Help Me Diagnose A Nib Issue

January 30, 2016

Hello all. This is my very first post. At an estate sale last week, I found a nice, clean Parker 45 with a medium 14k gold nib. I suspect the pen was never inked. I disassembled the pen as soon as I got it home, and it was as clean as a whistle. I flushed it anyhow, just for good measure. It wrote a touch dry, so I opened up the tines, and the flow has improved more to my liking. The pen writes nice and juicy now. However, it seems to have a very narrow sweet spot. Under normal writing, it mostly writes just fine, but if I underline towards the right, I get a nice wet line. An underline made from right to left is sometimes dryer and faint. Similarly, a down stroke is nice and wet, but an upstroke can be dry and faint. The tines are well aligned, and the pen writes smoothly when on the sweet spot. Drawing loops yields dryer line at certain points.

I've uploaded a pic. Sorry it's not better, but it's the best I can manage at the moment.

Is there something I could do to improve the consistency of the line with different strokes? I am fairly new to fountain pens. I've been using them since about May of 2015. I'm learning more and more about adjusting nibs. I'm not sure what to do about this one.

January 30, 2016

http://www.nibs.com/Article6.html

January 30, 2016

Thanks for the reply. I'm aware of that article. It really isn't addressing the issue I'm having. I thought that there might be foot on the nib, but I don't see anything like what's in the Nibs.com article when I examine the nib through my loupe.