I think of Pelikan nibs as being soft - the nibs on my 200 and Go definitely are. But I've read that the Pelikano and Level have stiff nibs. Is it true that they're significantly stiffer, or does someone have *very* different standards for stiffness to mine?
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"Pelikan Go" - essentially a great first pen and stiff. Pelikan Level is stiff - my feeling of 'flex' starts at a Parker Sonnet. But for everyone 'stiff' and 'flex' are sometimes a personal matter.
There is a definitive chart - I believe Richard Binder has it on his site. Flex is measured in numbers. Hope that helps a little bit. Search word 'flex' in this former and you'll find something
Bill w
There is a definitive chart - I believe Richard Binder has it on his site. Flex is measured in numbers. Hope that helps a little bit. Search word 'flex' in this former and you'll find something
Bill w
| QUOTE (Bill Wood @ Mar 15 2007, 03:52 PM) |
| "Pelikan Go" - essentially a great first pen and stiff. Pelikan Level is stiff - my feeling of 'flex' starts at a Parker Sonnet. But for everyone 'stiff' and 'flex' are sometimes a personal matter. There is a definitive chart - I believe Richard Binder has it on his site. Flex is measured in numbers. Hope that helps a little bit. Search word 'flex' in this former and you'll find something Bill w |
Well, I have a Go and I wouldn't call it anything like stiff. I wouldn't say that it is flexible - I'd save that for a nib that has nib variation - but I'd call it soft. It's a damp rather than a springy softness that absorbs feedback and provides more of a brushlike feeling. I'm a very low pressure writer after years of using Pilot GTECs - so low that I have to make a real effort to make a Danitrio flex nib flex - and I still get this effect. The M200 I have is even softer.
Otoh, I have a very acute sense of touch and think that a Triumph Snorkel is only a moderately stiff nib - I can feel that some Rotring nibs are much stiffer again - and can't use a Lamy 2K because of what I perceive as the "sharp" cap retaining pins. So I think that we can say that this is an example of my being a bit of a freak..
I can't find the chart when I google Richard's site, but if it measures flex in the sense of width variation I wouldn't expect it to show the Pels as flexible.
Hi,
Pelikano and Level nibs are the same shape and size as the nib on the Go pens.
Dillon
Pelikano and Level nibs are the same shape and size as the nib on the Go pens.
Dillon
| QUOTE (Dillo @ Mar 15 2007, 06:57 PM) |
| Hi, Pelikano and Level nibs are the same shape and size as the nib on the Go pens. Dillon |
Ah. That settles my curiousity. I was wondering if there was a period when Pelikan stiffened up their nibs and, if so , why they olny did it on their lower end pens.
Hi,
I'm not sure when they changed, but from my recollection, they feel stiffer now.
Dillon
I'm not sure when they changed, but from my recollection, they feel stiffer now.
Dillon
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