Baby bottom?

[Siv]

What do you think, baby bottom?

 

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[gyasko]

I don't think so. It looks to me like one of the tines is either bent outward or perhaps rotated away from the slit. Hard to tell.

[Siv]

More photos:

 

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[Breck]

Looks very much like a baby bottom to me.

[hari317]

Siv, is that a MB nib? is it stock or modified? inner edges look too rounded.

[Siv]

Siv, is that a MB nib? is it stock or modified? inner edges look too rounded.

It's stock 149 but an old nib and I agree that the inner edges are too rounded. I'm going to have to send it off to be fixed but I need to make sure that whoever does it, takes off minimal material as this is a sweet looking nib at the moment.

Edited April 20, 2010 by Siv

[teej47]

Is it just me, or does that middle photo look like it's mooning us?

That may just be your answer right there...

 

Tim

[CS388]

Siv, is that a MB nib? is it stock or modified? inner edges look too rounded.

It's stock 149 but an old nib and I agree that the inner edges are too rounded. I'm going to have to send it off to be fixed but I need to make sure that whoever does it, takes off minimal material as this is a sweet looking nib at the moment.

 

But has it always written like this? I can't imagine how baby's bottom could 'develop'?

 

In some of the close-up photos, I can see the inner rounding you mention, others look very sweet.

 

But from your sample (down-stroke), it also looks like it could simply be a very dry flow?

[Siv]

But has it always written like this? I can't imagine how baby's bottom could 'develop'?

It's a new, unused nib just from old stock. I'm the first to ink the pen.

[CS388]

But has it always written like this? I can't imagine how baby's bottom could 'develop'?

It's a new, unused nib just from old stock. I'm the first to ink the pen.

 

Ah. I see.

[Chris Chalmers]

Goo-goo, Gaa-gaa! :blink:

That sure looks like a baby-bottom to me!

Now, who you goin' to send it to? :clap1:

[OcalaFlGuy]

But has it always written like this? I can't imagine how baby's bottom could 'develop'?

It's a new, unused nib just from old stock. I'm the first to ink the pen.

 

Ah. I see.

 

In his seminar at the Atlanta Pen show, Mike Masuyama of Mike-It-Work said that he is seeing a large number of

baby bottomed nibs coming new from the factory. He hypothesized that the factories think that most FP buyers these

days are coming from BP's and will exert more pressure than necessary on a FP. Doing so with a baby bottomed nib

actually causes the inner foot of the nib to contact the paper and the nib to flow normally. (Whereas with correct

lighter pressure the inner portions of the tines don't make proper contact and erratic flow ensues.)

 

Bruce in Ocala, FL

[Breck]

But has it always written like this? I can't imagine how baby's bottom could 'develop'?

It's a new, unused nib just from old stock. I'm the first to ink the pen.

 

Ah. I see.

 

In his seminar at the Atlanta Pen show, Mike Masuyama of Mike-It-Work said that he is seeing a large number of

baby bottomed nibs coming new from the factory. He hypothesized that the factories think that most FP buyers these

days are coming from BP's and will exert more pressure than necessary on a FP. Doing so with a baby bottomed nib

actually causes the inner foot of the nib to contact the paper and the nib to flow normally. (Whereas with correct

lighter pressure the inner portions of the tines don't make proper contact and erratic flow ensues.)

 

Bruce in Ocala, FL

 

If so, that's a sad state of affairs. What could manufacturers stand to gain by overpolishing nibs to this degree? I guess they could loosen precision tolerances and quality control to some degree, and see some savings there, but they'd be sailing between the Scylla of making a pen that's ok with BP pressure to win converts and the Charybdis of alienating more seasoned FP users.

 

It's not like a properly polished nib won't write under BP pressure, after all.

[gross]

But has it always written like this? I can't imagine how baby's bottom could 'develop'?

It's a new, unused nib just from old stock. I'm the first to ink the pen.

 

Ah. I see.

 

In his seminar at the Atlanta Pen show, Mike Masuyama of Mike-It-Work said that he is seeing a large number of

baby bottomed nibs coming new from the factory. He hypothesized that the factories think that most FP buyers these

days are coming from BP's and will exert more pressure than necessary on a FP. Doing so with a baby bottomed nib

actually causes the inner foot of the nib to contact the paper and the nib to flow normally. (Whereas with correct

lighter pressure the inner portions of the tines don't make proper contact and erratic flow ensues.)

 

Bruce in Ocala, FL

What are today's nib manufacturers thinking with? It is high time they started using their heads for something other than just holding their ears apart. Ruining a nib to please ballpoint pen users, for the love of Mike! Just goes to show, we are better off sticking with those Esterbrooks!

 

Siv, I hope you get this nib fixed and it becomes a great writer for you.

[OcalaFlGuy]

There was another interesting baby bottom factoid from Mike.

 

It had to do with people using the "brown bag method" to smooth nibs. Mike generally doesn't like to see that done and STRONGLY admonished against one part of it. You often hear people talking about using the brown paper bag and *doing figure eights* with the nib. Mike explained how that specific figure eight part done on an abrasive HELPS PRODUCE THE PERFECT BABY BOTTOM on the nib! If you must use the brown paper (or other abrasives) make small circles or write normally with the pen. No Figure Eights!

 

Bruce in Ocala, FL