Customer Reviews

Excellent pen, especially for the price. It's not flashy, but the nib is great- a very smooth, consistent fine line. The plastic is a bit lightweight, but the pen's well-balanced and comfortable to hold and the light weight makes it possible to write for a long time without fatigue.

Works with Sailor cartridges (I like the Clear Candy Reddish Brown, a beautiful coppery color) or converter (I have used both Private Reserve and Rohrer and Klingner inks from a bottle with absolutely no problems).

Compared to the Ohto F-Spirit that I purchased at the same time for the same price, the Sailor is definitely the superior pen. The F-Spirit's metal body has a nice design and a good weight to it, but I have experienced a lot of skipping and hard starts when writing (having tried several different Kaweco inks from cartridge and the same bottled inks that have worked well in te Neo) compared to none of those problems with the Sailor HighAce Neo.

I have already ordered a second HighAce Neo in blue and am looking forward to it.

This is actually my second HighAce Neo. Real "F," tip and suitable for narrow-rule paper or smaller. Expect a true fine line.

Fantastic fountain pen for the price! It's a smooth writer plus the cap posts on the barrel end with a secure "click." That's a nice design touch on a relatively inexpensive fountain pen.

Great pen for the price…great for sketching because it’s a very fine line. I’ve used this pen for several weeks now in my sketching kit, no ink bombs, and I’m rough on pens. It takes a lickin’ and keeps on tickin’.

Love it very smooth.

This pen is really great especially for the price; however, I find that if you write too quickly (like when I'm crossing my T's), it often skips. I bought this pen to replace my Sailor Recruit thinking that it would be at least similar. But in the end, nothing can really replace the Sailor Recruit which is by far the best fine point fountain pen I have ever used. I really hope they produce/sell them again on this site!

Fantastic pen!

I use my pen for mathematics and detailed diagrams, so I have always used F & XF nibs. This pen writes better than the Pelikan Souveran XF that has been my go-to pen for years -- this Sailor nib renders a slightly finer line. Good uniform flow with a uniform line width. I'm using the Sailor black ink in this pen. I prefer a pen that is a little heaver in the hand, but that is just a personal preference. WOW!

Great value for a fountain pen. The Sailor HighAce writes with a true fine line, but does not feel very scratchy. I normally prefer a medium width nib, but this pen is great when I want a fine line. I purchased black ink cartridges and a converter- both work well in this pen.

I ordered this fountainpen on the branchename Sailor. It is very payable and it writes perfect: a very smootly wet line, light in the hand and perfectly soft hitting the paper. I realy recommend this pen!
Service at JetPen is as usualy very good.

Does anyone know what happened to the Sailor Recruit? I got on to buy one, as my school pen, and they are gone. The beginner's are nice, but I really love the barrel on the Recruit.