General
As mentioned previously, most Pilot pens are made in Japan, France and the US. Namiki, Pilot’s fountain pens with its fine traditional lacquering designs, are made in the original Hiratsuka factory. Pilot Corporation, is a Japanese pen manufacturer based in Tokyo, Japan. The Pilot Pen Corporation was founded by Ryosuke Namiki with Masao Wada in 1918 under the name of the Namiki Manufacturing Company.
Features
Pilot 78 GT Teal Double Broad Fountain Pen was one of our first BB (Double Broad) writing instruments, we have ever acquired. It is 135 mm long with the grip section being about 11.1 mm, which is simply easy to grip. This pen posts nicely and its overall weight is 12.3 g. Its teal colouring of both barrel and cap is very nice in fact quite similar to ONOTO K3 Series of 1960s vintage, but little darker (darker green then blue in the mix). Obviously the most important part of this pen is its BB nib provided here as No. 5 (European) as intended for the Japan Export. This nib is both smooth and flexible and it should reasonably work well in multitude of applications including calligraphy.
Comment
The Pilot 78 GT fountain pen is a good pen and very good value for money for which you get simple, easy to grip and very effective BB size workhorse. The quality of materials and workmanship in this Pilot 78 GT is very good from the company which is worldwide famous for this.
Ink used: Parker Quink Blue, France/UK
