Weird Pens!!!: Review of the Strange Rotring Core Fountain Pen, What were they Thinking?

Jonathan Weinberg of Drawing with Fountain Pens reviews the Rotring Core Fountain pen from the 2000s and speculates why it was designed to look so odd.
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[@arlenealennox3136]

Sort of funky/cool.

[@yafelu]

I have an orange one and I really love it.❤ as you said cause it’s different!

[@cb7560]

This was a very enjoyable video. Thanks very much. I bought one of these about 25 years ago (with matching ballpoint, pencil and rollerball), and use them a lot still. The XL (broad) nib on mine is great and I find it comfortable to hold. There is a kids' version called the Primus which has a wooden barrel (a bit like the Lamy ABC) which is also a good writer -usually sold with an "A" nib. Rotring (when it was a German company based in Hamburg) made some great fountain pens. Its 700 model has a nib that was allegedly the same as on the Montblanc Slimline (CS) as Rotring supposedly bought the tooling and machinery when Montblanc ceased making the line in the 1990s. The two companies' factories were very close to one another.

[@drawingwithfountainpens]

I agree that Rotring made some really interesting pens. I am about to get one of their famed 600 pens that people swear by. And I also have a Primus coming all the way from Jordan. Clearly some people like the design of the section of the Core pen and find it comfortable. I don't, but it takes all kinds. I am very excited to try both the 600 and the Primus pens. Even when I don't enjoy the way their pens write, I like the way they experimented with new designs. It is a shame they have all but abandoned the fountain pen world. I think they still make the Art Pen, which I bought a long time ago and did not like at all, unfortunately. I don't quite understand why it is or was marketed for Art since the nib was like a nail and nothing special. Have you tried it?

[@stever6812]

I have one of these, but it got a bit lost in the drawer. You reminded me of it, so I inked it up. It's oddly satisfying. Accent on the "oddly". I guess I understand why these chunky types of pens are good for little kid hands, but this also seems to suit my big, ham hock hands.

[@drawingwithfountainpens]

Yes, it must work well for kids and some adults otherwise why do it? But I personally found it quite difficult to write with it. I prefer wider sections, usually, although I find the section on the Lamy Safari very comfortable.

[@drawingwithfountainpens]

Exactly!

[@ramrajpanthukalathil1601]

Is their links from which i can buy one of these ?

[@drawingwithfountainpens]

They no longer make them, but I have seen several for sale on Ebay.