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What is the strangest nib you have ever seen? No fingerfeder nibs, please.

http://www.kallipos.de/feder-geo-w-hughes-seymours-triple-ruling-pen.jpg

This is the strangest one I have ever seen.

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That is the weirdest nib I've seen by a mile! It reminds me of the duckfoot pistol.

 

Some inlaid nibs (e.g. the Pilot Elite) look like fingernails. I found them slightly disturbing at first.

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Probably the strangest nib I know of is the Sailor Nagahara King Cobra Emperor. It's actually amazing to look at, and it can apparently write lines of a BBBBBB (6B!) width. It sounds absolutely amazing.

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"Seymour's Triple Ruling Pen". But just what does one want such a thing for? Since the top two points seem about the same, it would not be to give a choice of three different widths so I assume all three are used together giving neat, parallel, evenly spaced lines.

 

But why?

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That one is weirder than I could have nightmared.

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I'm thinking it's for making DIY guide paper... before printers... even before mimeograph. Back when cursive was still taught in schools. ;)

 

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Ruling pens

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http://www.kallipos.de/feder-geo-w-hughes-seymours-triple-ruling-pen.jpg

 

That's a nib? Looks like a ghastly medieval weapon of some variety :yikes: .

 

Photos of all other weird nibs would be welcome! :D

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Brause currently makes a similar pen that rules 5 evenly-spaced lines at once. It's meant for ruling music staffs. The one above looks even more specialized. Looking at it, I speculated that it might be for ruling vertical column lines in a ledger, and I guess that's it ("Let X=X", as Laurie Anderson said):

 

Seymour's Triple Ruling Pen

fpn_1375035941__postcard_swap.png * * * "Don't neglect to write me several times from different places when you may."
-- John Purdue (1863)

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Dunno... I think I'd use a dropper.

fpn_1375035941__postcard_swap.png * * * "Don't neglect to write me several times from different places when you may."
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"Seymour's Triple Ruling Pen". But just what does one want such a thing for? Since the top two points seem about the same, it would not be to give a choice of three different widths so I assume all three are used together giving neat, parallel, evenly spaced lines.

 

But why?

i think it's supposed to be for something music-based. it's broken though, so its likely not very effective.

the shop that used to carry it doesn't have it anymore. i wonder if someone bought it.

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That's a nib? Looks like a ghastly medieval weapon of some variety :yikes: .

 

Photos of all other weird nibs would be welcome! :D

http://www.kallipos.de/feder-baignol-et-farjon-395.jpg

this is a nib made to look like a face, or at least it looks like one. i dont see why the company would make this design other than for the face.

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Best guess, I think the first nib posted is an accountants nib for ruling vertical lines in a ledger. The spaces being used for currency

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Maybe it inspired the pilot kakuno....

maybe. but the pilot kakuno doesnt look like the face is cut into it. its still cute

nice icon, btw

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Best guess, I think the first nib posted is an accountants nib for ruling vertical lines in a ledger. The spaces being used for currency

 

Brilliant! I was thinking about ledgers, but I didn't think of using it vertically instead of horizontally. I'll bet you are right.

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I kinda wonder what sort of inkwell you could get it into??

My guess is a soup turine

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/606/letterji9.png

 

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It would have to be a pretty small ledger...but it reminds me of what we take for granted. My dad was a composer, and he would take his arrangements to a copyist who'd make beautifully-written parts in ink on music paper (with a Music nib, probably). But now there's computer programs that can just print that stuff out.

I've seen several crafts go extinct because of computers.

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A rastrum nib for drawing music staves:

 

http://i.imgur.com/dYGUP0q.jpg

it's so odd that this nib could be made to look reasonable, but the manufacturer decided to turn away from the looks of brause's musical ruling pen to this... knife thing.

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