What Is The Smoothest Nib You Have Tried?

[orfew]

70's MB 146 with an M nib. A very close second would be my MB 142 with a stub nib.

[jslallar]

Smoothest that I ever used:

1. Sheaffer 440 Medium - my college pen and a daily writer for more than 5 years of very heavy writing till it cracked
2. Cross Classic Century, Broad - the nib feed loosened, as it does in this pen, got it replaced and the replacement is as smooth, but the pen is too thin for daily use though I enjoy it in my rotation
3. Parker 51 Aerometric, Grey, G/F cap, Medium - my father's, a wonderful writer but for obvious sentimental reasons not a daily writer

which leads to my ciurrent collection of daily users:

 

 

1. Waterman Expert I Medium
2. Cross Townsend Tango Broad Steel nib
3. MB 149s Medium and Broad
4. Pelikans M200 and M400 both BB, first steel and later gold
5. Montegrappa Cosmopolitan Arabian LE Medium
6. Parker 45 x 3, all Fighters, all with gold Broads
7. Parker 88 Gold finish Place Vandome, Broad
8. Sailor 1911 Mid size, 21K Music nib

my two bits - smoothness has nothuing to do with steel or gold, nib or the price of pen. Here are pens <$50 to >$500 al equally good writers, the difference is in the snob value and aesthetics.

Edited October 14, 2011 by jslallar

[BrandonA]

Out of my pens I'd say my MB Mann which also happens to be the pen I am using at work during the month of October.

[mikerph]

Sailor Pro gear 21K broad italic=====smooth wet writer.

[Inkquest]

The two "smoothest" (and it's a toss up really)...

 

Parker 61 with "stubby" nib and Sheaffer OS Balance with that upturned nib. Both are like writing on air coated with Crisco, saturated with butter, bathed in gear lubricant, contained in motor oil treated with Slick 50 and Duralube, bordering the realm of even intangible non existence .... ahhhhhhhh in fact, so smooth it's like thinking the words into existence on the paper... or dreaming the ink to fall to perfection, coalescing of its own volition in patterns of effortless grandeur! It's like... a York Peppermint Pattie, or Wow! a V-8! or,.. Dude, you're gettin' a Dell! Or experiencing an ethereal out of body experience writing toward the light! or... or... or...

[AlexandraM]

My Pilot Prera with Diamine ink glides across the page, despite the low ink flow. Also my Sailor Chalana (it has an extra tiny, proprietary EF nib!) has enough ink flow to keep writing smooth, despite the thinness of the nib.

 

On the cheaper end, I've found Platinum Preppies to be hands down the smoothest writers, and you can't argue with their usual price point of $5.00.

[pokermind]

for Fine points, it's my Pilot 78G and my Kaweco Sport. My Waterman Phileas is arguably smoother, but it's a Medium point and therefore not a fair comparison.

[Alohamora]

for Fine points, it's my Pilot 78G and my Kaweco Sport. My Waterman Phileas is arguably smoother, but it's a Medium point and therefore not a fair comparison.

 

I think my medium Kaweco sport is the smoothest I've used.

 

Edit: I forgot about the Waterman Phileas, that might just be smoother, I haven't inked it in a while.

Edited October 15, 2011 by Alohamora

[welch]

Surprising, but a scrap-heap Ebay cast-off Onoto0 Penmaster with medium/broad nib. It was dirty, it was ugly, it was gunked with dried ink, it is a lever-filler so it must have been made about 1950, but it write like a feather. (And it is now cleaned, re-sacced, and Ron Zorn un-bent the clip.)

[Mr. Thompson]

It's a toss up between my 15 year old Edson medium point and my Namiki Vanishing Point fine point.

[kkshadow]

My Sheaffer snorkel Crest, yes it's the palladium triumph nib. Incredibly smooth...never been reworked...

 

..but..

 

I just met Pendleton Brown at the San Francisco Pen Show today, and he had this Levenger with a custom grind...

 

and the rest, as they say, is history.

[Clancy]

I'd have to say that my Sailor 1911 M, fine nib is the smoothest I've got but my Pelikan M800 with its fine nib runs a very close second.

[brownargus]

Parker 51 with medium nib bought from EBay. So smooth that it sometimes runs away with me and I have to bring it back into line!

[alexander_k]

I'd have to choose between OMAS 360 and a Sailor 14k zoom. Both just glide over paper like skates over ice. Just apply the slightest pressure (on in the zoom's case inclination) for variation.

[ItwasLuck]

Pilot 823 'M' nib with Pilot Iroshizuku Take-Sumi, the nib is not only smooth (no baby's bottom) but wet, combined with a wet and well behaved ink, you get a butter-y smooth writing experience!

 

Best stock out of the box nib performance I've ever seen =) Although Pilot's Medium nibs tend to vary in wetness. I obviously got myself one of the wet ones which I am quite happy with.

Edited October 7, 2016 by ItwasLuck

[GardenWeasel]

Smoothest? An older Montblanc 146 with a Broad nib (Montblanc typical wet too).

[SpecTP]

yard o led that Mike Masayuma modified

bexley with jowo nib

any of my FC or GvFC

[Beauport]

I've got limited exposure, but my answer today is my '80's MB 146 M. I'm hoping the new M805 Souverän will match or exceed it.

[s_t_e_v_e]

Parker Duofold Centennial, Levenger TrueWriter Kyoto and Levenger TrueWriter Select - best new out of the box nibs I've ever used. Most of my other nibs had to be tweaked or are not as smooth as the three mentioned above.

[gryphon1911]

It's a close call for me between my Lamy 2000 Medium and my Bexley Imperial in Medium. those 2 are like BUTTER!