There is a learning curve to writing with this pen, but once you get used to the extra steps writing is fine and enjoyable. Since there is only one white ink on the market for fountain pens, I bought this pen so I can use write with white dip pen inks and expand my options. Using non-fountain pen inks requires a lot of patience as you have to dilute the ink enough that it flows easily down the tube and feed. The semi-flex nib is underwhelming and railroads like crazy but can be replaced with other Noodler's nibs. Really wish there were nib options when purchasing this pen.

I bought this pen for a very niche role. I like to use white ink for highlights on artwork. If I put it in fountain pens they end up flowing poorly. This pen has been a great solution. It's a bit hard to get used to operating in comparison to my other fountain pens, but the safety pens kind of have their own charm. I'll probably end up getting another one eventually.

Couldn't be happier with this pen. It can take almost any ink from India to acrylic etc and doesn't dry out. It works beautifully with a waterman 52 flex nib so now I virtually have a portable dip pen when I'm sketching on the go.

This pen is great, I love the ebonite body. I switched out the nib for a Jowo and heat set the bib to the filler. It writes beautifully. If you're looking at a Boston Safety Pen, you are likely aware that you must carefully open and close the pen. Open it incorrectly and ink is everywhere, close it improperly and you risk damaging the nib. Thus, this is a great pen, but a word or warning to the owner.

The safety pen has some unique features. The nib retracts into the body to stay wet and in theory prevents the pen from leaking. However, this pen doesn't always live up to that. As Nathan notes in the YouTube video, sometimes uncapping causes a pressure change that causes ink to shoot into the cap and onto the threads, even if you're holding it upright. I don't experience this every time I uncap the pen, but when it did happen, it was messy. The other thing to note is that you must hold it upright to uncap it or you will spill ink out. Luckily, I've managed to avoid that so far. It is quirky to fill. You eye dropper into the barrel and very slowly draw the nib back up. Sometimes, the ink gets trapped above the nib and you have to carefully tap it to get some bubbles out. It's also very easy to overfill, making an unavoidable mess when you bring the nib back up. There are no markers or fill lines, etc., so you're going to have to wing it.Some good news for those who are concerned about Noodlers pens needing to be heat set is that I didn't have to do that with this one. The flex on this is not great and it is prone to hard breaking if you do much of it, which I wasn't expecting for a nib/feed constantly bathed in ink. The nib isn't the smoothest, but as a regular writer, it does just fine. It's a fun pen and I don't regret buying it, but it's definitely not going to be for everyone.

My first order with Goulet. As others have stated Goulet customer service is top notch A+. I received the chestnut safety pen and was wondering how I was leaving noodlers black finger prints on things. Turns out the pen was leaking. A quick interaction with customer service and a new pen was on the way and quickly. The pen. It's definitely a learning curve but overall works as expected. The only thing I'd say is you really need to disassemble the pen when switching inks to ensure it's fully clean before you make an unintended science project. Not too big of a deal but Nathan's explanation of using only your hands to take apart the pen might be accurate for subsequent tear downs but for the first one wow that thing is put together tight. Overall I'm quite happy. Very unique piece that's completely functional and very comfortable that works well. Try a sheening or shading ink. Wow, they pop! with what I would call a fine nib but wet enough for these types of ink to perform. I might need to heat set the nib for flexing. It almost immediately railroads with moderate line variation. It will do it nicely if the fees is primed but after writing for a while you really have to be patient to flex it.

This is your pen. Kinky, glitchy, messy. If you love messy gadgets and pens you ALWAYS must wipe the nib with a Kleenex before using? Go for it. Not a pen for use away from home. An experimenter's pen pure and simple.

The first thing you should do is take the pen apart and grease it. If you want an awesome pen for at home use this is the pen for you. Not much of an EDC pen You may need an o-ring if your pen doesn't seal. You may need to wipe off the threads before each use because it can get pretty messy. The fit and finish is really good, everything is really tight.

I love the Safety Pen. I have said it before and I will again: Nathan deserves an award for service rendered to the Fountain Pen community and the world. An original of this type of pen will cost you $100+ but Nathan has recreated the safety pen at an incredibly reasonable price. This is inestimable and cannot be praised highly enough. That said, know what you're buying. This is something of a novelty within the novelty hobby that is fountain penning. The only thing I can say against the pen is one must take extreme care when removing the feed. I have had two crumble on me when trying to swap out the nib. If you intend to preserve the nib that comes with the pen, know that it's fragile. Nathan has a video that explains how one may adapt other Noodler's ebonite feeds for the pen, which one might consider.

Lots of fun! Unlike any other pen I have but easy to use, and for my hand very comfortable. I would love to fit this with an italic nib, something along the lines of the old Osmiroids but with the nib-feed combo I don't think they would work out. I've reworked the feeds on a couple of modern pens and fitted them with dip pen nibs the Brause Rose nib in a Jinhao 750 worked out well for home use, super flex and with the right ink great shading. It writes well once started but usually it takes some priming to get going well but if the nib was bathed in ink like with the safety pen that would really solve the problem. The rose nib is Not an italic nib of course but if I could get the safety pen set up for italic I could leave my Pigma pens at home and use the much more comfy BSP. I like it a lot! That being said I have a sort of love/hate relationship with Noodlers small flex nibs, after about a year of messing with them I've gotten better but still don't get consistant results, I suspect that in this case it's not the arrow but rather the Indian so I'll keep on trying to get it dialed in.

