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Or "A very brief comparison of Masuyama nibs with a S.I.G.". Either way, it sounds like a fun time, am I right? Long story short, I agonized over my choice of Masuyama broad italic vs stub when I got my first Franklin-Christoph pen. Writing samples I could find were often not the broads or not in direct comparison to one another. I ended up with the italic for that one, but after a while, I was curious what I was missing not having the stub. Curiosity got the best of me & the next time I got an F-C, the stub was a must. All good for a time. Then this mysterious Stub Italic Gradient shows up & ruins my peace with the promise of smooth, stub-like action with line variation more like an italic. Do. Not. Need. More. Pens. Which would be fine if the nib units weren't available seperately. I can't afford another whole F-C pen atm, but I managed to talk myself into the nib. Problem being that finding samples directly comparing the broad with the other broads was just as bad as when this mess started, so I figured I'd throw this up for those in a similar position. http://img07.deviantart.net/6c0c/i/2016/238/3/9/f_c_broad_comp_by_voidelemental-daffdxb.jpg Paper is Clairefontaine & line spacing is 8mm for ref. Mind those cross strokes at the bottom. They turned out a bit broader than they should have, since I was more focused on getting a relatively straight line than using normal writing pressure. Also, perhaps not entirely fair using a pair of Iros with the KP, but I still had most of a converter full when I made the nib swap. I would describe the Masuyamas as smooth, but not slick. They're also audible when writing. The S.I.G. does have a slick feel to it, but not in the "nigh uncontrollably glassy smooth" sense that I've encountered a couple of times. It's also noticeably quieter. By eye, the downstrokes appear to be approximately the same as both that of the italic & the stub. Cross strokes would appear to be on par with those of the stub. As you can see in actual writing though, the S.I.G. comes down as a sort of middle ground between the stub & italic, so it is in fact what it says on the tin. Smoother than the italic, with more line variation than the stub. The grind itself is even a hybrid of the italic & stub in appearance. Ground close on top like the italic, but with a bit of tipping curving up underneath, albeit less than the stub. I don't have a camera on hand atm, but there's a close up picture floating around here somewhere. TLDR, a fine option if you don't want to go all the way on the italic &/or want to squeeze a bit more line variation out than the stub. Not displacing either in my heart, but certainly a welcome addition to the family. Glad I picked one up.
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