LamyX-LX Fountain, Extra Fine (L57EF)

Great for shading and filling in features, not so great for writing as the ink will flow to fast, unless you are going for thick letters. Med and fine are better for day to day writing. Weight and handle are great for constant use daily. Swapping cartridges are easy to do per Lamy cartridges. Great starter fountain pen for shading and great value for money.

It is a Lamy Lux and is an upgraded pen from the Lamy Safari and Lamy Al-Star fountain pens. The color is done well and easily accepts ink from the ink converter or cartridges. It writes easy enough and my fingers easily hold the pen with the grip on the fountain pen. The clip is rose gold too and clips on to my pen holder. I recommend this fountain pen for writing and using fountain pen ink.

I love all my Lamy pens. I lost one so this was a replacement. I thought I was ordering a different color but this brown and copper is really nice.

Great Value and Price.Writing is comfortable and smooth.

Good pen, pretty. Writes well and looks good. I'm a bit of a pen snob/addict. Always looking for the next best writing instrument. This aint it but it's interesting. Super light though so it feels cheap to me. I'm used to nice, metal pens having some heft to them. I'll get used to it. Minus one star for case damage. Really, forty dollars for a pen and a case, and the thin aluminum case is only shrink wrapped, not wrapped in bubbles or in a box. I found that annoying but I guess it's alright. The pen isn't damaged but one dent on the end. It's so small I wouldn't notice it had I never seen it. But with how my brain works I will always see it.

My first fountain pen experience has been great so far. I ordered the extra fine version because I heard fine and extra fine work well on lower quality papers. This pen has worked great with my moleskin planner.No bleeding or feathering. I get some scratch, but it's somewhat infrequent. Writing experience, a+Build and materials are also excellent. I was expecting the pen to have more weight to it, but it's exceptionally light.That might be my only note. It's so light that it makes me wish there was more to it. Holding it you might think it's made of plastic. But it's not. It's all aluminum which will hold up for decades to come.9/10 would recommend.

This is my second Lamy pen, and I'm impressed so far. But, Lamy pens ship with a cartridge inside the barrel and a cardboard ring between the nib and barrel, so the pen does not actually puncture the cartridge in transit. The pen comes in a cylindrical case with a rubber grip inside, and that's where the challenge lay; the cap, nib, and cartridge all came out easily, but the rubber grip had the barrel firmly trapped. I eventually cut the sides open and peeled the rubber grip apart to extract the barrel. (With the cap screwed firmly down, without the cardboard ring, there is no problem getting the assembled pen out of its case.)

I purchased this pen through amazon because it had the best pricing and was glad a genuine lamy arrived in the mail. I got the rose gold LX with a fine nib. It came complete with the pen case and a couple of lamy blue ink cartridges. I love the color of the pen and how strudily built lamy pens feel, in general. The rose gold clip is a nice touch and really makes the pen look very sleek and professional. I normally don’t care for pink but after seeing someone with this pen in person, I knew I had to have this pen, it’s so beautiful in real life. The fine black steel nib writes buttery smooth for me without any issues. The fine tipped nib writes pretty wet and would be the equivalent of a medium or broad Japanese nib. However, because it’s so much broader than a Japanese fine nib, this means you will get a decent amount of shading and sheening when writing with certain bottled inks. Unfortunately, the lamy blue ink cartridge the pen comes with is pretty basic, it doesn’t have much noticeable shading and looks very similar to a very boring/flat blue ballpoint pen ink. I didn’t purchase a converter when I got this pen because the lamy converters don’t hold very much ink, especially in comparison with the cartridges. So, once I finished up my first lamy cartridge, I cleaned the pen out thoroughly and used an ink syringe (a syringe paired with a blunt tipped needle) to rinse out the used cartridge and refilled it will bottled ink from another brand.