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Hi guys,

Has any of you successfully replaced a Visconti Van Gogh nib with a standard Jowo or Bock Nib?

I am assuming it would be a standard #5 (if it fits at all)?

As it has been said a million times before, it writes way too broad and it does not make sense (for me) to send a steel nib to a nib meister.

Anyone has any luck with that?

I appreciate you guys

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I'm not dead-certain, but I do believe it's just a bock steel nib. Basically any #5 steel nib should fit.

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I don't personally own this pen, but I have played around with standard #6 nibs on my Visconti HS. The nib & feed were friction fit, the replacement nib worked perfectly, so I have every reason to believe it would work the same for your pen.

 

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Great! sometimes, the best bet is to just give it a shot. I just wasted like $10 trying to figure out if the #10 feed from the pilot custom 712 was the same as the feed in the Pilot justus 95. They're close, but nope.

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What Viscontie does to a Bock nib no one knows.....but those Bock nibbed pens get the most complaints.

I would like to think Viscounti uses the more expensive Bock nibs and not the cheapest Bock nib like Twsbi once did.

But with the complaints I think Viscounti uses the cheap Bock nibs.

 

There are lists of major companies using Bock nibs that no one complains about.

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You'd think visconti could just have... A dude... That tunes and tests their nibs.

 

They don't have horrifyingly high sales numbers. If they wanted to pay me 80 grand a year I'd come move to italy and tune every single damn nib they get to perfection.

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On 8/15/2019 at 10:57 AM, Banks said:

Just FYI: I used a #5 Jowo nib. It worked like a charm.

Thanks for this useful post. I bought a Visconti Van Gogh a few month ago and my issue is that, although the nib is medium, it is too bold compared to other medium nibs that I have tried. Furthermore, it is not smooth at all, and I feel the friction when I write with it. However, I have a couple of questions and I will appreciate if you answer.

  1. Is its nib replacement easy? Is there any video instructing that?
  2. Should I buy a feed, as well? Or will the nib come with a feed? or does Jowo nib work on Visconti's own feed?
  3. And my second question is that after more than a year with your nib replacement, are you still satisfied with Jowo #5 nib? 
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On 8/11/2019 at 7:08 PM, Banks said:

Hi guys,

Has any of you successfully replaced a Visconti Van Gogh nib with a standard Jowo or Bock Nib?

I am assuming it would be a standard #5 (if it fits at all)?

As it has been said a million times before, it writes way too broad and it does not make sense (for me) to send a steel nib to a nib meister.

Anyone has any luck with that?

I appreciate you guys

Depends on the pen

if it is a modern Van Gogh with the steel nib with the breather hole I believe the nib is a Bock 076,

the new ones without the breather hole I am not sure

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Found the comparison for anyone interested
on the left a Visconti van Gogh, actually first model with 14k nib,

on the right a Kaweco Dia II to which I fitted a Bock 076 steel nib (replacing the original Bock 060)

 

nib and feed look practically identical

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when I replaced the 060 nib with the 076 on the Dia II I just pulled nib and feed straight out of the section, replaced the nib and used the same feed.

The nib size is #5.

The Jowo will likely fit too, but the Bock is a closer match, Visconti has it's steel nibs made by Bock (at least until recently...)

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On 10/21/2021 at 11:03 AM, FP Geek said:

Thanks for this useful post. I bought a Visconti Van Gogh a few month ago and my issue is that, although the nib is medium, it is too bold compared to other medium nibs that I have tried. Furthermore, it is not smooth at all, and I feel the friction when I write with it. However, I have a couple of questions and I will appreciate if you answer.

  1. Is its nib replacement easy? Is there any video instructing that?
  2. Should I buy a feed, as well? Or will the nib come with a feed? or does Jowo nib work on Visconti's own feed?
  3. And my second question is that after more than a year with your nib replacement, are you still satisfied with Jowo #5 nib? 

 

I would suggest you reach out to a nibmeister to adjust the nib to your preference instead of just installing a replacement nib

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