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Nib Replacement In Conklin Mark Twain Crescent

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While at the LA Pen Show, I picked up a blue Crescent filler Mark Twain. Of course, it does not have a double broad stub nib (very few pens do). So, where do I find other nibs? Are the nibs as easy to change out as the Pelikan nibs or the Esterbrook nibs (I hope so). Any help would be appreciated.

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I've used the nib from my modern Conklin Mark Twain in a Jinhao x750, so I think it's safe to assume that any standard Jowo #6 (such as Goulet, Edison, Monteverde, Nemosine) or Bock 250 could go the other way. Hope that helps.

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You are wonderful! Thanks.

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I agree - most (all?) of the available #6 nibs should fit. I have a 2004 Mark Twain Crescent that is now sporting a Knox steel nib. The pen and I are both very happy.

 

Virtually any of the modern Conklin pens can use a #6 nib. Maybe there are a couple that are smaller, but the dozen or so pens that I have all use #6.

 

The nib can be just pulled out of the section along with the feed. Match your new nib to the feed and re-insert. Watch for the "flat spot" on the nib and in the collar that remains in the section to ensure proper alignment.

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This is good info. I have a Conklin Mark Twain crescent filler and got a 1.1 stub nib as I wanted to try it out. I'd used a sample of that nib on another pen and thought it was ok. But on the pen I got, it seemed to write too wide a line. So either I'll swap it out for a plain Jane medium or have a nibmeister adjust its flow.

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White Lotus, I'll send you mine to test out first. Maybe we should swap nibs. The nib I have is beautiful but it's not an obscenely wet overly broad nib.

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I have the same blue yellow Crescent filler. I tried the Goulet 1.1 stub on it, but the feed couldn't keep enough ink flowing in mine, for me. But the "surgery" is fast and painless.

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Thanks, Ted!!

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::eyes the extra fine Goulet nib that was purchased 'just in case' for a Neponset, and emits 'Delighted SuperVillain Cackle Of Gleeful Anticipation Of Imminent Mayhem' #9::

 

My Crescent is a lovely pen, and it holds a worthy amount of ink - I just feel like I'm dragging the broad edge of a garage door around the surface of the paper with that medium nib that's on it. I'd like to get that down to a kitchen cabinet door, (or a dry Japanese fine ), if I could...

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::eyes the extra fine Goulet nib that was purchased 'just in case' for a Neponset, and emits 'Delighted SuperVillain Cackle Of Gleeful Anticipation Of Imminent Mayhem' #9::

 

My Crescent is a lovely pen, and it holds a worthy amount of ink - I just feel like I'm dragging the broad edge of a garage door around the surface of the paper with that medium nib that's on it. I'd like to get that down to a kitchen cabinet door, (or a dry Japanese fine ), if I could...

 

You could try an Extra Fine Knox K35 nib from xfountainpens.com. I've not tried an extra fine, but I've used the fine and medium Knox nibs in modern Conklin pens with great results. (Usual disclaimers - I have no affiliation with either xfountainpens or Conklin Pen Co.)

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I apologize if this is dragging the thread too far off-topic, but I just got a Conklin Twain Crescent and have been contemplating the best/easiest way to clean it (I know I haven't even inked it up yet but I like to plan ahead). Obviously I can't use my usual method of a bulb filler or syringe since the body doesn't open, but is there any option to the standard fill-flush-repeat method? I was wondering since the nib is so easily removed if there was a way to get at things from that end, but I am pretty new to FPs and don't want to mess anything up.

 

And if this is better posted elsewhere, please feel free to tell me to move it! I'm still learning my way around FPN.

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You could try an Extra Fine Knox K35 nib from xfountainpens.com. I've not tried an extra fine, but I've used the fine and medium Knox nibs in modern Conklin pens with great results. (Usual disclaimers - I have no affiliation with either xfountainpens or Conklin Pen Co.)

Thank you, SteveE! That's a good idea: I've ordered an extra fine from xfountainpens. :). This way, I'll have the original nib for the Neponset, and still be able to stop subjecting innocent (and not so blank) sheets of paper to the tender ministrations of garage doors. :)

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rosalita - As you have surmised, the simple "fill with water, empty, repeat until water is clear" is the standard way to clean sac pens (lever-fillers and the crescent fillers). I am presuming that you only want to clean the pen enough to change inks, not to make it clean enough to perform surgery on your first-born child. I'm only slightly kidding - if you just want to keep the pen clean enough to work properly and to change inks, just flush it out with water until the water runs out clear. I am not a proponent of trying to clean my pens so that they are surgically clean, as I believe that they were never meant to be cleaned that way.

 

You're on the right track. If you did want to make your pen super-perfectly clean, then I'm not the best person to help, as I just don't do that.

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rosalita - As you have surmised, the simple "fill with water, empty, repeat until water is clear" is the standard way to clean sac pens (lever-fillers and the crescent fillers). I am presuming that you only want to clean the pen enough to change inks, not to make it clean enough to perform surgery on your first-born child. I'm only slightly kidding - if you just want to keep the pen clean enough to work properly and to change inks, just flush it out with water until the water runs out clear. I am not a proponent of trying to clean my pens so that they are surgically clean, as I believe that they were never meant to be cleaned that way.

 

You're on the right track. If you did want to make your pen super-perfectly clean, then I'm not the best person to help, as I just don't do that.

 

Thanks, Steve, and you are exactly right — I just want to get it clean enough to not have muddy ink colors when I switch. It's funny how for years I was perfectly happy with the "fill with water, empty, repeat until water is clear" method until someone showed me the trick of the bulb filler. I've become spoiled. :-)

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So just curious - is it a friction nib?

 

I think there is a collar in there, but you can pull the nib and feed out of the pen, leaving any collar behind. Then you can re-install a nib and feed the same way.

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