Quick question: Does the standard Pelikan M200 come with a gold nib?

[Pfhorrest]

Topic title explains. Thanks.

[Silvermink]

No, it's steel. The M250 has a gold nib.

 

If you get one from Richard Binder, you can get an M200 with an M250 gold nib.

Edited July 23, 2009 by Silvermink

[welch]

...or you can get a less expensive steel nib that, after being "binderized" will write as well as anything you have ever held.

 

No, it's steel. The M250 has a gold nib.

 

If you get one from Richard Binder, you can get an M200 with an M250 gold nib.

 

[Tsujigiri]

You can also fit the gold m400 nib in an m200. I've only heard of one m200 that came with a gold nib; it was the Japanese export version of the m205 demonstrator. Other than that, all steel.

[RLTodd]

No.

 

Richard Binder sells M200 bodies and Pelikan nibs alacarte.

 

One could if they so wished get and M200 body with an M400 nib.

 

Primarily, the bodies are available for those who wish one of his custom ground nibs.

 

Go to the Pelikan new pens for sale and then go to the bottom of the page to see what he has available.

 

YMMV

 

 

[HenryLouis]

Steel nib, but you can put The solid gold M400 and M250 nib in it.

 

IMO, the one tone M250 is good because it matches the color scheme better. M400 would better for a rhodium trimmed pen.

[mikerph]

You can also fit the gold m400 nib in an m200. I've only heard of one m200 that came with a gold nib; it was the Japanese export version of the m205 demonstrator. Other than that, all steel.

I actually bought a clear demosstrator and exchanged the steel nib with a 14K gold one--it is a daily user that writes quite well. If you ar familiar with Pelikans, you know that the nibs screw in easily--one of the easiest pen to exchange nibs.

[montblancdude]

Nope, but the M250 does.

 

Get the M200 body from Richard Binder and you can get an M400 gold nib put in for just a few dollars more.

[FrankB]

As the others have said, the M-200 comes with a steel nib. But the beauty of interchangeable nibs is that you can get a gold nib to fit the pen when you have the funds to do it.

[Mrsal]

but gold nibs arent always better than steel, are they?

[HenryLouis]

but gold nibs arent always better than steel, are they?

 

No, gold stands up better over time than steel and Gold nibs usually have more flex, while steel nibs are usually rigid.

[Silvermink]

but gold nibs arent always better than steel, are they?

 

No. There's some cachet value to having a gold nib, though, and steel nibs rarely have much in the way of spring or flex.

[Philip1209]

but gold nibs arent always better than steel, are they?

 

No. There's some cachet value to having a gold nib, though, and steel nibs rarely have much in the way of spring or flex.

 

Seconded. Especially with a Pelikan, you shouldn't fret about a steel nib.

[Pfhorrest]

Jesus Christ, 75 Euros for an M200.

[Mrsal]

but gold nibs arent always better than steel, are they?

 

No, gold stands up better over time than steel and Gold nibs usually have more flex, while steel nibs are usually rigid.

 

 

good point, but then you could get the steel plated, and i dont like a lot of flex in my nibs.

[Tsujigiri]

Yes, Pelikan makes the springiest steel nibs on any modern pen I'm aware of. But gold is a little springier, and a lot more corrosion resistant (plating can wear off). I also get the sense that manufacturers put more effort into the tipping of gold nibs than steel nibs, so they end up writing better. Not sure if this is just a placebo effect or actually true.

[ZeissIkon]

but gold nibs arent always better than steel, are they?

 

No, gold stands up better over time than steel and Gold nibs usually have more flex, while steel nibs are usually rigid.

 

Yes and no -- this depends on the steel, and on the gold. Low-carat gold may not be any more corrosion resistant than the best stainless alloys, though it's certainly true that it's easier to get a good weld on the tipping material with gold than with steel (this is metallurgy, not just technique or cost-driven). Similarly, both gold and steel nibs can be flexy or nail-stiff; it's a matter of how the nib is designed, not of what material it's made from (in fact, a steel nib can be made to flex more than a gold nib can before it permanently deforms -- again, this is metallurgy, not cost related).

 

For the first century of metal pen points, gold was the only material available that wouldn't corrode over long exposure to ink (and the inks of the first half of that time were corrosive iron-gall formulae, for the most part). After the invention of analine inks in the 1850s and stainless steels in the 1930s and their further development into the 1950s, gold was preferred over stainless mainly because of tradition, and because a steel nib was seen as "cheap" it wasn't given the development effort that gold received -- so, while most of the really good flexible nibs, and many of the really good nibs of any kind, are gold, there's nothing that says they have to be, other than user opinion (which drives purchasing decisions, which in turn drive manufacturing).