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Many of us rant and moan about receiving expensive brand new pens with dysfunctional nibs. Yes, this is a pain and a shame for the manufacturers. But if you want to see some really totalled nibs, go ahead and buy a vintage lot of pens on ebay. Here is one of my most recent champions. (Excuse me for the lousy cell phone pictures, I didn't get around to take those in my studio.) This is a tiny Kaweco Sport 11 piston filler pocket pen from the 1950s with an amazingly bent nib. The right tine is bent downwards by almost 80° and the nib looks like a total wreck. I'd love to know how the previous owner managed to do this. Anyway, this was a bonus pen in the lot and in fairly good condition otherwise. You also don't see very many of them and I was happy with it. So, I went to work on the nib just for fun and in order to see if it could be rescued. Yes, we can! I gently forged the nib back into proper shape, adjusted it to the feed, and set it back into the section. A few finishing touches and adjustments and done! Kissing this sleeping beauty didn't take too much effort and now it's writing like a charm. Long story short: don't give up too easily on a seemingly totalled gold nib. There's much more possible than usual customer service is willing to admit. Edit: I've also made a picture of the nib after the repair: