Lamy 2000 Sweet Spot

[Snoutmol]

A nibmeister can do a lot with a nib, provided you can be clear as to what you want. Though you probably will want a larger nib size to get a 'larger' surface to work with that feels smoother, but of course that increases the line thickness.

Doesn't the Lamy 2000 have an almost rectangular-shaped nib, instead of the usual circular one? In this case, grinding down the edges, to make it a proper circle, wouldn't result in a larger surface touching the paper? And then it would be a line of the same fineness.

 

I never understood why they made the sweet spot smaller by making the nib rectangular. If it's to make it smoother, the 2000 is too smooth already.

[aucheukyan]

I have the EF nib and i have no problem with the nibs, i write with the nib slightly rotated to the left, like 10 degrees and its still working fine.

 

Maybe try a ink with better flow? I use the Pilot blue-black ink.

[xyverz]

I've found that with a wetter ink, the L2k writes beautifully. My current favorites are Diamine Bilberry and Iroshizuku Yama Budo.

[RMN]

Doesn't the Lamy 2000 have an almost rectangular-shaped nib, instead of the usual circular one? In this case, grinding down the edges, to make it a proper circle, wouldn't result in a larger surface touching the paper? And then it would be a line of the same fineness.

 

I never understood why they made the sweet spot smaller by making the nib rectangular. If it's to make it smoother, the 2000 is too smooth already.

 

I think that will depend on the nib size. Some brands keep their B and BB nibs round, other brands make them stubbish as to give a bit of line variation. I know not enough about the L2000 to know what Lamy does.

 

But a stubbish nib would likely have a smaller sweet spot.

 

If you would round that nib probably the contact area would narrow resulting in a thinner line, but with a larger sweet spot.

 

 

D.ick

[max dog]

Had a L2K a few years ago in fine nib and the narrow sweet spot put me off the pen and I got rid of it. Acquired another one recently with a broader medium nib and it definately has the same narrow sweet spot. You have to write with the L2K like an italic being mindful of the proper nib orientation because all their nibs are squarish. When you are in the sweet spot they write wonderfully.

 

Brian Goulet did a very good video recently about the L2K sweet spot:

 

[alexwong001]

I had the same problem with my l2k extra fine nib. I used iroshizuku take sumi and actually wanted the nib to write much finer and crisp. Sent it out to be worked my mike masuyama and now much happier (usual disclaimer applies) Btw, nice informative video!

[Snoutmol]

I've heard some claim that the video is biased, because the makers of it sell the pens and have an agenda, but the video doesn't seem inaccurate to me.