Pilot Metropolitan medium nib vs Custom 74 fine nib

[Wordler]

Hey guys!

Is Metropolitan medium nib (line width) thicker or thiner than a Custom 74 fine nib? How would you arrange these from thin to thick line - Metropolitan fine, Metropolitan medium, Custom 74 thin, Custom 74 medium?

Thanks

[inkstainedruth]

Sorry, no clue.  I have a couple of Metropolitans (one with a medium nib, and the other with a stub nib) but have no experience with Custom 74s.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Mark from Yorkshire]

One would believe that a Japanese med would be thicker than Japanese fine, but there is an overlap in manufacturing tolerances at each end of the range.

[Lithium466]

17 hours ago, me7sx said:

Hey guys!

Is Metropolitan medium nib (line width) thicker or thiner than a Custom 74 fine nib? How would you arrange these from thin to thick line - Metropolitan fine, Metropolitan medium, Custom 74 thin, Custom 74 medium?

Thanks

Based on samples of one...so take with a grain of salt:

MR F / 74 F / MR M / 74 M

 

in terms of feel these pens are nib comparable at all.

[Wordler]

So, Metropolitan M is thicker than Custom 74 F. Right, Lithium466?

[Lithium466]

With similar pressure, my MR in M is thicker than my 74 in F. Then the 74 nib is softer and you "can" make it write thicker too.

 

Note that my particular 74 in F is rhodium plated and I would say it sits on the thicker side compared to my other Pilot pens in F. Pilot offers a FM nib on some models, but I don't know about the MR/Metropolitain.