Introduced in the 1990’s as a metal body follow-up to the wildly popular Lamy Safari, the AL-Star provides added heft and durability. We make it available with your choice from among all six 14k Z56 tipping sizes.

Adding a sold gold nib to the Lamy AL-Star supercharges your writing experience. The added smoothness, subtlety, and line-width variation is remarkable – as much as we admire the basic quality and utility of Lamy’s steel nibs, the solid gold Z56 simply takes this pen model to an entirely new dimension of writing excellence.

Whether you want a daily writer for note-taking, or a customized nib for journaling or calligraphy, there is a Lamy Z56 nib available that will provide the ideal starting point.

The Broad nib provides the best basis for regrind customizations such as Architects Point, Cursive Italic, but the Medium can also be a suitable starting point for these modifications.

Lamy also produces their own stock oblique nibs in Oblique Medium and Oblique Broad. While these stock obliques are highly rounded and provide little line-width variation, they are a great way of exploring whether position-sensitive nibs such as this are a good fit for your writing style. And with our 30 day nib exchange policy, you can always send a recent purchase back to us for a nib swap if you discover that the nib you’ve initially chosen doesn’t best suit your needs and writing style.

Many customers also choose to order a stock oblique and then add on our own customization for Left Oblique – the result is a crisper line with more line-width variation than is provided by the stock nib itself in unaltered form.

The design of the AL-Star, also created by the Safari’s designer Wolfgang Fabian, embodies Lamy’s Bauhaus-inspired philosophy of “form follows function.” Lamy is known for its clean, modernist approach to design, and the AL-Star reflects this perfectly.

A cartridge-converter pen, the Lamy AL-Star can fill using convenient Lamy brand ink cartridges for a no-fuss, no-muss writing experience. When fitted with a Lamy brand converter, it can also fill using any bottled fountain pen ink.

Each year, Lamy releases special edition colors in the AL-Star that have become eagerly anticipated by collectors and newcomers alike. From bright neon shades to muted pastels, these limited runs give users the chance to express personality and style through their writing instrument.

For those just beginning to explore fountain pens, the AL-Star offers not only a reliable writing tool but also an accessible way to gain entry into a larger fountain pen culture of design, history, and collecting. And when equipped with a 14k solid gold nib, the Lamy AL-Star can offer a writing experience equal to that of many writing instruments costing hundreds of dollars more.

Lamy Safari with 14k Nibs at a glance – for more details, click on the More Information tab:

Pen Body – Metal
Nib Material – 14k Gold
Filling System: Cartridge-Converter
Country of Origin: Germany

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Lamy AL-Star – 14k Nibs

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