These nibs are teaching me to appreciate medium nibs (words I NEVER thought would ever come out of my mouth). Follow-up question and answer, “No, the Estie vintage nib converter will not fit.”Īs with previous Esterbrook pens, the nib worked flawlessly. It will be available soon and should be priced similarly to the converter that was available for the Estie. Due to the pandemic, production and shipping was delayed but the company did not want to wait to release the pen just to wait for the vintage nib converter. I know the next question on many pen aficionados minds will be “Does the JR Pocket Pen have a converter to accept vinta ge Esterbrook nibs?” I spoke with Esterbook/Kenro and the answer is that the converter for the JR Pocket Pen is in production. The nib is stainless steel nib in rhodium or gold plating, depending on pen hardware and nib options are extra fine, fine, medium, broad and stub 1.1. The nib of the pen is etched with the new Esterbrook X logomark upgrading the look.
The cap end has an embedded metal disc with the Esterbrook X etched into it while the bottom end has a larger metal cap with no markings or decoration. I’ve developed quite a collection of these.īoth ends of the JR Pocket Pen are flat.
The JR ships with a cartridge and a standard international converter as well as a branded microfiber cleaning cloth. Like previous Esterbrook products, the JR Pocket Pen ships in the fabric covered, magnet closure box that creates an attractive presentation for the pen. With this caveat, let’s consider the new Esterbrook JR Pocket Pen. Of course, there will also be sacrifices required to accomplish goals and things that you and I, as consumers, and Esterbrook, as a company, might have wanted to keep but, for one reason or another, could not be accomplished. The point of recreating a pen like the J is to make a pen that looks just a classic but might not suffer from being 60+ year old fragile plastic, require fiddly lever-filling or be quite as small as the original since the modern pen user might prefer a larger pen. The dangers in undertaking a project like this is that it will never be the same nor should it be. The JR Pocket Pen ($140) is available in three colors (Capri Blue, Carmine Red and Tuxedo Charcoal) and the option for either silver or gold hardware. It’s a project that has been in the works, at least as an idea, from day one, but was something that the team at Kenro did not want to tackle until they were sure they could successfully recreate the look and feel of the original Esterbrook J as closely as possible. This pen is their first attempt to create a modern redesign of the classic “J” style Esterbrook fountain pen. Esterbrook, in its latest incarnation, via the watchful eyes of the team at Kenro, has released its latest fountain pen which is the most ambitious and most anticipated pen yet - the JR Pocket Pen.
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