Okay, so...a few days later...Since my most excellent Goulet pen care products (including the wee rubber gripper) are currently in storage, I did make do with other items around the house and was finally able to wiggle free the nib and feed without any obvious ill effects -- but there was a lot of paper towel cushioning between the nitrile glove layers. My next-step of pliers-grippers was unnecessary, thankfully. I washed out, scrubbed with a toothbrush and the 10% ammonia solution that feed (whose forward fins seem nothing more than razor slits, unlike others I;ve had), and air dried. Then, since my Waterman Serenity Blue is also in storage (the go-to-ink for checking flow issues) I just loaded up with Noodler's Black eel and gave it another go. The flow is improved, and the flexing, always excellent on the Nib Creapers, is better with the feed set slightly back more of the nib. But it still will stop, suddenly and without warning, and go from a nice wet flow to whiplash-inducing dryness. I am no professional here, maybe others know how to troubleshoot this. Tapping the nip two or three times on paper will get the flow started again, but.... So, it is better, and it's a keeper. Ebonite is SOOO much nicer to hold for any period of time than metal or plastic, and I do hold out hopes that Noodler's Whaleman's Sepia will work well in this. But of course, that's in storage, too, awaiting my arrival elsewhere. This pen will come on the road with me, backed up by my TWSBIs :-), and I look forward to making many a cartoon with it.

1. Goulet as always is excellent service, and shipping was faaaast.2. I own a lot of Noodler's pens. A lot, from Nib Creapers to original Konrads to Ahabs and acrylic Ahab, a couple of ebonite Konrads... the early ones I got were almost flawless from the get-go, right out of the box. Later ones I had more trouble with, that no amount of unprofessional fussing with would improve, and eventually I swore off any more Noodler's pens -- until I saw the Safety pen. 3. This safety pen: yes, it takes a little retraining to make sure you hold it vertical -- and don't forget and go looking for your glasses before you cap it back up -- (I now have Shin-Kai all over my nice new organic cotton duvet cover, thanks to an earwig that startled me and made my arm flail with an uncapped pen.). However -- Nathan's video says the only tools you need to disassemble the pen are your two hands. Well, maybe if you are an Olympian finger-wrestling gold medal winner. The top piece of the cap was on SO tightly that at first I thought I had misunderstood that it was removeable AT ALL ; I had to rewatch the video (which, frankly, needs editing down to just what you need to know about THIS PEN!), and then I was afraid I was going to break the clip. Using a nitrile glove folded up as a better gripper, I was eventually able to twist it off, but it was very difficult, and I took care to put some silicone grease on the threads and be very gentle in retightening it on so that next time it would be easier. So that's just ONE end... The flow from the other end of the pen is horrible: the nib came misaligned and desperately needs smoothing (okay, I can do that), and both detergent and the 10% ammonia solution did nothing to improve the situation. I tried a bit of heat setting. These seem to make it worse.... It is incredibly dry-writing and frustrating. So I try to remove the nib and feed ---- forGEDDAbout it. I have read in other reviews how easy it is to crumble a feed, so I was trying to be exceptionally careful, but never succeeded in removing the nib/feed from this pen. Friction-fit, supposedly...but it must be welded in there.Needless to say, I am so incredibly frustrated with Nathan Tardiff and his pens -- some are perfect out of the box, and others I have NEVER been able to get to work well. On the other hand, I now own 3 different TWSBIs and they have been superb writers, and my CHEAPO Indian pens have written better more consistently than Nooder's' pens. I love what the man is trying to do, but this pen purchase was meant as a solution to some of his inks (of which I must own over 40) which are incredibly dry and balky -- and instead, I warn you that while his stuff is fantastic when it works, be aware you may get the pen that doesn't. I will have to risk crumbling the feed to get this sucker nib out, and I am not happy about that at all. Goulet, on the other hand, is a gem. And this pen would be a gem and a much-desired solution, were I ever able to get it to work.

This pen is excellent. It's has the perfect feel for longer writing sessions. It's slimmer but soft feeling being ebonite. I've never had it dry out when I leave it uncapped for a few minutes. There are several versions: this pen is firm to deploy and 'lock' open, a black one I ordered from Goulet is much looser and doesn't 'lock' like this one does. Both write on the wetter side which is what I prefer. I don't usually flex the nib, but it can be done working slowly for the feed to keep up.

