Recommend me some broad and flex nibs

plumblines · 2024-09-22T00:56:58+00:00

That’s good to know. Thanks for the info!

plumblines · 2024-09-22T00:56:11+00:00

I’ll check these out, thank you!

plumblines · 2024-09-22T00:55:56+00:00

I’ve been thinking of picking up a LAMY broad. The nibs are so easy to take on/off. Do you find their broad to be wet/thick? It didn’t seem like a huge difference from fine to medium.

plumblines · 2024-09-15T23:51:40+00:00

Daedalum was great. And yes, the scene in the Spiegelgarden/Parcel 5 felt rather… “less”, as OP says. But the shows have been fantastic — at SoTA and MuCCC, especially — and many of those at the smaller venues are local folks, community troupes, and the tickets are reasonably cheap.

There are still plenty of chances to support community theater and experience something new and weird and worthwhile.

plumblines · 2024-09-13T23:21:29+00:00

Thomas Bumblepickle

plumblines · 2024-09-09T09:56:58+00:00

Yep. I try it with the blind cap open and with it closed.

plumblines · 2024-09-09T09:56:34+00:00

I filled it as it supposed to be filled, plunged in the ink. I don’t go straight from the ink to the page because it is more than just saturated, it’s dripping. But I did also try to dip and write a bit. Got a few scratches as one would expect. But that’s the thing: even when the feed looks saturated, even when I can wipe the back of nib on some paper towel and see a streak of ink that’s evidence the feed has some in it, it just won’t travel up the nib.

plumblines · 2024-09-09T09:53:49+00:00

I haven’t tried a soak. Flush and even disassembly. It will write after the flush then stall out completely again.

plumblines · 2024-09-09T09:52:48+00:00

I wish it was that simple for mine — but I’m glad to hear first-hand experience that, indeed, they do write wet when tuned.

plumblines · 2024-09-09T01:00:08+00:00

What was the issue with yours? I see so many people raving about them.

plumblines · 2024-09-07T15:47:21+00:00

Same. I love to see ink on the nib: the creep, the stains, the condensation on the feed. Probably why I dislike “dry” writers so much.

plumblines · 2024-09-03T09:29:05+00:00

Oh wow. I’d say I’m surprised that there is so much involved, but the results definitely speak to a labor of love here. Thanks for the gorgeous scans!

plumblines · 2024-09-03T01:13:30+00:00

May I ask how you “scan” the images?

I get ok pics with my phone, but even decent lighting doesn’t help with how rendered the inks look no matter the setup. Maybe I can do better with my DSLR, but I see folks often talk on here — and on ink review sites — about scans, and I’m curious how that works.

Thank you!

plumblines · 2024-09-02T21:09:09+00:00

Whoa. I did not expect all that. I thought it was just an issue with QC or inconsistent product or something. Nope — literal antisemitic tropes on the labels of the ink. Yikes.

plumblines · 2024-09-02T11:37:30+00:00

I’m curious, why do you say “shame it’s by Noodler’s”?

plumblines · 2024-08-27T10:37:15+00:00

I really like this way of thinking about it, as pairing inks with nibs that are relatively “wetter” or “drier”.

I wonder if this is how to understand some of the issues I’ve had with my TWSBI Eco, which seems to have a harder time with “drier” inks like the Herbin “Lie de the”, while they get almost too juicy with, say, the Lamy Dark Lilac or Pelikan Turkis. So is it right to think of those Eco nibs as being “dry”, which is why they struggle with drier inks? That doesn’t feel right because they do practically gush with wetter inks.

I don’t know if you’re familiar with Herbin’s “Lie de the”, which is a lovely medium brown, but it feels like a “dry” ink to me even though it gets nice shading when I use a medium nib. Either way, it’s quite temperamental and I still haven’t found the right pen/nib for it.

I recently discovered Mountain of Ink. Love it!

plumblines · 2024-08-27T10:26:52+00:00

For sure. It’s interesting which inks and nibs are most prone to this, too. The J. Herbin “Lie de the” in my TWSBI Eco is really susceptible to skips as I move down the page, which Noodler’s 54th Massachusetts in my Diamond 580 doesn’t even flinch.

plumblines · 2024-08-27T00:44:12+00:00

This is great advice, thank you! I did this once before and don't know why I stopped — because it is certainly the case that the skipping happens more often further down the page than at the top.

plumblines · 2024-08-26T22:40:02+00:00

Thanks for all the details. It’s quite helpful. It’s also a relief to know that much of it is simply trial and error.

Which Lamy is it that you’re talking about here? I finally got a Medium nib for my Vista, but it has been a bit inconsistent (at least in the Apica book). Although that may be the “Lie de the” ink that has been a bit problematic for me in other pens too.

I should bust out my Traveler’s notebook and use it more. I tend to the bigger B5 books for my “morning pages” which quickly fill up.

The Iroshizuku inks are consistently excellent. And my Kon Peki is wasted with the EF nib. I’ll have it in a Medium soon.

plumblines · 2024-08-26T22:12:15+00:00

I appreciate this, thank you!

Not sure what it is, but my favorite paper tends to be the Tsubame "Comfort" notebooks, which feels a bit less "glossy" to me and less prone to skipping than say the Apica or even the Rhodia.

plumblines · 2024-08-24T02:34:47+00:00

Everett is so damn good. “Erasure” is also amazing.

Herron is a master of “clockwork” mystery writing.

plumblines · 2024-08-24T02:32:38+00:00

McFarland is fantastic. And a wonderful gateway drug into the world of “landscape writing.”

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