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Howdy friends

 

Just joined.

 

Great to know you all. I have probably seen some reviews in this site in the past couple of years.

 

I have been using fountain pens for the past few months and I have the ink stains on my fingers to prove it :lticaptd: .

In this short journey, I have ground nibs, I have aligned tins, I tuned nibs on brown bags, magazine pages, glass, micro-mesh.

 

I think I have at least messed up one nib's tipping, so I thought to myself, I am one of them now, I need to join.

 

Still, I never learn, all my 5 pens are Sailors, ,and they all came with scratchy nibs, except the professional gear sigma. Perhaps I am too particular about having my nibs be just right ;) and just write, perhaps Sailor nibs are not that great.

 

Anyways, I am sure I can learn alot from the experts here, and that is why I decided to join, so I can do more than just read old posts.

 

Thanks

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Hello and welcome to FPN, from Cape Town, South Africa.

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Thank you all for the kind welcome

 

If anyone could help me turn off this "shoutbox" thing, I would appreciate it. I keep getting red notifications, not sure why, or what it is. It looks like few people talking and chatting, but why am I being notified :unsure: ?

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Boy, brings back old memories. I can relate to your story, and raise you by two or three ruined nibs.

Welcome to the group. I think you’ll fit in just great.

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Hello and welcome to FPN.

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Welcome!

 

Sailors don't have good nibs? :glare:

 

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Visconti Voyager 30 "M" nib running Birmingham Streetcar

Jinhao 9019 "EF" nib running Birmingham Railroad Spike

Pelikan M1000 "F" nib running Birmingham Sugar Kelp

Sailor King of Pens "M" nib running Van Dieman's Heemskerch and Zeehaen

 

 

 

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Welcome!

 

Sailors don't have good nibs? :glare:

 

Erick

 

Well, there is a reason virtually all my pens are Sailors, I have five 1911 Large either F, MF and in Silver and Gold finishes. Three out of the 5 came out of the box with feedback, scratchy feeling. 2 Came out fine out of the box. On the other hand I have only one Pro gear Realo Sigma , F nib came out of the box flawless. So that is almost a mixed 50/50 ratio for my Sailor nib experience. Does that make them bad nibs? Obviously, I keep buying more from Sailor, so I must like something about their pens and nibs :lol:

I read somewhere that they tune the nibs of the higher end pens better, perhaps that is why the realo sigma nib was awesome compared to the 1911L, i really don't know.

 

If I would compare with my limited experience with Pilot, I have 4 steel nib Pilot Metropolitan, and one Pilot custom urushi #30. All F or MF nibs, and all came out of the box writing smoothly. So in my experience, a pilot a pen costing $10 and another costing 100x more have a much closer nib smoothness performance than 2 Sailor pens with less than 2x price variance. :unsure:

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Sailor designs their nibs to give a bit of feedback. Many users prefer them that way. I prefer smoother so i work on mine, but they are excellent nibs all the same. Recently I’ve been able to snag a King of Pen. Wow, what a great writing experience. I put it right up there with my Montblanc 149’s.

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Sailor designs their nibs to give a bit of feedback. Many users prefer them that way. I prefer smoother so i work on mine, but they are excellent nibs all the same. Recently I’ve been able to snag a King of Pen. Wow, what a great writing experience. I put it right up there with my Montblanc 149’s.

 

 

Thank you for the kind reply,

I am like you, except that when I tune a nib, I tend to overdo the process, and turn a scratchy F nib into a smooth M nib, with considerably wider line. I consider this a significant failure for me as a nib meister :) The pen just writes much smoother and I use actually in my day to day writing, so it is not all bad. I just wish I was a bit more patient, so I can keep the F nib and get smoother results

 

I am very interested in the KOP for sometime, please do share your experience, which KOP version?, from where?, how?, how much?, nib size?

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I love Sailor nibs and collected as many as I could afford before they were impossible to afford. Most of mine are broad and perfect for me. Sailor pens and inks, in my opinion, have become overpriced.

Love all, trust a few, do harm to none. Shakespeare

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I love Sailor nibs and collected as many as I could afford before they were impossible to afford. Most of mine are broad and perfect for me. Sailor pens and inks, in my opinion, have become overpriced.

 

 

It would be interesting to know the history of Sailor pen/nibs pricing. I only know of them in the last couple of years and it was by process of elimination or you could say optimization, that I thought the 1911L represent a very good bang for the buck.

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You have successfully entered a rabbit hole, who knows what it'll yield and where it'll lead.

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You have successfully entered a rabbit hole, who knows what it'll yield and where it'll lead.

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Thank you my friend. Much appreciated. :) Glad to be here

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Thank you my friend. Much appreciated. smile.png Glad to be here

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