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Is it possible to turn a 1.5 nib into a 1.1 one by trimming off part of it? I have a couple of pens with 1.5 nibs, but I thought I'd get a pen with a 1.1 nib so as to be able to get some line-width variation without having to use bigger handwriting. I chose a TWSBI Diamond 580, as I also wanted it to be a piston filler, but on trying it I saw the width is exactly the same as the one I get with my two pens with actual 1.5 nibs (Rotring ArtPen and Lamy Safari). Would a technician be able to turn the nib into a 1.1 (or 1.2) one?

 

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Of course it is possible. :)

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Great to know it! I'll have it done. Thanks!

 

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12 hours ago, Cassotto said:

piston filler, but on trying it I saw the width is exactly the same as the one I get with my two pens with actual 1.5 nibs (Rotring ArtPen and Lamy Safari). Would a technician be able to turn the nib into a 1.1 (or 1.2) one?

 

 

Possible, yes... Worth the cost? Unknown.

 

I think I'd look for someone selling Lamy nibs, and just buy a Lamy 1.1 nib for the Safari (as I recall, they have 1.1, 1.5, and 1.9 for the Lamy Joy -- visualize the result of an illicit mating of the Safari and ArtPen).

 

https://www.amazon.com/LAMY-Joy-Calligraphy-1-1-LZ50/dp/B000GPI75Y/ref=asc_df_B000GPI75Y/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=385147021839&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1651708791762237183&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9017451&hvtargid=pla-420895226602&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=80205194042&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=385147021839&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1651708791762237183&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9017451&hvtargid=pla-420895226602

 

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For all of these, it would be more cost effective to just buy a new nib - or even a new pen - than have one tinkered down to size. 

 

That said, it's not a hard adjustment to make yourself with a couple of files and some patience.

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Buy a new nib, or have one ground?  I suggest you search "grind your own fountain pen nib" and grind the one you have.  No special tools are needed.  If you read a few of those sites, your chance of grinding you own nib could have good results.  You can practice on cheap pens first.

 

If you ruin it, you buy a new already ground nib.

 

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15 hours ago, BaronWulfraed said:

 

I think I'd look for someone selling Lamy nibs, and just buy a Lamy 1.1 nib for the Safari (as I recall, they have 1.1, 1.5, and 1.9 for the Lamy Joy -- visualize the result of an illicit mating of the Safari and ArtPen).

 

 

It's the TWSBI nib I'd like to modify; I'm happy with the Safari with the 1.5 nib, as it's the cheap pen I use to tinker with inks I don't want to ink better pens with (actually, I don't like the Safari much). And the Rotring is the pen I usually use to practise Italic, so I'm happy with it, too. It's only that I bought the TWSBI because I specifically wanted a pen with a smaller italic nib, and I found it was exactly as the other two. It's a better pen, and one I'd like to use for daily writing.

 

 

15 hours ago, BaronWulfraed said:

Possible, yes... Worth the cost? Unknown.

 

13 hours ago, mizgeorge said:

For all of these, it would be more cost effective to just buy a new nib - or even a new pen - than have one tinkered down to size.

 

I hadn't thought of that. The problem is I'm not sure TWSBI makes smaller italic nibs. I'll have a look and see what I can find.

 

 

11 hours ago, Larry Barrieau said:

Buy a new nib, or have one ground?  I suggest you search "grind your own fountain pen nib" and grind the one you have.  No special tools are needed.  If you read a few of those sites, your chance of grinding you own nib could have good results.  You can practice on cheap pens first.

 

If you ruin it, you buy a new already ground nib.

 

That's a good idea. I'll definitely look and see whether it looks like something I can do.

 

Thanks everyone!

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