How Not To Adjust A Nib

[furious]

I was flirting with the idea of using a razor blade on a vintage Conway Stewart 759 14k nib until I happened upon this thread.

 

Am going to opt for brass shims instead. If that doesn't work, I will send the pen to a professional.

[inkeverywhere]

Know your limits and never go beyond them!

 

Sometimes spending a little saves alot.

 

 

Greg

 

"may our fingers remain ink stained"

[SkylarKnight]

This is painful. My heart aches to see someone be so brutal with such a wonderful object... This pen looks like an amazing writer, how sad that people can't take good car of such things =\

[Pamurimaharaj]

Dont put it in a reverse way

[ian1964]

Lets be honest. We have all done silly things we live to regret ...I know I have!

[Mangrove Jack]

What's a penknife for then ?

[Snamellit]

A penknife is for sharpening pencils. LOL

[Snamellit]

sorry, duplicate

Edited March 8, 2015 by Snamellit

[Mangrove Jack]

A penknife is for sharpening pencils. LOL

Should it not then be called a pencilknife ?

[fpnnm]

Penknives originated in the pre-fountain-pen era of writing instruments, apparently.

 

"Originally, penknives were used for thinning and pointing quills to prepare them for use as writing instruments and, later, for repairing or re-pointing the quills."

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penknife

Edited March 10, 2015 by fpnnm

[Snamellit]

It is amazing that something which is obsolete for roughly 150 years is still a household name.

[tryphon]

This will tell you How TO adjust a nib, safely and effectively.

 

http://www.newpentrace.net/articleGA04.html

[fpnnm]

It is amazing that something which is obsolete for roughly 150 years is still a household name.

 

Some calligraphers still use quill pens (I have been led to understand).

Edited March 10, 2015 by fpnnm

[Gloucesterman]

I haven't done it in a while and I used to use exacto an knife to cut quills I used in my calligraphy.

[Rob G]

I used a quill briefly as a Civil War reenactor. I even made one, just so I could say I did it. Thank goodness for steel pens!

[kmeredith923]

I recall trying to make quills from the tail feathers of the pheasants we raised on my childhood farm. (Proof my fetish for all things writing related started early!) Of course the concept escaped me, but I still feel I did a better, cleaner and potentially more well informed job than whoever attempted homicide with this poor pen!

[taash]

Looks like they went at it with a vegetable peeler. Ouch.

[taash]

What's a penknife for then ?

 

A penknife is for sharpening a quill (as in feather) pen. When the end of the quill gets too frayed, you use your penknife to cut it off and expose a fresh section.

[Timeline]

I wonder if doctors humiliate their patients on public forums, pretty sure if this customer sees or hears of the OP he won't be sending any work to him in the future.

[Freddy]

I wonder if doctors humiliate their patients on public forums, pretty sure if this customer sees or hears of the OP he won't be sending any work to him in the future.

WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot............??? Name of patient{s} Customer is name of patient....https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/204724-how-not-to-adjust-a-nib/?p=2108161

Eight years later..............Fascinatin'.....Ain't it....Redactin': Perhaps the 'Modern Prometheus' Mary Shelly

Fred

Say goodnight Gracie................

Edited August 19, 2019 by Freddy