Top 7 Next Level Fountain Pens

When you've mastered your Platinum Preppy or Pilot Metropolitan, it's time to take the next step up. We get tons of questions asking us to recommend the best "next level" fountain pens, and here we run down the top seven next level fountain pens for enhancing your writing experience.

2. Platinum Cool (3:18)
3. Faber-Castell Loom (4:15)
5. Platinum PTL-5000A (5:51)

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2:18 Conklin Duragraph - $44
3:18 Platinum Cool - $42.40
4:14 Faber-Castell Loom - $40
4:54 TWSBI 580 - $50-70
5:50 Platinum PTL-5000A - $79.20
6:42 Lamy Studio - $70-160
8:06 Monteverde Invincia - $68-99

[PhilippeCarphin]

That intro was exactly the best version of what it was trying to be! It was like the platonic ideal of a funny fountain pen training montage. Like some scientist found the theoretical best fountain pen training montage, but it's only something that the mathematics says is possible like time travel. But then you go ahead and do it!

[CakeofPokke]

Gosh I love these older videos from Goulet where Brian & Drew did goofy little skits or fun intros! 😂❤❤❤👌

[screamatam]

I love to write, sometimes 30 minutes a day, can you make a video showing some of the best workhorse pens with great grips so you can write comfortably for long periods of time. I'm sure many people would appreciate it, thanks Goulet team!

[soupfork]

That montage just got you a new subscriber. I didn’t even know I had any interest in fountain pens until about 5 minutes ago...

[ComandanteJ]

Hahahaha that "intro" was so friggin' awesome. I'm between the TWSBI and the Loom, really like the styling of both.

[shanegarland]

And remember kids ...don't drink pen flush, it's not as delicious as Brian makes it look ;-)

[franciscooolopez]

Definitely one of GP's BEST videos! I loved it.

Good way to start my morning.

[jonitalia]

Damn it, Brian!  Why?  Why would you do this to my bank account?!

[abc-wvin]

I have the clear TWSBI 580 in a 1.1 stub nib and it's one of my favorite pens. Love the faceted barrel and the way it writes.

[jankafka]

You're a dork...But a very entertaining and informative dork. Thanks for the videos. I may be spending money at your business very soon.

[lawrencegladwell]

This video should have been titled "Next level Fountain-puns."

[jaygallegos]

just watched this video and then drank a bottle of pen flush. Not sure how I feel about that now.

[somedeepmystery]

I was already wanting a TWSBI and now I'm just all the more keen. The montage was hilarious!

[SolsGarage]

I love the blue seran wrap that you package everything with as arm/headbands :)

[vincedelapena]

OMG!!!! That training montage was retrolicious.

[SniperWalrus]

This may be the greatest thing I've ever seen, certainly the greatest montage I've ever seen. C:

[AnotherNerdHere]

LOVED the opening. That was REALLY creative. Kudos to you and the media team.

That being said, There is I think one more, intermediate step that one could take it they are short on funds. If you have a Noodler's pen already, for less then the price of the pen you can get a Goulet nib and transform your Noodler's pen into something very nice for small money. I think I spent $15 for mine and now I love my Ahab. I'm having a whale of a time with it with a Goulet Nib.

In the $50 or less range I'd say skip the rest and BUY a TWSBI diamond 580. Its an amazingly wonderful pen that writes every time with every ink I've put in it. It writes smoothly, holds lots of ink, no hard starts, dry outs or skips. It just keeps writing. 
Personally I'd avoid Conklin like the plague, been there done that and returned it.

Of course YMMV, but this was my experience.

[MagnusHedemark]

This video looked like a lot of fun to make. +1 on the TWSBI 580. Especially the 580AL if you can swing the price difference. If you write a lot, the ink capacity of this pen is absolutely CAVERNOUS. Seeing it sloshing around in the body is always super cool.

[ZeroReign]

Great intro to this vid haha :)
If there are move vids like this in the future could you talk more about your personal experience with grips, comfort and such?
I'm new to fountain pens and pretty much learning how to write again and I've always had trouble with finding a comfortable grip.