Shaggy's Left Handed Journey In Writing

Hello once more readers,

Today I wanted to take a moment to share with you all my most recent pen purchase. As I am sure you all know by now, LAMY recently released a few special edition colors for their Safari pen. I was lucky enough to find myself being able to afford one of these pens, and here are my thoughts on the pen.

This year when LAMY made their special edition pen, they gave us three new pastel colors to choose from. There is Lightrose, which is a shiny pastel pink color; Aquasky, a shiny pastel blue color; and Springgreen, a shiny pastel green color. As you can tell from the picture, I chose to get the Springgreen color. I don’t usually like very many pastel colors, but I liked this one.

This pen is a new color for the Safari model of pens, so it has the same measurements as any of those pens. With a body length of just over five inches and a posted length of six and a half inches, and with how shiny the pen is, I don’t feel comfortable posting this pen at all. My experience with this pen has only been different from my other LAMY Safari because of the nib that I chose to get for this pen.

I purchased this pen from Vanness Pen shop, because they had a wider variety of nibs to choose from. This time I decided to break from my comfort zone of extra-fine nibs, so I got the left-handed nib since I am left handed and had never had a chance to try a pen ground for us lefties! While this pen writes a good bit broader than my extra-fine Safari, I find it to be one of the smoothest writing pens I have used. I must admit that I am not sure how this nib is ground, so I can’t explain why it writes so smoothly. After using it for a couple of weeks I want to learn more about these nibs!

So far I have used up only one full cartridge of Monteverde Key Lime Pie and now a full cartridge of Private Reserve Chocolat. Both of these inks did feather just a little bit even on nicer quality paper, but I still enjoyed seeing them coming from this pen. I am thinking of putting Diamine Oxblood in there next, so that I can see how a different company’s ink writes as well.

Overall I am very happy with getting this pen, but I don’t know if I will get any more Safaris. As the special editions are just new colors for the Safari pens and the colors they choose generally don’t grab my interest, I think that by having the two pens that I have, I only need to order a new nib if I want to experiment any more. That said, if you are looking to make a collection out of the Safaris or just don’t have one yet, these pens are still well worth their price tags, and I would highly recommend getting one.

That is going to do it for my review of the LAMY Springgreen Safari and their left-handed nib. I hope you enjoyed my thoughts on both subjects. If you have gotten one of the newer special edition Safaris or have tried their left-handed nib before, I would love to hear about it so please feel free to leave a comment. I think that my next post is going to be about which fountain pen ink brands I prefer and why I prefer them. Until next time readers. Stay happy and healthy, and keep on learning!

Shaggy