Originally Posted by
Scooby921
I just scribbled on an Apica notebook with my Visconti HS XF, a Lamy 2000 XF, Sailor Realo MF, and Franklin-Christoph M19 M CI. They all make noise. None of them stand out as being more or less noisy than the others. All of them make more noise than a pencil on the same page.
Just a thought, but perhaps the Visconti being louder than your other pens is a property of the nib softness. The 23k is softer than the standard 14k and the occasional 18k most pens use. Thus under the same writing pressure the tines are going to separate a little more (ignoring comparison to vintage flex nibs). This is more ink flow, which is why people call the Dreamtouch a firehose, but it also means the sharp edge on the inside of the tine is more exposed and dragging across the page. You could polish this to round off that edge, but there will be a very small window before you go too far and end up with baby's bottom.
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