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Platinum Curidas – One Year On

07 Friday May 2021

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fountain pen, japanese, platinum, Platinum curidas, Review Revisted

It is now close on a year since I joined the masses and put in my order for a Platinum Curidas in Urban Green. It should be noted I was not caught up in the initial hype but rather garnered interest over time as I started to hear feedback from friends who’d been early adopters. As with so many the feed on mine cracked around one of the nib securing wings and while Cult Pens were happy to swap it for another pen or give me a refund I decided to keep it as the crack did not affect the writing nor ownership experiences and there was no guarantees Platinum had fixed the issue with newer pens, in fact I still do not know if this design flaw is still in place.

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Platinum Curidas – a Surprising Cracking Good Pen

12 Friday Jun 2020

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fountain pen, japanese, platinum, Platinum curidas

Not sure anything else raised so much hype, confusion, divisiveness and controversy in the fountain pen world in 2020 (so far).  Limited supplies, production/design problems, different perceptions on costs have already created plenty of bandwidth on the various on line forums.  But is the Platinum Curidas any good? (for me the title may be a bit of a give away).

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The Curidas Tale of Three Retractable Fountain Pens

21 Thursday May 2020

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capless, lamy, lamy dialog, lamy dialog 3, musings, pilot capless, pilot vanishing point, platinum, Platinum curidas, vanishing point

I’m guilty.  I jumped on the bandwagon of fountain pen fashion.  I bought a Platinum Curidas in green with a medium nib.  To be honest, when the original pictures came out my interest was piqued, after all I have to others, with which I will lightly compare it, the Lamy Dialog 3 and the Pilot Capless (nee Vanishing Point).

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