Nib Reference and Review Guide

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PEN PROFILE- Kaweco Sport

PEN PROFILE- Parker 51

PEN PROFILE- Pelikan M200 series

PEN SHOOTOUT- Lamy Safari vs. Pilot 78g vs Kaweco Sport. Duel of the "first pen" options.

PEN REVIEW- Aurora 88

PEN REVIEW- Conway Stewart Belliver

PEN REVIEW- Danitrio Cum Laude (Cumlaude)

PEN REVIEW- Delta Dolcevita Medium

PEN REVIEW- Delta Fusion 82

PEN REVIEW- Delta Pagota

PEN REVIEW- Diplomat Magnum

PEN REVIEW- Edison Beaumont Pneumatic

PEN REVIEW- Edison Glenmont

PEN REVIEW- Eversharp Skyline (Vintage Model)

PEN REVIEW- Franklin Christoph Model 03 Iterum

PEN REVIEW- Franklin Christoph Model 19 "1901"

PEN REVIEW- Franklin Christoph model 25 Eclipse

PEN REVIEW- Franklin Christoph Piper Cracked Ice

PEN REVIEW- Jinhao X450

PEN REVIEW- Lamy 2000

PEN REVIEW- Lamy Nexx

PEN REVIEW- Libelle Chromatic

PEN REVIEW- Miller vintage flex

PEN REVIEW- Monteverde Poquito

PEN REVIEW- Monteverde Prima

PEN REVIEW- Monteverde Invincia

PEN REVIEW- Namiki Falcon with SF nib

PEN REVIEW- Nussbaum John Ross

PEN REVIEW- Nussbaum Nicholas

PEN REVIEW- OMAS Arte Italiana Vision Liquid Green

PEN REVIEW- OMAS 360 Vintage Series

PEN REVIEW- Parker 15

PEN REVIEW- Parker 45

PEN REVIEW- Parker 95

PEN REVIEW- Pelikan MK (1957 - 1984)

PEN REVIEW- Pelikan M200 (1980 - 1990)

PEN REVIEW- Pelikan 400 NN (1957 - 1965)

PEN REVIEW- Pilot Celemo

PEN REVIEW- Pilot Custom 823

PEN REVIEW- Pilot Custom 845

PEN REVIEW- Pilot Custom Heritage 92

PEN REVIEW- Pilot Custom Heritage 912

PEN REVIEW- Pilot Metropolitan

PEN REVIEW- Pilot Justus 95

PEN REVIEW- Pilot Prera

PEN REVIEW- Pilot Vanishing Point (F)

PEN REVIEW- Pilot Varsity

PEN REVIEW- Platinum Cool

PEN REVIEW- Platinum Preppy

PEN REVIEW- Platinum 3776 Bourgogne - Platinum 3776 Charleston Blue

PEN REVIEW- Reform 1745

PEN REVIEW- Rosetta Napoleon

PEN REVIEW- Sailor 1911

PEN REVIEW- Senator Solaris

PEN REVIEW- Sheaffer Imperial Triumph

PEN/NIB REVIEW- Taccia Momenta

PEN REVIEW- TWSBI Vac700

PEN REVIEW- TWSBI 580 Al

PEN REVIEW- Visconti Bronze Age Homo Sapiens

PEN REVIEW- Visconti Divina Desert Springs LE

PEN REVIEW- Visconti Steel Age Homo Sapiens (25th Anniversary Addition) - *Post 2 has info on the travellers Ink Pot*

PEN REVIEW- Visconti Homo Sapiens Crysal Swirl LE

PEN REVIEW- Visconti Opera LE Crystal

PEN REVIEW- Visconti Rembrandt

PEN REVIEW- Visconti Van Gogh Midi

PEN REVIEW- Waterman 54 (Vintage)

PEN REVIEW- Waterman Hemisphere

PEN REVIEW- Wirt Eyedropper

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INK REVIEW- Akkerman Bekakt (Brown)

