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B nibs!  Italic nibs! Stubs!

[Aysedasi]

On 4/2/2021 at 7:25 PM, tartuffo said:

 

 

 

Blackberries , Oka  &  Iroshizuku  asa gao   : )

 

 

 

 

The asa gao looks much brighter than I'd previously appreciated (I've never used it).  Is it that bright in reality?  I thought it was more of a blue/black?  

[tartuffo]

On 4/14/2021 at 4:53 AM, Aysedasi said:

 

The asa gao     ...    Is it that bright in reality?  I thought it was more of a blue/black?  

 

You might want to do a google search for asa gao. I think it's much closer to a royal blue

than a blue black.

 

[Tom Kellie]

~ A small group of 10th grade students saw an OBBB nib in action last Friday.

 

On Fritz Schimpf Feinpost paper, the Sepia ink from L’Artisan Pastellier Callifolio inks was sharply clear with excellent shading.

 

The students expressed surprise that such attractive lines were possible in contemporary handwriting.

 

A teaching moment, which made possible a brief explanation of advantages of broader nibs.

 

This is posted here in appreciation of @zaddick, who has such a superb collection of broader nibs.

 

         Tom K.

[ParramattaPaul]

I'm patiently awaiting the arrival of a new EB pen. 

[Anne-Sophie]

On 11/27/2019 at 6:42 PM, zaddick said:

Stacks on stacks on stacks.

 

 

Jim Crawford on top (4 stack) and Regalia Writing Labs below (3 and 2 layer).

 

Would you mind sharing writing samples with those nibs?

 

My everyday use nibs are broad, I wonder how those specialty nibs write.

 

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

I have an eyeballed  OBBB maxi-semi-flex 30 degree grind on a Pelikan 500. (not the era for nib stamping and the rolled gold piston cap prevents body nib marking. A pure signature nib, in a 15 letter legal name takes up 2/3rds to 3/4ths a page.

I just noticed that my MB 146 has to be a OBB in it wrote wider than my regular flex Pelikan 381 OB, Geha 780 semi-flex OB and my medium-large '50-60  146 maxi-semi-flex OB.

Not counting those which are newer and not counting other regular flex or nail '36 Canadian nibbed '38 Vac factory stub  BB nail, or my Australian maxi-semi-flex factory stub BB Sheaffer.

Nor my fat MB Woolf B = BB.

 

I have in both 15 & 30 degree grinds, in a mix of maxi & semi-flex OBB, OB, OM & OF.

There was a time when I chased wide nibs; now I'm often happy with an M.

I know I have other wide nibs, some day I should do a spread sheet.

 

I came back to fountain pens on an M and went wide...F's were just place holders...still there. Now its M, B and OB...the OM's haven't come up lately...got to put on my short list.

IMO the only obliques worth wasting money on is semi-flex.

[mitto]

Italic or stub? It is a USA made 14k Parker 75 nib. 

 

 

[Tom Kellie]

 

 

 

Montblanc 1959 Meisterstück 149 BBB

 

 

 

Montblanc 1959 Meisterstück 149 BBB Nib

[Tom Kellie]

 

Montblanc Meisterstück Monotone Yellow Gold 149 Bespoke Small Signature Nib

 

[Tom Kellie]

 

Montblanc x Fritz Schimpf 149 Italic Edge Nib

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

1952?-54 Pelikan 500, with rolled gold cap and piston cap. The 500n&500nn have no golden piston cap.

 

I knew the camera I bought years ago was sf*t.Besides being lousy, many pictures I tried to show off, showed the camera did not close up work.

And my wife's phone was so much better, it wasn't able to do the job either. The upstairs neighbor had an Apple phone...It did much much better, one can read the doted old style script Pelikan.

 

But tomorrow he is going to ask someone he know with a real camera to come over and do the better job. In it was hard enough to get what I will show......and those guys above with all the great pictures.....great job folks.

 

Lamy Crystal Ink, Amixonite is a nice shading blue-green ink. (Surprised me how nice it was considering how many hate Lamy Crystal inks.)

