Heavy Eco Nibs

[Mendy]

I have pilot metropolitan in fine and medium. Fine is a little to fine. Medium is a little to large. I just received eco in medium and love it primarily as a signature pen. Should I go for fine or extra fine as a daily writer?

[Jamerelbe]

I have pilot metropolitan in fine and medium. Fine is a little to fine. Medium is a little to large. I just received eco in medium and love it primarily as a signature pen. Should I go for fine or extra fine as a daily writer?

 

Interested to hear what others think, but in my experience a TWSBI EF is pretty close to a Pilot Metropolitan F. I *think* you'd get more mileage out of a TWSBI Eco with an F nib, if you want something in between a Metro 'F' and a Metro 'M'.

[ac12]

The TWSBI EF is about a Japanese F, so would be a bit fine for you if you think the Pilot F is a bit too fine.

The TWSBI F would be about a Japanese M.

Due to manufacturing tolerances, there could be slight differences.

 

I like my EF nib, but the EF nib is somewhat sensitive to the texture of the surface of the paper. So if you prefer a smoother writing, then go with the larger F nib.

[inkeverywhere]

I have had my Eco for a few weeks now, it is fitted with a fine nib. I also have a 580, again fitted with a fine nib, the Eco fine is nowhere near as fine as the 580's fine nib.

I have had no end of trouble with the Eco in that it was dropping ink onto my diary whilst writing. Twsbi have sent me a new feed and barrel which has stopped droplets coming out continually, but this being said my Eco is an extremely wet writer. If I decide to purservere with it I am going to order an extra fine nib in the hope this will give a line width closer to what I expected.

I have a Pilot Prera with a fine nib and the Eco is nowhere as fine as it.

 

It is now a couple of hours since the original part of this post. I have just given my Eco a clean and taken the nib out. Under a loupe with the human eye, I compared the fine Twsbi nib to a Pilot fine medium and they appear to me to be about the same size.


Greg

Edited July 7, 2017 by inkeverywhere