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According to my spreadsheet, that was Diamine Marine.

CRYSTAL CLEAR handwriting. So pleasing to the eyes.

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CRYSTAL CLEAR handwriting. So pleasing to the eyes.

Thank you very much for your kind words!

I endeavour to be frank and truthful in what I write, show or otherwise present, when I relate my first-hand experiences that are not independently verifiable; and link to third-party content where I can, when I make a claim or refute a statement of fact in a thread. If there is something you can verify for yourself, I entreat you to do so, and judge for yourself what is right, correct, and valid. I may be wrong, and my position or say-so is no more authoritative and carries no more weight than anyone else's here.

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Geha Stub : grinding by expert , cosmetic damage by me. Soft and smooth.

 

Damage ...no issue. Try Fail, Try again Fail better.

( Hope to die with the right regrets .....Arthur Miller )

 

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One of my MB favorites : KAFKA

 

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" Now I can look at you in peace ... "

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This is Wality 71 JT and not 69A as handwritten in Pic...



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The nib is by Syahi and it is a threaded nib instead of previous generation friction fit nibs


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I've been using a Lamy Vista-EF with Noodler's Walnut with my 52 gsm TRP Nanami Notebooks and I am loving this combo.

 

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I got sick of hating my Pelikan M815 — a sentiment which peaked when I found the B nib on my Platinum #3776 Century "The Prime" laid down lines of about the same width — and, given the lack of information about the upcoming Sydney Pen Show 2019 and which stalls and which nibmeisters will be there, I amateurishly attempted 'surgery' on the nib instead, on the risk assessment that I could replace the nib with a new unit for about A$250 if it all goes pear-shaped.

(I had a number of unsuccessful attempts at making that nib drier and write with a finer line, lost sleep over it, got into a bit of a tiff with my fiancée, and all that... before I ended up with a result I can live with.)

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I got sick of hating my Pelikan M815 — a sentiment which peaked when I found the B nib on my Platinum #3776 Century "The Prime" laid down lines of about the same width — and, given the lack of information about the upcoming Sydney Pen Show 2019 and which stalls and which nibmeisters will be there, I amateurishly attempted 'surgery' on the nib instead, on the risk assessment that I could replace the nib with a new unit for about A$250 if it all goes pear-shaped.

 

(I had a number of unsuccessful attempts at making that nib drier and write with a finer line, lost sleep over it, got into a bit of a tiff with my fiancée, and all that... before I ended up with a result I can live with.)

 

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Oh man, that feeling of knowing one's beloved pen doesn't lay down the line expected of it. Yuk.

 

I've trashed many a nib doing what you have done and am delighted you've managed to resolve the issue. Who dares wins . . . .etc etc.

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@Tas , thanks!

 

I may well be in an eccentric minority, but I wish more nibs would perform in the way that makes sense to me: put down fine and sharp lines for writing (what one would designate in Microsoft Word as) 12-to-14-point body text with 'normal' hand pressure and 10-point footnotes or annotations with a deliberately light hand, but act more like a broader blunt instrument when reverse-writing to put down the occasional heading.

 

(All the same, I'm grateful that most of my pens will at least do the opposite: lay down broader lines in normal orientation, but significantly finer and often sharper lines when reverse-writing. It's just a little weird to reverse-write with a fountain pen more often than I do with the nib in normal orientation.)

 

Personally, an instrument like that would really contribute to my enjoyment of handwriting while giving the output some flair. I know many other users are self-styled fans of shading and sheen in fountain pen inks, and over time I've started to like those characteristics more (instead of seeing them as just uncontrolled distractions from legibility and gravitas), but I think the best way to show them off is in their manifestation in very narrow lines, with sheen appearing like metallic threads reflecting light unevenly while shading can be see when one looks very closely over the length of a 0.3mm-wide line of ink.

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I endeavour to be frank and truthful in what I write, show or otherwise present, when I relate my first-hand experiences that are not independently verifiable; and link to third-party content where I can, when I make a claim or refute a statement of fact in a thread. If there is something you can verify for yourself, I entreat you to do so, and judge for yourself what is right, correct, and valid. I may be wrong, and my position or say-so is no more authoritative and carries no more weight than anyone else's here.

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