Which Is Your Best Nib? The Nib With Which All Others Are Judged? One Nib To Rule Them All?

[gclyn]

I don't have any custom ground nibs, they are all "factory made." But, I do love my 18K Pelikan F nib on my M800...that is my daily pen...my second would probably be the 23k Palladium F nib from my Visconti Homo Sapiens.

[OcalaFlGuy]

My favourite nib is in my P61 insignia. The feedback & feel are dreamily good, so much so that I have to avoid using it too much as I end up concentrating on how pleasurable it is to write and not on what I am writing. I end up writing gibberish as a result.

 

Regards,

 

Richard

 

And there's that having to write with your drool guard in place so you don't get the paper wet.

 

Bruce in Ocala, Fl

[Mickey]

I have a tie, a Duofold Centennial EF (reground by John Mottishaw to Asian EF) and a Modern Aurora 88 (large) EF. I have carefully tweaked both them to suit my needs (refined the grind, reduced flow, etc.). They now write almost identically, with small, well defined sweet spots - not all that much like they were when received. Both pens write drier than usual (e.g., Diamine Oxblood in the Parker passes a 3 second smear test on Clairefontaine Triomphe), but are absolutely smooth, even on lightly textured papers (e.g., Classic Crest laid).

 

My best absolutely stock nib is a Platinum President 18K UEF.

[adamselene]

IF nib on my modern Conway Stewart Churchill.

 

If that had been my first pen, I would not have bought the next 100-150. I would have been satisfied.

 

(Please send up a prayer for me if you would, it has been missing for two days, must be home or at the office or in the car or ??? Yikes!)

 

 

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

It was behind my night table. What? You don't take your pens to bed with you?

 

 

i am truly grateful.

Edited June 13, 2014 by adamselene

[loudkenny]

Actually I'm torn on this one, as I have two 'perfect nibs'.

 

One is in my 1943 Azure Blue Vac Major 'frankenpen', and I got it from my 1940? Vac desk pen. It's a medium, and it flies across the page like it was jet propelled. Flip it over, and it's a Fine. It can even make my crappy handwriting look nice.

 

The other is in my green Waterman Taperite. Why is it cool? It's got Flex... and lots of it. Best of all, that pen can make even PR Ebony Green shade.

 

ken

Edited June 13, 2014 by loudkenny

[Fabienne]

TWSBI Bock nib on a 540. Great road feel, great smoothness. Enough feedback for all. Yum.

[dooooooor]

I have two! For italic nibs it's my Pendleton Brown ground TWSBI 580, excellent variation and very smooth, with a nice (but not annoying) amount of feedback.

 

For round nibs it's my Parker Vacumatic Jr. with the smoothest fine nib I have ever used. It's ridiculously smooth. I usually like a bit of tooth, but I love how this one glides.

[Water Ouzel]

Three that are very close: Lamy 2000 EF, Edison Collier EF (steel), and a Pilot Custom 823 F.

 

Usually the 823 barely edges out the other two, but not always.

[Chi Town]

My absolute Nib that Rules my stable? Are my Left hand Oblique's! Even though I am right handed, when I write I tend to "roll" my pen in my hand backwards, and the Left hand oblique's really help me with my handwriting !

[lahlahlaw]

A semi-flex factory stub on my 4.5 inch 1930's Sheaffer Junior flattop. If I could take one pen with me to the afterlife, this would be it;bite marks and all.

[lzykramer]

Recently I tried Pelikan Hercules Medium Nib, So soft and smooth, I think it is softer than normal m1000 medium nib ..Awesome....

[parnesh]

Top would have to be Pilot 823 Medium. Just luscious. Close is a Pilot 92 SM. However I have an Omas Art deco certified with an M titanium nib that could give them a run for their money but it needs to be tuned. Slight babies bottom.

[canibanoglu]

Pelikan M1000 M nib. That one is my current favorite nib that all others are judged against.

[acolythe]

Factory would be 1950s Aurora 88P some flex and Dolce Vita both M. Customised a Pendleton Brown stubbed Bexley Corona and a Namibia Falcon that John Mottishaw stubbed and added flex mod

[acolythe]

Factory would be 1950s Aurora 88P some flex and Dolce Vita both M. Customised a Pendleton Brown stubbed Bexley Corona and a Namibia Falcon that John Mottishaw stubbed and added flex mod

[scratchofapen]

Depends on what to do:

- Quick notes regular writing is my pelikan800's F Nib

- Writing something in "flex style" it is my Osmia 446's KM Nib.

- Using an ink that lives up by shading i prefer my Lamy 2000 with a B.

[Blue_Moon]

Italix Captain's Commission, 1.1mm italic. Or any other Italix pen nib really

I agree!

[donwinn]

Which nib of yours is the one to which all comparisons are made? What is it about this nib that makes this "The nib to rule them all"?

 

Mine is the factory stub on an Aurora 88. Absolutely perfect! Perfect ink flow, perfect line variation, perfectly balanced, perfect feedback. I in fact use this as my standard description of what I want when customising.

For F nibs, my Sailor 1911 21K

For M nibs, strangely my Jinhao X450

For Flex pens, Pilot/Namiki Custom 742 FA nib (modern) tied with Pilot/Namiki Falcon (also modern)

For Flex pens, vintage, a Black Diamond celluloid, model name or number unknown. I have several Black Diamonds, all flexy, and this one is the best of the bunch (vintage).

[krz]

My firm XF benchmark is a Esterbrook 9550

Firm F, I like a later Sheaffer Triumph

Sheer flexy, Waterman's Ideal and Wahl

All around semi-flex Waterman's Ideal Commando

[nicholasyeo]

For me, I like the Omas EF Extra Flexible nib. It's comfortable for writing, manufactured flawlessly and very smooth! The Lamy Accent type EF gold nibs are good too. Most Japanese nibs can't be faulted but can be stiff.