Hello! So I just recently purchased and 18k fine nib parker sonnet, which was on sale on amazon for $85. J accidently bumped the nib on a desk. So far it looks ok, but i was just wonder is it possible to accident bend the nib that way?
I think Sonnet nibs, steel or 18K, are flimsy, which probably makes them springy and soft as well. I have bent these nibs accidentally several times. I find that great care is advisable with them, particularly some of the older ones that might be harder to replace with the same nib type, meaning italic, stub and oblique nibs and some nice two tone nibs.
[QUOTE=pajaro;256319][COLOR="#000080"]I think Sonnet nibs, steel or 18K, are flimsy, which probably makes them springy and soft as well. I have bent these nibs accidentally several times. I find that great care is advisable with them, particularly some of the older ones that might be harder to replace with the same nib type, meaning italic, stub and oblique nibs and some nice two tone nibs.
Italic / Stub Sonnet nibs are hardly seen in the market. Has Sanford stopped making it ?
I thought Newel Rubbermaid was the owner of Parker.
Parker made left oblique, right oblique, fine and broad italic and stub nibs that I know of, both in steel and in 18K. I had to look hard for some of them. I think some of the sellers are gone.
For a nib exchange in late 2016 I was sent the following chart of available options by Parker, but who knows what's bitten the dust since then: parkernibexhange01.jpg
All of my Sonnets are from 2010 production or before. I quit buying Sonnets when I noticed they dried out too fast and the fever went away. I have since found out that popping the cap jewel and putting a bead of epoxy in the cap jewel recess and then putting the cap jewel back in cures the drying out of older Sonnets.
Parker Quink black, Sheaffer blue black, Montblanc midnight blue are the inks I used in the Sonnets. The Parker Quink black was the one that dried out the fastest. Probably that's no surprise.
Now that there is a fix, I am enjoying using these pens again.
During early 1991 Parker at Newhaven Sussex England hired an ink chemist genius, Leighton Davies-Smith PhD.
It took 7 years to develop it at a cost of over £25,000.
Things were very slow in those days.
Last edited by proteus; February 4th, 2019 at 01:54 PM.
If you are interested - Parker is owned by the Newell Group, Switzerland ( the Rubbermaid appears to have be dropped from their product packing of current pens )
Would be very interested to hear from anyone who has exchanged a standard Sonnet nib to a specialised one through Parker in the last 3 years. ( if fact , any Parker pens nib )
The earlier specialise nibs are out there still, if you know where and how to look.
( It takes vastly more than 10 minutes of looking )
Most fail to get what they want because they forget to bring a big bag of gold – rare things are never cheap.
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