![]() If you are OK with them, well, that's dandy. I do indeed take a political stance on ripoffs - I'll leave it at that. See, I do have some idea of the quality of the products we are discussing here. And it seems I even replied to that post, writing about my positive experience with my 698. I'm not sure of that high percentage failure rate, but still, it happens a lot. I got on the badwagon and got a 698, and well this. I tried a a 618 once, hood cracked without it being dropped, jostled, mishandled. Well, there's this, albeit on another forum. Good things don't need to be original, they just need to do what they intended to well. I only have a problem with knockoffs that genuinely try to fool the customer into buying their product over the real one. Give me a machine shop and three weeks and I'd have a custom vac filler design ready for production. There was no special research that went into the 823. and if you can both afford an 823 and know you want one, you won't buy this anyways, so who cares? If you CAN afford an 823, but maybe aren't sure you'll like the size, shape, or feel in the hand, this would be a great test run that you could give away or resell for $10-15. If you can't AFFORD an 823, and can live without the 14k nib, this pen is amazing. And since it's a tenth of the price, that's impressive. Let's be harsh and say the fit/finish are maybe 10% worse than an 823. It doesn't post QUITE as deep, but it's still just fine, and the resins themselves feel identically smooth and well polished. The filler on the 823 is just that tiny bit sweeter and smoother, but as far as the nib goes, I can't really say I have any complaints. Holding the 699 and 823 side by side, I see tiny flaws on the 699 that aren't on the 823, like the underside edge of the clip being a little rough, the injection seam on just the threads of the barrel, and the piston knob isn't as perfectly glassy smooth. My 698 has never stopped being inked and hasn't stained at all in two years. I'm sure the old adage "you get what you pay for" will pan out.ĭoes WS have any record of cracking pens or any rust beyond that screw in the 3008, a $1.99 pen? Given WS's track record, I have to ask: has it cracked yet? Any rust appear? I'm not being facetious here - their rep is not stellar. What is this based on? If I'm in the market for an 823, I'm know I'm spending my dough on a quality gold nib as well as on the pen body itself and it's filling mechanism - and the engineering that went into making the thing. I don't like the ripoff / copycat stuff.īTW, I don't get the "5 to 10%" lower quality than the real deal Pilot 823 stat. I couldn't resist at under £16 delivered. I want wing sung to start making a #6 nib knockoff of the mont blanc 146 and maybe even do a #8 to knock off the MB149. It's a SHAMELESS ripoff, but it's so good, and definitely not going to impede on the 823's actual market share, that I don't mind. If you aren't sure about whether or not you'll like the size/shape of the 823, before you pull the trigger, just get one of these. Nib swapped easily with a jowo, bock, and jinhao. I don't think I'd shell out the crazy premium for the gold nib, the steel one is perfectly good. The cap posts super deeply just like the 823, the size is perfect, and the fit/finish are amazing.įor $30, this is a hard pen to beat. It's large, well balanced, almost identical, the only thing I don't like is the "CHINA" on the cap band, but otherwise, you could fool anyone that it's an 823. Guitar Pro tablature software is free for the first 7 days.It's a PERFECT clone of the 823, with only maybe 5-10% lower quality. You can thus use your tablature player or your tabbing application on all your devices: computer, tablet or smartphone. The Guitar Pro software suite is also available as a mobile application compatible with iOS and Android. Whether you're a music teacher, a transcriber, a composer, a songwriter, a tablature book editor, a solo musician or in a band, Guitar Pro adapts to all your needs, and saves you precious time in making progress on the guitar or any other instrument. Transposition features are also available to easily transcribe your songs from one instrument to another. You can make tablatures for each instrument, scroll the music score, write your music and use many pedagogical tools such as a chord dictionary or a scale library. The software is compatible with many instruments such as guitar, drums, bass, piano, ukulele and many others! The world leader in tablature editing, Guitar Pro has been downloaded over 15 million times worldwide since 1997. Guitar Pro is a software program available on Windows and Mac OS that allows all musicians to read, write and share their tablatures.
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