Stub O' The Day

[Sagarb]

 

 

 

 

An ultimate beauty..Rilke and your handwriting...I love that ..I love Rilke..and that's why I love you Bob .

Edited October 23, 2016 by Sagarb

[dms525]

This is a Cursive Italic Family Album of sorts. These are all JoWo #6 18 Caret gold nibs which were purchased from fpnibs dot com in Spain. The nibs have all been ground to cursive italic by them. I have installed these nibs in a variety of pens that take JoWo #6 nibs. FYI, the pens in the photos are two Ebonite Ranga pens from Peyton Street Pens and a custom-made pen from Yoshi Nakama (18111 dot com). I am so happy with these nibs, I want to share (and recommend) them to Stub and CI nib lovers of the world. Please note that the handwritten writing sample mistakenly states they are 14 Caret.

 

I have no affiliation with any of the named vendors other than being a satisfied customer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enjoy!

 

David

[mehandiratta]

 

 

 

 

 

Bob I love your handwriting... clean...

[nigelg]

 

No. That's a B4 nib for the latest "Easy-change" Osmiroid pens. (Discontinued in the late 1970's, I believe.) It does have 3 tines, like many music nibs. I don't know that Osmiroid every made a nib they called a "music nib."

 

FYI, the Osmiroid B4 nib is 2.5 mm. The other fountain pens that had italic nibs that broad were Platignum (also English) and Reform (German). Pelikan made some calligraphy nibs up to 2.0mm, that I know of. The only currently manufactured fountain pen nibs that comes close, to my knowledge are Kaweco's 2.3 mm italic nib and the 2.3 mm italic nib for the Rotring Art Pen. I guess the Pilot Parallel is technically a fountain pen, and those go up to 6 mm!

 

David

 

P.S. If you want to see a Platignum 3-tine italic nib in action, watch some of the Lloyd Reynolds videos on youtube.

 

Osmiroid did indeed make a music nib as the photo shows. It is, unfortunately, a very scratchy example and I don't trust my nib smoothing abilities !

 

 

[dms525]

Thanks, Nigel. I'm glad to know that exists.

 

David

[papen]

Kaweco Sport again, now inked with Diamine Monaco:

http://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8272/30237954352_045577420e_c.jpg

http://c7.staticflickr.com/9/8139/30319144406_a8e10c7046_c.jpg

 

Very Nice, Eli... please keep that fire starter away from your beautiful journal.

[eliweisz]

 

Very Nice, Eli... please keep that fire starter away from your beautiful journal.

Thanks a lot. I'll follow your advice as soon as I get a bit more appropriate paperweight

Edited October 25, 2016 by eliweisz

[eliweisz]

My recent acquisitions:

http://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5704/30254968913_1e323e0d27_c.jpg

Great nib!

And regarding the ink - I cannot recommend it highly enough.

[Nosferatualso]

Your writing is beautiful. Thank you for posting

[dms525]

My city has one B&M pen vendor, an art supply store that has a "pen counter." They have an annual "Pen Fair" to which distributors of the pens they carry send reps with displays of current models. I went to the Pen Fair this year and talked with Ross Cameron from YAFA. He had this pen. It looked nice and had a bit of a discount. Of course, it was the steel stub nib that made it irresistible. I have liked the steel stubs on Passeportos but never had a Stipula steel nib on a full-sized pen. Turns out it's pretty nice.

The pen is a full-sized (but not "over-sized") Etruria. It is a C/C loader and came with a Stipula converter installed.

David

Edited November 12, 2016 by dms525

[tinta]

 

My city has one B&M pen vendor, an art supply store that has a "pen counter." They have an annual "Pen Fair" to which distributors of the pens they carry send reps with displays of current models. I went to the Pen Fair this year and talked with Ross Cameron from YAFA. He had this pen. It looked nice and had a bit of a discount. Of course, it was the steel stub nib that made it irresistible. I have liked the steel stubs on Passeportos but never had a Stipula steel nib on a full-sized pen. Turns out it's pretty nice.

The pen is a full-sized (but not "over-sized") Etruria. It is a C/C loader and came with a Stipula converter installed.

Stipula Etruria steel stub.jpg

David

Is the .09mm nib stock ss Stipula, or had to be ordered to that form, or custom ground after receiving the pen? István

[eliweisz]

 

My city has one B&M pen vendor, an art supply store that has a "pen counter." They have an annual "Pen Fair" to which distributors of the pens they carry send reps with displays of current models. I went to the Pen Fair this year and talked with Ross Cameron from YAFA. He had this pen. It looked nice and had a bit of a discount. Of course, it was the steel stub nib that made it irresistible. I have liked the steel stubs on Passeportos but never had a Stipula steel nib on a full-sized pen. Turns out it's pretty nice.

The pen is a full-sized (but not "over-sized") Etruria. It is a C/C loader and came with a Stipula converter installed.

Stipula Etruria steel stub.jpg

David

 

 

Really nice! A gorgeous pen. Congrats, David! In your hand, this stub is a stellar performer.

 

Here, a new ink in a (relatively) new pen:

http://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5668/30793321672_74fff46f36_c.jpg

The paper is Journalbooks, not exactly fountain-pen friendly, but I'm greedy - instead of giving it away, I use this little notebook as my ink log.

[dms525]

 

 

My city has one B&M pen vendor, an art supply store that has a "pen counter." They have an annual "Pen Fair" to which distributors of the pens they carry send reps with displays of current models. I went to the Pen Fair this year and talked with Ross Cameron from YAFA. He had this pen. It looked nice and had a bit of a discount. Of course, it was the steel stub nib that made it irresistible. I have liked the steel stubs on Passeportos but never had a Stipula steel nib on a full-sized pen. Turns out it's pretty nice.

The pen is a full-sized (but not "over-sized") Etruria. It is a C/C loader and came with a Stipula converter installed.

Stipula Etruria steel stub.jpg

David

Is the .09mm nib stock ss Stipula, or had to be ordered to that form, or custom ground after receiving the pen? István

 

 

The nib is a stock Stipula nib. No special grinding.

[dms525]

 

Really nice! A gorgeous pen. Congrats, David! In your hand, this stub is a stellar performer.

 

Here, a new ink in a (relatively) new pen:

http://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5668/30793321672_74fff46f36_c.jpg

The paper is Journalbooks, not exactly fountain-pen friendly, but I'm greedy - instead of giving it away, I use this little notebook as my ink log.

 

Thanks, Eli!

 

Those pilot steel stubs are pretty amazing.

 

David

[bobje]

 

Rosetta Napoleon with an italic ground by Randal6393.

[eliweisz]

Your writing is beautiful. Thank you for posting

 

The pleasure is all mine

[eliweisz]

Two stubs:

http://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5639/30922047681_a863725b6a_c.jpg

[bobje]

 

Rotring Artpen 1.9mm, Kokeiro kyo no oto ink

[TSherbs]

 

Rosetta Napoleon with an italic ground by Randal6393.

I LOVE RILKE.

 

Thanks for sharing this.

[masterguns]