Best Shaeffer Fine And/or Extra Fine Nib

[griffinhot]

I often like to write with a very fine line at work. I like a

smooth flow of ink and don't mind a little scatchy. My current

favorite Sheaffer is a Statesman with a fine conical nib, but it

writes more like a medium.

I thought some of you that appreciate a fine line would have some

opinions about your favorite Sheaffer nib.

[andru]

My last pen purchase (and only one of two in the last year, wow I've been good...) was an Imperial Lifetime cartridge pen with an XXF inlaid style 14 K (but rigid) nib. This is the finest point I've ever worked with, not including writing with pens upside-down. It writes just as you describe -- generous wetness, no hard starts or skipping (with Noodler's HoD), but not smooth like my conical nib F Imperial. However it doesn't scratch the paper like a semiflex, or collect fibres (Leuchtturm1917 journals). It does slightly promote the "spider legs" mild feathering that paper is known for.

 

I find the XXF line really lays bare the sloppiness in my writing, so it's also been good practise for forming my letters more carefully!

[bogiesan]

I have four extra fine Sheahher nibs: steel inlaid Imperial-style, steel conical, gold inlaid and gold conical. These are all on NOS pens from the 1960-1979 time frame. I enjoy these pens but there is nothing consistently predictable about any of them. CHange inks or papers and the nib behaves differently. The steel nibs are as much fun and as weirdly unpredictable as the gold.

[georges zaslavsky]

a sheaffer crest valiant from the 40's would be a good pen for you other possibility is the sheaffer balance

[WayTooManyHobbies]

I often like to write with a very fine line at work. I like a

smooth flow of ink and don't mind a little scatchy. My current

favorite Sheaffer is a Statesman with a fine conical nib, but it

writes more like a medium.

I thought some of you that appreciate a fine line would have some

opinions about your favorite Sheaffer nib.

I have two Sheaffer Triumph-nib snorkels, a Statesman marked F4 and a Clipper which is unmarked. As I understand it, the F4 mark denotes a fine width Palladium Silver nib. The Statesman puts down a moderately wet line that is finer than anything else I have with the exception of a Hero 616. Before I restored the Statesman, I would have said the Clipper was very fine, but its line is noticeably thicker.

 

I think the Sheaffer fines varied a bit from pen to pen. It might be worth swapping to a slightly drier ink to see if it's more to your liking.

 

Good luck.

[jimhughes]

Sheaffer Tuckie, clipless XF Plunger Filler Triumph, sheath , Conical nib, 2Tone , 14 kt Lifetime. Works perfectly 100% of the time , Contact gberg, Gene Berg on the board he restores them. Closest I've got to it is a XXF Nakaya Piccolo. or Pelikan 205 with an XXF Binderized Steel Waverly nib. Or Estie, 9555 Gregg Shorthand XF Nib in Steel. YMMV, Jim

Edited August 3, 2012 by jimhughes

[athar201]

i would suggest a sheaffer imperial sterling silver with a extra fine nib

[Happy Harry]

In the Snorkel and TM TD lines there are Accountant , Shorthand nibs (and in earlier lines as well)as well as x fine. In the Snorkel an A indicates Accountant, G shorthand. In other models the shorthand nib is denoted with a semi circle like marking ("gouge") in the section.