Zonon 6 Pieces Handmade Glass Dip, Crystal Glass Signature Calligraphy Vintage Dip Ink Pen Borosilicate Present Pen for Writing Drawing Decoration(Stylish Color,Bright Style)

Very beautiful pens! Added to my wonderful pen collection. Strong for glass item!!!! Writes beautifully.

These all arrived intact. The bubble wrap was rolled into a narrow box, and I was very careful while unrolling it. The ends of the pens have protective sleeves on them, and I am super careful removing and replacing those, too. All of the pens are beautiful, and the art store sells similar glass dip pens for $15 each. Even if some are scratchy, the ends can be rubbed down a little, and it is still a better value than gambling that one from the store will be perfect. At least with this set, there are six chances for it to be good, and none seem like they will be off or unusable. I have rubbed the ends of three of them on the fabric of an upholstered chair, for several passes, while rotating the pens, as it seemed to have good tension and just enough fabric coarseness, which wasn't much. That took the snaggy bits off the ends, and they all seem just right now. I have an assortment of inks and watercolor paint to try with these, and my daughter already drew a picture with one. She used Forgotten Iced Coffee ink on toned tan paper, and really enjoyed the glass dip pen.

The glass pens are bright, beautiful colors! They seemed to be packaged well but one of the 6 pieces was broken where the glass handle is fairly thin. I have not used them yet so I cannot rate their use.

First, all my pens arrived in one piece and well-packaged. They were tightly wrapped in bubble wrap and the box they were in was also very tight and not flimsy. So that was great! I do have mixed feelings about these, though. Some of the pens work really well, and a couple just don't. It's like the tip isn't quite right. I will try filing them down and see if that helps. But, ultimately, I've drawn several pictures with just these and I'm loving the variation I can get in the ink flow, the feel of the pens, and everything. I just wish they weren't so fragile as it limits me a little. But they are beautiful and work really well. I anticipate using these for quite some time and maybe getting a second set in the near future (since they are so fragile). I love how easy they are to clean!! Not a spot of ink left on them!

This is my first time using glass dip pens. I got them mainly to test out new fountain pen inks and for this purpose they work great! The longer tipped ones hold a decent amount of ink and had a little bit better flow control than the shorter tipped ones, but it might be user error. I think they would work better for writing than the shorter ones. For reference a long tipped one was used on the black paper and each color tested was dipped in ink only once. I could write out two lines, color some of the butterfly, and still had extra ink I needed to wash off before testing another color. A short tipped one was used on the white paper, and I used multiple dips on most, but the paper quality maybe a factor in flow. Only one or two felt scratchy writing on the page, and I've read that can be an issue with more expensive ones too. That can be fixed by careful sanding with a very fine grit sandpaper. All in all, these are quite beautiful, sturdy pens and a great value at $11.99 for six. Even if only one or two wrote well it'd be a bargain in my opinion. *All the inks tested were from Ferris Wheel Press.

These pens hold a good quantity of ink, write smoothly and clean up easily with a little water. The pens are also beautiful.

I have been aware of glass dip fountain pens for some time but was never really interested before. I'm currently comparing a number of inks and I need to consistently write small passages of text with the same pen on the same paper, changing only the ink. I've been using a Pilot Metropolitan as a dip pen but cleaning and drying the nib unit between inks is not a quick process. So I'm looking for something a little more streamlined. What I was looking for was a pen that wrote smoothly and could hold enough ink to write at least four lines across a sheet of 5mm dot grid A4. I evaluated each dip pen by writing out the same text with the same ink and paper until I could write no more. I conducted my writing tests with Diamine Marine ink on Clairefontaine 100 gsm Vellum paper. This exercise was educational in a number of ways. First I had to become familiar with writing with a glass dip pen. I had read about what to expect but I still needed to experience the process to understand it. Even after rubbing the nib on the side of the inkwell to drain away excess ink, I had a lot of ink on the very tip that produced a very wet, wide flow for the first dozen or so letters. Then the stroke calmed down and I started to drain the ink out of the flute closest to the tip and paper. When that was used up, I had to rotate the pen in my hand to find more ink. Writing with the pen entails periodic rotation and accessing more ink until it's all used up. Then you dip the pen again and start the process all over. After writing with modern fountain pens, this is a tedious way to write. There had better be a compelling reason to continue writing with this pen. There is. Cleanup is almost trivial. I kept a juice glass of water and a saucered wet paper towel on my writing desk. To clean the nib, I stick it in the water and swirl it three or four times clockwise and then three or four time anticlockwise. I then wipe it off on the wet paper towel and it's clean. This is considerably easier than cleaning out a modern fountain pen nib unit. Now, on to the pens. Unless you look closely at the product image, you probably won't see that two of the pens have teardrop shaped nibs with straight flutes and the other four have cylindrical nibs with helical flutes. The cylindrical nibbed pens will hold more ink and so will write longer. But each pen has its own carrying capacity; even with the same type of nib, some wrote longer than others. All of the pens were more difficult to start than a modern fountain pen. But once started, most wrote with few problems like dropouts until they begin to run low on the accessible ink. I did have one pen that was so balky that I terminated its trial early. There was also a wide range of nib smoothness among the pens. Some were quite smooth; others, not so much. The balky pen was also the roughest writing, feeling like it was catching on the paper. Smoothing these nibs will not be like smoothing a flat metal fountain pen nib. These nib tips are conical with a blunted apex. If you accidentally flatten the nib, it won't write consistently as you rotate it. All the pens produced a stroke with virtually no variation in stroke width. The writing looked as good as that made by a modern fountain pen using a standard nib. There was no italic or flex effect. There were some minor differences in width of the strokes produced by the pens. Some pen's strokes looked to be as narrow as a European Fine or a Japanese Medium Fine. Others looked more like a European Medium width. I will definitely use these pens for short writing samples of various inks, but I'm having a hard time coming up with reasons to use them for any other type of writing. I'm glad this item contains six pens so I can find the one or two that most closely match the writing characteristics of the pen I'm looking for.

Very cool and fun if you’re trying dip pens. No noticeable burrs on the tips

These pens were packaged nicely and arrived safely with no breakage. They are 100% glass, they do not have flat metal nibs attached like cheaper dip pens. Instead the tip is whorled glass, integral to the piece. All the pens arrived with soft plastic tip protectors and they were rolled in bubble wrap, good idea. Unfortunately, one of the six pens was very slightly chipped at the tip during manufacture. This makes its tip drag and catch on my paper, and splotch the W&N ink, so I will have to try to sand off its sharp edge. But all in all they're lovely to hold, very pretty things. Thanks to small variations in their tips, I noted nice variation in the lines they make (thicker to thinner) which is good for calligraphy or script by hand. Not as perfect or magnificent as my favourite glass dip pen which was handmade in Murano/Venice -- and priced accordingly -- but these pens are good value for the money and fully acceptable for what they are. Very nice starter set for an art journal enthusiast or greeting card maker.

La caja llego antes de lo esperado, la caja perfecta pero su contenido dañado. Dos de las seis plumillas llegaron quebradas

Bom, gostei

Excelente y elegante. Buena compra

Like them work well thanks