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    Default Re: Recommend me a nib

    I guess that I have good luck: I have more than 6 Estie nibs and all have been, not only decent but very nice. I particularly like the 9668 medium.

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    Default Re: Recommend me a nib

    Quote Originally Posted by stub View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Empty_of_Clouds View Post
    I have yet to find a decent Esterbrook nib. Just unlucky I guess!
    I am in that club too. I am starting to hate my Esterbrooks because of it.

    Making it worse, back in the day I was a music copyist. Many of our main tools were Esterbrooks (and Osmiroids) and so I know they can be good but for the life of me I can't find a nib I don't hate.

    Every time I buy a new nib, I pop it is in force myself to use it and pretend "it's not so bad" and end up running back to my Sheaffers in relief.

    A lot of the ones that I'm looking for or just really super hard to find. Stubs, mediums, signature stubs, etc.
    It isn't that the Estie nibs are terrible, it's just that they are so mundane. The fines and extra fines are like so many other inexpensive fines and extra fines. The italics are more interesting, but if you don't like them, that's no help. For me it comes down to the fact that my fine and extra fine Parker 51, Montblanc 144, Sheaffer and Waterman gold nibs are so much better writers that why bother writing with these at all? They make interesting collectibles, and the pen colors are pretty.

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    Default Re: Recommend me a nib

    1) Changing nibs, even in a partially inked Esterbrook, turned out to be super simple,
    2) I am loving the 9550 nib!


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    Default Re: Recommend me a nib

    I am so glad that you found a nib you liked!
    Plus, that Dark Green Ester is Beautiful! Use it in Good Health

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    Default Re: Recommend me a nib

    Quote Originally Posted by Anne View Post
    I am so glad that you found a nib you liked!
    Plus, that Dark Green Ester is Beautiful! Use it in Good Health

    Thanks!
    Really love it - even tried it out doodling a bit with it today

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    Default Re: Recommend me a nib

    Wow Nice! ( I was going to tell you about the sketches thread - glad that you found it )

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