Montverde Poquito Poor Ink Flow - Is This A Nib Issue?

[fountainpenfarmer]

I bought a Montverde Poquito from EBay and with it received J. Herbin Eclat Dr Saphir ink.

I popped in a cartridge and started writing... and was very disappointed.

 

Attached is a photo of what the writing sample looks like. I have only ever owned two other pens - the Kaweco Sport and a Platinum Preppy.

Both of my other pens never had ink flow issues like this.

Is this a nib problem? This is my first time using this ink as well, and watching reviews online and looking at a lot of writing samples, I did not see this issue on anyone else's samples with these inks.

 

If this is a nib problem, is there someone I should send this to? The pen was only $25, so I hesitate to spend a ton of money fixing it, even though I love it's form factor. Is there something someone inexperienced can do to fix this?

 

Thank you for your help!

[WLSpec]

Monteverde pens can have flow issues. They are somewhat infamous for that.

 

Did you clean and flush the pen out before first use? If not, do that. That is often the issue.

 

Could you put up some pictures of the nib? Those usually help.

[Bo Bo Olson]

Looks like two toned shading.

J. Herbin is well known for shading. Pelikan 4001 is another dry shading ink. R&K and a few others. Some of the Edelstein inks shade well, others are a bit too wet to shade well. MB has some good shading inks too, like Irish, or Toffee...........................one does have to have good to better paper to shade with. The ink has to sit on top of the paper for a second or two. 90g paper or better is good for shading. Outside of 80g Rhoda; common 80g copy paper is not good for shading.

Leuchtturm is reputed to be fairly nice paper...........with mixed reviews. So I don't have any.

 

I chase two toned shading inks over boring vivid monotone inks.