Another post by Russ Fairfield:
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Post Falls, Idaho.
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A question that has been neither asked nor answered is, does she write with the cap posted?? Another is, is she willing to write with the cap not posted?? The answers to those questions can make a big difference because there is a lot of metal in some of these caps.
Words like "light" and "heavy" are subjective terms that have little to nothing to do with the actual weight of the pen. Beware beware of falling into the trap of real weight and apparent weight. Comfort and ba;ance in the hand is more important to most writers that the actual weight of the pen. Comfort has to do with size and shape of the grip area, and distribution of the weight; but very little to do with gross weight of the pen.
For what it's worth, I just weighed the slightly modified stripped down El Grande that I use. It is the standard kit in a stabilized Koa.
Total weight is 25 grams with a full Schmidt reservoir.
Writing weight (without the cap) is 15 grams.
They don't get much lighter than that. I have no idea how that compares to the standard El Grande because I have never made one of them.
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Russ Fairfield
Post Falls, Idaho
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