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This question is more out of curiosity than necessity. Can a Platinum 3776 Century music nib be altered down to a broad or stub nib? As a three tined nib, it seems like it wouldn't be possible. Based on some light research, it seems the music nib for this pen is 1.5mm, and the broad nib is 0.6mm. It doesn't come in a stub. Such an alteration seems like a stretch if it could be done at all. Would the nib need to be replaced entirely? Can the nib need to be replaced entirely? Clearly, I know practically nothing about all this. Anyone with experience in this area, please enlighten me. I appreciate your input.

I quite like the Jinhao x450 but don't like the stock medium nibs (just too big for my writing style). I've tried the Zebra G frankenpen idea but I could never re-shape the curvature of the nib to get it to work well and the nib and feed wound up jamming in the grip section. I broke them when I tried to get them out. I'd rather not try that again. I've also tried Noodler's brand nibs with no luck. All of my Jinhao F nibs are #5s. Does anybody know of any nibs that work easily and reliably? F or stub/italic are preferred, but EF, Flex, and Japanese M are good, too. Thanks!

My quest for teeny tiny writing in a comfortable to use pen has finally been reached with the successful assembly of a Pilot Knight with a Japanese EF nib. Steps: 1. Buy a Pilot Knight (Pen Chalet has them for like $24 right now, but only in M nib) 2. Buy a Pilot Penmanship EF (Got mine from Jetpens for $8) 3. remove the nib/feed from the Penmanship and the Knight (they're both friction fit so its just a twist and pull thing 4(?) swap the nibs to the different feeds (not sure if this step was necessary, the feeds look virtually identical, but I did it to be safe) 5. slide those nib/feeds into their respective pens. I've heard of people doing this with Pilot Metros before as a way to get different nib sizes that they don't come with by default. Fortunately the same process works with the older Pilot Knights. About the Pens: I love my Pilot Knight, which has become one of my top EDC pens, and I didn't want to risk damaging it with this process, so I bought a second Knight to nib swap. I really liked the EF writing on the Penmanship, but the pen itself sucks. Cheap plastic, too light, weird tiny cap that's inexplicably postable, no clip for my shirt pocket. It's a sub-$10 pen and it feels like it. Now, I have the best of both worlds, with the comfortable, heavy metal Knight and the tiny EF Japan nib. Here's a writing sample with a few pens for comparison. Writing is on a Kokuyo B80 with 6 mm lines :