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Presently using an M800 fountain pen with a medium nib. I want to add a little more "flair" to my penmanship. So, I was thinking about purchasing a broad nib and have it ground down to a 1.1 or 1.2 stub. Good or bad idea? Any other suggestions?

Thank you in advance.

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Give us a little background on your experience with writing cursive? My handwriting is nothing great, and when i simply got the double broad, it was nothing great overnight... found out that I actually prefer a nib with a bit of flex instead of the custom grind. just my 2 cents.

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Used cursive all of life. Penmanship is tight. Using a medium nib most of my "a", "d", "o" letters etc are closed. Therefore, I am reluctant to go to using a broad nib.

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If in the US contact Nibs.com or Indy Pen Dance. Either should be able to do what you want.

 

See above response. I am new to this site and learning how to respond correctly.

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Doesn't sound like a bad idea at all. A lot of these modern Pelikan nibs have blobby tipping that gives nib misters a bit of meat to work with. You may want to have someone look at your current nib and see what they can do with it. Might be able to save some money and just pay for a grind rather than a whole new nib if they can do something to your liking.

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With the new modern blobby tip, you could go stub or CI on the bottom and thinner on the top of the nib in case you wish to write something smaller, then all you have to do is flip the nib.

 

The reason the nib is so fat and blobby is there are many cross over ball point barbarians that refuse to take three minutes to learn to hold a fountain pen.

In the nib of a 800 is now a nail....Stub or CI is the best way to fly.

I'm not sure when the 800 went over to being a Nail, I think around '97....when the 400 became a blobby semi-nail.

I don't particularly care for the Large 800, but would buy a W.Germany one...'87-89-90, in it has a very, very nice 'true' regular flex nib.

 

I keep saying 'true' regular flex, ....like a modern 200, in most companies went over to semi-nail like the modern 400/600 because the barbarians were also jack hammer fisted, and bent too many regular flex nibs.....so the nib that is regularly on them now....are not 'regular flex', but semi-nail or in the case of the 800 nails.

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