ALMOST FOR FREE 😊