Does anyone collect pens with just one type of nib?

[nvbrennan]

Since my pens are all users, the nib sizes that suit me are B, BB, OBB, stub, and IB depending on the pen brand. I buy them to write with. The oooooooooooooo, pretty is what attracts me, but they must have my nib.

 

Yeah GP I'd love to see a sample of your handwriting, I can't write with anything really wider than a Japanese fine so I can't work out how someone can use a BB nib?!

 

IN response to OP I use only vintage fines and modern xf's and japanese fines.

[FrankB]

I use different nib sizes depending on what kind of writing I am doing - and my mood. My pens have a wide variety of nibs - standard ball nibs from accountant point to BB, and italic and stub nibs from F to B. I am fairly flexible on nib sizes when buying or trading pens. That flexibility has netted me really good good buys and trades.

Edited February 6, 2010 by FrankB

[2Hearts]

I have mostly M nibs, or at least my favourite pens are M (aside from my Lamy Safari which is F, but writes wide). I am on the lookout for a XF nibbed pen, a B nib and maybe a stub nib.

[HelzBelz]

The majority of my pens are Fs, but I'm developing a taste for wider nibs at the moment (it started with a cheap '51', which has an M/B nib. I didn't know that when I bought it, and was going to have it reground, but I'm less sure on that now). I have nibs in everything from Japanese EF (it was the only choice available on the ivory Sapporo I ordered; I'd have preferred an F, although I like the spidery fineness of it now I have it, but use it less than I otherwise would) through to generous M/B with some flex. I really like italics, but am only just building my collection of those.

 

I like the way I can see much more of my ink with the wider nibs: they use it faster, and they're not always practical, but oh, their prettiness makes up for it!

 

I, too, would love to see a sample of Ghost Plane's handwriting: I've been intrigued by the idea of regular writing with B and BB nibs for a little while.