Calligraphy/Longknife (Lamy) Nib Options for your Chinese Pens

[J120]

I ordered Lamy broads from Pen Chalet for the Jinhao 80 due to it only having the .3, ef, and f nib options currently.  I know Bobby has options but I wanted something updated and there was a demonstration on Bilibili showing these fit the Jinhao 80.

 

Lusfer Store on Aliexpress came through and I look forward to seeing how these work on the 80 and other winged Lamy style models. WS 3008 update

 

I am not affiliated with the seller. I just appreciate the independent retailers who get the items requested that would not otherwise make their way stateside. Beini and Bobby levels of effort. 

 

[Seele]

This is strictly on a FYI basis.

 

A nib design by Sailor is 長刀研ぎ , pronounced as Naginata Togi. Written in kanji, "naginata" (長刀) is a traditional Japanese pole arm, with a curved blade at the end of the pole. "Togi", written in one kanji and one hiragana character, means "sharpening", and in the pen nib context, "ground into (a certain) shape".

 

While Japanese is written as a combination of kanji (quasi-Chinese characters) and two forms of kana - hiragana and katakana - characters as syllables, the Chinese has a habit of treating all kanji characters as Chinese proper, and all the kana characters are ignored. Thus 長刀研ぎ became "長刀研" and pronounced, in Mandarin, "chang dao yan" which makes little sense, but that's how Naginata Togi is known nonetheless. However, treating "長刀" literally as Chinese would become "long knife".

[Mech-for-i]

First off the so called " long knife " / Calligraphy grind see this surge of populace really because the Chinese Mfr had developed a set of automated machine grinding routine / process and most local retailers of the said nib are perfectly frank with this fact

 

Then one had to realize that the term is loosely used among the Chinese Mfr to refer to basically compound curvature grinded tipping so " long knife " originated partly from Sailor's Naganata and take the general naming from there they are different nib still

 

 

[J120]

Nibs as advertised.  I am having trouble pulling the nib on the Jinhao 80. 

[Doggy Daddy]

Very interesting. Is this a Lamy nib?

[Doggy Daddy]

Duplicate post. Please ignore. Not sure how to delete it.

Edited March 14, 2023 by Doggy Daddy
Duplicate post.

[DrScholl]

On 7/21/2022 at 11:48 PM, J120 said:

Nibs as advertised.  I am having trouble pulling the nib on the Jinhao 80. 

 

I just received one of these, writes very smoothly and changed the pen.
On a French fountain pen forum I was complaining I had to pull the original nib with pliers and broke one of the tines (no regrets because it was so dry). I was answered that you have to use a small screwdriver and apply pressure at the base of the nib, to somewhat make lever and ease the process...

 

Here's the new nib :