Leonardo Photo Thread

[dms525]

2 hours ago, Doug C said:

Thanks David.  And I meant Nuvola.

I knew that.  🙂

 

David

[Intensity]

On 10/12/2023 at 12:05 PM, Doug C said:

I just ordered a Novoli with an architect nib. Does anyone have experience with this nib?

Do you mean with an architect grind in general or with Leonardo’s specifically?

 

I have one Leonardo-executed architect grind on a broad steel nib, and it’s a very wet writer with a red ebonite feed.  Reverse writing is a wet extra-fine, which is what I use it as most if the time.  In normal orientation it’s a juicy architect, and due to the broadness it does look better with printed style of font, if writing smaller.  But generally I can do cursive with architect nibs too, it’s just more challenging with broad architect line width.  I can use it well at a 55-60 degree angle from horizontal and a bit lower.  If you’ve never used an architect nib, it may take a lot of personal adjustment and practice.  Pen orientation discipline will matter greatly in the outcome.

[Brance]

Here are my two Leonardo pens. The Momento Zero Blue Hawaii I’ve had since about 2016/17. It has been my daily writer ever since. The Supernova Cosmic Dust is new. I love the look of it, but it has a broad nib and I’m just not that fond of it. I’m waiting for a fine elastic nib from Dan at nibsmith.

[Doug C]

4 hours ago, Intensity said:

Do you mean with an architect grind in general or with Leonardo’s specifically?

 

I have one Leonardo-executed architect grind on a broad steel nib, and it’s a very wet writer with a red ebonite feed.  Reverse writing is a wet extra-fine, which is what I use it as most if the time.  In normal orientation it’s a juicy architect, and due to the broadness it does look better with printed style of font, if writing smaller.  But generally I can do cursive with architect nibs too, it’s just more challenging with broad architect line width.  I can use it well at a 55-60 degree angle from horizontal and a bit lower.  If you’ve never used an architect nib, it may take a lot of personal adjustment and practice.  Pen orientation discipline will matter greatly in the outcome.

Intensity, 

 

Thanks for the additional information. 

Due to medical issues,  I can no longer write cursive so this may work for me. 

I have a King of Pen that has a Naginata Togi nib that used to be unusable for me.

It's now perfect at the angle I now hold pens at.

[Doug C]

Update: I got my Nuvola with the architect nib and I love it!

EVERY pen I have gotten from Leonardo has written perfectly. 

[Intensity]

2 hours ago, Doug C said:

Update: I got my Nuvola with the architect nib and I love it!

EVERY pen I have gotten from Leonardo has written perfectly. 

Excellent news!  I'm very glad you are enjoying using this nib!

[BL28]

On 10/16/2023 at 3:34 PM, Doug C said:

Update: I got my Nuvola with the architect nib and I love it!

EVERY pen I have gotten from Leonardo has written perfectly. 

I got the same, and it’s my first architect.  I must admit - it’s a little bland.  I tried it at various angles.  The horizontal thickness isn’t very thick at all.  It lends itself better to printing rather than cursive, but it’s not what I expected.  
 

I’ve got another Nuvola coming with a CSI Elastic Fine, which will be another new nib to me.  

[Doug C]

10 hours ago, BL28 said:

I got the same, and it’s my first architect.  I must admit - it’s a little bland.  I tried it at various angles.  The horizontal thickness isn’t very thick at all.  It lends itself better to printing rather than cursive, but it’s not what I expected.  
 

I’ve got another Nuvola coming with a CSI Elastic Fine, which will be another new nib to me.  

I now have to print so it works for me. 

[BL28]

On 10/19/2023 at 6:46 AM, Doug C said:

I now have to print so it works for me. 

Does yours write upside down?  Mine does not.  

[Intensity]

11 hours ago, BL28 said:

Does yours write upside down?  Mine does not.  

It should write well in reverse as an extra fine, unless your nib got misaligned.

[BL28]

1 hour ago, Intensity said:

It should write well in reverse as an extra fine, unless your nib got misaligned.

It definitely does not write upside down at all.  Guess I’ll be contacting Leonardo.  Thanks!

[alfredop]

At the 2023 Napoli Penshow I have retired my Audace Special Edition for the Circolo Stilografico Napoletano, black Ebonite with 14K Architect nib. Better photos will follow, but for now here there is the pen:

 

 

I have a passion for all math things, so as I had a special request for the number incised on the pen

 

 

Alfredo

[Doug C]

18 hours ago, BL28 said:

Does yours write upside down?  Mine does not.  

It does not but I am okay with that. 

[Doug C]

5 hours ago, alfredop said:

At the 2023 Napoli Penshow I have retired my Audace Special Edition for the Circolo Stilografico Napoletano, black Ebonite with 14K Architect nib. Better photos will follow, but for now here there is the pen:

 

 

I have a passion for all math things, so as I had a special request for the number incised on the pen

 

 

Alfredo

Is this their first lever fill?

[alfredop]

17 minutes ago, Doug C said:

Is this their first lever fill?

Already in the 2022 penshow Leonardo was showing a lever filler prototype, I am not sure when the commercialization was started, but today, apart the pen for our club, there was a full rack of celluloid lever fill pens (some of them are on the Leonardo website and can be ordered there).

 

Here there is another photo showing the Audace together with a Momento Zero with a customized XXXF nib. The writing sample say “From the Audace Architect nib to the XXXF Momento Zero nib”.

 

Alfredo

[Intensity]

7 hours ago, BL28 said:

It definitely does not write upside down at all.  Guess I’ll be contacting Leonardo.  Thanks!

Normally when architect grinds are done, the opposite side (feed-side-up) orientation is ground to be an extra fine tip.  Even on Leonardo's own information pictures it is shown that you can write in reverse (feed side up) as extra fine:

 

https://leonardopen.com/products/momento-zero-spaghtti-sand

So if neither yours nor Doug C's write in reverse orientation, that seems like a grind defect.  Mine does, as does every architect nib I've had from other nib grinders.  

What do you encounter when you try to write in reverse?  No ink contact or too scratchy?  I would examine under high magnification and see if the tipping is well aligned on the opposite side.

[Surlyprof]

All these beautiful Leonardo pens.  I can’t wait to receive mine in the mail (still waiting for it to be made).  Since I still have a little time to alter my order, I did have a question about Leonardo nibs.  I posted it here in the Nibs and Tines forum.  Any advice or feedback you all have about selecting the right Leonardo nib would be greatly appreciated.  

[BL28]

New addition…. MZG PM1 Glossy in Double Broad.

[dms525]

Leonardo was able to acquire enough of a ca. 2010 cellulose acetate material from Mazzucchelli 1849 to make 5 pens. I was able to snag one of them. The model is called "Gioiellino" and uses a newly designed lever filling system I am still learning about.  Mine is fitted with a 14 Ct 1.1 stub.

 

The material is transparent, rather like the OMAS Extra Lucens material. Here are some photos:

 

 

 

 

 

Enjoy!

 

David

[JonSzanto]

5 minutes ago, dms525 said:

 

David, overall that is just an astoundingly fine pen. Many congrats. I had seen they were headed into a lever-fill pen, but is there something new-ish about it, or is it really just a new lever-fill pen? I like that the design they chose to replicate is very much like the Waterman lever boxes. I'd ask you to bring it to next years SF show, but you'd likely need a cargo van at that point for all your Leo's!!