New Skyline Question

November 28, 2014

This is for those of you that have a new Skyline pen. I picked one up at the Ohio Show a few weeks ago. It has a fine stubbish nib, custom ground through a nib keister that works with the new company. I find the pen dries out and is a had start if it rides around in a pocket for a little while or rests in a cup (or just lying flat). It takes some coaxing to get the ink to flow. I did al the prerequisite flushing, used the convertor, tried a cartridge, several different inks, etc. A lack of an initial start up is a deal breaker for me with any pen. This seems to happen with modern pens. I've been leaning progressively more vintage because of it. Any suggestions on how to get this pen to be reliable?

November 28, 2014

My recommendation is to send it in to W-E and let them take a look at it.

Mine is as well behaved as any pen I own and I know that Syd stands behind his product.

Send it to them and tell them what you're experiencing and I'll bet you'll love the result.

Best of luck,

Jack

November 28, 2014

Yeah! I've got one too, and Syd is great to work with.

November 30, 2014

I write with a light hand, which is much too light for the semi-flex nib. In fact, flexing the nib is a rather major effort for me. Thus I had to widen the slit in the nib "slightly" to get ink flow with almost no pressure on the pen, and not flexing the nib. So, what I did will NOT work if you flex the nib, because if you try to flex my pen, you will get TOO MUCH ink flow.

Also the ink you use, has an effect on how wet or dry the pen is. If you send the pen to Syd, include an ink vial of the ink that you use or plan to use.

December 2, 2014

I see this post and I am interested in helping resolve any issues, but I have not had a direct request so far. Any ink flow issues can be dealt with to suit any hand with some adjustments we can do to the feed. Custom ground nibs are particularly insist critic to the grind involved. As always I look forward to working to resolve any issues with any of our pens. Contact can be made through any of our contact info found on our website.

Syd