Welcome To The Broad Side...

[mitto]

A broad line is a broad line, no matter where it comes from (ok, no finger painting sample here please). I'd love to see some photos and a writing sample while still inked.

I would have loved to post pictures but due to certain technical reasons I can't. I tried again and again but the uploading is persistantly failing. I am trying to resolve the issue.

 

Thank you, zaddick.

[amberleadavis]

Mitto, are you on an Ipad?

[mitto]

Mitto, are you on an Ipad?

Yes. But I had been uploading pictures while on Ipad in the past. But it is not working now.

[amberleadavis]

It seems to be a problem with this iteration of the board software.

[GranTorino25]

So, my first foray into the broader nibs was a Lamy 1.1 mm nib. Hardly anything thick, but I realised that even though I didn't enjoy the pen much, I kept using it for the lovely thick line, that suited both my writing and the Iro inks I was using!

 

Then I came across a Pelikan M1005 pre-loved with a 'fine' nib that writes broad, it is lovely and soft and such a nice nib! It took a little tinkering to get it writing properly (a few hard years of use), but it now writes consistently medium and flexes out to a broad+! I love it

Now on the way is a Pelikan M1000 broad. I had wanted an M1000 for a long time, always thinking of going down the fine nib path though. But on the order today, I selected broad- I think that confirms that I'm converted! Hopefully it writes as nicely as I'm expecting!!!

[jmccarty3]

A dull, wimpy pen was sent off to boarding school

 

 

Are you sure it wasn't sent off to broadening school?

[invisuu]

C-can I join? Pelikan M800 1.5 mm italic broad.

 

 

(I hope the forum resizes the picture automatically...)

 

 

 

[Ghost Plane]

Nice!

[inkstainedruth]

Yikes invisuu! That nib is a monster!

I have an IM nib that came on an M200 I got on eBay and ended up swapping it for a B -- because every ink I tried in it (even iron gall ink) was just too wet for the pen. Liked the B better, but then lost the pen. I still have that IM nib kicking around. I had Linda Kennedy tweak it for me some (and then found out she had a B nib available for sale), but it's probably still a gusher, and at the moment I don't have a pen to put it in.

I suppose that if I ever have money again, I should see about getting another M200 (or at least the body and cap) and stick that IM nib unit on and give it another chance -- but it really was a firehose, even by Pelikan definitions of wet...

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Tom Kellie]

[jmccarty3]

This next pen is smaller than I like, though not really a small pen. It was part of a limited 3 pen set OMAS tossed out the door with one gasp as they slid into bankrupcy. I personally like ot onagine Indiana Jones sliding under a closing stone door with this pen as he escapes the closing OMAS factory in Italy. I am sure the reality was much less romantic.

 

The pen is an old style Paragon in the smoke Grey celluloid - nice but nothing to get my heart racing. What really did it was the nib. The first, and only time, Omas offered a factory BBB nib. I was able to pry just this pen withthe 3B nib out of the set and here is the important part of the pen...

 

 

The blue lines you can see in the photo are from my MB 149 3B shown above.

 

 

 

 

So why do I like this nib? Probably mostly because it is unique in the history of OMAS and so few are out there. It lays down a nice juicy line which allows me to empty the pen fairly quickly and change inks. (a positive for me). The amount of tipping is ridiculous so i may one day have the nib stubbed even more or maybe ground to an architect. It is just hard to modify such an unusual nib from OMAS as they are not making more.

 

Going back through this wonderful thread today, I ran across this post. I have this set, which I bought from Bryant Greer, and it is magnificent indeed. Someday I will have the nib in the 360 rotated so I can write with it (I'm a left-handed underwriter).

[Bo Bo Olson]

Sigh, time to take my MB Woolf out**....it's got a B=BB nib. It's a normal now MB 'Springy' nib, good tine bend, but only 2 X tine spread. Cafe des Ills.

That is wider than my old vintage semi-flex OBB's.

 

**I keep it in an vintage, brown bakelite armband/bracelet case. Had the case first.

 

I do like the engraving on the nib....my eyes only.

https://imgur.com/YwbAN7v

https://imgur.com/3zrdy3P

https://imgur.com/SW4ZGox

 

I have permission...from Pentime, he takes a great picture...my Brownie just won't do that.

 

Sorry about the hunt and peck, but Imgur or how ever don't work like Moneybucket.

 

I'll have to take a picture of my Pelikan 500's maxi-semi-flex 30 degree grind, OBBB nib, and write something. A legal signature takes 2/3s to 3/4ths a page.

Edited October 23, 2017 by Bo Bo Olson

[zaddick]

Hi All. I was off FPN for a few weeks, but now I am back in the swing of things. I'll have to pull out some pens and get more photos up here. In the mean time, for those of you reading this thread please share your own lovely broad nibs.

[Tom Kellie]

Hi All. I was off FPN for a few weeks, but now I am back in the swing of things. I'll have to pull out some pens and get more photos up here. In the mean time, for those of you reading this thread please share your own lovely broad nibs.

 

~ zaddick:

 

This thread remains a favorite.

Returning every few weeks to enjoy the broadest nibs is inspiring.

Thank you so much for providing a place to share images of broad nibs.

Tom K.

[zaddick]

I have to get my rear in gear and post some photos. I am on holiday now so I'll work to carve out a little time. I have a few new nibs to highlight.

[Ghost Plane]

Can’t wait to see!

[Tresconik]

Not sure how well these will come out but here goes..

[Honeybadgers]

I took my first steps into "expensive broad" pens with a stub bexley bulls for jim Gaston.

 

I don't really like broad nibs that much. I just don't find myself in situations where I can use them. I write a LOT of notes in notebooks, and my handwriting needs to be very precise and small.

[Gasquolet]

I was tempted to add to this thread a while ago but didn't think I had anything that really cut the mustard. Well, I like these anyway and I thought of a new sub theme; small pens with broad nibs! Sorry about the lighting...

 

A few more vintage Germans - Here you are Bo bo.

 

 

The nibs.

 

[amberleadavis]

I took my first steps into "expensive broad" pens with a stub bexley bulls for jim Gaston.

 

I don't really like broad nibs that much. I just don't find myself in situations where I can use them. I write a LOT of notes in notebooks, and my handwriting needs to be very precise and small.

 

The one Bexley stub I have is my most used pen for the past two years.