Silver Nib?

[FPK]

Because silver has similar properties to gold, has any company made a pen with a silver nib?

[jar]

Because silver has similar properties to gold, has any company made a pen with a silver nib?

 

Does silver tarnish?

[professionaldilettante]

Because silver has similar properties to gold, has any company made a pen with a silver nib?

 

Does silver tarnish?

Well....most silver.

 

I feel like Estebrook or Parker made pens with silver nibs, but I may be wrong.

Silver is usually too soft for anything, and like gold, it must be alloyed with another metal. This is usually copper, as in the case of sterling. Pure silver is not very reactive, but when alloyed, will. It is the copper that "tarnishes" or oxidizes. However, I can't speak of silver's corrosion resistance. It may be very good, as I have my silver jewlery on me 24/7 and it doesn't seem to corrode. It doesn't tarnish though, because of my daily baths.

[Sagar_C]

Because silver has similar properties to gold, has any company made a pen with a silver nib?

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?/topic/178565-silver-nibs/page__p__1793517__fromsearch__1#entry1793517 ---> Have a look at this thread.

[antares1966]

Too chemically reactive I think, corrosion/tarnish. I don't have the metallurgic knowledge to say if a silver alloy has the strength to make good nib material.

[jar]

Too chemically reactive I think, corrosion/tarnish. I don't have the metallurgic knowledge to say if a silver alloy has the strength to make good nib material.

 

Great Sheaffer PdAg nibs.

[antares1966]

Too chemically reactive I think, corrosion/tarnish. I don't have the metallurgic knowledge to say if a silver alloy has the strength to make good nib material.

 

Great Sheaffer PdAg nibs.

 

See, that's why I love this forum, I'm a little more educated now than just 10 minutes ago

[Gobblecup]

A little more off topic, but what other metals can be "alloyed" with silver, perhaps ones that do not tarnish so easily? :hmm1:

[jbb]

I've got Silver Alloy Dip Nibs listed here: https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?/topic/181146-silver-alloy-dip-nibs-birmingham-pen-co/page__p__1823326__fromsearch__1#entry1823326 --- but it's steel, coated with copper, and finished in Silver Alloy to prevent corroding.

Edited January 13, 2011 by jbb

[jonro]

It was used for the cap, not the nib, but Aurora's 88 Nikargenta was a nickel-silver alloy. I read that it was too expensive to produce, which is why Aurora stopped using it.

[mstone]

The sheaffer palladium/silver nibs have already gotten a nod. I'd be surprised to see many in the future as there are essentially no advantages to a silver nib over a steel nib, and now that almost-pure palladium nibs are possible, I can't really think of a reason someone would use silver even in an alloy the way sheaffer did.