Which Is Your Favorite Italic Nib For Daily Use?

[nightwing]

I don't yet have an italic/stub nib suitable for daily use - I only have a Lamy Safari with a 1.5mm nib. However, just today, I sent off a pen to Pendleton Brown to regrind a medium nib to a stub. I eagerly look forward to seeing the result!

 

I'm also curious to see writing samples of various stub widths below 1mm.

[IWantThat]

For daily use I'd go with a Pendleton Point cursive italic on any pen you happen to really like. He does wonderful reshapings.

ron

 

+1

I love my Pendleton Point CI pens

[liapuyat]

I've been journalling daily with a Pelikan M200, with a steel M nib made cursive italic by Richard Binder. I also write letters with a Vanishing Point, with a 0.9mm cursive italic by Deb Kinney. Both certainly add character to my handwriting!

[sexauerw]

My favorite for everyday use is my Pilot Custom 823, which I bought from John Mottishaw and had him grind it to a .7mm cursive italic. It is the only pen in my 330+ pen collection that has never been out of rotation; it always gets refilled and stays in use. I also have several Sheaffer inlaid nibs with factory stub points, these are all in the 1.1mm range. I love them too but they're a little large for me for everyday use.

 

Here are a couple of the Sheaffers:

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j66/sexauerw/SterlingImperialWriter.jpg

 

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j66/sexauerw/Gettysburg-Targa.jpg

[kp288908]

My favorite italic is a B stub nib ground by Richard Binder. The nib is very smooth and I use it in a Gate City Postal Jr., it is, hands down, my favorite pen. Interestingly, I recently tried Lamy Safari for the first time, since I have heard consistent rave reviews about the 1.1 italic nib. I must admit that I am enjoying it. I can only agree with other comments I've heard that indicate that it's the best value at that price point.

[dcpritch]

... I also have several Sheaffer inlaid nibs with factory stub points, these are all in the 1.1mm range. I love them too but they're a little large for me for everyday use ...

 

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j66/sexauerw/Gettysburg-Targa.jpg

 

What a great writing pen, super line variation, and I can tell it is very smooth with great flow. And your printing is absolutely superb! You have such consistent size and spacing of letters it almost appears as though it were machine made, but your writing is far more interesting than that could be.

 

And I showed the image again because I love what you wrote. What an inspiring message!

 

Thanks for showing us!

[Alieanor]

I have to amend my earlier statement. My newly arrived Pelikan M805 with 1.3 CI nib obtained from Richard Binder is just dreamy. I'm going to be looking for excuses to use this pen, that's for sure.

[sexauerw]

... I also have several Sheaffer inlaid nibs with factory stub points, these are all in the 1.1mm range. I love them too but they're a little large for me for everyday use ...

 

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j66/sexauerw/Gettysburg-Targa.jpg

 

What a great writing pen, super line variation, and I can tell it is very smooth with great flow. And your printing is absolutely superb! You have such consistent size and spacing of letters it almost appears as though it were machine made, but your writing is far more interesting than that could be.

 

And I showed the image again because I love what you wrote. What an inspiring message!

 

Thanks for showing us!

 

After thinking about my post and your reply, I though that I should state here, mostly for the benefit of our non-US readers, that I am responsible only for the handwriting, not the message. The text is the opening, actually more than half, of the Gettysburg Address given by Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863. That was in the middle of the American Civil War; the South had been winning and had driven north into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. They were decisively defeated there by the Northern forces in a three-day battle, the first significant victory of the war for the Union. This battle marked a turning point in the war and led to the eventual victory by the Northern forces and the preservation of the United States of America as a single, united country. An amazing speech to make in the middle of a bloody civil war. The Gettysburg battle alone had claimed over 60,000 casualties in the three days. Total Civil War casualties (including both sides) still exceed the combined US casualty total of all other wars combined.

[Ghost Plane]

I have to agree on those Shaeffer stubs. Picked one up in a stirling Legacy from Mauricio and it's simply an awesome pen.