Sailor Zoom Vs. Naginata Togi Nib

[jpzahra]

Hey all

 

I've got a Sapporo with a zoom nib and its a beautiful buttery smooth nib to write with. Only shame is that at the angle I write (rather shallow and with a bit of a left sided twist) I keep getting way too broad a line which made me have to retire this pen from work - writing medical notes and anaesthetic charts - and ink capacity was a bit limited. So I've got a 1911 Naginata Togi MF in the post which I only yesterday got at auction from engeika (other shops exist but I do love taizo) and I hope to be using this new pen much more.

 

Just to throw something else into the mix how would the NT MF compare to my current favourite pen - a Platinum 3776 Century Bourgogne with a Fine nib?

 

Thanks

JP

[Dr.Grace]

The Platinum fine might be something like a Western XF, right? So I suppose the NT-MF would be quite different. It can produce lines ranging from western F to BB, perhaps, depending on the angle of the pen with the plane of the paper. If you're looking for a pen in the range of what you're used to with the Platinum F, the NT is not it.

[Sailor Kenshin]

Another great video, thanks!

 

What ink are you using? It appears so nice and wet and has some shading.

[mhosea]

I had always understood that Sailor nibs were among the smoothest to be found, so it surprised me a little to see you suggest that the newer nibs, with their facets, are not always so smooth.

 

I understand. If you search this site you will find that many people have expressed the same surprise, though most after buying one. We are talking nibs that are not infrequently among the smoothest some folks have ever used and about as often thought scratchy. IME, they are smooth when used at the angles of attack that their designers intended, and I imagine that is enough to explain most of the differences of opinion. I have been able to adjust mine, however, to behave as I like.

 

I usually write with the nib at about 45 degrees to the paper, so I am curious about how an NT nib might write at that angle.

 

In terms of smoothness, flow, feedback, etc., the same as at any other angle, I think. My Naginata Togi Medium-Fine is a pleasant regular writer, and that's probably not far off from what I use. I don't find mine to be particularly wet, however. It could be adjusted for that, and one may vary from another "out of the box". I consider mine consistently neither wet nor dry. I touch the nib to the paper, and it always writes, but ink doesn't often seem to pool near the ends of strokes the way it does with the pens I consider wet writers--just a bit when I write in print on Clairefontaine paper.

Edited January 13, 2013 by mhosea