Deccan Advocate-Flat Top-Review

[Aditkamath26]

So is the flat top Advocate better than the sigar shaped Advocate?

 

It totally depends on what you want and like. I personally prefer the Flat Advocate.

[gudasrinivas]

Beautiful review. I own a Deccan Advocate and it is one of my favourite eyedropper pens.

[vamsivadrevu]

I myself got a Deccan Advocate (Metal jacketed cap and rounded ends for Rs. 1350)... but I'm not satisfied with the nib's performance. It had a Kanwrite medium nib which had a lot of starting problems (probably due to baby's bottom on the nib). After multiple visits to the Deccan pen store and repeated trials the starting problems still existed with the nib. So I decided to put the nib on a 220 grit sand paper and now there are no longer any starting problems..but now the nib is extremely scratchy and rough. So I've now ordered micromesh pads to do the polishing.

Surprisingly I have another kanwrite nib (on a Wality 69T pen) which is so perfect out of the box that I don't dare mess with it. It's only on the Deccan Advocate that I found the starting problems. (I actually got the Wality 69T on a whim but was not happy with the fine nib it came with...so I right away asked the Deccan Pens Store to replace it with Kanwrite Medium Nib and now it has become my favorite pen).

[hari317]

I myself got a Deccan Advocate (Metal jacketed cap and rounded ends for Rs. 1350)... but I'm not satisfied with the nib's performance. It had a Kanwrite medium nib which had a lot of starting problems (probably due to baby's bottom on the nib). After multiple visits to the Deccan pen store and repeated trials the starting problems still existed with the nib. So I decided to put the nib on a 220 grit sand paper and now there are no longer any starting problems..but now the nib is extremely scratchy and rough. So I've now ordered micromesh pads to do the polishing.

Surprisingly I have another kanwrite nib (on a Wality 69T pen) which is so perfect out of the box that I don't dare mess with it. It's only on the Deccan Advocate that I found the starting problems. (I actually got the Wality 69T on a whim but was not happy with the fine nib it came with...so I right away asked the Deccan Pens Store to replace it with Kanwrite Medium Nib and now it has become my favorite pen).

or you can take the pen back to Deccan and ask them to fit a new nib instead of tweaking the older one. Earlier they used to put an ambitious gold plated nib on the advocate. Can you share picsof the kW nib on your pen?

[vamsivadrevu]

or you can take the pen back to Deccan and ask them to fit a new nib instead of tweaking the older one. Earlier they used to put an ambitious gold plated nib on the advocate. Can you share picsof the kW nib on your pen?

I managed to grind down the nib to buttery smoothness. I also seem to have fixed the baby's bottom issue... There are no hard starts anymore and the nib writes very wet. I'd have very much liked a gold nib but Deccan pens don't seem to have any options. They only had kanwrite nibs. For now I'm satisfied with the pen but I'll no longer seek out Deccan pens. I've realised that a good pen is just a nib and it's feed. The rest of the pen is just a container. As long as the pen can hold some ink and write wet lines consistently I don't mind what material the pen body is made of. I'll post the images of the nib when I get back home