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(More customer reviews)I specifically asked for this set for Christmas, and upon receiving it as a gift, I was super excited. Didn't take me long to fall out of love with the set though.
1) The seven interchangeable tips are actually 4 tips, and three of them have twins. So it's really 4 tip styles.
2) Only one tip would even fit into the feather pen until I took a pair of pliers to them to get them to fit. This shouldn't be required of a product at all.
3) The feather constantly falls out of the metal piece, they didn't attach it to the metal in any way other than just slipping it in.
4) The wooden pen is painted, and missing paint in spots, and that looks tacky. It also was messed up and I had to take a knitting needle to the inside of it to get the part that holds the nibs to straighten out.
5) The wooden pen is not very good at holding the tips in straight and steady, they like to wobble once you've used them for about 5 minutes, and at that point you have ink in it and it's difficult to straighten it back up without getting everything all messy.
6) The ink it comes with is really thin, and fades out a lot when using it. Not a big problem, but I much prefer my Speedball ink to this ink.
7) Also my feather was too long to fit into the box, so it messed up the end of the feather, which is now sorta crinkled, and the feather has a split in it as well that I can't seem to fix. It looks more like a tear than an imperfect, like in the product picture.
I got mine from Think Geek, sadly I thought they had better quality control than this. :(
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