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What to do?! Problem: skips on start of words - arrrgh! This is a second hand pen recently bought off the eBay! Well - it wasn't overly expensive, but it is very annoying to take a look at the nib with a lens and find that the problem could very well be due to over-rounding of the nib bottom. It only occurs after 1/3 of a page of writing following a fill, but then occurs repeatedly. Ink flow appears good and the output is good and wet. Once the ink hits the paper, all is fine and the nib tip never actually loses the ink. A full turn on the piston convertor (just at the point where ink behind the nib and feed is really visible as an increasing blob) and the pen is writing again great - albeit very slightly wetter than after the 1/3 page point, but not much. I have drawn out what I believe to be wrong with the nib and some slightly disorganized ideas regarding the position of the ink in the nib tip and the distance of it from the paper, and possibly regrinding to bring the levels back to an 'ideal'. Also note that in the filled in cross section labelled 'actual' there is a slight twisting of one nib tine which may be making it wider at the wrong place. (Because it could also be at least partly due to starvation of ink, so I will try siphoning through 20L of water with detergent through the feed backwards to see if any grot can be dislodged) So far as I am aware, the nib/feed cannot be removed from this pen - rather annoyingly - without risking destruction of the feed. Anyways, I bet several here have come across this kind problem in the past, and might be able to offer valuable pearls of wisdom in this case. http://peggysparlour.co.uk/pubpics/watermanprobs.jpg