However in a OBBB maxi-semi-flex it shades little due to the overly wetness of the quite flexible maxi-semi-flex  nib. If one can see the small scribble of the Geha semi-flex EF, it shades there......(Mostly I find F's shade more than my few EF's.)

OBBB is eyeballed, in I have 4 OBB's and two BB's. The Pelikan was from an era before nib marking, and because of the rolled gold piston cap, the normal marking space of the '50-54 Pelikans was covered by the piston cap.

 

That is also a 30 degree grind. IMO having a few, OB., OBB and in this case OBBB, comes in either 15 degree grind or 30. I have a two or three 30 degree grinds.

It's been a while since I last spoke of it, so don't remember if the others are just OB & OM.....I don't remember if I have a OF in 30 degree....that's what happens when one depends on memory instead of a spread sheet.

 

I have no @ 22 degree nibs....I tend to think, with not enough justification to think in the first place there it was just 15 or 30 degree grinds in German oblique.

 

There have been times I wondered if the once very well trained sales force in the German Old Corner Fountain Pen Shoppe, if the salesman would ask, do you want a bit more Oblique on your pen and went back room and ground the 15 degrees to 30 degrees; in no pen company that I know about bragged about their 30 degree grind. 

That might go for the other pens, but not  this one. This was near top of the line, and a pure signature nibbed pen.

 

Vintage pens run 1/2 a width narrower than modern.

I have a W.Germany small Pelikan 600 OBB that is 1/2 a width narrower than my post 2000 1005 OBB.

Not all my vintage Osmia OBB's; BBL's from Osmia is the same width, one is half a width narrower than the other....oh well. So OB 1/2 rounds up ok....

 

Please click for bigger pictures.

The nib may not 'look' OBBB but it is, in I have two Osmai OBB's A W.Germany Pelikan 600 and a 2003 if I remember correctly  1005, which is 1/2 a width wdeer than semi-vintage, as it is after Pelikan went over to the the double ball nib after '96. Outside of the 200 which is only in the last 4-5 years gone over to a double ball nib.

 

 

The small print is my Geha 790 semi-flex EF, and it shades.

Someone else's picture of a 500. Showing the rolled gold piston cap.

[bunnspecial]

On 11/25/2021 at 11:03 PM, mitto said:

Italic or stub? It is a USA made 14k Parker 75 nib. 

 

 

Almost year late to this, but I wonder if it's a Music nib. Trying to remember-one was available for the VP but I don't remember if they were on the 75 or not.

 

One of the defining characteristics of music nibs(not all have 3 tines, BTW) is that they're meant to be held at a "high" angle relative to the paper. The nearly flat bottom of the nib you show makes me think that.

 

Look at the number stamped on the underside of the feed and that will likely tell all.

 

Also, I have a Duofold with what Parker calls an "Italic" nib. It's not a crisp formal italic, but more of a CI.

[Tom Kellie]

 

Italic Edge After Use

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

You take some very fine pictures. My friend with a good cell phone/handy as we call them over here, couldn't come near.

Of course mine nib is monotone.

[kmlstmoorthi]

Someone say broad?

Sailor King Cobra - probably 6B.

 

 

[kmlstmoorthi]

A juicy O3B - hint of flex - just superb

 

[kmlstmoorthi]

Scribo BBB ground to an O3B 

 

[amberleadavis]

4 hours ago, kmlstmoorthi said:

Someone say broad?

Sailor King Cobra - probably 6B.

 

 

 

STUNNING

 

4 hours ago, kmlstmoorthi said:

A juicy O3B - hint of flex - just superb

 

 

 

OH YEAH!!

 

 

4 hours ago, kmlstmoorthi said:

Scribo BBB ground to an O3B 

 

 

 

OOOOOO  AWESOME

 

 

Please show us these beauties in action!

[kmlstmoorthi]

Sailor Cross nib.

 

 

Writing samples to follow...