400 Tortoise Brown Limited Edition

[Augustine]

Mine arrived today and although the pen is beautiful, the F nib is rather scratchy. A real downer given how much I looked forward to the pen.

 

Same here. Got mine today. It's absolutely beautiful...but it's my first Pelikan with a slightly scratchy nib. The Pelikano Junior I got in the same shipment has a perfectly smooth nib.

[Artie]

My EF is very smooth. The line isn't as E as I thought it would be. It seems every time I order a Pelikan with a nib finer than the one before it, Pelikan starts making them wider so I end up with a bunch of pens that all write on the thick side of F.

[Augustine]

Mine arrived today and although the pen is beautiful, the F nib is rather scratchy. A real downer given how much I looked forward to the pen.

 

Same here. Got mine today. It's absolutely beautiful...but it's my first Pelikan with a slightly scratchy nib. The Pelikano Junior I got in the same shipment has a perfectly smooth nib.

 

I took a close look at the F nib on my bird and it was obvious it was not aligned properly. After carefully adjusting it I now have a perfectly aligned smooth nib; like it should be.

 

I'm disappointed that I had to adjust it myself! Pelikan ought to have done that before shipping it!

 

Over all I'm very happy with the purchase. It's great looking, I love the smaller M400 sized pen, and it writes as good as my other Pelikans now that I've adjusted the nib.

[Pen2009]

I took a close look at the F nib on my bird and it was obvious it was not aligned properly. After carefully adjusting it I now have a perfectly aligned smooth nib; like it should be.

How did you adjust your nib? By hand? With a special tool? Mine came with an M nib, which is a big difference from my 215's F nib. I think my 415's M is a little less smoother than my 1000's F nib.

Edited June 23, 2009 by Pen2009

[Augustine]

I took a close look at the F nib on my bird and it was obvious it was not aligned properly. After carefully adjusting it I now have a perfectly aligned smooth nib; like it should be.

How did you adjust your nib? By hand? With a special tool? Mine came with an M nib, which is a big difference from my 215's F nib. I think my 415's M is a little less smoother than my 1000's F nib.

 

I adjusted it by hand. The tines didn't match up the way they should have. I carefully adjusted it so that the tines were aligned. It writes great now! I've never adjusted a nib before; I decided before sending the pen out to be fixed I'd try my hand at a very careful adjustment. To my surprise it works great now.