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Hi,

 

Lamy is offering a stainless steel cursive/kanji/Chinese nib. Has anybody tried it?

 

Can’t find a thread on this yet but feel free to direct me if there is a discussion on it already.

 

Thanks!

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6 minutes ago, Calabria said:

Has anybody tried it?

 

Affirmative. I know of at least one fellow FPN member who has bought it and used it; and I vaguely remember at least two others mentioning having ordered it.

 

6 minutes ago, Calabria said:

Can’t find a thread on this yet

 

That's because ‘cursive’ is not how Lamy named or markets the nib, irrespective of what retailers in regional markets such as the US choose to call it for their own target audience. It is actually the Lamy hanzi nib, hanzi meaning the ideograms in the Chinese language. It's a product Lamy created specifically for the Chinese market, even though I think it has decided to allow it to be officially distributed in the US, but not yet so in Europe.

 

6 minutes ago, Calabria said:

but feel free to direct me if there is a discussion on it already.

 

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Thank you. I’ll look for that. I think the Lamy store in Japan lists it as a kanji nib.

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29 minutes ago, Calabria said:

I’ll look for that.

 

The link embedded in my earlier post should give you the forum search results.

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I had one, do not find it really significantly better for the said function , though it is indeed more compliant to force exerting for line variation ,having small but noticeable difference vs the regular nib , but only if you are well versed in penmanship and can employ the technique, otherwise for day to day writing , just casual cursive , probably no better and no worse. It does look kind of cool though

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