Fine vs. Medium Nib

[chipen]

So after recently purchasing a Sonnet I'm hooked on fountain pens. I had to use a ballpoint in the office today since didn't want to bring a nicer pen there. So now I need a second pen (I can see where this is going) and thought a stainless steel gt frontier would fit the bill perfectly, but they only seem to come in medium nibs. Just how wide is the medium? I've heard that it is really fat and wet. How does it compare to the fine nib for a sonnet?

 

Thanks.

[SquelchB]

So after recently purchasing a Sonnet I'm hooked on fountain pens. I had to use a ballpoint in the office today since didn't want to bring a nicer pen there. So now I need a second pen (I can see where this is going) and thought a stainless steel gt frontier would fit the bill perfectly, but they only seem to come in medium nibs. Just how wide is the medium? I've heard that it is really fat and wet. How does it compare to the fine nib for a sonnet?

 

Thanks.

That's right. If you could find the Frontier with F nib, it would be better as it comes closer to standard M. From what I learned form my brief encounter with F Sonnet, the nib is finer than the F nibs of cheaper Parkers, so M Frontier would be waaaay broader.

[J English Smith]

Frontier M is a true medium width and I bet that the fines are not terribly fine. There are some fines currently on eBay for sale - both of mine are mediums. To get a real fine for the Frontier, you'd probably have to have a nibmeister work on it - which would be more than the cost of the pen.

 

A good "truly fine" choice in a cheap pen would be a Parker 45 with an XF steel nib. These write well and are cartridge/converter too...

[Ozzy]

Elo,

 

The Parker's we recieve here, are UK made, and for some reason all with medium nibs. I have a chrome trim stainless steel frontier. at the beginning i found the nib a bit wide, because i was using a parker 51 with a finer nib. i found it a bit annoying, because my handwriting is somewhat small. I think the nib fits the handwriting. with the medium nib, my small letters would often lose details, plus the relative wetness of the nib. still, i'm getting used to it. at least i think i am, because when i was using a 51 last night, i started to feel that the nib was finer than it should be!! i'm new to this kind of Broad nibs of my frontier. but i'm getting used to it. it's not disasterously wide. i think.

 

i'd say try to stick to the medium nib for a while. see how it turns out.

 

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