Gvfc Intuition Om Vs Ob Nib

[ernieh]

Hello,

 

How would you compare the two nibs in terms of line variation? Is OB performing better?

 

Cheers,

Ernie

[Newjelan]

I find the OB to have slightly more variation and generally prefer it but depending on what I’m using my pen for, sometimes I prefer the OM.

[Bo Bo Olson]

GvFC are nails.............my experience with nail obliques in little to no line variation unless one hunts with a pack of hounds.

Even regular flex oblique is just a little bit......more than with a nail of course....But not worth wasting your money buying, and an oblique nail is an even worse way to throw away money.

 

The only obliques worth anything at all are vintage semi-flex German pens from the '50-70 era. ('30-40's would do too, but that is more expensive.)

 

Osmia was bought up by Faber Castell in 1950, so if you want a great Faber Castell get one of the Osmia Faber Castels....those are great obliques...great semi or maxi-semi-flex nibs.

 

The modern GvFC are pretty pens..........but they are only nails, so one can not expect any real line variation from a nail oblique!!!!

You do have a microscope to search for 'line variation' in a nail oblique?

 

You can always have the OB ground by Pendelton Brown into a CI. He did that to my nail 18k OB Lamy Persona. There I now have line variation, before when it was a nail OB I had None.

I looked hard for it.

However by then I was very spoiled, I had a Pelikan 140 OB, a 400nn OF and other real obliques. German semi-flex pens from the 50-70 era.

 

A 140 posts as long as a 400 and is a bit cheaper. The Geha 790 is also a great semi-flex pen and that era is the only location and era to get obliques that work.

I have some 16 semi or maxi-semi-flex obliques.

I had two nail obliques, one sold, one made into CI. I had hopes my W.Germany 200's nib had enough spring to make it a good oblique. It didn't. I was real surprised that my 381 Pelikan OB was an oblique. I'd not noticed it.

 

If you think a 140, 400 or 790 are too small for you.....then you can get your big clunky GvFC, ground to CI someday, if you are still looking for line variation in all the wrong places.

[seimodern]

I only have the OB, and with the resin Intuition, not the wood version with the larger nib (that I gather also has a bit more flex to it).

I really enjoy the GVFC OB and use it in everyday writing without any problem. It's forgiving, but if you are mindful of how you hold it, also introduces some line variation. The first image below shows a little bit of a writing sample, but doesn't show off its capacity for line variation as much as it might have if i'd been a little more careful when writing it.

 

I find the GfVC OB to be less crisp than my vintage OBs (like the Dupont OM and Kaweco Ob shown in the first pic). But it's better than most of my more contemporary factory obliques (for example, the Lamy OB, a Caran D'ache OM, and the worst of all, a Parker Duofold OM that is more like a blobby blobby blobby OBB...but that's another story!)

 

I've added a few pics so you can see the cut of the GvFC OB. The first image includes a writing sample next to some other factory obliques (GvFC is the first one down).