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Is There A #5 Black F/ef, Or A Way To Modify A #5 Feed To Take #6 Nibs?


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I'm about to pull the trigger on a pen that I've liked for a while on Ebay, sold at a decent enough discount. It has a black oxide M nib, and since I do a lot of my writing in the office on recycled paper, an M nib with feathered ink looks like it's written in crayon.

 

Goulet sells really nifty-looking F and EF black nibs, but they're #6 nibs. The pen I'm getting is a #5. Is there a way to adapt #5 to take #6 nibs, or is doing that basically going to require a whole new pen?

 

Barring that, is there another seller of #5 F or EF nibs? I know they sell whole new nibs + sections but I was hoping to spend $10ish instead of $30ish.

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The nib size number, at least for 5 and 6, is the diameter of the feed, in mm, inside the section. So the inner radius of the section on your pen will not accommodate a #6 nib.

 

The best course of action might be to have a nibmeister grind your nib down to F or EF. You will get the exact tip size you want and expert tuning into the deal.

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Does the pen use Bock or Jowo nibs? You can get Jowo #5 nib units here http://meisternibs.com/steel-nibs/

I don't see black in the #5 but you can get Ruthenium.

 

The company is actually run by Edison Pen company. They are an importer of Jowo for their own use and sell unmarked ones for pen makers.

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I stopped doing business with them when they discontinued their line of Chesterfield inks, but the Birmingham Pen Co. offers #5 nibs that have worked well for me.

https://www.birminghampens.com/collections/nibs

 

Chesterfield inks were just rebranded Diamine inks. You may be able to find the colors you used that way (there were some threads doing comparisons between Diamine and Chesterfield colors a few years ago).

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Chesterfield inks were just rebranded Diamine inks. You may be able to find the colors you used that way (there were some threads doing comparisons between Diamine and Chesterfield colors a few years ago).

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Yes, I remember that thread. Unfortunately, the only one I ever bought was their Archival Vault. $8 for 100ml of Chesterfield iron gall was a lot more palatable than the $34 list price for Diamine Registrar's. That was when I switched to ESSRI. $20 shipped from the UK is still a better deal than what I can buy domestically.

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