DurocShark
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I've been using an old flat top fountain pen for the past couple years. The first FP I'd ever made in fact. The "Iridium Germany" nib has been a good performer with whatever ink I throw at it. Most recently I've been using Monteverde inks with great results.
Thinking about how much I liked that nib I decided to try an upgrade. If the crap kit nibs were good, an upgrade to a new nib would be better!
I couldn't afford the real nice 18k ones, so I settled for the steel ones. I was hoping to add them to my kit pens. I figured I needed to get to know them before I offered them to folks. So I tossed one on my flat top. Seemed like a good fit.
However, the new nib dumps too much ink when it's working, stops flowing completely sometimes, feels rougher than my kit nib even after the brown paper bag treatment, and so on.
I'm assuming I need to do some kind of tuning, but other than rouge cloth the couple of tuning tutorials I've found said NOT to tune modern nibs.
The ink dumping then not flowing seem to be diametrically opposed issues. I was willing to try tuning it anyway (the steel ones are cheap) but don't know where to start.
I'm hoping for some guidance from ya'll on this...
Thinking about how much I liked that nib I decided to try an upgrade. If the crap kit nibs were good, an upgrade to a new nib would be better!
I couldn't afford the real nice 18k ones, so I settled for the steel ones. I was hoping to add them to my kit pens. I figured I needed to get to know them before I offered them to folks. So I tossed one on my flat top. Seemed like a good fit.
However, the new nib dumps too much ink when it's working, stops flowing completely sometimes, feels rougher than my kit nib even after the brown paper bag treatment, and so on.
I'm assuming I need to do some kind of tuning, but other than rouge cloth the couple of tuning tutorials I've found said NOT to tune modern nibs.
The ink dumping then not flowing seem to be diametrically opposed issues. I was willing to try tuning it anyway (the steel ones are cheap) but don't know where to start.
I'm hoping for some guidance from ya'll on this...
