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Does this nib have baby's bottom? It's a Montblanc 149 B nib. I can draw circles and swirls for as long as I want to so it's not a flow problem. It hard starts/skips after I pause in writing for 5 seconds or more. Sometimes it skips an entire stroke but sometimes only the first half of the letter.

Some time ago I bought a superb Omas 361 - at the moment it is very difficult to get ink to the nib (shaking the pen helps) If I leave the pen overnight no ink to the nib, leave it for a half day then it starts writing but stops after a few words. Any advice re how to get the pen to start first time would be welcome. Currently using Omas black ink and have flushed the pen. Thanks for any advice. Roger

I got a Lamy 2000 a month ago, and it had problems with hard starting and skipping - unfortunate, but not entirely unsurprising given the reputation of the pen I've found on these forums and elsewhere. I have resolved to get it looked at by a nibmeister in the near future, and I managed to browbeat it enough that it's usable for writing, and I left it at that. However, I bought a brand new Pelikan M200 M nib this week, and it has the same problem. I've rinsed it out what feels like 100 times by now, done three separate soaks in soapy water followed by flushing with fresh soapy water and then heavy rinsing and delicate drying, and it still looks like the image attached below if I pause for as little as 5-10 seconds. I have an email in to Pelikan about replacing the nib, either under warranty or the nib exchange, but if there's something else I could maybe do before I ship my new pen out for a few weeks, that would be ideal. My handwriting is obviously not picture-perfect, and I write quickly as well. Might that have something to do with it? I've tried rotating it around in my hand without much success. I'd write it off as simply a problem with the pen, except I had the same problem with the 2000, and even though it's perfectly possible that both pens simply have problems, having the same problem with two pens, both softer nibs than I'm usually using (Lamy and TWSBI, both of which are rock-hard), I have to wonder if maybe it's a problem with me as opposed to the pens.