Slight Baby Bottom?

[food158]

I received a Pilot Custom 74 in fine today. Its not writing as well as I wanted it to because of its consistency and flow. Sometimes the pen will skip in the begining stroke. Wetness Is not really good. I think it might be less reliable and wet than a metro I have.

I couldn't capture the inconsistency that well in the video but here you go.

[food158]

Ink is Sailor Kin Mokusei, I flushed the pen before inking

[Honeybadgers]

video no linkey work

[senzen]

I would do several thorough cleanings, try with different inks and resist the urge to mess with the nib; from someone who messed up several nibs before I knew better.

 

 

[TheDutchGuy]

I would do several thorough cleanings, try with different inks and resist the urge to mess with the nib...

+1. Plenty of things to try, such as these.

[Olya]

There's no video.

 

But it sounds more like a famous Pilot issue: The tines are too tight, resulting e.g. in dry (to non-existent) upstrokes..

[Erik Dalton]

There's no video.

 

But it sounds more like a famous Pilot issue: The tines are too tight, resulting e.g. in dry (to non-existent) upstrokes..

Ive had that problem with them as well.

[FarmBoy]

Slight baby bottom, would that be half-a**ed?

 

I’d start by making sure the pen is clean if any gunk.

[SicEmBears]

Try opening the tines up. If it still doesn't write under its own pressure, I would suspect baby's bottom. At least that's how my pilot was.

[minddance]

the tines are squeezed too tightly against each other. it is a Pilot problem, I had it so many times.

 

if i treasure the smoothness, i wouldn't touch the nib very much, i would use a dark and flowy ink like Rohrer and Klingner Verdigris. if you intend to use such a pen with shadey and light inks, you are very out of luck.

 

if you open the tines by whatever method, you would lose the factory smoothness and tine alignment. because the nib was finished and smoothened in that state, I.e. with tines tightly pressed against each other. by opening the tines and changing the factory default, angles will most certainly change. and it would not feel as smooth.

 

If you just want a pen that could write and lay ink onto paper, and not sensitive to the different degrees of smoothness, then you might want to adjust the nib yourself.

 

if you treasure very much the factory-default smoothness, I suggest not doing anything to the nib. Dark flowy inks + absorbent papers work for me. so, no Rhodia for me with this kind of pen.

[minddance]

Ink is Sailor Kin Mokusei, I flushed the pen before inking

Kin Mokusei is not the darkest of inks. with such a nib, lines can come out very pale and light.

 

dry pens rule out the use of many lighter inks. but as always, there are "if's".

 

 

light inks can work and be legible

if...

 

1. you apply pressure when writing

2. use absorbent papers. no rhodia.

3. add Kodak Photoflo

4. you misalign the tines so that the slit is widened.