What's The Least Scratchy Fine Point Nib You Know?

[Runnin_Ute]

Which other companies are like this?

Name one. That is what Bo Bo was saying. MB has their standards, Pelikan theirs, Parker theirs so on and so on. SOmetimes they overlap even within brand due to tolerance. And yes it happens with Japanese companies too.

[Runnin_Ute]

My scratchiest nib is probably an Esterbrook 9450 (EF) followed by the 9550.

 

My smoothest fine or ef? Hard to say, but the Pelikan M200 Cognac F, Parker 51 Demi vac (f/ef), Pelikan 140 (f), The True Writer Silver Anniversary is quite smooth (Schmidt nib) as are the fines I have on Parker 45's. Even the A and EF. The A and EF are not nearly as smooth as the F's though.

 

What does it mean? That every manufacturer can provide a smooth fine nib. But our perception of smooth varies from person to person. So find a pen you like and then have it adjusted (or do it yourself) to how you like it.

[bayport714]

If forced to choose just one I would have to choose Cross Peerless 125. I have the London edition and look for every opportunity to use it.

[Mew]

Name one. That is what Bo Bo was saying. MB has their standards, Pelikan theirs, Parker theirs so on and so on. SOmetimes they overlap even within brand due to tolerance. And yes it happens with Japanese companies too.

Having your own standards is perfectly fine and acceptable. Your two different nib widths putting down the same line width with the same ink isn't. Haven't faced this with Japanese companies, which have been fairly consistent across 50+ pens that I have handled.

Anyway, these weren't really to my liking so I sold them all except the vibrant blue and brown Tortoise.

[magnus919]

I absolutely adore my Pilot Custom 823 "F". So smooth. Almost too smooth.

Though I can make a cheap JoWo steel EF nib just as smooth with a few minutes fiddling with it on the micromesh.

[dogpoet]

A Rotring 700: I've got scratchier pens than this one with broad nibs, never mind finepoints.

[surprise123]

Any Japanese nib will do. I use a Pilot Metropolitan for the crappy school paper because it keeps feathering to a minimum.