I used to switch between Lamy Safari (or Vista, which is a Safari with clear instead of colored plastic in EF) and Pilot Vanishing Points (in F) depending how r

I used to switch between Lamy Safari (or Vista, which is a Safari with clear instead of colored plastic in EF) and Pilot Vanishing Points (in F) depending how rich I felt when I lost the last one. I owned some other hundred-dollar-ish fountain pens too. The Pilot was the only one that ever wrote as nicely as the Lamy Safari. I never settled on a notebook I really liked with the pens. Rhodia pads have the best texture for those two nibs, but were never great for anything but throwaway notes. Now I write short notes with a pencil.