Stub O' The Day

[BillPorter]

[mitto]

 

 

I have wanted a Parker 45 TX for some time but have been put off by the prices. I couldn't believe my luck when I saw an apparently unrecognised TX languishing in the auction, described merely as a "Parker fountain pen". With 30 seconds to go, it was at £5 but there must have been a lurker who had recognised its true identity because the customary last second flurry pushed my cost up to £39 – still less than I expected to pay. I'm pleased that I had taken the precaution of a generous maximum bid.

 

The broad left oblique italic "Z" nib was one that I had from a junk-yard purchase of a 45 GT with what the trader told me was a "broken nib". The pen and nib cost £2! The TX had a lovely wet 14K "B" nib (now on the GT). So, 2 fabulous pens with 2 generous nibs for a tad over £40 makes me a happy gasman. I'm having a cognac to celebrate.

 

Cheers,

David.

...And it makes me a happy Khan for you, David.

[dms525]

 

 

I have a Shawn Newton pen that takes Bock nibs. I have been using it with a spare Conway Stewart nib but have wondered if a stock Bock nib would swap in easily. Beaufort Inks in the UK carries Bock steel "calligraphy" nibs. They are inexpensive enough and I was confident enough they would work to order 1.1, 1.5 and 1.9 mm nibs from them.

 

There is good news. The nibs screw right in to my Conway Stewart pens that are C/C fillers and take No. 6 nibs, and to the Newton Bamboo Eastman, pictured above.

 

These nibs are un-tipped, as you can see. They are very smooth - really stubbish - but the 1.5 mm and 1.9 mm give quite satisfactory thick/thin line differentiation for calligraphy.

 

I suppose the bad news is that Bock does not provide Beaufort with gold italic nibs like the ones that were available from Conway Stewart before their demise.

 

David

[roshpens]

Pelikan Souverän M1000

 

I bought this pen quite a while back from a fellow FPNer. It originally had an O3B nib on it, which was WIDE, wet and just too much for me to handle, plus I'm not especially fond of obliques. So I sold that nib and bought a BB (again, from an FPNer), and it was sent for work to John Sorowka (FPN: Oxonian) in Oxford. John is the consummate gentleman, a pleasure to work with, and did an amazing job in grinding the BB into a sweet writing stub.

 

 

The green striated barrel has enough clarity to help one keep track of ink levels, especially important when one has a nib that lays down as much ink as this one.

 

 

Here's a writing sample:

 

 

 

Ink used is Private Reserve Spearmint. You can see from the cross hatch that the nib has a little spring to it, so that with moderate pressure the width of the line will increase - not a huge amount, but enough to notice.

 

 

I took a photo of the M1000 next to a vintage 100N. One can definitely see the Pelikan lineage, even though it was actually the 1950s 400 that gave birth to the Souverän line. The green binde, black cap and turning knob, and gold trim is in my book just classic Pelikan styling.

 

 

 

 

I have a 3B nib I'll roll out on this thread at some other time, but here are some photos of the BB stub and the 3B, side by side, to give an idea of the size difference between these two nibs.

 

 

Hi, I am just curious to see if the 3B nib was modified or its a factory stock?

[dcpritch]

The 3B in that picture is completely stock, never modified. You can see in the bottom frame how bulbous the nib is, especially compared with the BB nib, which was stubbed by John Sorowka. The 3B wrote so wet it was virtually unusable on all but a couple of papers, and when the ink didn't feather or bleed it would take forever to dry because it went on so thick. I eventually sold it.

[friedrichwild]

one of my best writers in general !!!

[dcpritch]

Your writing is great with that pen!

[InkyAccountant]

Visconti Opera B nib, now Cursive Italic by Michael Masuyama.

[bobje]

 

Kaweco Sport with Monteverde red velvet.

[friedrichwild]

i would call this a stub!

[tartuffo]

[amberleadavis]

 

 

I love this thread and I adore that ink.

[tartuffo]

 

[tartuffo]

[mitto]

Beautiful nibs and pens. Planning to show some of mine. Right now using a MB 24 with flexy OB nib.

[mitto]

MB 24 flexy OB or OBB nib.

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UqaA5GtfdzMP1Ld1PtJh7B-nh__CIdIM/view?usp=drivesdk

 

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10qU2hkLwBeL-urMjQELegj7-6tfu5063/view?usp=drivesdk

[ArchiMark]

 

 

 

Onoto Magna Classic Tortoise LE

 

Posting in honor of the esteemed fellow FPN'r, dcpritch, who had the great idea to start this wonderful thread, share so many great stubs, and kind offer to part with the wonderful stub pen posted now.

 

Thanks,

 

Mark

[dms525]

My first Montegrappa pen - an "Elements Lapis" LE of 100, sold in the U.S.A. only I understand. I saw this pen at the San Francisco Pen Show last August and have been watching for one at a less-than-MSRP price with a stub nib. I found it this week at Chatterley Luxuries. The stub is narrower and crisper that expected and writes like a dream.

 

 

 

 

 

David

[dcpritch]

“Onoto Magna Classic Tortoise LE” - Mark, That pen looks wonderful and now it finally has its place in this thread. David, your Montegrappa is stunning, as are the many other pens posted here recently. I’m so glad this thread has been kept going by folks who love stubs as I do. Well done!

[Inkyways]

I love this thread and it is amazing. I love Fine and extra Fine tipped nibs. Apart from that, I like Cursive italic and Oblique Italic in the cursive type, that gives me to write smoothly and with a slight feedback to the papers. I have adapted some pens with custom ground nibs already and I am preparing some photos and some writing samples to go with