Platinum #3776 Review

So there is a bit of a story behind this pen, I had an iPad that I had for sale but I ended up swapping it for a Samsung tablet, but I didn’t like the tablet so I decided to sell it, I sold it for $160AUD and used $130 of it on the pen, it took a week to get to me as a “Brand New” pen, but I know it was not brand new, because there were some marks on the pen that a brand new pen would NOT have, but I will get to that later, I guess we should start with the review.

The pen is in the blue version, it has a Japanese medium nib, and it runs more like a fine, it has some feedback but not the kind that is unpleasant, the flow of the pen is not bad for a western fine nib, but it has some wetness issues, but it is still a nice writing experience, reverse writing works, but I don’t do that much.

Nib options are (in no specific order) : Ultra Extra-Fine, Fine, Medium, Music, Soft-Fine and Soft-Medium, some of the 3776 models have only got a specific nib option, but you would need to check out a chart online to find out what ones are with what model.

The pen is a screw cap push to post, it has a 14K gold nib, it has a small amount of line variation but if you keep using it as a flex pen the tines will end up splaying (as most of my readers will know), if you really want something that is flexy, get a Pilot Falcon, or a Pilot Custom 912, or a Waterman pen, because this pen is NOT a flexy pen, neither is the soft nibs, they only give a small amount of line variation, not a lot.

PROS:
Pen has a 14k nib

Pen is light weight

Pen has some great nib options

Pen comes in some other colours

CONS:

Pen has some feedback

Pen has proprietary converters/cartridges

Unboxing images and writing samples below.

The outer sleeve.

The box the pen came in

The contents of the box

Writing samples