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8 minutes ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

I didn't catch the era, or the maker of your pen.

Could the nib be an oblique? ..... Normally a 15 degree grind, sloping to the left, when held top to you.

The manufacturer was Hongdian. At least to my knowledge, they do not make obliques. 
Recently, I bought a Faber-Castell Neo Slim whose EF nib was an unintentional oblique. One side of the ball is longer than the other. In carving, they smooth out the slope, but it is by no means an oblique. 

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On the FC Neo Slim, in the image we can see how the ball was probably welded decentered and the cut left one side more voluminous than the other. Polishing largely corrected the mess. As I was taking the pictures, I noticed that the tines were still minimally aligned. It now writes reasonably well.
The pen was second hand, the nib writes well, I am satisfied. If it were a gold nib on an expensive pen it would be unacceptable even if it wrote well.

 

 

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I bought a Lamy with a broad nib, took it into the office, fitted a new cartridge and waited for the ink to flow. I waited some more,  a couple of hours more and still no ink. I took it back to the retailer, a specialist multi outlet chain. The assistant must have thought I was a numpty and tried, and tried, and tried some more to make it flow, nothing. I suggested he tried another nib, a medium. He took the nib out and put it in a box with many other Lamy nibs. the pen now worked immediately, I am assuming a manufacturing fault with the Broad nib but I thought it was poor retail practice to not deal with a defective product correctly.

 

 

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Azuzado, defiantly not an oblique.

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2 hours ago, Beechwood said:

I bought a Lamy with a broad nib, took it into the office, fitted a new cartridge and waited for the ink to flow. I waited some more,  a couple of hours more and still no ink.

Something similar happened to me with a Z53 in a Lamy Aion. The amazing thing is that it was after a wash, a nib that I had been using for a year with no problems. I even dipped the nib in the inkwell, something that doesn't usually fail. In the end, after many attempts, it wrote again. I have never had that happen with any nib before and I am still looking for an explanation.

 

1 hour ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

Azuzado, defiantly not an oblique.

After carefully observing the nib, I noticed that one nib was wavy. The nib is a Concorde type, maybe in one of the attempts to widen the channel to increase the flow it was left that way. I bought it second hand, I don't know if it was already like that.
With the nib above the feeder, I squeezed one tine down and inward and it regained its original curvature. Now it writes much better and the tines are already the same length. Now, the tip has the asymmetrical cut.

 

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Good.

 

The Reality Show is a riveting result of 23% being illiterate, and 60% reading at a 6th grade or lower level.

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

 

 

 

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