Stub Smoothing

[Bo Bo Olson]

Ham fisted, pressing on a nib like it was a ball point.

 

Uncoordinated is the original meaning; breaking or bending things through forceful clumsiness.

 

When I came back to fountain pens after 50 years of ball point use, I was ham fisted.

As I went from nail and regular flex to pens that required a lighter hand like semi-flex, I became less ham fisted.

I was lucky I ran into semi-flex before 'flexi'/maxi-semi-flex or the more flexible nibs like an Easy Full flex.

Pressing hard like a nail or a ball point can ruin nibs with some flexibility.

 

You have to learn to have a light hand. If you don't have a light hand, you are ham fisted.

 

What I wrote as ham fisted means some one who presses much too hard on a brown paper bag or micro-mesh grinding away what they don't really want to.

 

One should aim to grasp the fountain pen like it is a featherless baby bird, and let the nib flow on its little puddle of ink, with no force. Let the pen/nib do all the work.

[jjlax10]

If I keep kosher can I say I am turkey fisted?

[bizhe]

"not happy"? We can only guess at why you have this emotion. But because it's Pilot, I'm guessing that there is not enough flow (it's easier to increase flow than decrease it).