Lamy 1.1 mm Italic (I'm a convert)

[Usui]

I just got one of these in the mail, and have been writing with it all day long. I wish I discovered italics earlier. This has been way too fun to write with. Way smooth, and great line difference.

 

Given the cost, I totally recommend that you try a Lamy italic 1.1mm

 

Now to grinding... so I have this very nice, very broad lined medium pen that I might want customized by a nib meister. Would the grinding to make it an italic make the max line thickness thicker, thinner, or does it depend?

[thibaulthalpern]

I just got one of these in the mail, and have been writing with it all day long. I wish I discovered italics earlier. This has been way too fun to write with. Way smooth, and great line difference.

 

Given the cost, I totally recommend that you try a Lamy italic 1.1mm

 

Now to grinding... so I have this very nice, very broad lined medium pen that I might want customized by a nib meister. Would the grinding to make it an italic make the max line thickness thicker, thinner, or does it depend?

 

I received my Richard Binder grinded cursive italic 0.7mm VP nib unit and I love it! I tried a friend's Lamy italic 1.1mm and it's very nice but it's way too broad for users like me who write small. I think 0.7mm fits me just well

 

You may want to try a flexi nib too. I've tried and love them!

[J English Smith]

I have one on order from The Writing Desk and plan to swap it into one of my Vistas or Al-Stars soon. Will be a little broader than I like, but fun for the time being. (Some day, I may pay for one of Richard's VP units - it's just that the regular VP fine nib is such a nice one.) I wish Lamy would come out with a .7 and .9 italic or stub...

[thibaulthalpern]

I have one on order from The Writing Desk and plan to swap it into one of my Vistas or Al-Stars soon. Will be a little broader than I like, but fun for the time being. (Some day, I may pay for one of Richard's VP units - it's just that the regular VP fine nib is such a nice one.) I wish Lamy would come out with a .7 and .9 italic or stub...

I agree that the VP fine nib is great. I have three VP units and two VPs. ;-) Two of them are the original F, and the other one is a Binder grinded cursive italic 0.7mm. I love it! I've never used a cusrive italic before and thought maybe to play it safe I should go for stub italic which has rounder edges but which also means less line variation. Well, I decided to just try the cursive italic and it worked for me! It makes my handwriting look a bit like Chancery font.

[Usui]

See... i just like the way my handwriting looks with a little bit fatter line. I've dropped my Pelikan 215F in favor of my Dupont Medium(More broad) and now this lamy 1.1 is even more fun. Thin lines are for margins in my cook books or bible... other than that, I don't like thin.

[thibaulthalpern]

I generally write small, but there are times when I write large such as headings for notices or what not although that's rare. In those cases, a 0.7mm cursive italic does not produce good writing at the size. Better to use 1.1mm and up nib for that! The line variation of a 0.7mm nib gets lost in lager writing.

[Usui]

I generally write small, but there are times when I write large such as headings for notices or what not although that's rare. In those cases, a 0.7mm cursive italic does not produce good writing at the size. Better to use 1.1mm and up nib for that! The line variation of a 0.7mm nib gets lost in lager writing.

I'm curious of how thin you like it. Please post a sample

I'll pose my request in a written example of my own.

This was written at normal speed. Very easy to write with and take notes with.

[simonrob]

Now to grinding... so I have this very nice, very broad lined medium pen that I might want customized by a nib meister. Would the grinding to make it an italic make the max line thickness thicker, thinner, or does it depend?

 

Having a nib reground from round to some sort of italic can't result in a thicker line unless you have the nibmeister retip it with a bigger blob of tipping material first. Otherwise, the wide portion of the newly reground tip will likely be a bit narrower than the original (just how much narrower depends on how rounded the edges are). You would likely find the difference negligible, though (you will be distracted by the attractive line variation!).

 

Simon

[RevAaron]

Usui- your writing is look pretty good for someone who has just started writing with an italic nib! And the ink mix looks snazzy too, I never tried mixing Djinn Red with blue, but the outcome looks pretty swell.

[Titivillus]

stock italic nibs are rather nice!

 

K

[ApplemanIINotActive]

You might want to look into a Pilot BB nib as it is very similar as well. About 15 I think

 

Chris

[TLewis]

I have a question, is the Lamy italic nib tipped with some tipping material, like the other Lamys? Or is the tip a straight edge of stainless steel, like the Pelikan script pens appear to be?

[TLewis]

duplicate post

Edited October 24, 2008 by TLewis

[RevAaron]

Lamy nib is untipped. I don't have one in front of me to check, but I think the Pilot B/BB is tipped, but only with a very thin sliver of tipping material, and only on the underside. Which sounds odd, but I swear that's what it was last time I looked...

[Ondina]

Now to grinding... so I have this very nice, very broad lined medium pen that I might want customized by a nib meister. Would the grinding to make it an italic make the max line thickness thicker, thinner, or does it depend?

 

Having a nib reground from round to some sort of italic can't result in a thicker line unless you have the nibmeister retip it with a bigger blob of tipping material first. Otherwise, the wide portion of the newly reground tip will likely be a bit narrower than the original (just how much narrower depends on how rounded the edges are). You would likely find the difference negligible, though (you will be distracted by the attractive line variation!).

 

Simon

 

You're kidding!. So if you grind an M, for instance, into an italic....the resulting line with will be thicker? Oh, dear....lots of pens are going to be butchered then...mines.

[wintermute]

Lamy nib is untipped.

 

Does this have any effect on the durability of the nib? I'd assume that there is more loss of material over time due to abrasion from the stainless than the iridium, but I'm just guessing here, that it shouldn't make any practical difference.

[RevAaron]

Lamy nib is untipped.

 

Does this have any effect on the durability of the nib? I'd assume that there is more loss of material over time due to abrasion from the stainless than the iridium, but I'm just guessing here, that it shouldn't make any practical difference.

 

It can have an effect on the durability of the nib, but for modern materials and use I wouldn't worry too much about it. Even with daily use, it'll still last a long time. You might only get 50 years out of it instead of 200. Depending on how much the nib is used you might have to smooth it some, but even that would need to be done infrequently; or, if you didn't want to put in the effort, it's only $10 to buy a new Lamy italic nib.

 

Aaron

[WillAdams]

For almost two decades I used an untipped, plain steel Platignum Fine Italic nib --- while the tip wore away to a ~45 degree angle, the pen still write (and writes ---it's my backup pen at my desk at work) just fine, only not as crisply as it did originally.

 

William

 

 

[J English Smith]

I got my Lamy 1.1 nib on Saturday from The Writing Desk in the UK. It's great! I'm really enjoying having a practical and cheap italic fix. I'll post some scans of writing later. I like the line thickness even better than I thought I would. These nibs are quite the steal at The Writing Desk, by the by, especially with the rising US dollar (rising for so many bad reasons, alas). (No affiliation.)

[J English Smith]

Sample...

Edited October 27, 2008 by J English Smith