Custom Ground Left Oblique Italic Nib

[nikhil seenivas]

Enter my 2 year old parker frontier (indian made not uk) which i accidentally dropped (who does it deliberately??? ) and the tines got bent......relatively cheap pen but i still tried my best to restore the nijb to its former glory but failed so i first ground it to a stub and then further modifying it to an oblique italic.......i used only a nail buffer and NO MICRO MESH.....but still turned out pretty neat and smooth....

 

Maybe one day i can match richard binder or something :-P jus kidding, hes on god mode......

 

I have attached a wrting sample and also a picture of the nib

 

Feel free to crticise so i can do a better job italicising next time.....

 

Sayanora, nikhil seenivas

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

You seem to have a good pattern on your line.

 

With a pure Italic square nib, there is books that show you how to draw a letter. That sort of calligraphy requires the pen to be held before the big knuckle like a ball point and is canted like you like.

I assume you are holding the pen behind the big knuckle.

 

With a nail that is not a bad idea.....I like the vintage German semi-flex Obliques...which can have an angle of @15 or 30 degrees. Due to the bit of flex, and the then stubbish German nibs gives a different pattern than CI or Stubb that are often nails......'true' regular flex oblique don't have much to any line variation either.

 

'50-65 German obliques in semi or maxi-semi-flex is a direction to go......don't waste money on modern Obliques.