Neponset vs triple tail nib

[keraba]

I know people don't talk about Noodler pens much any more, but I just picked up a Neponset from Pure Pens (where they're pretty cheap right now, if anyone is interested) after being gifted a Triple tail. I'm trying to reconcile the nibs. Note that I don't know the history of *this* TT.

 

The TT nib has longer cuts but it seems to me that the N nib flexes easier. The TT nib is wider, perhaps why it is more stiff. Also, the TT has a strangely shaped feed; it doesn't cradle the nib very well and the tines won't line up no matter what I do. Maybe a newer TT is better.

 

In case you didn't know, the Ahab section's feed hole is cut specially to accept a feed and nib snuggly. That is, the hole is not round; it has a small allowance for the nib. But on the N that I was sent, it's round. (I assume that this is typical.) This makes it so that I can't push the feed and nib in all the way. They stick out comically, and the snorkel doesn't reach the plunger. I would think for a pen that expensive - $89 at Goulet! - they could go to the trouble that they do for the Ahab.

 

So I put the nib and feed into a spare Ahab. It fits wonderfully. <shrug>

 

Anyways, back to the nibs. The TT nib that I have has "NOODLERS INK CO" written across the nib, underneath the tines. The nib in the picture on most retail websites, *and* on my N nib has "NOODLERS" running down between the tines, and "INK" underneath the tines. So, does the current TT use the N nib now? I guess, since it appears to be a better nib?

 

Anyways, just curious if anyone has more of the history than me, and just felt like chatting about them.

 

cheers

[inkstainedruth]

I don't have a Neponset (even the Ahabs are a little large for me to use comfortably) so can't say on those.  

I did get to test a Triple Tail at the Noodler's table at a pen show when those pens first came out, and it was a nice writer -- but I don't tend to like "demonstrator" style pens, and kept hoping they'd come out with some solid color Triple Tails.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth