Some Good News About Pelikan Nibs

[Rick Propas]

Last week I spent Thursday morning at the Pelikan manufacturing plant in Peine, just 30 kilometres east of Hannover.

 

In the course of our tours and discussions, Christian Ehlers, who is the manager of production, took me past a new nib production station and informed me, without any prompting on my part, that Pelikan are aware that they are very much aware that they have had some quality control problems with their nibs and beginning last Fall have taken very aggressive steps to address them.

 

Nibs are now being produced on new equipment and with 100% quality control checking. As I stood there and at another nib station, workers were checking (and rejecting) nibs very carefully.

 

So, I just want to share this good bit of news with those of you who have had concerns over nib quality from Pelikan. Your concerns have been heard and addressed.

 

One other exciting development is that Pelikan is now developing a full line of Italic nibs that will be available soon. Herr Ehlers is not yet sure when they will be available, but the the tooling for them is in process.

 

We had a fairly extensive discussion about Pelikan nibs that morning and I hope to have the post up on my blog in the next couple of days as soon as I get rid of this cold and catch up on grading.

 

I'll let folks know when I have it up.

Edited April 7, 2009 by Rick Propas

[Aysedasi]

One other exciting development is that Pelikan is now developing a full line of Italic nibs that will be available soon.

 

 

Definitely interested!

 

[Russ]

Thanks for sharing the information, Rick. Pelikan remains a great company. I look forward to their italic nibs!

[dandelion]

YES! How nice with a line of italics! I'm happy to hear that they take the nib issues seriosly.

Thank you for the information, Rick!

[Lloyd]

Was this like a brewery tour...with samples at the end?

[QM2]

Very nice, I am looking forward to the italic nibs!

[Ondina]

Great news indeed. (Starting to wonder how many moons till funds suffice.....)

[Rick Propas]

Lloyd, samples? what samples? were there supposed to be samples?

Stay tuned and I will tell (almost) all.

[jbn10161]

Didn't Pelikan send their nib production to Bock quite a while ago? Have they taken it back in-house?

[Rick Propas]

I asked the same question and was told that only the M1000 is made by Bock and that they will begin producing that for themselves shortly, too.

 

Didn't Pelikan send their nib production to Bock quite a while ago? Have they taken it back in-house?

 

[GeeTee]

Italic nibs...oh yeah

[bphollin]

Pelikan italic nibs?! Thanks for the teaser, Rick. I'm looking forward to the full post when you're feeling better.

[Gothmeister]

+ 1 on the italic nibs!!

[PenFisher]

Thank you Rick for that information ... very interesting and welcome news! Especially the news about italics being available in the not too distant future.

[J English Smith]

Very cool! I certainly hope that they will do the italic nibs in steel as well as gold, so that I can get one for my rhodium trim 200m...would be nice to see the lower-end taken care of as well...

[Deirdre]

Interesting news, Rick! Thank you so much for the update.

[hari317]

I asked the same question and was told that only the M1000 is made by Bock and that they will begin producing that for themselves shortly, too.

 

Very Interesting, I remember having read in the past that only the M1000 nib was being made in house by Pelikan(hence the softness of the nib etc.) and the rest were being made by Bock.

 

Thanks for the latest information.

 

Regards,

Hari

 

[Deirdre]

Now I'm wondering if what I like about the M1000 nib is going to go away.

[-GP-]

Thanks for the blog-tour!

[robeck]

Very timely - I've just ordered by first Pel today: a green M1000 with OB . I'll be very interested in the italic nibs. Does anyone know if they will be available for the M1000?

 

Also, who makes the current M1000 nibs - Bock or Pelikan - this thread has given conflicting statements?

 

 

Regards,

Dean