Welcome To The Broad Side...

[pankaj]

@ zaddick : I'm totally awed by your pics. The collections as well . Pelikan O3B ...and the P 51

[pankaj]

" Now is no time to think what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what you have. " - Hemingway -

 

So now just the filler :

 

 

 

 

 

 

[pankaj]

And a slender all weather MB Noblesse that I can reach out to whenever it means business ! ( particularly while travelling in I don't want to invite special attention and curiosity of those burly security guys with heavy metal detectors in hand at the boarding gate .. )

 

 

 

 

[JMTB]

Cross Point

Pelikan BB

Franklin Christoph 'Christoph' nib

 

 

 

 

 

 

[zaddick]

Pankaj - as Hemingway might have said, you pens are very Peli-CAN. Ok, sorry for the bad pun.

 

JMTB - you have got some nice nibs there. Thank you for sharing.

[BlkWhiteFilmPix]

Those Pelikans are beautiful, Pankaj and Zaddick.

 

Bastille Day done with a 149 and and a O3B in Baystate Blue, and a Lamy 1.1 with Diamine Poppy Red.

 

 

[pankaj]

Cross Point

Pelikan BB

Franklin Christoph 'Christoph' nib

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Awesome nibs ZMTB !

Great pics. The Cross Point is a dream nib. I think its equally a daily user, at least I use mine quite often. Just a little discomfort while writing upside down for a fine line. How do you manage with that point on the reverse?

[pankaj]

Those Pelikans are beautiful, Pankaj and Zaddick.

 

Bastille Day done with a 149 and and a O3B in Baystate Blue, and a Lamy 1.1 with Diamine Poppy Red.

 

 

Thank you LR.

I like the poppy red, but more than that I like the Poppy / doggy in your profile photograph ... smile.

BTW 149 + O3B is a lethal combo, no ?

[pankaj]

OK ok , no more Pelikans .

 

Now, I turn my coat

 

MB WE 2005 : Cervantes

 

 

 

Andrew Carnegie MB POA 2002 ( posted earlier in some other thread )

 

 

 

( PS . name n style mentioned just for clarity and not out of snobbery or affectation )

[pankaj]

And now, indigenous tribe

 

 

 

[Misfit]

I love stub, italic, calligraphy nibs

[JMTB]

Awesome nibs ZMTB !

Great pics. The Cross Point is a dream nib. I think its equally a daily user, at least I use mine quite often. Just a little discomfort while writing upside down for a fine line. How do you manage with that point on the reverse?

 

Not something I've done with the pen. The great thing with with cross point is if I need a thinner line I can simply raise the angle of the pen.

[craigs63]

I've had a Lamy 1.5 for a while, and just got a 1.1. Trying this one out for daily use for note-taking at work, seems to do the job!

 

Lamy turquoise ink in the one, and Cross Black in the other. Field Notes and Squier JV Strat for scale/color balance reference.

 

http://i.imgur.com/yYIzo4s.jpg

[tinta]

My only unmodified nib in the Broad range is on a late 1950s Montblanc 254, with a "stubbish" !4c BB "Flügelfeder" nib.

This factory double broad nib vies with the very best of my customized edged nibs. Writes like an expertly shaped, forgiving stub.

Edited July 15, 2017 by tinta

[tinta]

Two Kaweco/Bock (060) 14c nibs, a BB & a B on Kaweco Dia2 pens. The BB nib was reduced in width to a 0.8 mm stub, The B to a 0.6 mm. CI.

 

These images have been posted on other FPN threads.

Edited July 15, 2017 by tinta

[BillH]

[PhilH]

I'll add to this thread as I get to use my various pens, but today I will kick things off with a Sailor King Eagle nib on a King of Pen. This nib is essentially the ultimate architect nib with the ability to lay down very wide horizontal lines. Teh cool feature is the ability to give line width variation based on writing angle. You can also write with the reverse side of the nib for the finest line.

 

 

Sorry for the low light shot from last night.

 

Why do I like the nib? Well, it is fun to play with and varying angles is something I do on occasion anyway. This rewards my fidgety behavior by giving me the feeling of different nibs in one pen. Plus the thing is just lovely to look at. It feels like excessive luxury to have three nibs stacked on top of each other. It is so excessive it could have been designed in the USA at a monster truck rally! (You can almost hear the chanting and motors revving.)

 

Zaddick,

What paper are you using to give these wonderful writing samples?

Phil

 

OK, on to the pictures.

 

 

 

[vikrmbedi]

4 b nibs from different brands- 3 of the are stubbish.

waterman exception night and day gold

graf von faber castell gold anello

sheaffer legacy heritage

montblanc 145 classique

 

http://i.imgur.com/huDN2JR.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/PkWb8MG.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/0bKnAf7.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ciIH0x9.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/TY9HxAu.jpg

[KellyMcJ]

Can I play? 0.6mm Nemosine (my second Nemosine 0.6 because I love them so much.)

 

http://i.imgur.com/XIvwOwb.jpg

[zaddick]

Here is a fun little pen I picked up not too long ago - a Bexley Winter Wonderland made for Jim Gaston in 2003. Jim used to partner with pen makers to have special editions created and he would sell them himself. Mostly this was with Bexley and Sheaffer.

 

This pen came in three colors - blue, red, and green. I think the end caps are made of Sheaffer cobalt glow acrylic while the barrel and cap are "cracked ice" with some translucency. What is really fun is the section that you can see the ink through (in addition to the ink window). It is sort of a semi-demonstrator. The pen is piston fill.

 

 

 

 

 

What I like about these Jowo steel nibs is the smoothness and the flow you get without tipping. This nib is the "high performance steel" from Franklin Christoph, but I think it is the same as the generic JOWO 1.5. I don't mind buying from FC because they have great customer service and I like to support the firm where I can. The nib is a good size for me and provides great variation.

Edited July 18, 2017 by zaddick