Good Mid-Range, Wet Extra Fine Nib

[Ego Id Veto]

Hey guys,

 

 

I'm considering getting an extra fine nib for use at work, and I'm in need of some advice.

 

I'd prefer a gold nib if possible, and my budget is about 100 bucks, give or take 25.

 

I have tried a Sailor Sapporo fine nib, but it turned out to be a very dry and scratchy nib, and in fact a tad too broad for my liking.

 

So any of you guys got a suggestion for a very fine (i.e Japanese extra fine), but wet nib? Any particular brands?

[arran]

My experience is that platinum 3376 century EF or UEF nibs are wetter than the Sailor brothers.

Of course scratchiness might be a consequence of the combination of rougher paper and a F nib.

[Notgatherox]

Extra fine and wet seem to be an oxymoron here

 

Generally, the finer the nib, the more prone to scratchiness. I would advise looking into a wet (or wetter) ink.

 

Platinum and Pilot both have a gold nib model at about USD50. The Pilot Celemo and the Platinum PTL5000. The Platinum should be easier to find.

 

With the extra money, send it off to a nibmeister to work the pen to your specifications

 

 

 

~Epic

[Bo Bo Olson]

Paper makes a big difference too.

You need real lubricated vivid supersaturated ink. The skinnier your spiderwebs the more vivid the ink has to be....and you are looking for a baby spiderweb writing pen.

[KBeezie]

Extra fine and wet seem to be an oxymoron here

 

Generally, the finer the nib, the more prone to scratchiness. I would advise looking into a wet (or wetter) ink.

 

Platinum and Pilot both have a gold nib model at about USD50. The Pilot Celemo and the Platinum PTL5000. The Platinum should be easier to find.

 

With the extra money, send it off to a nibmeister to work the pen to your specifications

 

 

 

~Epic

My Skyline Demi is a wet fine... I guess it would be an EF if it was dryer flowing.

 

PS: If you play your luck with ebay auctions you can sometimes get a PTL-10,000 for around $50-60 (Which comes with an 18K nib instead of 14K and is slightly thicker/heavier). But the PTL-5000 with a 14K EF is an excellent pen for a dry-ish very fine line, had one inked with Tsutsuji and was just bout the finest line nib I had with a slight ability to be springy.

 

http://static.karlblessing.com/pens/wancher_makie/tsutsuji.jpg

 

It was slightly finer than the accounting nib on my Sheaffer Touchdown Admiral, Montblanc 225's XXF, or my Pilot Murex's <F> (which writes like a Japanese EF), but it wasn't as smooth as my Touchdown or Montblanc.

Edited December 22, 2014 by KBeezie

[pajaro]

Waterman Carene extra fine. It's wet for an extra fine. Carene caps don't post securely, if that matters to you. Carene extra fine in blue lacquer cost me about $150.

 

I also like the Parker Sonnet extra fines. 18K EF in Rhodium plated in a pen with chrome trim cost me $60 on ebay. I like it better than the Waterman Carene.

 

I found a Sheaffer Imperial in extra fine for $30. A C/C filler. Very thin line and good flow, if you can find one.

 

Most of the Skylines are wet writers.

[Algester]

Preppy.... way below your budget but I think should be a solid wet pen

[pajaro]

The Lamy Safari extra fine is a bit wet for an EF. Parker Sonnet steel EF nibs too. Cheaper than gold, but excellent. It's really hard to sense the difference between a steel Sonnet EF and an 18K Sonnet EF. Protesters will say the gold is springier. It doesn't seem so to me, and I have been using both recently after giving up on mediums and fines.

 

You might like a Parker 51 fine. Mine is kind of wet, but it was made when a fine was still a fine, and not a half-*ss medium. The line width being thinner than a Sonnet fine, Waterman fine . . .etc.

[ac12]

In general, scratchiness increases as the nib gets finer.

This is because the finer nib falls into and follows the texture in the paper surface, much more so that a wider nib.

I have paper that I will NOT use a F nib pen on, because the scratchy feeling coming up the pen is too irritating for me. In fact these papers are going to the nephew for his kids to use crayon on.

 

So first, are you using a SMOOTH HARD paper at work?

If not, then you have to expect scratchiness.