nib preference

[j.s.bach]

I tend to prefer stubs.

[DennisU]

To be specific, cursive italic nibs for me!! Fantastic!

[Ray-Vigo]

Medium or medium-fine flex or semi-flex nibs are great. But I like modern manifold fines and medium rounds too.

[goodguy]

Medium flex nib is just perfect for me.

Edited February 20, 2007 by goodguy

[maryannemoll]

i was about to vote for round M, but realized that my favorite pen, the grand place with a medium nib, has more of a stub than a round tip. so i voted stub, because it definitely is not round.

[penguinmaster]

How about an option for no preference. Maybe it is because I haven't been using FP's for very long, but to me I don't seem to have any preference or bias towards any nib so far.

[georges zaslavsky]

Round fine or round medium

[mikeyp]

I like an Extra Fine or Fine nib usually but varies from pen to pen.

[rhk745]

I would like to round fine nib.

 

 

Jojo

[DavidM1]

I prefer a round F over an M or EF but I haven't had a chance to try the others yet. One day...

[rbbrock]

I prefer a stub in most situations. The beautiful line variation is a fair trade-off for the slight increase in concentration required, IMHO. However, in very limited situations (i.e. those where fast writing is required) round nibs prove their value, at least with my (admittedly) undisciplined hand.

[mikeyp]

I like round nibs generally but have doodled with stubs before.

[sleek_lover]

I gotta agree with the request for a NO PREFERENCE or MULTIPLE PREFERENCE option.

 

In the alternative, a preference for a nib that is not balky, writes with whatever I put in the chamber as long as it is not total sludge and generally behaves. And there is the "mood of the day" issue as well. Sometimes I am in an M sorta groove, or an introspective F or a really "party down" B. And, that is for real.

 

Also, there are times I will pick pen/nib combinations for specific "jobs". I just pulled an F-nibbed Waterman Kultur out of rotation/cull evaluation and needed to replace it. Specific need is to review and critique two submittals from my Writers' Group, so I needed another F nib, and need to continue the cull evaluation. So...

 

I am only half-sorry for the long explanation, but as my beloved Peg points out several times a day..."Bill, you just see things in palettes of choices, don't you...so, please...do you want to go to the Chinese Buffet or not!!???!!!

 

 

[jfedv]

I am impresses with my Sheaffer Legacy II stub, very nice line but for Moleskine use and work notes the Pilot VP Fine point works the best with Noodlers to keep the feathering at bay. Good pen for air travel as well.

 

Of course I got into this hobby with a Sheafer Fine Italic $5 pen that had a wonderful line.....several months and wallets full of cash ago......

[Latro21]

i chose round F. ive only used round F and M, and italic F,M and B, but i definitely would like to get an XF, a stub, a cursive italic and an oblique [prolly right foot] as well as a flex eventually.

 

since i didnt use them, i took the Broad and Med nibs from the sheaffer viewpoint set and ground them down to a rounded off-stubbish-obliqueish-cursive italicish nib and a right foot oblique, respectively. i did the broad first which is why its kinda messed up, but the nib looks sorta like a dolphins nose with a bit of right foot obliqueness to it. it works pretty well too, surprisingly. the med is now more of a med-fine right foot oblique, and works quite nicely for me. i didnt grind them properly by any stretch of the imagination, and fear that divulging how i did it would make nibmeisters everywhere cry, FPN'ers would mail boxes of dog poo to my home, and id be banned from attending any pen shows.

 

oh, i guess i should add i am left-handed as well.

Edited March 7, 2007 by Latro21