Messing around. . .

**Pensivedoc** · September 2nd, 2013, 05:29 PM

I've never tried to reshape nibs before. But today I'm just playing around and thought "what the heck?" So I grabbed one of the pens that some of you will know from a certain nib smoothing student kit and had at it. I kinda like the result:

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Then, and I don't recommend this, I grabbed a Pilot Metropolitan I had with a twisted up nib (not that my dropping it had anything to do with that) that I couldn't get to write smoothly anyway. I pulled off the nib, made it a bit pointy, and shaved in the shoulders to make the tines a little thinner.

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So, I don't think either is brilliant, or done on the right pen, or with the right tools. But, man, I had fun today

**Pensivedoc** · September 2nd, 2013, 05:39 PM

Oh, meant to leave the student pen uncapped in the first one. Here's before and after, or rather, the one I didn't mess with and the one I did:

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**Laura N** · September 2nd, 2013, 09:30 PM

That's really neat. Congratulations. Someday I'm going to try this with a spare Safari nib.

**Pensivedoc** · September 2nd, 2013, 10:32 PM

Thanks! I had toyed with the idea before, but was hesitant to use anything but sandpaper and micro mesh. Today, I went ahead and used the Dremel and was pretty happy with it. Now I want to get some sort of stand.

I hope you have fun "Someday" when you do try it!

BTW, I was in Chicago for a conference in April and spent a few hours at Century Pens.

**Jeph** · September 3rd, 2013, 01:11 AM

How do you think that the meisters learned to do what they do? They all had to start somewhere. I have plenty of crap pens and nibs yet I am still afraid to try this. The only nibs that I have changed were by accident. It looks like you have the right approach and attitude. Good luck, until you have enough experience not to need luck anymore.