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I think you'll love the stub. Most of my Ripples are stubs [alternate is BB] and they're glorious writers. :thumbup:

 

 

GP, do you know what the size of the stock stubs are? 1.1mm?

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I think you'll love the stub. Most of my Ripples are stubs [alternate is BB] and they're glorious writers. :thumbup:

 

 

GP, do you know what the size of the stock stubs are? 1.1mm?

 

Visconti stubs are 1.3mm. I've found they lay down a line noticably thicker than most other stubs and italics (which I believe to be around 1.1 mm).

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I think you'll love the stub. Most of my Ripples are stubs [alternate is BB] and they're glorious writers. :thumbup:

 

 

GP, do you know what the size of the stock stubs are? 1.1mm?

 

Visconti stubs are 1.3mm. I've found they lay down a line noticably thicker than most other stubs and italics (which I believe to be around 1.1 mm).

 

 

Thanks. I have quite a few Viscontis and they all seem very wet, with some of them a little too wet for me. Does that apply to the Stubs, even on the horizontal stroke or are they thin?

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I think you'll love the stub. Most of my Ripples are stubs [alternate is BB] and they're glorious writers. :thumbup:

 

 

GP, do you know what the size of the stock stubs are? 1.1mm?

 

Visconti stubs are 1.3mm. I've found they lay down a line noticably thicker than most other stubs and italics (which I believe to be around 1.1 mm).

 

 

Thanks. I have quite a few Viscontis and they all seem very wet, with some of them a little too wet for me. Does that apply to the Stubs, even on the horizontal stroke or are they thin?

 

They're certainly wet. The horizontal stroke is quite thin, which combined with the vertical strokes wider than most stubs, makes for some pretty impressive line variation.

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I think you'll love the stub. Most of my Ripples are stubs [alternate is BB] and they're glorious writers. :thumbup:

 

 

Unfortunately GhostPlane, I received the stub today, and it is terrible. It doesn't start, goes from almost no line to gushing, and is tough to control.

 

I might try separating the tines with a razor blade and possibly using the cardboard box trick, but with a pen this special, I think I might need to send it off to summer camp (i.e. a nibmeister).

 

I really want it to write perfectly.

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After having written with this pen for a while, I have found that it may have cleared itself of some residual components, and it is writing better.

 

I still think that the 1.3 stub is more in keeping with someone who is a little grander than I am.

 

No matter; I will have the nib changed to a .9 or 1.1 stub, and I will be happy. I love the way the main resevoir flows into the secondary when it runs dry.

 

Neat stuff.

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In comparison to the 149....

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/mikefarha/IMG_0131.jpg

 

Terrible pic and lighting but the point is obvious it's a bigger pen. It is not one that anyone would probably post, but it's not really a heavy pen, some heft, but not heavy as Bryant says. It's gorgeous and I don't think it's cold to the touch or sterile, it's really a beautiful pen I like to use. It's well behaving, well balanced and like my other Visconti's incredible value for an LE. I love it and there is nothing like the Bryant experience. He is an incredible person, you can't go wrong if you're looking at this pen and he can get it for you.

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In comparison to the 149....

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/mikefarha/IMG_0131.jpg

 

Terrible pic and lighting but the point is obvious it's a bigger pen. It is not one that anyone would probably post, but it's not really a heavy pen, some heft, but not heavy as Bryant says. It's gorgeous and I don't think it's cold to the touch or sterile, it's really a beautiful pen I like to use. It's well behaving, well balanced and like my other Visconti's incredible value for an LE. I love it and there is nothing like the Bryant experience. He is an incredible person, you can't go wrong if you're looking at this pen and he can get it for you.

 

 

The cool thing in your photo is the purplish glow coming off of the clear resevoir.

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