Stub O' The Day

[hh1990]

http://i961.photobucket.com/albums/ae98/meym1/image_zpske2p8hnb.jpg

 

Here is the shovel. Butter.

 

Wow, that is some remarkable shading. Very nice.

[tartuffo]

Sailor 14k music nib - a cursive italic with some serious line variation ...

 

http://i.imgur.com/TfgUJPi.jpg

[thehobbit]

Sailor 14k music nib - a cursive italic with some serious line variation ...

 

http://i.imgur.com/TfgUJPi.jpg

 

Is it a factory music nib or was it altered/improved by someone?

[eliweisz]

Sailor 14k music nib - a cursive italic with some serious line variation ...

 

http://i.imgur.com/TfgUJPi.jpg

Amazing!

Love your writing style.

[pelman]

http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n549/pelmanyaar/FBB66C58-CFE2-44A4-A14B-873AAB9EBB4E-2860-00000129F8651B95.jpg

http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n549/pelmanyaar/1A8CAA4D-C59D-4FE4-99C4-9B2425AE0E1D-2860-0000012A0A9D8FF8.jpg

 

Lovely stubs and italics everybody.

[tartuffo]

Is it a factory music nib or was it altered/improved by someone?

 

it was "altered" : ) to a cursive italic

 

Amazing!

Love your writing style.

 

Thx eli ... been re-learning with Lloyd Reynolds' little red book ...

 

http://i.imgur.com/X7WR08E.jpg

Edited January 30, 2017 by tartuffo

[tartuffo]

http://i.imgur.com/rFOFWrW.png

[bobje]

Tartuffo, your italic is spectacular.

 

This is a Ranga Model 3 with a Kanwrite flexible nib, ground to a 0.8 mm cursive italic.

 

[amberleadavis]

http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n549/pelmanyaar/FBB66C58-CFE2-44A4-A14B-873AAB9EBB4E-2860-00000129F8651B95.jpg

http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n549/pelmanyaar/1A8CAA4D-C59D-4FE4-99C4-9B2425AE0E1D-2860-0000012A0A9D8FF8.jpg

 

Lovely stubs and italics everybody.

Pelman, I have the same pen and it is my very favorite.

[dcpritch]

Sailor 14k music nib - a cursive italic with some serious line variation ...

 

http://i.imgur.com/TfgUJPi.jpg

 

Wow that's a great nib! It has to be fun.

 

http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n549/pelmanyaar/FBB66C58-CFE2-44A4-A14B-873AAB9EBB4E-2860-00000129F8651B95.jpg

http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n549/pelmanyaar/1A8CAA4D-C59D-4FE4-99C4-9B2425AE0E1D-2860-0000012A0A9D8FF8.jpg

 

Lovely stubs and italics everybody.

 

Like Amberlea said, a stunner! I learned about Fort Madison stubs from Jar.

 

Thx eli ... been re-learning with Lloyd Reynolds' little red book ...

 

http://i.imgur.com/X7WR08E.jpg

 

I just ordered one of these books from Amazon based on your fine work!

 

http://i.imgur.com/rFOFWrW.png

 

Seeing this makes me want to buy another pen from CONID! They are absolutely wonderful.

 

This is a Ranga Model 3 with a Kanwrite flexible nib, ground to a 0.8 mm cursive italic.

 

 

I like the size of that nib, and that style of writing is so clear and easily read. Fantastic!

[dms525]

I have been enjoying and admiring all the recent posting to this topic. I am traveling without internet connection other than my phone, so not sharing stuff.

 

Anyway, I am particularly pleased that replies like Trartuffo's are encouraging others to learn and use italic handwriting. On the chance others (besides dcpritch) are considering Lloyd Reynolds' excellent handbook and are not aware of the instructional videos he made, they are also excellent and were made to view in conjunction with the handbook. The book and video together are much more helpful that either alone, IMO. The videos are available on youtube dot com.

 

David

[DrCodfish]

P1030353 by Doctor Codfish, on Flickr

 

P1030354 by Doctor Codfish, on Flickr

 

P1030355 by Doctor Codfish, on Flickr

[tartuffo]

Tartuffo, your italic is spectacular.

 

Thank yu Bobje . I think it's still a ways off "spectacular" but I have seen

a huge improvement thanks to a lot of practice.

 

 

 

 

I just ordered one of these books from Amazon based on your fine work! ....

 

Thank you, and for creating such a fun thread. I never imagined there

could be so many different stubs & italic nibs on such beautiful

pens.

 

I have a few other books but even given his fairly rigid approach,

Reynolds' book is the one I always find myself going back to.

 

 

 

......makes me want to buy another pen from CONID!

 

As another fpn member so aptly put it , a Conid " is all the pen

you will ever need " .

 

 

[dcpritch]

 

I hope you folks can tolerate ink spots in all my nib pics. Whenever I try to wipe a nib clean it seems to just smear the ink around in a different manner, so I no longer make an effort. What you see is what I'm writing with, good or bad.

[zaddick]

DCPRITCH - awesome looking pen. I have been going back and forth with having Greg retip some old M #9 18C nibs I have from the 1960s/1970s. It is good to see an example of his work.

Edited January 31, 2017 by zaddick

[zaddick]

Not so grand as the 149, but here is what I am playing with today at work. These Sheaffer Legacy stub nibs are closer to italics, or at least cursive italics, as the corners are a bit sharp. i have to watch my hand position a bit more.

 

[ShinyObject]

dcpritch: Did the pen come as a BBB or did Greg Minuskin make it a BBB. Love that writing sample.

[pelman]

http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n549/pelmanyaar/55BE08A6-F62F-4A3F-BA26-42A7475A8718-4738-00000212A92E0597.jpg

http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n549/pelmanyaar/E1310542-DB13-4005-B42C-3EED497D581B-4738-00000212B55986B4.jpg

http://i1139.photobucket.com/albums/n549/pelmanyaar/932870AF-600C-42EF-B030-EC8590C5175B-4738-00000212BC604365.jpg

[bobje]

Zaddick, Pelman, Nice nib photographs. How did you do them?

[zaddick]

Hi Bob. I just use my Samsung Note 4 (the days before they started spontaneously combusting) phone and pray it gives me some decent level of focus. It helps if the ambient light is good as I do not use any additional lighting. Every once is a while a decent enough picture comes out.