Recently Ventured Outside The World Of Montblanc

[Bo Bo Olson]

I think the fat blobby modern nibs are because not only are the Ball Point Barbarians Ham Fisted, but the hold the pen like a ball point. (Semi-nail 400/600, 800 nail being harder to bend therefor need less repair, when being jack hammered.)

Plowing furrows through the paper instead of gliding/skating on the small puddle of ink....which is much too small when writing with the tip only, instead of the American Bump Under.

 

IMO 95% of scratchy is misaligned tines and holding a fountain pen like a ball point.

 

Holding like a ball point is also a reason for the Death Grip...even when gripped at fountain pen angle, the the Popeye forearms of a Ball Point Barbarian's need to push ball point furrows in the paper like plowing the south forty with out the mule is a problem.

 

 

Though it is an interesting idea of selling to the Asian market, think it more a coincidence. Unfortunately it is universal and not just Asian market.

 

Back in the '50's MB, Geha, Osmia-Faber-Kastel had (in I have them) K...nibs Kugel nibs. Those had the ball on the tip and top of the nib....the underside was still stubbish, so you could hold it like a pencil....in ball points were just coming in, or a fountain pen.

Geha School pens nibs were called FK...fine kugel....the American Bump Under.

 

So the modern Pelikan pens are double kugel...a ball top and bottom with a fat point, so you can hold it like a ball point or like fountain pen....is rather characterless, and don't leave the clean line of even the '80-97 or modern 200's nibs; much less the great line of the stubbish nibs with some flex of the '50-65 era.

 

An accountant can prove he has saved 10 cents, you can not prove that savings cost $10.00.

 

Semi-nail and nail nibs are the reason I have no interest in modern Pelikans...out side the 200's. I have some four '90's; M400, steel = gold F Celebry pens with springy regular flex nibs, one W.Germany 200, that match the modern 200's.

Having a slew of 400's bought a 215 just to have a nice 200's nib.

 

You could get the top of the nib ground even finer....and the bottom stubbed.....give some life to the nib....but EF's (well, mine are all '50-60's) are a bit narrow to me.....old F's are ok....they shade.

 

If the modern EF = the old F, then could see getting the top ground sharper for small margin notes.

Edited August 18, 2016 by Bo Bo Olson