Getting A Nib Reground For The First Time.

[ISW_Kaputnik]

I hope that getting a nib reground won't be a frequent need. In fact, if I sensibly stop with the pens that I've got, then I may never need it again. However, I really wanted the Montblanc Noblesse (or Noblesse Oblige, not sure) shown at the bottom of the picture to be a usable pen. It came to me having been reground as a left oblique, and it just didn't write very well. I don't think it was just me, as I have a couple of other left oblique nibs, but regardless, it wasn't working out for me.

 

It just came back to me from Greg Minuskin, along with the Waterman, which only had to be aligned. He reground the Montblanc back to a "normal" .6 mm nib for me. I'd thought that this would surely involve re-tipping as well, but he told me it was not necessary, still enough tipping material for him to work with. I appreciated that, as the re-tipping would have added noticeably to the price.

 

I got these back yesterday, and am very happy with both of them, but I can't stop writing with the Montblanc. It is now very smooth, just wet enough, and with the line width that I was aiming for. Well, actually I can stop, since I'm typing this, but you know what I mean.

 

While the pens were gone, I remembered a Pelikan converter I had lying around, and wondered if it would fit the Montblanc. It does, which will spare me having to refill cartridges.

 

 

[Joe in Seattle]

It is always nice to receive back from the hand of a master a pen that you had given up for lost. I have a parker duofold that was a boring M nib, but after Mike it work worked on it it is a beautifully writing F/EF nib.

[kiavonne]

Greg does nice work. He saved a nib on my Nakaya which had be ground twice previously by others.

[OcalaFlGuy]

I've never bought a pen at a pen show.

 

But I've come home from them with at least 20 New pens.

 

 

There was no comparing the pens I came home with (ground at the show) to the pens I TOOK to the show.

 

Bruce in Ocala, Fl

[pajaro]

I have a P51 with a Minuskin broad stub. Extremely nice and versatile. I use it to write "Internet banking is up at HH:mm P.M." in the worksheet at the end of the night. Even if I don't write so much any more, my interest in pens remains undiminished.

 

I envy the OP. I have always wanted a MB Noblesse. Keep getting outbid. Enjoy that pen.

Edited March 5, 2014 by pajaro

[Inkling13]

I hope that getting a nib reground won't be a frequent need. In fact, if I sensibly stop with the pens that I've got, then I may never need it again.

You make it sound that you can just get one pen and keep regrinding it. Most of the time, a pen will undergo just one round of regrinding, as you lose material each time you do it. And most of all, you can't go back.

[JonSzanto]

You make it sound that you can just get one pen and keep regrinding it. Most of the time, a pen will undergo just one round of regrinding, as you lose material each time you do it. And most of all, you can't go back.

 

When I read it, I took it that he meant after getting whatever pens he has that *don't* write particularly well re-ground, he wouldn't have to look for any further pens (and any further grinding).

[ISW_Kaputnik]

You make it sound that you can just get one pen and keep regrinding it. Most of the time, a pen will undergo just one round of regrinding, as you lose material each time you do it. And most of all, you can't go back.

 

No, that's not the point.

 

 

When I read it, I took it that he meant after getting whatever pens he has that *don't* write particularly well re-ground, he wouldn't have to look for any further pens (and any further grinding).

 

Exactly. I now have all of my current pens working well. Unless I damage something, there wouldn't be any reason for another regrind. And I really ought to stop buying new ones.

 

But if I do need another regrind for some reason, I know where to go.