Wality 71J With 1.5 Steel Stub (Goulet/jowo)

[sxl2004]

Hi,

 

Recently some Indian pens were adopted, a Wality 71J, Guru and a free Serwex. The Guru and Serwex look and feel cheap, the Guru having a serviceable flexible nib. But the Wality and Serwex nibs were far from spectatcular, as kind of expected, so no complains here.

I swapped the Serwex to a vintage Kaweco Sport 14K flexible nib, which so far works on an off. Probaby have to fiddle with the feed a bit.

 

The Wality on the other hand is a good looking, well made large eyedropper pen with a massive ink reservoir. That got me the idea to swap the nib for a broad stub like nib. I got two nice looking nibs for a reasonable price at the right size from Goulet pens. Swapping the nib was easy and the feed/nib fit was great.

The result is a very nice writer with a broad wet line and very nice line variation. It is now one of my favorite pens (until the next favorite comes by...). But the overall investment of $31 yielded a superb pen with the appropriate ink reserve for the broad nib.

Please find two pics attached.

 

Ciao

[hari317]

excellent. did you use a #6 nib on the wality? did you have to shorten the 35mm nib in any way? Thanks!

[sxl2004]

Hi

 

No modification has been performed to the nib. It was a straight fit. Also how you set the nib is very forgiving.

The only thing I did was to clean the nib in general and worked the area between the tines for better ink flow.

My feeling is that you can swap for real quality nibs and the feed will not be limiting.

 

 

Ciao

[rcazador]

Hi

 

No modification has been performed to the nib. It was a straight fit. Also how you set the nib is very forgiving.

The only thing I did was to clean the nib in general and worked the area between the tines for better ink flow.

My feeling is that you can swap for real quality nibs and the feed will not be limiting.

 

 

Ciao

I'm planning the same but the nib/feed fit was a concern, glad to hear they're compatible.