Please Help: Sheaffer Legacy Heritage Fine Or Medium?

[by78]

I have been eyeing a Sheaffer Legacy Heritage for a long time. I'm finally ready to pull the trigger. But before I do, I need to decide on a nib size.

My preferred stroke width is an European F/M, something thicker than a Fine but thinner than a Medium.

My questions are as follows:

1) Would the Legacy Heritage's Medium be too thick for my taste?

2) How do the Legacy Heritage's nib widths compared to, say, a Lamy 2000 or other well known pen models?

Finally, if anyone could provide a writing sample for Fine and/or Medium (on a Rhodia Dot Pad), I'd be eternally grateful.

Thank you for your time, and I'm eagerly waiting for your feedback and guidance.

[jar]

The Sheaffer nibs are based on a range with the extremes pretty close to the next size. They show about a great a variation pen to pen as most other manufacturers. The only way to know for sure is to personally try the particular pen you want to buy or to deal with one of the people who will select and if necessary modify a nib to suit your needs.

 

What I suggest is that you contact the people you are considering purchasing from and ask if they will select a pen that most closely matches a sample that you will send them showing what width and flow you prefer, and then buy from them. Don't expect them to do the work and then you buy from somewhere cheaper.

 

Some folk I'd suggest you contact would be Pendemonium, Vaness, Fahrneys, FPH, Pen Hero, Main Street Pens, Nibs.com and Indy-Pen-Dance.