Lamy Hanzi nibs

[Chi]

4 hours ago, A Smug Dill said:

 

Thanks for sharing your writing samples! It doesn't look to me that the Lamy hanzi nib does much for producing the sharp hooks and pointy tails at the end of kaishu pen strokes, and not something that facilitate the 出鋒 aspect of Chinese writing (cf. harai and hane in Japanese writing).

It could be me not knowing how to utilize it. 

 

But just out of curiosity, I compare it to my Sailor pocket pen 21K zoom nib.

 

It is a lot shorter in terms of the length of tipping material and not as pointy at the end of the nib.

From direct visual, you can see the zoom nib is much more bulky and dramatically shaped.

 

[gerigo]

I purchased this pen only because I was curious about it. Of all the nibs that allow for better expression of Chinese characters, I find this to be most similar to a normal nib. Here are examples from 5 different nibs. These were all written on Kobeha Graphilo, which is not as friendly on wider nibs. I identified the obvious ones that aren't written with the Lamy nib. Can you tell which of the 3 is written with the Lamy 汉 nib? The other 2 nibs are an EF that has an architect like grind from a pre 2012 Montblanc, and an architect grind Esterbrook.

[A Smug Dill]

17 minutes ago, gerigo said:

I find this to be most similar to a normal nib. Here are examples from 5 different nibs. These were all written on Kobeha Graphilo, which is not as friendly on wider nibs. I identified the obvious ones that aren't written with the Lamy nib. Can you tell which of the 3 is written with the Lamy 汉 nib?

 

I suppose it's the one immediately to the right of the hanzi in grey — written with the Sailor Naginata (Togi?) Broad — because it's the one with seemingly the least 出鋒 trait exhibited, assuming you're using the same technique to write all of the iterations of the 預, and you said it's “most similar to a normal nib.” Mind you, most of the time I don't have a problem with getting a “normal” Japanese F or MF nib to exhibit 出鋒, either at the start or the end of pen strokes.

 

The middle hanzi and the rightmost hanzi character seem to be written with nibs that produce more similar shapes from 頓筆 with one another, than with the hanzi next to the grey.