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Does anyone know if Visconti steel nibs on the Van Gogh range are made in house? Or are they imported from Germany ?

 

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Thanks for your reply fdm44.

 

It's a bit of a shame I would have loved for them to be in house. Can the same be said for the Homo sapiens range?

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TAS, well said!

Rob Maguire (Plse call me "M or Mags" like my friends do...)I use a Tablet, Apple Pencil and a fountain pen. Targas, Sailor, MB, Visconti, Aurora, vintage Parkers, all wonderful.

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Thanks for your reply fdm44.

 

It's a bit of a shame I would have loved for them to be in house. Can the same be said for the Homo sapiens range?

 

The new Smartouch nibs (found on the Opera Crystal and Typhoon) are made in house. The Urushi Viscontis from the late 1980's or early 1990's may have had Japanese nibs (or perhaps German - I'm not sure where the nibs on these pens came from). Otherwise, I believe all Viscontis have Bock nibs.

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Visconti does bock and the palladium dreamtouch nibs shouldn't be called flexible when they are not, they are just soft nibs. The only italian brands that make flexible nibs are Omas, Montegrappa, Stipula and Ancora.

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Moonraker5, Angels make the Homo Sapiens nibs - they might live in GErmany but they're Angels nonetheless . . . :D

Sorry whats Moonraker5, Angels etc are they a nib manufacturing company

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The poster was responding to Moonraker and alluding to the nibs being so good that angels rather than humans might make them.

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RMN Museum Piece

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Aren't the Visconti Homo Sapiens nibs made by Visconti in house

Hi Albinoni

 

No, the Palladium Dreamtouch nibs are made by Bock. The "Chromium" Smartouch tubular nibs are made in house.

 

 

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Ok but why would Visconti make one of thier flagship pens nibs by Bock and not in house, I mean really isnt the Homo Sapiens one of their flagship pens.

 

Now I wonder who makes the nibs for OMAS ?

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Ok but why would Visconti make one of thier flagship pens nibs by Bock and not in house, I mean really isnt the Homo Sapiens one of their flagship pens.

 

Now I wonder who makes the nibs for OMAS ?

Same reason many other companies do: it is cheaper to outsource it. Probably Bock was not able to do the tubular Smartouch nibs....

I have no Omas myself so I do not know about them.

 

 

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Ok but why would Visconti make one of thier flagship pens nibs by Bock and not in house, I mean really isnt the Homo Sapiens one of their flagship pens.

 

Now I wonder who makes the nibs for OMAS ?

 

The Dreamtouch nibs on the HS have been made by Bock for several years now. The Smartouch nibs are much more recent, and to the best of my knowledge have only been offered on two limited edition pens. Visconti are very new to nib making and at this point we have no indication of their future plans.

 

OMAS nibs were made in house until 2000, but have been made by Bock since then. Ironically, the OMAS made nibs feel very much like generic Bock nibs, while the Gold nibs made by Bock for OMAS are distinctively soft.

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Ok so how long have BOCK been in the nib making business and generally speaking are their nibs good.

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Ok so how long have BOCK been in the nib making business and generally speaking are their nibs good.

Oh, they have only been around since 1939......

 

 

And if half of the penmaking world orders their nibs there, what do you think about quality???

 

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