Sailor Fountain Pens

Sailor pens have a great range of nibs of the highest quality. When properly adjusted to customer specifications, they are superb. For us Sailor pens are all about the nibs and the way that they write.
Several of the tipping types Sailor uses are not available from any other manufacturer. They make an extra-fine that is the finest available and a "Zoom" nib with an unusual writing quality. Although we don't subscribe to the notion that more karats mean better quality (we call this karat envy), these 21K nibs are a pleasure to write with. The filling system is either a twist-converter or cartridge, and because of the large-bore opening on the Sailor converter, ink starvation problems, common to many other brands of cartridge/converter pens, are avoided. (Click on the pictures below to take you to Sailor's various models.)

"There's no such thing as a virgin sailor," Dick Egolf, former distributor of Sailor Pens, told me. We were discussing how Sailor tests its pens before they are released for sale. He said that every Sailor pen is tested at the factory, with ink, on paper, and then thoroughly cleaned before it is shipped. We here at the Nib Works examine the writing quality of all the pens we send out and will continue to do so unless requested otherwise. (Some collectors prefer their pens uninked.)