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So I wasn't imagining things! Thanks for the info, Strawberry Jam.

Breathe. Take one step at a time. Don't sweat the small stuff. You're not getting older, you are only moving through time. Be calm and positive.

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Maybe the tipping was cut off a nib to make it an italic. Or it was born an italic without tipping; many of them are.

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I think it happened when you used it to scrape the cast iron pan that one time

"One always looking for flaws leaves too little time for construction" ...

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Well said.

I don't agree, flex writing is not harder and not less practical if you are used to it and you always have the option not to use its flex (2 in 1).

I partially agree with the last one, some times it's more expensive, depending on the price range of your pens.

But this is not the fault of flex pens, it's the fault of missing products of the manufacturers.

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Looks like the tipping broke off. I've had that happen. I had smoothed out an Indian eyedropper pen to use here at the house and the next time..... ugh!

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Looks like the tipping broke off. I've had that happen. I had smoothed out an Indian eyedropper pen to use here at the house and the next time..... ugh!

http://i1128.photobucket.com/albums/m496/gclef1114/Tutuguans/IMAG0465-1_zpsfb64e054.jpg

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Those dang-nab ringless elven pens! They're like writing with a stick, or an Ent finger. Hope your Amazon purchase makes all things right.

Breathe. Take one step at a time. Don't sweat the small stuff. You're not getting older, you are only moving through time. Be calm and positive.

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K'mon, lets say the truth, flexies do not exist if you have to exert minimal pressure in them in order to write with a decent variation line, but ok maybe somewhere

over the rainbow there is a magical flexie nib that gives variation line even without touching the paper and just droping ink. I am realistic and deposit my confidence

in italics.

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Stick with it. I just recently returned to using an edged pen, after a couple of years of using flexible pens almost exclusively. I was pleasantly surprised that after a few days reacclimating to the edge (plus it was new pen), I could change pens and styles almost instantly.

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K'mon, lets say the truth, flexies do not exist if you have to exert minimal pressure in them in order to write with a decent variation line, but ok maybe somewhere

over the rainbow there is a magical flexie nib that gives variation line even without touching the paper and just droping ink. I am realistic and deposit my confidence

in italics.

 

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(Lamy 27-30 - F ..... Noodler´s Apache Sunset)

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(Pilot Parallel - 2.4 ..... Pilot Parallel Red)

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But doesn´t it look nicer this way ? ......

 

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(Mabie Todd Swan 4660 Leverless ..... ESS Registrars Blue/Black)

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(Pelikan 400NN - OB ..... J. Herbin Orange Indien)

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http://imageshack.us/a/img21/2062/9gnt.jpg (Pelikan 400NN - OB ..... J. Herbin Orange Indien)

Sounds more like a "rumor/gossip" to me.

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