Vintage Esterbrook Nib Question?????? ++

[woodwindmaster06]

I am looking for a flexible nib, do any of the Esterbrook nibs come in a standard flex?? In the ones available it seems that there is a firm and a manifold, is this manifold a flex nib??? What nibs of Esterbrook come in a flex???

 

Also another quick vintage pen question: Will Conklin Endura, Parker 66. Duofold/Sr, Vacumatic , Wahl-eversharp, Waterman 725 1/2 vintage pens have a pretty standard flex nib???

 

Thanks

WWM

[Brian Anderson]

Your best bet for esterbrook flex is 9128. I don't care how the nibs are labeled, the other so-called "Flex" esterbrook nibs just aren't. Don't expect them to be anything like a waterman flex either, or you'll be disappointed. The other marked flex nibs have a little give and that's about it. Esterbrook was more about putting an inexpensive point in an inexpensive holder. Their "The right point for the way you write" slogan was on just about every piece of marketing for almost 30 years. If you look, almost every nib on the list is firm or manifold, difference being in point width or shape (stub, relief, italic, etc.)

 

Manifold is just that, manifold, i.e. rock hard and firm. They were meant for making multiple copies without having to press so dang hard. They are, ummm.., anti-flex.

 

Best-

Brian