Flex Nib Styles

[umenohana]

I've noticed that people like flex. (They seem to get snatched up pretty fast in the Marketplace!) So I'm curious: what style do you use it on? Non flex users, please vote for the style that is most pleasing to your eyes.

 

-Hana

[jbb]

I think I've made up my own version of Spencerian writing but I'm not sure. I was inspired by old family letters dating back to 1830 where you can see the thick/thin line stroke. I mostly use dip pens to get that effect but I do have one flexy Wahl and a nice Waterman Hundred Year pen that also come close.

[umenohana]

I think I've made up my own version of Spencerian writing but I'm not sure. I was inspired by old family letters dating back to 1830 where you can see the thick/thin line stroke. I mostly use dip pens to get that effect but I do have one flexy Wahl and a nice Waterman Hundred Year pen that also come close.

Do you have writing samples up? Sounds interesting!

 

-Hana

[jbb]

I seem to be technologically challenged :blink: so there are no posts of my handwriting. I could write to you if you'd like.

[sonia_simone]

Hana, I think you need to post examples of both styles so we can see what you mean!

[Stumpy]

I have been playing with a flex italic nib for a while, but I haven't really had any good exemplars to follow that make use of both attributes.

 

I have been thinking of finding some exemplars and learning secretary script because I think it would fit a flex italic quite well. It would be rather an impractical activity though because it isn't exactly the most legible of handwriting to the uninitiated, and it fell out of favour in the early 19th century.

[umenohana]

Brian Walker's

[umenohana]

Lupfer's Spencerian

[umenohana]

Certificate is in Copperplate, and signatures are in Spencerian.

[umenohana]

To me, Copperplate looks more feminine and Spencerian more masculine.

 

Spencerian seems to have more dramatic changes in thick & thin line variations.

 

-Hana

[Patrick Hand]

I've been refering to the style that I want to write in as Copperplate/Spencerian.... when infact it is going to be a little eairler period..... roundhand...? nah.... that was much eairlier..... or maybe there are two differnt styles of roundhand.... (see.... that's why I call it Copperplate/Spencurian.....)

 

I'm looking at the time when people wrote with quill pens.... but I want the ease of a fountain pen.....

 

I'm not going to get "stuck" with one style.... but using the style for a good solid base for my writting.... (dang I hope that made sence...)

 

So I will practise CP/S (hey ... I'm getting tired of typing Copperplate/ Spencerian...) then start to modify it and look as some period documents to get it to the style that I want.....

 

Dang.... it would be so much eaiser if there was a "Pyrate" style O' writting........

[umenohana]

I've been refering to the style that I want to write in as Copperplate/Spencerian.... when infact it is going to be a little eairler period..... roundhand...? nah.... that was much eairlier..... or maybe there are two differnt styles of roundhand.... (see.... that's why I call it Copperplate/Spencurian.....)

 

I'm looking at the time when people wrote with quill pens.... but I want the ease of a fountain pen.....

 

I'm not going to get "stuck" with one style.... but using the style for a good solid base for my writting.... (dang I hope that made sence...)

 

So I will practise CP/S (hey ... I'm getting tired of typing Copperplate/ Spencerian...) then start to modify it and look as some period documents to get it to the style that I want.....

 

Dang.... it would be so much eaiser if there was a "Pyrate" style O' writting........

Could you show us an example of such a writing, please?

 

I wonder if pirates wrote in fancy script..

 

-Hana

[Patrick Hand]

Could you show us an example of such a writing, please?

 

Well right now I only have the Parker(slight flex nib...but kinda broad....) or a dip pen to write with....... (can do CP/S with a dip pen)...

 

If the pen I just ordered works... then I gotta do a bunchs post......

 

Not "exactly" Pyrate...... but I want a "nice" hand to write with.... Going for style.... not period correct.....

[wdyasq]

May I suggest you trying reservoir dip pen nibs also? I recently tried some and was plesantly surprised at the amount of ink they hold and the flex. The flex is somewhat limited but adequate for good line width differences.

 

I was told at one time that true "Spencerain" is properly done with an offset nib. The offset is the reason the line variation is more in the 'east-west' direction rather than the 'north-south'.

 

Ron

[kissing]

Ohh, so THAT'S how one uses a flex nib properly

 

I sampled a flex nib for the very first time at a pen shop today (uh oh Now I really want one :bonk:). I actually found it quite easy to write with in my own style of handwriting, and loved the way my words looked at the end....but looking at those samples above...I'm waaaay off

[umenohana]

Ohh, so THAT'S how one uses a flex nib properly

 

I sampled a flex nib for the very first time at a pen shop today (uh oh Now I really want one :bonk:). I actually found it quite easy to write with in my own style of handwriting, and loved the way my words looked at the end....but looking at those samples above...I'm waaaay off

You should definitely get one if you can write with it and enjoy it! :ph34r:

 

-Hana

[kissing]

problem...no $$ at the moment

 

[Patrick Hand]

Fine Flex nibs are bad.... no one should even think of buying one.... They are bad bad bad.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(well untill I can get a good very fine, very flexable nib to write with.... )

 

My German Pen almost works..... but still looking for something even better......

[KateGladstone]

I dislike Flex, and neither Copperplate nor Spencerian looks very good to me.

[georges zaslavsky]

Parker nibs from the 40's-60's, Montblanc nibs and today Duofold nibs I find them perfect and well balanced.