INK REVIEW- Akkerman IJzer-Galnoten (iron gall)

INK REVIEW- Akkerman Oranje

INK REVIEW- Akkerman Shocking Blue

INK REVIEW- Badger And Blade 5 O'Clock Shadow by Noodlers

INK REVIEW- Caran d'Ache Vibrant Green

INK REVIEW- De Atramentis Document Green

INK REVIEW- De Atramentis Michelangelo

INK REVIEW- De Atramentis Rembrandt

INK REVIEW- Diamine Apple Glory

INK REVIEW- Diamine Bilberry

INK REVIEW- Diamine Blue-Black

INK REVIEW- Diamine Claret

INK REVIEW- Diamine Denim

INK REVIEW- Diamine Eau de Nil

INK REVIEW- Diamine Havasu Turquoise

INK REVIEW- Diamine Majestic Purple

INK REVIEW- Diamine Majestic Blue

INK REVIEW- Diamine Onyx Black

INK REVIEW- Diamine Oxblood

INK REVIEW- Diamine Registrars Ink, Archival Blue-Black

INK REVIEW- Diamine Saddle Brown

INK REVIEW- Diamine Sargasso Sea

INK REVIEW- Diamine Sherwood Green

INK REVIEW- Diamine Syrah

INK REVIEW- J.Herbin Eclat de Saphir

INK REVIEW- J Herbin 1670 Rouge Hermatite

INK REVIEW- J Herbin 1670 Bleu Ocean

INK REVIEW- Lamy Blue

INK REVIEW- Lamy Blue-Black

INK REVIEW- Landolt-Arbenz Konigsblau (Royal Blue)

INK REVIEW- McCafferery's Penman Black (Dip pen ink)

INK REVIEW- Montblanc Permanent Blue

INK REVIEW- Montblanc Toffee Brown(1) (2)

INK REVIEW- Montegrappa Blue

INK REVIEW- MonteVerde Turquoise

INK REVIEW- Noodler's Antietam

INK REVIEW- Noodler's Baystate Blue

INK REVIEW- Noodler's Blue

INK REVIEW- Noodler's Blue-Black

INK REVIEW- Noodler's Legal Lapis

INK REVIEW- Noodler's Heart of Darkness

INK REVIEW- Noodler's Liberty's Elysium

INK REVIEW- Noodler's Polar Brown

INK REVIEW- Noodler's Brown #41

INK REVIEW- Noodlers Roundup! (Bad Belted King Fisher - Blue Black - Baystate Blue- Bad Green Gator- Black- Bad Black Moccasin)

INK REVIEW- Noodler's Zhivago

INK REVIEW- Noodler's American Blue Eel

INK REVIEW- Noodler's 54th Massachusetts OldSchoolYoungin, NightCap

INK REVIEW- Papier Plume Burgundy

INK REVIEW- Parker Quink Blue-Black

INK REVIEW- Pelikan 4001 Royal Blue

INK REVIEW- Pelikan 4001 Blue-Black

INK REVIEW- Pelikan 4001 Dunkelgrün (Dark Green)

INK REVIEW- Pelikan 4001 Turquoise

INK REVIEW- Pelikan 4001 Green

INK REVIEW- Pelikan Edelstein Amber

INK REVIEW- Pelikan Edelstein Ruby

INK REVIEW- Pelikan Edelstein Tanzanite

INK REVIEW- Pelikan Edelstein Topaz

INK REVIEW- Pelikan Edelstein Turmaline

INK REVIEW- Pilot Blue Black

INK REVIEW- Pilot Iroshizuku Ku-jaku (Peacock)

INK REVIEW- Pilot Iroshisuku Murasaki-shikibu (purple)

INK REVIEW- Pilot Iroshizuku Shin-Kai(1) - Pilot Iroshizuku Shin-Kai(2)

INK REVIEW- Pilot Iroshizuku Shin-ryoku (Forest Green)

