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I love the Lamy interchangeable nibs. An amazing combination of performance and value. Would it be possible to introduce a flex nib to this system? I know their shape, size, and attachment method is unique, so not sure if it's even possible. Or if they've ever offered anything like that in the past. But the able to have some flex, even medium flex on a safari would make my day.

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My new black stainless fine point has some flex. I discovered as much last week when it went dry. I notice the splines separating with minimal pressure.

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I love the Lamy interchangeable nibs. An amazing combination of performance and value. _...‹snip›... But the able to have some flex, even medium flex on a safari would make my day.

 

 

At least not for the price you expect to pay for a run-of-the-mill Lamy steel nib. There are pens with interchangeable nibs for which you can buy just a friction-fit (replacement or alternate) flex nib, e.g. FPR Himalaya, or an entire nib-feed-and-housing unit that you screw into the gripping section, e.g. Aurora 88, so interchangeability of nibs is not unique to Lamy.

 

However, as someone who staunchly believe in consumer choice and buying power, I do hope you get your wish, at some point for Lamy to offer a standalone/replacement flex nib (just for the novelty factor) at the price equivalent to, say, two new Lamy Al-Star pens. ;)

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The Lamy Z55 gold nib has a touch of additional flex than t0 standard steel nib. That said, I wouldn't call the Z55 a flex nib.

 

Lamy nibs are easy to change.

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The Lamy Z55 gold nib has a touch of additional flex than t0 standard steel nib.

I'm not sure to what you were referring by "t0 standard steel nib"; but, in my experience, the Z55 is no more "flexy", "springy", or apt to spread proportionally wider in elastic deformation under pressure than a Z50 steel nib.

 

Lamy nibs are easy to change.

As are nibs housed in screw-in nib-and-feed assemblies, such as on the Aurora Ottantotto/Optima/Talentum, or Pelikan Souverän and M2xx (and possibly P2xx) models. Ignoring the objective of installing a flex nib for a moment, any number of cheap and/or good-value-for-money pens of Delike pens have interchangeable screw-in nib units, as do HongDian, PenBBS, and so on.

 

In my experience, it's easier to remove screw-in nib units than Lamy nibs, without the use any any tools or aids (such as tape, rubberised grips, etc.)

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I've 4 or 5 Z55 nibs and all of them could be described as being close to semi-flex as they can safely be pushed to 2-2.5/3 times their normal line width. Actually wrote a demo compared to an OMAS/ScriBo flex and guess what I did to the latter (fortunately repairable)

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