"Rough" Lamy nib...

[Servo888]

So I'm new to fountain pens... And I'm new to this forum! Anyways, I had a question. I bought a Lamy Safari with a left handed nib about 3 weeks ago - and the nib doesn't write 'smoothly'. It feels like the nib is dragging, and at some angles you can even feel the nib scratch the paper.

 

Now the pen I'm comparing my Lamy to is a rotring 600 (old newton I think), which writes very smoothly. Though the rotring has many more miles on it than my Lamy. I'm guessing I just need to break in the pen some more (It has only been through about 5 pages of text).

[rob7749]

I am a lefty and you should consider that depending on the way you hold the pen when you write you may not even need a "left handed" nib. My understanding is these only help if you are a left handed underwriter. I have 2 pens with normal nibs and they write great.

[kissing]

Another possibility is that if the nib is 'dragging' and feels scratchy at some angles - The nib is faulty (thus misaligned) ?

[Dillo]

Hi,

 

You could send the nib here for a quick fix up.

 

Dillon

[*david*]

A scratchy pen won't get much better. Don't expect it to break in. If you bought the pen at a store, you should take it back - they might even have a replacement nib in stock. If that won't work, then either order another nib or get this one fixed.

[davidg4781]

I took mine to a shop in San Antonio and the guy there looked at it. He adjusted it a bit, and afterwards, it wrote great. So, of course, just like any other guy new to fountain pens would do, I went to Macaroni Grill and wrote ALL OVER the table paper. I got home, and it was horrible.

 

I took it back a few weeks later and told him it was really scratchy. He looked at it again and adjusted it a bit, then had me to a few figure 8s on a piece of really fine sand paper. After that, it worked great again. He said what might of happened was the nib wore down a bit, and since I was holding it at kind of a weird angle (since it was on a table and not a sheet of paper) it might of worn it down a bit.

[Robert Alan]

Greetings!

Pendemonium in Iowa sells replacement Lamy nibs for $12 and they have an MK nib for the Lamy Safari. MK means medium kugel and kugel means a rounded or ball point. These are very smooth nibs and are not usually available in the U.S.A. I'm not sure how it would work for a lefty, but it might be worth a try.

Lamy Safari nibs are very easy to change since the nib slides off and on the feed.

Another possibility for handling a faulty Lamy nib would be to return the pen to Lamy USA for an exchange. There are no parts charges however there is a $7.50 shipping and handling fee that must accompany the returned pen.

 

Good luck!

Robert Alan

[Servo888]

I'll try taking it to a pen shop, and see what they can do for me.