INK REVIEW- Pilot Iroshizuku Syo-ro

INK REVIEW- Pilot Iroshizuku Tsuki Yo (Moonlight Night) - OldSchoolYoungin, Nightcap

INK REVIEW- Pilot Iroshizuku Yama-Guri

INK REVIEW- Pilot Iroshuzuku Yama-guri (2)

INK REVIEW- Private Reserve American Blue

INK REVIEW- Private Reserve DC Super Violet

INK REVIEW- Private Reserve Ebony Blue

INK REVIEW- Private Reserve Electric DC Blue

INK REVIEW- Private Reserve Orange Crush

INK REVIEW- Private Reserve Sherwood Green

INK REVIEW- Private Reserve Tanzanite

INK REVIEW- Rohrer & Klingner Alt Goldgrün - Syngent's, Snargle's

INK REVIEW- Rohrer & Klingner Leipziger Schwarz

INK REVIEW- Sailor Kiwaguro Nano Black

INK REVIEW- Sailor Jentle Sky High

INK REVIEW- Sailor Jentle Ultra Marine

INK REVIEW- Sailor Nagasawa #46 Kobe bluish-grey

INK REVIEW- Schneider cartridges (blue, black, red)

INK REVIEW- Senator Vintage Royal Blue

INK REVIEW- Visconti Green

INK REVIEW- Waterman Audacious Red

INK REVIEW- Waterman Tender Purple

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WIKI Paper Reviews + notebooks, journals, and other stationery

Parker Vacumatic filling system restoration
Picture tutorial: How to "tune" a Hero 616 fountain pen

Squeeze sac filler mod for cartridge fed pens


Various PDF and Downloads thread

B&B Traveling Pen Repair Kit Thread

We are going to begin making some videos for you guys to show some things that are difficult to explain posting here

The videos will appear in this thread and is open to suggestions to anything you guys would like to see us do

Just drop a Comment here and we will get to it as soon as we can, For smaller requests we'll do a video request at the end of the week, and for larger ones a whole video to make sure we properly answer your questions


Hope you enjoy these, as well as make great use of them
The first video in our series is a bit brief, but I walk you through the parts of a standard converter filling pen, using my MonteVerde Invincia Deluxe. Hope you enjoy

Discussion of these videos and ideas can be found Here

so its a simple thing, By having a narrow channel inside a wider bottle it takes less ink to create the depth needed to fill a fountain pen, its a simple thing, Vintage Skrip bottles have a little pocket in the glass that does the same thing, and Akkerman ink bottles use a little ball and an upper tube that serves the same purpose.

when the inner tube is empty, Atmospheric pressure when the bottle is turned upside down will equilize the pressure and fill the inner tube, since the same volume of ink is in both, the level in the smaller space inner tube will be higher then that of the wider main bottle. Sailor Jentle is the bottle in the video, I believe TWSBI bottles also utilize this as well

Sheaffer



Akkerman

Here you can see three Nibs,
The one to the far left has the coating completely removed, the middle one has the coating only remvoed from the tip, and the far right has all of its coating still intact

View attachment 337276

Not all nibs come coated. Modern Speedball nibs are an example of this, they only need an initial cleaning in case of any debris left from packaging, and they can write right away, although if you not sure if a nib is coated for certain, the burning process will not hurt the nib, and feel free to do it to make sure your nib will work properly


In Part 2, Which I will record and upload in a little while, Ill walk you through loading ink on the Nib to writing with nib and nib holder, as it can differ quite a bit from a fountain pen

Here is a quick video showing an alternate filling method that may help you out in some situations

specially on pens with seals filling systems, like a Vac, or other sac style pens



The Air gap I left in the syringe, was to leave a little space at the top of the syringe to make it easier to remove the plunger without making a mess

If you don't have a large enough syringe to do this (I bought mine from the gouletpens.com) then you can decant into a smaller tube such a an ink sample tube

That's pretty darn clever. I guess Sailor doesn't really cater to filling pens with nibs larger than what they make!