This pen is for the Artist or someone who just likes fountain pens and want something that is out of the ordinary. The Boston Safety pen fits that bill, but comes away with a few caveats. Might not be for the uninitiated, there is a learning curve. ( watch Nathan's video on YouTube... InkNeedLastForever.)Second Noodler's pens sometimes require tweaking. My order arrived not working quite right, but Goulet Pens came to the rescue in fine,fine style. Shipped out a new pen before I had returned the original , even provided the postage. This is why I continue to order from them. Peace of mind. The replacement pen was perfect. Writes like a dream. Way to go.. This pen might even become a treasured collected piece in years to come. Highly Recommended! Cheers Mike R.

The Noodler's Boston safety pen does have a learning curve. It took me a bit to figure out how much ink to use when filling and how to close it properly. Once I got all that down, it's become a dream to write with. It will definitely be traveling with me. I normally almost exclusively write with fountain pens, except when traveling. I really enjoy the nub.

I often put India ink in my cheap Jinhao 750, because I can take it apart and clean it. Today I got my Safety pen and put in some India ink. It works smoothly compared to my rustic pen idea. I also use India ink in my technical pens which was the reason I never got into fountain pens till recently. The Noodler's pen was a real treasure to find on youtube. I was so thrilled to find one available here. Definitely and artist's pen. The shipping was great as the last time I ordered also.

It's a waste to talk about the service you get from Goulet Pens. It's always perfect. This is about Nathan tardiffs Boston Safety Pen. This is an awesome pen. You can use all your Ill behaved noodlers inks in it. The best way to get the fullest experience with this pen is to dump ink on your hands before using. In doing this, you will Chanel Nathan's living spirit. If the ink on the hands confuses you.. Nathan's hands have ink deep in his pores. It actually looks pretty neat. Seriously, this is a great pen. Just read the instructions and you'll be fine

I found this pen easy to use overall. Preventing spills by in calling it upright wasn't too difficult. However knowing how full to fill it was a bit tricky at first. However I got the hang of it soon enough. The videos posted by Nathan are a good starting point. I use india ink in it and it works fantastic. No clogging or other problems at all. Even after sitting for a week the pen drew well with good flow. Love using for drawings definitely my go to pen for art. Good line variation.

I just received my chestnut brown Boston Safety Pen and am very impressed with the design, construction and performance. Nathan Tardiff, the founder of Noodler's and the designer of this 1900-era pen, is pretty amazing. He is a one-man organization butting heads with the multi-nationals, and I am goin g to support him any way I can. I have been able to ink it up and write some letters with no problems. As long as I keep the cap-end elevated when activating and closing, I will be okay. I highly recommend viewing the video that Brian and Drew posted. For a long, detailed video on the construction and disassembly of the pen, Nathan has done his own thorough job. He includes a lot of information about his Noodler's inks compatible with this pen that some people, such as artists, will find useful. I enjoy modern pens and vintage pens, and this is a really interesting bridge pen. I am glad Noodler's made it and glad that Goulet offers it.

This pen has a little bit of a learning curve, bit it writes amazingly. And holds a nice amount of ink.

The Boston Safety suits me perfectly. I enjoy vintage pens and good, functional designs. The pen is beautifully simple, and wonderful to look at, to hold and to write with. The Chestnut ebonite is appealing to the eye and warm to the touch. The action is smooth and solid, with no leaks. The nib is pleasantly on the fine side. I purchased the pen specifically for inks I wouldn't keep in a typical fountain pen and it is well-behaved with J. Herbin Bleu Ocean. There's another Boston Safety in my future, to hold my Rouge Hematite or Emerald of Chivor inks. It must be in black because Red Rebellion seems to have been discontinued. Watch Nathan Tardif's video to get an appreciation for how (and how not) to operate this pen. You don't need to be an expert to enjoy the Boston Safety, but this is a pen for the careful and patient owner. Maintenance is a no-tools-(beyond hands)-required process and eyedropper-fill is the right way to go about it. If I could make one change to the design, it would be to add an O-ring in the cap to perfect the seal with the body. It's very good as it is.

I bought this pen out of the curiosity for the mechanism (I have a MB Boheme but never really have an old school style safety pen). I did not anticipate this pen to be my EDC due to slightly more complexity of usage. I was wrong, I've been carrying this pen every day for over a week now. Despite the little added complexity during usage, this pen is truely worry free.

The barrel end feels loose all the time, and i am always unsure if the pen is secure. Having to retract the nib prevents me from making it my go-to pen. I didn't even use it during my flight, even if i bought it because it was flight-safe.

I have been loving this pen! Especially with sheening inks. I have been using Organics Studio Walden Pond Blue and Nitrogen Blue for a few years, but (even in my widest and wettest nibs) they are so thick and tend to dry out my nibs quickly if I don't dilute the ink with water first. The water helps the flow but it can also lessen the sheen. But this pen keeps the nib so wet and glorious! The sheen has never looked better and the flow is perfect! Now as far as the actual pen goes, obviously be careful. There is a high potential for spillage if you use it improperly. The only negative thing I can say about mine is that two of the pieces rub together and squeak and cause a chunky motion (not a smooth transition) when I expose or retract the nib. It's fine now that I'm aware of it, but if move too quickly, the friction has caused ink droplets to jump out. No big deal to me though (all I care about is that flowy sheen).