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adjustable nib?

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Waiting to see the picture, but just off hand, it sounds like they stuck a dip pen nib in there in place of the nib that should be there. I have seen that done a few times.

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I know the nib you have-

 

It's a Wearever nib that was made to fit Estie pens. I have one in extra fine.

This is the same nib you see on Wearever Pennant pens. I mentioned this nib sometime back in a previous thread. No one seemed to recall it, and I had a feeling that it may have been a "homemade" job. Being that you have one too makes it plausable that Wearever did make these nibs as replacement ("re-new" Points) nibs.

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I know the nib you have-

 

It's a Wearever nib that was made to fit Estie pens. I have one in extra fine.

This is the same nib you see on Wearever Pennant pens. I mentioned this nib sometime back in a previous thread. No one seemed to recall it, and I had a feeling that it may have been a "homemade" job. Being that you have one too makes it plausable that Wearever did make these nibs as replacement ("re-new" Points) nibs.

 

 

lol ya it looked like somebody glued a filling lever on the nib. Its a nice nib just letting you know. Im loving it heres a writing sample

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I know the nib you have-

 

It's a Wearever nib that was made to fit Estie pens. I have one in extra fine.

This is the same nib you see on Wearever Pennant pens. I mentioned this nib sometime back in a previous thread. No one seemed to recall it, and I had a feeling that it may have been a "homemade" job. Being that you have one too makes it plausable that Wearever did make these nibs as replacement ("re-new" Points) nibs.

 

 

lol ya it looked like somebody glued a filling lever on the nib. Its a nice nib just letting you know. Im loving it heres a writing sample

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I know the nib you have-

 

It's a Wearever nib that was made to fit Estie pens. I have one in extra fine.

This is the same nib you see on Wearever Pennant pens. I mentioned this nib sometime back in a previous thread. No one seemed to recall it, and I had a feeling that it may have been a "homemade" job. Being that you have one too makes it plausable that Wearever did make these nibs as replacement ("re-new" Points) nibs.

 

 

lol ya it looked like somebody glued a filling lever on the nib. Its a nice nib just letting you know. Im loving it heres a writing sample

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The 8364 sounds like an Esterbrook nib unit number for the palladium/silver nibs they made during WWII when stainless steel was a strategic material -- but, based on the charts I have bookmarked, it's a number that Esterbrook never used (however, the palladium/silver wartime nibs are rare enough that it's remotely possible there are numbers not on the charts). I agree, however, that the overfeed sounds like a Wearever flexible nib, but those would have been fine rather than broad (though with the number of variations Wearever made over time, seemingly anything is possible). Interesting speculation that Wearever might have made Esterbrook compatible nib units; there were certainly at least a couple other companies that did (Osmiroid, Venus, Sengbusch, maybe others).

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The 8364 sounds like an Esterbrook nib unit number for the palladium/silver nibs they made during WWII when stainless steel was a strategic material -- but, based on the charts I have bookmarked, it's a number that Esterbrook never used (however, the palladium/silver wartime nibs are rare enough that it's remotely possible there are numbers not on the charts). I agree, however, that the overfeed sounds like a Wearever flexible nib, but those would have been fine rather than broad (though with the number of variations Wearever made over time, seemingly anything is possible). Interesting speculation that Wearever might have made Esterbrook compatible nib units; there were certainly at least a couple other companies that did (Osmiroid, Venus, Sengbusch, maybe others).

 

 

The nib says broad but Its the finest nib I have ever tried, and IMO its incredibly smooth.

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The 8364 sounds like an Esterbrook nib unit number for the palladium/silver nibs they made during WWII when stainless steel was a strategic material -- but, based on the charts I have bookmarked, it's a number that Esterbrook never used (however, the palladium/silver wartime nibs are rare enough that it's remotely possible there are numbers not on the charts). I agree, however, that the overfeed sounds like a Wearever flexible nib, but those would have been fine rather than broad (though with the number of variations Wearever made over time, seemingly anything is possible). Interesting speculation that Wearever might have made Esterbrook compatible nib units; there were certainly at least a couple other companies that did (Osmiroid, Venus, Sengbusch, maybe others).

 

 

The nib says broad but Its the finest nib I have ever tried, and IMO its incredibly smooth.

 

Does it flex? Wearever, AFAIK, only put those "lever on the nib" overfeeds on their flexible fine nibs.

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Leica,

On my post is a link to Flikr where I have a lot of my pens pictured. In there is a Wearver pen as Frank mentions. Let us know if that's the nib. I would upload the picture direct to FPN but I am at work....EATING LUNCH (yea, that's it....lunch)

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I have a bunch of Wearevers and the 5 Pennants all have that series of nibs. 2 are 8363/Medium, 1 is 8365/Steno, and 2 are 8361/extfine and ex-fine. I'm assuming that this is a standard type of nib for this series of pen. But I know now that almost anything is possible since I've been able to knock out feeds/nibs and have already replaced some with other brands.

 

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I have a bunch of Wearevers and the 5 Pennants all have that series of nibs. 2 are 8363/Medium, 1 is 8365/Steno, and 2 are 8361/extfine and ex-fine. I'm assuming that this is a standard type of nib for this series of pen. But I know now that almost anything is possible since I've been able to knock out feeds/nibs and have already replaced some with other brands.

 

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None of your nibs matched mine. the lever thing on the nib fell off so ya, but I still got a pic of it but its not letting me upload ill probably try to put it on flickr.

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From what I've seen so far (with my limited exposure!), the 83xx nibs with over-feeds are on the Pennants. I've seen reference to the 8361(exfine),8363(medium & steno), 8364(broad), and 8365(steno) either in person or c/o MP listings. That leaves an 8362 to fill in the gap. Is this nib out there as well and what is it?

 

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From what I've seen so far (with my limited exposure!), the 83xx nibs with over-feeds are on the Pennants. I've seen reference to the 8361(exfine),8363(medium & steno), 8364(broad), and 8365(steno) either in person or c/o MP listings. That leaves an 8362 to fill in the gap. Is this nib out there as well and what is it?

 

Ralph

 

 

Check https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=119393&view=findpost&p=1181778 It has a photo of 8362 and says FLEXFINE (dont breath too hard for the "FLEX" part :) ).

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From what I've seen so far (with my limited exposure!), the 83xx nibs with over-feeds are on the Pennants. I've seen reference to the 8361(exfine),8363(medium & steno), 8364(broad), and 8365(steno) either in person or c/o MP listings. That leaves an 8362 to fill in the gap. Is this nib out there as well and what is it?

 

Ralph

 

 

Check https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=119393&view=findpost&p=1181778 It has a photo of 8362 and says FLEXFINE (dont breath too hard for the "FLEX" part :) ).

 

Yes, I sold one here earlier this year, and the term "Flexible" is not something I would use to describe it. :)

 

I have also seen Stenos, Mediums, fine, X-fine, but no broad models.

 

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