Sweating Bullets

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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!!!!

[tandaina]

Wow, you are a brave man. They turned out awesome!

[tiffanyhenschel]

That is some beautiful work!

[VertOlive]

Rock that Mesh!

[Crazyorange]

Wow. You are brave. Congrats on your success.

[Nomdeplume]

Great job!

[TerraNoir]

Congrats!!! And great work on your nibs!

[kaisnowbird]

Well done!
Have I understood you correctly that all the grinding was done using micro mesh?

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Yes , I used only micromesh, a loupe, and crossed fingers.

[nigh means near]

I saw this on the FPN facebook group. I love how fine the cross strokes are and the clean corners. Bravo. Also, I just inked up a flex pen with a sample of the Diamine Red Dragon. What a superb ink. It looks great with these italics.

[sharmon202]

Great Pic! Congrats on doing well.

[kaisnowbird]

Yes , I used only micromesh, a loupe, and crossed fingers.

Well, in that case your efforts are truly inspiring! I should select a cheap guinea pig and give it a go one day.

[Bogon07]

Yes , I used only micromesh, a loupe, and crossed fingers.

Well, in that case your efforts are truly inspiring! I should select a cheap guinea pig and give it a go one day.

Perhaps a Delta Animal Guinea Pig.

[kaisnowbird]

Yes , I used only micromesh, a loupe, and crossed fingers.

Well, in that case your efforts are truly inspiring! I should select a cheap guinea pig and give it a go one day.

Perhaps a Delta Animal Guinea Pig.

LOL... Shouldn't have sold my Homo Sapiens Steel Age. Could've turned that B nib into a CI myself, eh? Or is it "no human testing allowed"?

[Bogon07]

Yes , I used only micromesh, a loupe, and crossed fingers.

Well, in that case your efforts are truly inspiring! I should select a cheap guinea pig and give it a go one day.

Perhaps a Delta Animal Guinea Pig.

LOL... Shouldn't have sold my Homo Sapiens Steel Age. Could've turned that B nib into a CI myself, eh? Or is it "no human testing allowed"?

Remember "Palladium is HARD HARD HARD!!!" and yours was a B not a stub so it would be a lot of effort.

I've a Visconti RebeccaMoss 14K 'BB' that could do with a little substublimation too. hmmmmmmmmm

[mrcharlie]

Yes , I used only micromesh, a loupe, and crossed fingers.

Maybe it would have taken less than three hours if you hadn't severely restricted the movement of your fingers this way.