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so after fiddling with my wality a while, trying to make it perfect for me, and succeeding only a little bit, i decided to go all out and fiddle with it to the fullest extent of fiddledom.

i took out the old nib and traced it against a hunt 44 dip nib, cut the nib down so it would fit over the feed, cut the feed up so the nib would fit down a little bit better, heated and set and heated and reset (x5 or 6) until i got decent contact between the feed and the nib. i started out with about 1 or 2 mm between the tip of the feed and the nib. not too good.

 

since it wasn't the perfect pen to begin with (it did write nice when it wrote)(and i did feel like fiddling) i didn't feel bad for 'modding' it.

 

now it's a bit more fun to write with. it's still a dry starter, but once started it writes nice and smooth and wet. and flexy.

 

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What I see as the big problem here is that your Hunt 44 nib isn't stainless, it's carbon steel -- and as such, though it's surely much more flexible than the original Wality nib, it'll rust, probably within (at most) a few months (if the tip doesn't wear down too much to use before then -- I have both problems with the dip pens I use most). Then, because you've modified the feed, you won't be able to simply reinstall the original nib (though I understand Wality pens can accept feeds from some Sheaffer pens, at least giving you an option to replace the feed when the Hunt nib rusts out, quite probably correcting the hard starting when you do so).

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yeah i thought about the wear and rust today. not too worried about it. so i can replace it with a sheaffer feed you say???

reeeaaaally. nice.

so where can i get a sheaffer feed/nib to stab in there? that's going to be the next move then.

 

thanks for the comments.

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HA! i took the nib/feed from my hobby lobby bought sheaffer nn F italic pen and stabbed it into the wality. perfect fit! and it writes SO NICE! and the nib won't rust.

 

thanks ZeissIkon!!!

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HA! i took the nib/feed from my hobby lobby bought sheaffer nn F italic pen and stabbed it into the wality. perfect fit! and it writes SO NICE! and the nib won't rust.

 

thanks ZeissIkon!!!

 

Heh. There you go. Of course, the original nib (as I understand it, Wality uses vintage gold nibs in their pens) should also fit with the Sheaffer feed, and with a more precisely made feed than the hand cut ebonite number original to the Wality, will probably write as well as the Sheaffer nib, if not better, as well as looking nicer.

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i don't know if the wality nib is vintage, but it's certainly not gold. it's gold something plated steel. i like the italic sheaffer nib well enough to leave it as is.

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actually, i don't like the I nib. that's why when i bought my Lamy back in February I quit using the Sheaffer Italic pen. I should put it back together. I took apart another sheaffer I have and put in a fine nib from the old cart pen. Very nice. I think I'll leave it this way for sure.

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What I see as the big problem here is that your Hunt 44 nib isn't stainless, it's carbon steel -- and as such, though it's surely much more flexible than the original Wality nib, it'll rust, probably within (at most) a few months (if the tip doesn't wear down too much to use before then ....

 

Actually, I tried this once before too (using a Parker Sonnet feed--easy to take in and out) and it actually rusted within a few days. I knew it probably wouldn't last long, but I was shocked at how quickly it happened.

 

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yeah, there was actually quite a bit of nastiness under the nib when i took it out. it's already in the trash. besides, i'm MUCH happier with the sheaffer f 304 nib in there now.

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The Wality looks like a direct copy of the Sheaffer nibs fitted to the cartridge "school" and the No Nonsense pens. Right down to the little ears on the tail end. Very nice nibs.

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