I am a big fan of drawing tools - and some version of a chisel pen is almost always in my tool kit. (for example, my latest travel sketching kit had one, and I missed having another). So when I saw that a new type of chisel tip pen appeared on the market, I had to try it - especially since it came in 4 different widths and several colors!
This pen is made in the EU, and is called "Manuscript Callicreative Italic Markers" and the nibs are:
Fine Point (1.4 mm)
Medium Point (2.5 mm)
Broad Point (3.6 mm)
Extra Broad Point (4.8 mm)
Below is a page from my sketchbook where I wrote my impressions. I got only black color, but did not read the description well enough to see that it is not waterproof ink. Which is a lot of fun by itself - if you are planning for it!
The range of widths is a welcome thing for me compared to chisel nibs from Faber-Castell. But because of the way the pen is built, I was having a hard time placing the nib intuitively - and had to look at the page more often. The barrel is a little too slippery for me - in a photo below you will see that I put some tape to remedy that. But the ink is flowing generously and is really lovely, solid black, and you can move it quite a bit - especially if the paper has good sizing. And if it does not have any - the pen is almost waterproof!
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