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Hello everyone, just getting started with fountain pens and found the fpn community. I'm on tight budget wish to start with Pilot Metropolitan for now but am confused between which nip size to choose. My use case will be to write some 10 pages everyday on classmate notebooks and I plan to use Bril royal blue. As a beginner I don't know if fine nib will suit me or will it be scratchy, or if medium nib will feather or cause any other problem with classmate paper. If someone has gone through the same then please help me. And if possible, please share some images of using both metropolitan nibs on a classmate notebook. Anticipating your help, I'm excited to start my fountain pen journey.

I found it quite interesting to see research on how (even the major pen manufacturers) are labelling their nibs. (In particular "Iridium/Genius Iridium") which often only carries a trace amount of iridium). I own several fountain pens (rabbit hole after all) but only a couple of them have gold tips. First, as a South African (one of the largest miners of gold) I can tell you that most of the advertising about the " investment value" of gold nibs is plain bunkum. Second, ever since grade school I've had the habit of pressing too hard on my pens. It's now become my writing style and a gold nib has just too much flex to stand up to that style. Since there doesn't seem to be too much of disclosure on just what our nibs are made of, what I'd like to know is if anyone here had actually worn through a nib? If so would you say it was wholly/predominantly. the nib quality or was it (as I would suspect) a mixture of writing style, paper quality, general maintenance? Please share!