Two-Tone Nib Swap On Twsbi 580?

[tinkerteacher]

Tinkering is always fun, though, so I look forward to it!

 

Indeed it is. A year or two ago, I tried hacking a Pluminix calligraphy nib onto a Pilot Petit1. Came close, but the only way to get it to work that I could see would have been to physically alter the Pluminix nib. Something I wasn't ready to do at that time. One of these days, I come back to it.

[tinkerteacher]

This photo gives an idea of what you can hack onto a TWSBI

 

 

 

[tinkerteacher]

One thing I have always wondered is why TWSBI doesn't just go ahead and make their own nibs, or at the very least their own feeds.

 

They, or rather TaShin Precision the industrial giant of which TWSBI is a very small part of, definitely have the capacity, knowledge, and skills to do this. Perhaps the economics just don't add up for them.

Edited March 24, 2015 by tinkerteacher

[TeaHive]

Alrighty, some pictures as promised!!

 

I liked the Edison EF immensely, but I have so many EF nibs, and I wanted something that wrote wetter. So I ground it myself into a 0.5mm cursive italic. I love it!

 

 

 

And a writing sample! It started up immediately after sitting overnight, so even though the feed isn't flush all the way along the nib, it works just fine.

 

[tinkerteacher]

Seyes!

 

Thank the stars, I am not the only crazy English language user and devote of this French ruled paper.

 

And, thanks for the photos and fine handwriting, and for being brave enough to use Diamine Sargasso Sea in a TWSBI.

Edited March 24, 2015 by tinkerteacher

[PabloAU]

Small Visconti nibs work too, with a little heat-setting of the feed

 

[TeaHive]

Seyes!

 

Thank the stars, I am not the only crazy English language user and devote of this French ruled paper.

 

And, thanks for the photos and fine handwriting, and for being brave enough to use Diamine Sargasso Sea in a TWSBI.

 

Pens are tools, and are meant to be used. Not just sit around and look pretty. I'll use whatever damn ink I please! HAH! I figured it would be a good match for the USA pen, as it's blue with red sheen. Woop woop!

 

Seyes paper is my favorite! Especially in the form of Clairefontaine.

 

 

Small Visconti nibs work too, with a little heat-setting of the feed

 

TWSconti.jpg

 

Yay for more nibs that fit! I've been rummaging through my collection to see what might be swap-able. A Parker Vacumatic nib has caught my eye, and I may eventually give that a go, too.

[tinkerteacher]

Pens are tools, and are meant to be used. Not just sit around and look pretty. I'll use whatever damn ink I please! HAH! I figured it would be a good match for the USA pen, as it's blue with red sheen. Woop woop!

 

Seyes paper is my favorite! Especially in the form of Clairefontaine.

I currently have my Mini inked up with J. Herbin 1670 Blue Ocean (the re-formulation with the sparkly bits) and holding it up to the light and twirling it is absolutely mesmerising, and that's even before I put the 1.1 mm to the paper.

 

My other, beater Mini is usually filled with either Red Dragon or Oxblood. Great stuff, especially when it's getting near to empty and the blood red ink is dripping down towards the feed.

 

Pain in hind quarters to clean out afterwards, but that's why you buy USD 50 pens with user disassembable, unscratchable plastic bodies and lifetime warranties. I've never understood all these people who say 'oh, I love xx ink, but I can't use it in my demonstrator because I heard on the internet that if I do, my pen will burst into flames.'

 

Have you thought of learning Modern European Roundhand and making use of all the lines in your Seyes notebook?

[TeaHive]

Great minds think alike! I mean about actually using inks in xyz pens.

 

As for the Seyes notebook, I have an xxf Parker Vacumatic I use for my novel-writing, and actually write on every other line, using the blank lines for possible editing notes. Though I certainly could use each tiny line individually. The notebook I used for the above photos is usually just for ink tests and random calligraphy practice.

[tinkerteacher]

To go even more off topic,

 

The way you use Seyes for handwriting, or at least the way I was taught in school, is that the dark line is your base, the lighter horizontal lines your guides. The lowercase or minuscules go up to the first line above, while the uppercase or majuscules go up three lines above. Ascenders go up two lines, descenders down two lines.

 

 

Like here in my crappy, very much in need of handwriting practice example:

 

 

 

[j1020]

The Nibs on my 530, 540 and 580 all seem to be size 5 although there isn't any number on them. They are all interchangeable with each other.

 

Can't answer your question about the Edison nibs but I'm sure if you emailed Brian, he could tell you.

[TeaHive]

The Nibs on my 530, 540 and 580 all seem to be size 5 although there isn't any number on them. They are all interchangeable with each other.

 

Can't answer your question about the Edison nibs but I'm sure if you emailed Brian, he could tell you.

 

Oh, it was a success. As the photos indicate on the first page.

[Kevlar]

Also for anyone willing to tinker a bit, I was able to fit a Edison nib, feed and collar onto a TWSBI. Take a razor blade and carefully cut about 2 threads worth off the end of the collar, then lightly sand down the "top" of the collar until you can just about friction fit it onto the metal collar of the TWSBI section. Here, I just carefully tightened the whole thing around and Voila! works like a charm (and now I have a Binderized Edison for 4$ more than what it would have cost me to buy the TWSBI unit).

No drying out due to cap issues and it feels fantastically smooth.

[deacondavid]

Thank you for the research and experimentation you've been doing. I am thinking about a couple of spare nibs for my 540 and 580. I'm particularly interested in trying to fit a Franklin-Cristoph Masayama Cursive Italic nib.

[TeaHive]

The #5 nibs from Franklin-Christoph should fit! Not sure about the nib unit as a whole, or the feed, but you should be able to pull the nib itself out and replace the TWSBI 540/580 nib.