I've been playing with fountain pens for roughly 5 years now. Along the way I picked up repairing them and grinding / adjusting nibs etc as most of us have. I have been messing with cheap chinese pens and pilot varsities mostly, for quite some time. Well, I have a couple pens I would like to make more italic BUT I'VE BEEN TOO CHICKEN TO TOUCH. Well tonight I decided to go for it and they came out pretty darn good. I was sweating bullets the whole time LOL. These nibs are not cheap. They all write how I want and I am EXTREMELY pleased with how they turned out!
Pictured below is a Lamy 2000 BB That I was too chicken to mess with and had Pendleton Brown grind for me to a "Pendleton Point Elegant Butter-line Stub~Italic" I love this nib and used it as the baseline for my regrinds. Next to it is a Montblanc 149 that started out as a BB. It had a >little< line variation but was too "blobby" for me. It took about an hour to carefully regrind it and adjust the flow wetter. Next to the Montblanc is a Visconti Homo Sapiens Bronze Age with a 1.3mm Stub. It is completely factory and awesome! I just tweaked it a bit to make it wetter, no grinding needed. Next to it is another Homo Sapiens, a Steel Age with another 1.3mm Stub that was also to "blobby" and looked NOTHING like the bronze age. I have no idea how they called that the same nib. I first adjusted the wetness, then I spent 3 Hours ! regrinding it, Palladium is HARD HARD HARD!!!
They all write like a dream now!!!!
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