Originally Posted by
fqgouvea
It happens both ways for me. Nibs that are supposed to be hard to use sometimes just sing in my hand. But every so often one that feels really good when I’m just testing it with figure eights decides that handwriting is not its job.
A lot depends on how fast I write. I’m normally quite fast, and sometimes stubs don’t seem to keep up.
Two that work well for me: a calligraphic Mabie Todd nib and signature Wahl nibs. Jowo stubs, not so much. The factory stub in my Visconti Homo Sapiens annoyed me so much with slow starts ans skips that I ended up having it redone as an oblique cursive italic... it’s not perfect but at least it’s usable.
My bugaboo: having to repeat the first stroke because the pen is slow to start.
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