Well the good news is that my order arrived early. The pens are really poor quality, the only thing good on them is the nibs, both wrote well from the start. I ordered the green and brown ebonite, both look and feel like plastic with an ebonite look. I have other ebonite pens and the difference is night and day. They both smell like body odor and the ink converters both leak. I can't fault drop for the pen issues, I guess for $22 a pen not much can be expected.