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    Kevin Hsu sells the Chan pen wraps on the 'bay of E - LINKY

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    Kevin Hsu sells the Chan pen wraps on the 'bay of E - LINKY
    Thanks. Very nice wraps.

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    i got a dorsal fin 2 last year for my 65th birthday. it was my first one and I got it from nibs.com in the US. That pen is the smoothest writer in my case. they are truly works of art. Write memorably with yours.

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    Top quality pen sleeves from a different brand: Pilot together with Somes, which I understand to be the Japanese equivalent of the original Hermes, or something:

    https://www.pilot.co.jp/products/sta...er/pilotsomes/

    They have 1, 2, 3 and 5 pen sleeves - the 2 pen sleeve being, strangely, a bit smaller than all other versions. The Dorsal Fin II is worthy of the 1 pen sleeve:



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    I have a somewhat troubled relation with Nakaya’s nibs though. I own three and all of them needed some tuning out of the box. Super happy with them afterwards, I just didn’t expect that...and now I have definitively jinxed it, so the last one (currently on order) will most likely also need attention.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Linger View Post
    I have a somewhat troubled relation with Nakaya’s nibs though. I own three and all of them needed some tuning out of the box. Super happy with them afterwards, I just didn’t expect that...and now I have definitively jinxed it, so the last one (currently on order) will most likely also need attention.
    Mine seems fine. Maybe you got unlucky, but 3 times? Seems consistent rather than coincidental.

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    Well, perhaps it’s me.

    The first, a soft-medium, was actually ok-ish and only got some grinding/polishing strokes in store.

    The second, a medium, actually wrote ok, but was made a bit wetter by a Nakaya nibmeister during a store event - this is now my favorite Nakaya and one of my favorites over all.

    The third, a broad, simply had baby’s bottom (i.e. hard starts) and a bit of minutely misaligned tines.

    So if you think about it, only the third was “faulty” and the others were perhaps “not-yet-personalized”.

    Having said that, my other Japanese nibs never had any issues at all...

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