Clicking Noise When Nib First Touches Paper, Not While Actually Writing

[RipperMadness]

From time to time when I lift my fountain pen from the paper and then put the nib to paper to start writing the next word I'll hear what sounds like a a small click or static discharge. It never makes the sound when I'm actually writing and it sounds more like its coming from the piston knob at the top of the pen than from the nib itself. I have read various posts about the tines touching when one is writing but that isn't when its making the sound. She writes beautifully and quietly otherwise.

 

Any thoughts, answers are appreciated and thanks ahead of time. And I apologize if this was answered somewhere else but I didn't see it. Have a great day all!

 

- Omas Ogiva Alba, EF extra flessibile

[Fountainer]

I have experienced that with a pen but don't remember which one. And it didn't last that long so i could have discovered the phenomenon. Maybe i disassembled it and it went off. My guess is that there is tension in the nib similar to those metal hair clips that will snap when bent, so when the nib touches the paper, it bends rapidly upwards and makes a small snap. I can't see why the piston would make any noise but i really am not sure about this.

[dneal]

I've got a couple of pens that do this. It's the tips of the two tines touching together ever so slightly. I can repeat the clicking sound if I lift the pen, rotate the pen so the other tine is "dominant" (will touch the paper first or receive more pressure), and touch it to the paper again...

[mhosea]

Happened to me once with a Parker 75. Couldn't figure it out because the tines were not touching. I finally removed the nib from the feed and found a small sticky glob of something on one side. I'm guessing that is NOT your problem, but it is, apparently, an unexpected possibility.

[fountainpenlady]

From time to time when I lift my fountain pen from the paper and then put the nib to paper to start writing the next word I'll hear what sounds like a a small click or static discharge. It never makes the sound when I'm actually writing and it sounds more like its coming from the piston knob at the top of the pen than from the nib itself. I have read various posts about the tines touching when one is writing but that isn't when its making the sound. She writes beautifully and quietly otherwise.

 

Any thoughts, answers are appreciated and thanks ahead of time. And I apologize if this was answered somewhere else but I didn't see it. Have a great day all!

 

- Omas Ogiva Alba, EF extra flessibile

Off topic: What color OOA did you decide? Are you interested in the cocktail version? Bloody Mary calls to me, but I have already acquired the orange version of the Omas Ogiva Alba, extra fine nib, not flessible though.

[fountainpenlady]

From time to time when I lift my fountain pen from the paper and then put the nib to paper to start writing the next word I'll hear what sounds like a a small click or static discharge. It never makes the sound when I'm actually writing and it sounds more like its coming from the piston knob at the top of the pen than from the nib itself. I have read various posts about the tines touching when one is writing but that isn't when its making the sound. She writes beautifully and quietly otherwise.

 

Any thoughts, answers are appreciated and thanks ahead of time. And I apologize if this was answered somewhere else but I didn't see it. Have a great day all!

 

- Omas Ogiva Alba, EF extra flessibile

It might be your tines. My Omas Ogiva Alba (checked while writing) does not make the sound you describe. Perhaps, due to your version being a flessibile. ?