Ferris Wheel Press Brush Frountain Pen

Greetings. 

1 August 2021. It’s a rainy Sunday morning in Shah Alam. Weather is 26 degrees celsius at 8.18 am.

It’s such a beautiful day. This is my first blog typed using the IPad Pro 2021. Received 2 weeks ago, ordered online from Apple Singapore. Mainly to assist in my kids online classes.

I must say it is a dream to use. M1 prosessor is super fast. It is currently only aided by Baseus 6 in 1 hub. I still have lots of exploring to do.

Listening to Supergrass - Caught by the Fuzz, whilst penning this blog (on Bose SoundTouch 10 connected by bluetooth). 

I remember a time, many years ago when I was using iPhone 3GS. It had bluetooth but could not connect to anything practically. How Apple has progressed.

I am penning my to do list for grocery shopping on a recently acquired Ferris Wheel Press fountain pen, elegantly named Brush. It silhoutte resembles a painting brush.

I was eying this pen for sometime but kept delaying purchase as I had other priorities. 

Oh my. Soundgarden is playing The Day I Tried to Live. Takes my breath away listening. The track is also on Fear Street 1994. It’s on Netflix now. It’s a worthwhile trilogy to binge on.  

I lost concentration. Coming back to our current topic.

The pen was purchased from PenGallery. 

I was lucky. Purchased it under their clearence sale. They only had yellow. Not my preferred color but at that price, no complaints. Lucky me, it was also their last unit and now its completely sold out. Well, that’s if they ever do decide to restock in future.

The pen has been with me for about 3 weeks but I am only now taking it for a test drive. Flushed it out with clean water and inked it.

So what are my thoughts so far?

It’s a beautiful pen to look. Simple, elegant, minimalistic and functions well.

The brass nut serves as a stopper that prevents the pen from rolling.

It’s a small pocket pen, hence the absence of a clip. 

I do however find that a clip on a fountain pen, no matter how small the pen is, it’s still helpful. You can clip it to your shirt pocket, collar or anywhere else. The absence of a clip means that the pen is only confined to the pen sleeve in your shirt pocket (provided your shirt comes with one) or a pen pouch.  

I did notice that the cap squeaks when opening / closing its cap. I guess that brass cap rings will somoothen in due time and the sound will vanish.

The last unit was a fine nib. Well, so be it.

I found it not fully enjoyable and pelasant to use. A far cry from my Montblanc fine nib. But at that price, no complaints. Anyhow, just look at the nib and grip section. It’s such a beauty. This is the only pen that I own that grip has such lovely engraving.

My gripe is with the writing experience of the nib. At times it is scratchy and skipps. Oh! There are also times it stopped writing and I had to give it a jerk and tug to force flow ink to the nib.

It could be the paper. A4 80 gsm Double A. But none of my other pens have had this issue on the same paper.

So in conclusion, I will use it until the ink runs out then I will put it on rotation for future use.

I understand from checking Ferris Wheel Press website that they now have gold plated nibs at an additional USD$ 30. That might be a better option as their steel nib is not to my liking. And a check from forums, it’s a mixed review on their steel nibs.  

But the smooth sunburst yellow barrel gives me ideas for future projects. 

I could have it airbrushed as inspired by the picture belon taken from the net. Urushi Le Petit by Taiwan 3952. 

Now, wouldn’t that yellow look amazing after the makeover?