I'm fairly new to fountain pens. I understand that Japanese pens tend to run a size or so smaller than European pens. I'm looking at an Aurora Optima and wondering whether the extra fine would be equivalent to a Japanese fine.
I'm fairly new to fountain pens. I understand that Japanese pens tend to run a size or so smaller than European pens. I'm looking at an Aurora Optima and wondering whether the extra fine would be equivalent to a Japanese fine.
The fine on my optima is the finest fine I have, but that may not be true for all.
I know it's not much of a help but my broad is like an actual broad
Have you tried the nib comparison tool on the Goulet site?
Thanks for those tips. I'll try the Goulet nib comparison tool.
Here's another tipping size resource from CFP: https://www.nibs.com/content/nib-tipping-sizes
Thanks, Robert. That's very helpful. That clears things up a lot. Lamy isn't on there, but I suspect Lamy is similar to Pelikan. One of my first pens was the Lamy Al Star. I got it and a Pilot Metropolitan together, both in a fine point. The Metropolitan suited me perfectly. The Lamy was way too broad for my particular handwriting style. So I got the Lamy XF nib to replace the fine nib. STILL too broad.
I see that the Pelian XF is .4mm. The Pilot fine is .3 mm. So the Pelikan doesn't go down as far as I need it to go, even in XF. My Lamy 2000 XF is too broad for my preference also, but I can kind of make it work by slanting the nib.
With this chart, I can see that the Aurora XF (.3) would hit my sweet spot. When I come to buy another good pen, I'll probably looking at an Aurora XF. Montegrappa in XF would be another possibility.
Mind you, a 0.1mm difference can arise just from manufacturing variance. You might be better off by have someone like Mike Masuyama fabricate a custom needlepoint to your specification from a steel Bock, Pelikan, Jowo (etc.) nib/feed unit to pop into a pen you already own.
GVFC extra fine is very pleasant.
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