I had a Lamy Dialog - it broke when it broke and I broke it more unbreaking it unsuccessfully. I did not like it for reasons aligned with your cons, and some might say these things are connected but they’re whistling in the wind because I salvaged that nib and put it on a black Lamy CP1 body and now I’ve a skinny, comfortable, long-write pen that feels like my beloved Sheaffer Targa Slim 1019S but which holds more ink than the homeopathic amount in the Sheaffer’s desperate mini-Kaweco converter I’m forced to use. It isn’t close to as pretty (grapes and leaves etched and entwined in gold versus brutalist matte black that feels like it signs repossession warrants), but it is now a pen a like. Because of that nib. As you say. (I could’ve just started my comment with this in the first place and left it there. Anyway, here we are…)
I had a Lamy Dialog - it broke when it broke and I broke it more unbreaking it unsuccessfully. I did not like it for reasons aligned with your cons, and some might say these things are connected but they’re whistling in the wind because I salvaged that nib and put it on a black Lamy CP1 body and now I’ve a skinny, comfortable, long-write pen that feels like my beloved Sheaffer Targa Slim 1019S but which holds more ink than the homeopathic amount in the Sheaffer’s desperate mini-Kaweco converter I’m forced to use. It isn’t close to as pretty (grapes and leaves etched and entwined in gold versus brutalist matte black that feels like it signs repossession warrants), but it is now a pen a like. Because of that nib. As you say. (I could’ve just started my comment with this in the first place and left it there. Anyway, here we are…)