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Hi everyone. Not sure if this is the right forum but looked and it is the closest I can find. 

 

I got a sailor king of pen in medium but found it to be too broad and wet. is it typical or just mine? 

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They are soft, wet nibs.  In my experience with KOP's (I have 7 or so of them), that is pretty typical.  You might have the nib tuned a bit dryer and/or find a dry ink and see if that helps.  

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as was previously mentioned. the KOP nib is soft so it could also be writing broader because you're putting too much pressure on it.

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You are talking Japanese widths...not western....but a fine Japanese poster stated that of the Japanese nibs Sailor was the widest.

So Sailor would be wider than what ever brand of narrow you prefer.

 

I have no Japanes pens...I never wanted spiderwebs and baby spiderweb with nibs.

They weren't available in Germany when I started out in Germany. Don't see any in the two B&M's in my town. So Japanese width is not going to be a problem to me.

 

I say, horseshoe close to hand grenade close is about all one can expect, with nib widths of any company or country.

 

It is just as easy to get a Fat B as a skinny B....a B in the middle of that company's tolerance is pure luck.....and you are comparing oranges and tangerines, byy thinkng Salior has anything to do with the slightly different other Japanese brands...

I have a chart somewhere from the '90s before Japanese fountain pens hit mainstream....and were not even mentioned..

Parker was once fatter than Shaffer....and believe it or not, back in the -90;s Pelikan was thinker than Sheaffer...Waterman was thinnest.

 

 

I like western M = more or less a Japanese B.

 

There is slop/tolerance in every manufacture's nibs, and each company has it's very own standards.

 

Back when it was One Man, One pen, and a new pen was bought once a decade....Fat nib Parker didn't want it's customers getting confused and buying a skinny nib Shaffer, if they made the same width nib as Shaffer....sort of Ford vs Chevy mentality.

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"""""Ron Zorn tolerance

Sheaffer used a dial indicator nib gauge for measuring nib sizes. The nib was inserted into the gauge, and the size read off of the dial. A given size being nibs that fell within a given range. What is listed below were the ranges given on a gauge that I saw in the Sheaffer service center prior to being closed in March 2008.

Measurements are in thousandths of an inch. (((((do notice that a skinny M can = a Fat F.)))

XXF = 0.010 - 0.013
XF = 0.013 - 0.018
F = 0.018 - 0.025
M = 0.025 - 0.031
Broad* = 0.031 - 0.050
Stub = 0.038 - 0.050

*there was some overlap on the gauge. May be 0.035 - 0.050""""""

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And remember each company has it's very own standard of width and all have slop/tollerance.

In reference to P. T. Barnum; to advise for free is foolish, ........busybodies are ill liked by both factions.

 

 

The cheapest lessons are from those who learned expensive lessons. Ignorance is best for learning expensive lessons.

 

 

 

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On 5/23/2023 at 3:41 AM, skudiva said:

Hi everyone. Not sure if this is the right forum but looked and it is the closest I can find. 

 

I got a sailor king of pen in medium but found it to be too broad and wet. is it typical or just mine? 

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You didn't say what ink you were using.

My Sailor KOP [M] writes the same as my Sailor 1911L [M]

 

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Edit to say this is Sanzen Tomoe River 52gsm

 

 LINK <-- my Ink and Paper tests

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Ink can make up to 1/2 a width difference as can paper make a 1/2 a width difference.

Go one way to a full width wider, the opposite to a full width narrower.

 

 

Richard binder has a chart where you can measure the width of your nibs.......often by those who like narrow nibs....as a guy who liked wide, it never bothered me if my nib was a tad wider or narrower than it 'should' be.

 

There is that slop i showed....so a nib is only going to be with in horseshoe range....one nib comes off the line at one side of tolerance; the very next nib on the other side of the median of tolerance.  Having it exactly in the middle may well be pure luck.

The main thing is a nice smooth, clean line.

if it really bothers you there are nibmiesters, who will grind the nib to your exact thoughts of width.

In reference to P. T. Barnum; to advise for free is foolish, ........busybodies are ill liked by both factions.

 

 

The cheapest lessons are from those who learned expensive lessons. Ignorance is best for learning expensive lessons.

 

 

 

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