Do you use your B, BB, BBB nibs on a daily basis?

[Aunt Jill]

Try practicing with no lines, or get some wide lined paper.

 

Dig out Broad Esterbrook, and lay a nice thick wet line. Pull out Vintage ....whoops...that Esterbrook is Vintage too.....Vintage German Geha, lay, a nice medium broad line, take out Medium to make sure...yep....some times one broad is wider than another.....Whooppppiiii.

It would be boring to have all my Broads the exact same size.

 

Pull out a second medium, then a couple of fines and an OF......yep, got to ink more pens.

 

Okay, I took the 2668 Medium out of my Osmiroid and put in a 2442 Falcon. The 2442 is listed as a stub but it feels to me like a medium... so if I put the 2668 in an Estie and compare them...

 

Okay, back later, prolly even inkier than I am now.

 

—Jill

[voop]

Me too. Forms are like airline seats. So few people actually fit that "norm"

 

You fly the wrong airlines R in SQ seems to fit most quite well

[Ghost Plane]

[reprieve]

Variety is nice in food, travel, ink and, yes, nibs.

 

Exactly my theory as well! I love my B, BB, and even BBB nibs, and use them every day, but I do still use my XF and fine nibs as well. There are certain tasks that are just impossible to complete with broad nibs (like filling out those horribly tiny little forms or writing in the margins of books). And I do appreciate the variety.

[schadowrider]

Well, after almost 20 years of being an as-fine-as-possible person, I'm really loving the heavier lined stubs and italic nibs I've recently picked up. But when I try to write in my smaller Mole & Webbie journals (6mm line spacing), I'm either getting blobs/closed letters all over the place (I'm used to writing small with my EF & Fs...) or, when I try to write larger, the line spacing isn't sufficient and everything looks jammed in... :bonk: Also, I really like wet nibs, which may also be adding to the problem with the smaller writing with a wider nib.

 

Would love to see a sample scan of a 6mm spaced journal page with a B or larger writing on it - maybe it can help me see what I could/should be aiming for with my handwriting to successfully journal in these narrow-ish pages with a wider nib.

[cubic archon]

I have to say that I've grown very attached to my Parker 51, which has a broadish medium nib which is oh so smooth on the paper. I quite happily write with it in my dream diary, a little Field Notes with thin 5mm squared paper - I'm using Lamy BB which doesn't bleed or feather, and the letters may be closed (they are normally with that size of nib with me) but they're readable.

[SnowLeopard]

Y of course... Generally, my vintage pens tend to be xxf to m-b...depending on what I generally go 4 in a particular co.'s offering. I'm not into bleeding $$, thru every pore of my skin, to get B's and above in vintages. My younger issues run the entire gamut of nib widths, with line variations, as nearly endless as, the no. of fluids I've acquired over the yrs. and the treatments these nibs can provide. My broader Pels are... M+ > ital. med >B>BB in the current issues...200's...400's and 800's, + Safari's from xf >1.9. I use the wider nibs for every situation imaginable, incl. color fill 4 drawings.The finer liners for drawing, rendering + schematics. My current fav is an italic med in a clear lt. blue 205. It lays down a really nice wet line, almost a B, that looks cool in my style... "hand". So fun to use. One of the BB's is the new 205 highlighter/ reg. ink issue. I only use it as the former,... I have so many other tubes to put colors in,... thinking here... why bother. All my pens get inked, all 1/2K of them in good time. I calc. ...hum...52 weeks x3 means that I get to use pretty much all of them in a 3 1/4 yr. cycle. The only pens I use for doc signing , at least for the past 1 1/2 yrs., are a vintage Crest /med.+ nib... and a now med. writer MB 149 from 1974. I've been using Claire exclusively for some time now. I'm now questing for, the nearly im-pos-si-ble, ethereal, "grail". I'm pretty sure, it never was produced in a broad. I'm resigned to the reality, that it will take some serious time, effort & infinite patience, to procure .... I'm ready.This, I guess, will depend on whether or not an owner wants to cough one up...& subject to the sale of one square foot of upper 5th Ave. real estate on Central Park West to fund the quest... or the equivalent of 250 pints of this donor's blood. Now, where's the nearest blood bank? I'd better get started, pronto, just in case....LOL.

Edited October 10, 2010 by SnowLeopard

[fuchsiaprincess]

Well, after almost 20 years of being an as-fine-as-possible person, I'm really loving the heavier lined stubs and italic nibs I've recently picked up. But when I try to write in my smaller Mole & Webbie journals (6mm line spacing), I'm either getting blobs/closed letters all over the place (I'm used to writing small with my EF & Fs...) or, when I try to write larger, the line spacing isn't sufficient and everything looks jammed in... :bonk: Also, I really like wet nibs, which may also be adding to the problem with the smaller writing with a wider nib.

 

Would love to see a sample scan of a 6mm spaced journal page with a B or larger writing on it - maybe it can help me see what I could/should be aiming for with my handwriting to successfully journal in these narrow-ish pages with a wider nib.

 

 

I just get journals with blank papers, rather than lined. No point sticking to the narrowly lined pages and not enjoy the experience

[yachtsilverswan]

Most of my small stable of pens are tipped with Broad or BB nibs.

 

Most of what I write is free-form on unlined paper - I am very seldom tasked with those annoying forms with their annoyingly small boxes. So I can write larger and enjoy the smooth liquid flow of broader nibs.

 

My broadest nib, the BB on my MB 75th Anni LE, is my favorite signature pen. The broader the nib, the greater the line width variation can be ground in with a Cursive Italic custom re-grind. And I really like the visual texture of the line width variation of a Cursive Italic nib.

 

I do have a Medium nibbed MB 149 reground to a Cursive Italic; and that pen works well for times when I am forced to write smaller.

[CS388]

BB: 3-5 times per week, on average.

 

Still an essential in the rotation,

[penspouse]

Well, after almost 20 years of being an as-fine-as-possible person, I'm really loving the heavier lined stubs and italic nibs I've recently picked up. But when I try to write in my smaller Mole & Webbie journals (6mm line spacing), I'm either getting blobs/closed letters all over the place (I'm used to writing small with my EF & Fs...) or, when I try to write larger, the line spacing isn't sufficient and everything looks jammed in... :bonk: Also, I really like wet nibs, which may also be adding to the problem with the smaller writing with a wider nib.

 

Would love to see a sample scan of a 6mm spaced journal page with a B or larger writing on it - maybe it can help me see what I could/should be aiming for with my handwriting to successfully journal in these narrow-ish pages with a wider nib.

 

 

I just get journals with blank papers, rather than lined. No point sticking to the narrowly lined pages and not enjoy the experience

 

I can barely write straight with lines. Without lines it is impossible.

[Ghost Plane]

Me either :embarrassed_smile:

[mori45]

I use B or BB nibs for everything. I'll drop to a F or M nibs if the paper quality is out of my control or when grading papers, but I much prefer using the Bs/BBs.