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I'm a big fan of the rainbow of colors you can get from monkeying with titanium oxides, but until tonight I had never thought about titanium nibs being a target for my blow torch. I bought a titanium OMAS nib off eBay and as I was messing with it the idea clicked. Here's a titanium silverware set I anodized a while back. Unfortunately, unlike the silverware, the titanium nib has the matte finish that is (for whatever ungodly reason) very popular. So I knew the finished product wouldn't be nearly as bright and cheery, but I pressed on. I tested the tail end of the nib first. After that turned out fine, I did the entire thing. Looks beautiful, but do you wanna know the major downside? Not that it was flexy before, but if flexed now it tends to stay flexed. So I have to use it with light pressure. But since I never wanted to use it as any degree of flexible nib, that's fine with me. The nib unit wouldn't fit in any of the handful of pens I tried, so I kept the nib out and stuck it in a pen I thought it would look nice in, and one that would let me alter the flow: an ebonite Noodler's Konrad. Luckily I didn't have to heat set the feed, it worked great right away. So there it is, a beautiful nib in a beautiful pen.

Does anyone know whether the Magnum nib size (slightly larger than standard Paragon) will fit the regular 360 or paragon? Thanks, Craig