A good nib should be like a fined tuned sports car !

[goodguy]

The more I use FP the more I see how difficult it is to find a nib that writes to my liking.

when I do find that special nib that fits exactly my tast and need I feel as I gone to heaven.

 

Today was the first day I took my new Omas Ogiva to work and I cant talk about this pen and especialy this nib enough how well it feels.

The nib is so smooth,the line is so wet,the nib has just the right amount of springiness and most of all the feedback is as close as posible to perfection.

A sports car is just the same.There are lots of fast cars out there but the ones that share what happenes on the road and make the drivers joy gland work is a true sport car.So for me my Omas Ogiva is the Porsche 911.

 

This is how a nib should feel and I don even know when will be the next time I will use some other pen.This pen will stay by my side for a long time.

[SquelchB]

So your most beloved Paragon went into retirement?

[daveg]

If the nib isn't to your liking out of the box, you can send it to a nibmiester or alter it yourself. I've adjusted about two thirds my nibs to perfection. One was done by an expert. The rest started out perfect. Just a few minutes doodling on micromesh will make most nibs better adapted to you.

[Ernst Bitterman]

I dispute the subject line. A finely-tuned sports car is a giant quivering pile of narrowly-averted disasters which will almost certainly need expensive attention from a specialized mechanic sometime in the next two months. A good pen, never mind just the nib, is almost infinitely more reliable.

[griffin2020]

The more I use FP the more I see how difficult it is to find a nib that writes to my liking.

when I do find that special nib that fits exactly my tast and need I feel as I gone to heaven.

 

Today was the first day I took my new Omas Ogiva to work and I cant talk about this pen and especialy this nib enough how well it feels.

The nib is so smooth,the line is so wet,the nib has just the right amount of springiness and most of all the feedback is as close as posible to perfection.

A sports car is just the same.There are lots of fast cars out there but the ones that share what happenes on the road and make the drivers joy gland work is a true sport car.So for me my Omas Ogiva is the Porsche 911.

 

This is how a nib should feel and I don even know when will be the next time I will use some other pen.This pen will stay by my side for a long time.

So, what you are saying is that the nib on your Ogiva is fast, slick, and a joy to use (drive) as long as you keep it within its capabilities. However, if you try to push it past its limits it will reach out and bite you...hard (a little experience with certain Porsches here).

[goodguy]

So your most beloved Paragon went into retirement?

You got me there.I believe both pens will be at work inked and I will use them both.

Right now the Paragon is with SMG.I should get it this saturday.Once I have it I will make a comparison between the two just to see if the Omas F nib is as good as their M nib (or vise versa).

[goodguy]

I dispute the subject line. A finely-tuned sports car is a giant quivering pile of narrowly-averted disasters which will almost certainly need expensive attention from a specialized mechanic sometime in the next two months. A good pen, never mind just the nib, is almost infinitely more reliable.

It was only an analogy.

 

I do love sport cars too

[Rufus]

I dispute the subject line. A finely-tuned sports car is a giant quivering pile of narrowly-averted disasters which will almost certainly need expensive attention from a specialized mechanic sometime in the next two months. A good pen, never mind just the nib, is almost infinitely more reliable.

 

Ernst B. I think the sports car you have in mind is an Alfa Romeo since you mention the "need for expensive attention from a specialised mechanic..."; I sure hope Goodguy is not comparing the nib on his Omas Ogiva Guilloche to an Alfa. I was the one who turned him on to the Ogiva at last month's pen club meeting so perhaps I should bring my BMW Z4 to the April 19 pen club meeting and turn him on to Z4s and away from Alfas; as the weather is so nice, I may have to armwrestle SWMBO for the keys to the Z4 (a selfish little car she calls it) on Saturday.

 

[Paddler]

A good nib should be like a fined tuned sports car !

 

Whew! Goodguy, I fervently hope that is not the case. With sports cars, you spend half of your time tuning them and the other half of the time driving out-of-tune cars. The thing that makes this driver's joy gland work is setting out to go someplace and not having greasy elbows and smelling of gasoline when I get there . . . if I get there.

 

That is the way I want my pens to work, too. My writer's joy gland goes into throes and spasms when I can write all day without writer's cramp, writer's callus, inky fingers, and a scratchy, creaky nib. If I had to stop every hour or so to tweak the nib, I might just as well go back to cutting goose quills.

 

Paddler

 

[SquelchB]

So your most beloved Paragon went into retirement?

You got me there.I believe both pens will be at work inked and I will use them both.

Right now the Paragon is with SMG.I should get it this saturday.Once I have it I will make a comparison between the two just to see if the Omas F nib is as good as their M nib (or vise versa).

I just remember you saying you'd never ever let it go, that's why I ask . Anyway, by the looks of it, I'd go for Paragon right away... No money thou'

[goodguy]

I dispute the subject line. A finely-tuned sports car is a giant quivering pile of narrowly-averted disasters which will almost certainly need expensive attention from a specialized mechanic sometime in the next two months. A good pen, never mind just the nib, is almost infinitely more reliable.

 

Ernst B. I think the sports car you have in mind is an Alfa Romeo since you mention the "need for expensive attention from a specialised mechanic..."; I sure hope Goodguy is not comparing the nib on his Omas Ogiva Guilloche to an Alfa. I was the one who turned him on to the Ogiva at last month's pen club meeting so perhaps I should bring my BMW Z4 to the April 19 pen club meeting and turn him on to Z4s and away from Alfas; as the weather is so nice, I may have to armwrestle SWMBO for the keys to the Z4 (a selfish little car she calls it) on Saturday.

Ok guys the nib vs sports car is a metafore.I love BMW and the Z4 is a wonderful car.Please do bring it and I will be able to crool all over it.Just to add my true dream car is Porsche 911 Turbo and BMW M# is close in second.

[goodguy]

A good nib should be like a fined tuned sports car !

 

Whew! Goodguy, I fervently hope that is not the case. With sports cars, you spend half of your time tuning them and the other half of the time driving out-of-tune cars. The thing that makes this driver's joy gland work is setting out to go someplace and not having greasy elbows and smelling of gasoline when I get there . . . if I get there.

 

That is the way I want my pens to work, too. My writer's joy gland goes into throes and spasms when I can write all day without writer's cramp, writer's callus, inky fingers, and a scratchy, creaky nib. If I had to stop every hour or so to tweak the nib, I might just as well go back to cutting goose quills.

 

Paddler

Actualy this is the fun in getting BMW M3 or Porsche 911 Turbo.These are real sports cars.You enjoy driving it and they are very reliable.If something goes wrong with them you go to the mechanic just like when a pen start skipping or the sac is leaking I send my pen to my pen tech.

[Paddler]

A good nib should be like a fined tuned sports car !

 

Whew! Goodguy, I fervently hope that is not the case. With sports cars, you spend half of your time tuning them and the other half of the time driving out-of-tune cars. The thing that makes this driver's joy gland work is setting out to go someplace and not having greasy elbows and smelling of gasoline when I get there . . . if I get there.

 

That is the way I want my pens to work, too. My writer's joy gland goes into throes and spasms when I can write all day without writer's cramp, writer's callus, inky fingers, and a scratchy, creaky nib. If I had to stop every hour or so to tweak the nib, I might just as well go back to cutting goose quills.

 

Paddler

Actualy this is the fun in getting BMW M3 or Porsche 911 Turbo.These are real sports cars.You enjoy driving it and they are very reliable.If something goes wrong with them you go to the mechanic just like when a pen start skipping or the sac is leaking I send my pen to my pen tech.

 

I know a guy who drives in road rallys almost every weekend. He drives Porsches. He has to have two of them: one to drive and one to work on. At the end of a rally, the one he is driving will barely gimp home with him and his navigator. These are not the Porsches that look like dung beetles; these are kind of wedge-shaped. No idea what model they are. Other friends have Austin-Healys, MGs, Triumphs, and other road-lice. If you get into any of them and drive around the block, you exit the car smelling of gasoline and you are exhaling exhaust fumes. Back in my younger days, around 1965 or so, breathing exhaust and using gasoline cologne was fun. These days, I drive my Chevy to flea markets and look for pens, hoping never to buy one that is like a sports car. :ltcapd:

 

Paddler

 

[georges zaslavsky]

A good nib allows fast and responsive writing whereas a scratchy doesn't glide on paper and is a more hard to write with. A too much glass smooth nib or a wet noodle nib is the worst same with a hard as nail or as razor nib. I dunno some pens even when new are hard to write and offering bad nib response, on all the pens I bought I never had a single mishappening. If you enjoy a sports car with character then a corvette stingray from 1968 - 1969 with the 427ci l71 triple carburated engine might be what you are looking for.

Edited April 18, 2008 by georges zaslavsky