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Thanks for your kind words. Flattery will get you everywhere. I guess I'll post some photos of last week's bakes over in the making topic, just for you.

 

David

I was "just there," & having had one of my favorite bakeries offerings tonite with arugula salad for dinner, I can appreciate the post without lust; but I will surely sleep better tonite as a result of the post, even if it was last weekend's bake. This morning I had a wonderful cinnamon bread toasted, the loaf was discovered by a friend, & my hat is off to her for same; one piece of the bread felt as substantial as my normal English muffin. I love my pens, enjoy inks, but bread is DELICIOUS, & the perfect "delivery system for sweet butter."

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Here's my stub of the day, actually two for the price of one. It's a Visconti Wall Street L.E. with two different 23 K Pd nibs: on the left a stock 1.3 mm stub and on the right a BB nib ground to stub (pictured with the latter).

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Here's my stub of the day, actually two for the price of one. It's a Visconti Wall Street L.E. with two different 23 K Pd nibs: on the left a stock 1.3 mm stub and on the right a BB nib ground to stub (pictured with the latter).

 

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Beautiful pen and equally beautiful inks.

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Received a package today from Rolf (missingpens.de): an M400-sized IB nib that fits beautifully on my M250 Levenger Special brown tortoise pen. The nib was a little out of alignment when it arrived, but that was easily remedied, and it writes beautifully. It's inked with Papier Plume's Sepia, which shades magnificently.

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Received a package today from Rolf (missingpens.de): an M400-sized IB nib that fits beautifully on my M250 Levenger Special brown tortoise pen.

Sounds delicious, needs pics!

 

Here's mine for the day, a TWSBI Vac 700 with a Franklin-Christoph music nib.

 

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Haven't worked out how to drive this sucker yet, but it's very impressive - the Kaweco "Twin" calligraphy nib, sourced from fpnibs.com, transplanted (with dual channel feed) into a Kaweco AL-Sport:

 

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How wide is this edged nib & who did it? The top of the tip looks like John's work.

*Sailor 1911S, Black/gold, 14k. 0.8 mm. stub(JM) *1911S blue "Colours", 14k. H-B "M" BLS (PB)

*2 Sailor 1911S Burgundy/gold: 14k. 0.6 mm. "round-nosed" CI (MM) & 14k. 1.1 mm. CI (JM)

*Sailor Pro-Gear Slim Spec. Ed. "Fire",14k. (factory) "H-B"

*Kaweco SPECIAL FP: 14k. "B",-0.6 mm BLS & 14k."M" 0.4 mm. BLS (PB)

*Kaweco Stainless Steel Lilliput, 14k. "M" -0.7 mm.BLS, (PB)

 

 

 

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How wide is this edged nib & who did it? The top of the tip looks like John's work.

That's some of John's work, a double broad Nakata nib done as a stub. Love it.

 

 

 

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Sounds delicious, needs pics!

 

Sorry about the iPhone picture quality.

 

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Enjoy!

*Sailor 1911S, Black/gold, 14k. 0.8 mm. stub(JM) *1911S blue "Colours", 14k. H-B "M" BLS (PB)

*2 Sailor 1911S Burgundy/gold: 14k. 0.6 mm. "round-nosed" CI (MM) & 14k. 1.1 mm. CI (JM)

*Sailor Pro-Gear Slim Spec. Ed. "Fire",14k. (factory) "H-B"

*Kaweco SPECIAL FP: 14k. "B",-0.6 mm BLS & 14k."M" 0.4 mm. BLS (PB)

*Kaweco Stainless Steel Lilliput, 14k. "M" -0.7 mm.BLS, (PB)

 

 

 

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Sounds delicious, needs pics!

 

Here's mine for the day, a TWSBI Vac 700 with a Franklin-Christoph music nib.

 

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Excuse my ignorance, but other that girth what is the advantage of a music nib over a big stub? Thanks.

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Excuse my ignorance, but other that girth what is the advantage of a music nib over a big stub? Thanks.

Is more juicy.. And can write at particular angle for taking music notes

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Excuse my ignorance, but other that girth what is the advantage of a music nib over a big stub? Thanks.

 

Vaibhav's description is accurate, in general, for music nibs. But you know, about generalizations ... :rolleyes:

 

I have two F-C "music nibs." They are quite a bit crisper than other "music nibs" (Platinum's, for example) and, while having adequate ink flow, are not remarkably juicy. I see them as 1.9 mm cursive italic nibs, and that's how I use them. I like them a lot!

 

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Thank you David and Vaibhav. There have been a few Osmiroids recently with Music nibs and it made me wonder.

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Thank you David and Vaibhav. There have been a few Osmiroids recently with Music nibs and it made me wonder.

I have a lot of Osmiroid specialty nibs but not a music nib. If you pick one up, please tell us about it and shows us photos.

 

David

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No. That's a B4 nib for the latest "Easy-change" Osmiroid pens. (Discontinued in the late 1970's, I believe.) It does have 3 tines, like many music nibs. I don't know that Osmiroid every made a nib they called a "music nib."

 

FYI, the Osmiroid B4 nib is 2.5 mm. The other fountain pens that had italic nibs that broad were Platignum (also English) and Reform (German). Pelikan made some calligraphy nibs up to 2.0mm, that I know of. The only currently manufactured fountain pen nibs that comes close, to my knowledge are Kaweco's 2.3 mm italic nib and the 2.3 mm italic nib for the Rotring Art Pen. I guess the Pilot Parallel is technically a fountain pen, and those go up to 6 mm!

 

David

 

P.S. If you want to see a Platignum 3-tine italic nib in action, watch some of the Lloyd Reynolds videos on youtube.

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I agree with David, the F-C music nib really acts like a very broad cursive italic.

 

Here's one of my favourites: an Aurora Optima Mare L.E. with 14k stub nib.

 

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