Only one of my pens skips, and it doesn't skip flamboyantly. Not every other word. Every few lines, on a downstroke. If I weren't being perhaps too demanding, I could live with the way the pen writes.
However. I have received advice from at least two people who work on nibs with some effect. I'm told that the tines are too close together, the nib will become starved of ink from time to time, and it is inadvisable to perform surgery. With a gold nib, yes: if one separates the tines too far, a gold nib will tolerate pushing them back together and getting just the right interval. With a steel nib, I am told, pushing the tines too far apart is not so easily compensated for.
On a pen forum like this one there will be at least a few stories of how one's new pen, skipping at first, stopped skipping after days or weeks or months of writing. The nib adjusted itself from repeated use and mild pressure, it seems.
Does the collective wisdom tell us that this happens as easily with steel nibs as with gold nibs? Or only with gold nibs? Any hope from mere repeated use? I myself don't do nib surgery (or expand-the-feed-channels surgery) of the kind that would be required for quick results.
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