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New Sailor KOP with a Broad nib. Great writer, however, it is a hard starter. Any suggestions or similar experiences? Everyone loves this nib and I do too but would prefer to have it start right away.

 

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I don't know for sure, but I've noticed ink starvation issues with mine once in a while and removing the converter and then putting it back on fixed the problem. Of course there are the other usual suspects, type of ink, paper that's too smooth, baby's bottom.

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My KOP used to hard-start until I had it adjusted by Mottishaw. You could try getting your nib checked out too.

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wijko Near Mint

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I've experienced this with my newest KOP (out of three I now own) with B-nib for the first time. It only happened with an old Jentle cartridge, that I just wanted to try again. The ink is sheening more than some years ago, and I have the feeling that the ink flows less than before.

I've now replaced the cartridge with the convertor filled with Akkerman blauw and it doesn't have hard starts anymore (during one week and two refills).

 

Conclusion is that the viscosity of the ink may have been one of my main issues.

 

Please inform if a different ink helped you as well.

A collector of inks, currently doing my own ink challenge.

 

IG: mcvanwijk1

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Good morning Wijko & Zenshrink,

 

I had the same experience as you with slow starting of several King of Pen models with various nibs. I have only three styles of KoP nibs: standard M, standard B, and Naginata Togi M. With each one, though less so with the N-T M, Sailor Sei Boku cartridges wrote very poorly. I've not had any trouble with Gentle blue, black, or red. All three write immediately, wet, and consistently in all of my KoPs. The pens also write perfectly when using Sailor cartridges filled by syringe with Montblanc, Waterman, Sheaffer, Private Reserve, and even Noodler's Bernanke blue. In fact, the Sei Boku ink, when put into a Sheaffer cartridge, wrote poorly in a Grande Connaisseur with a normally very wet & clean M nib. This pigment-based ink has not performed at all well for me.

 

Perhaps the suggestion of ink rather than nib performance is key to the problem.

Enjoy the weekend.

Best wishes,

Barry

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