Excuse the pun, but this really is a "Cool" pen! It's at a great price ($50 or less), comes with a converter, is attractive, nice size, well-balanced, and best of all, has a semi-flexible nib that performs as well as the $190+ Platinum Kanazawa Leaf Maki-e. All-in-all, a very exciting pen that I'm thrilled Platinum added to their lineup.