Mac In Oak Ridge
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First to set the rules.
A nib is the little metal pointed thing that puts the ink on the paper when you are using a fountain pen.
A nib is not the whole end of a fountain pen that has a threaded end to screw into the pen body. That is the nib holder with the nib installed in it.
If Craft Supplies can sell nib holders with the nib in them for $4.50 each, the nib would be less than half that price. I am thinking in the $1.50 or less range.
I have looked for quite a while for nibs. I can find web sites that sell nibs for $50, $60 $100+, mostly antique or rare ones. Someone somewhere must sell the nibs, the little metal pointy thing without the nib holder. I am talking about the nibs that we get in standard pen kits. I wouldn't mind putting even a $10 nib on a $15 pen kit to improve the writing ability. I cannot put a $60 nib on a $15 pen kit.
I haven't seen every fountain pen kit out there but every one I have seen uses the same nib. No matter what plating or what source of the kit they all have the same nib in them.
Where can you get the nibs? I'd by 10-12 of each grade F, M, L if I could find the dang things.
A nib is the little metal pointed thing that puts the ink on the paper when you are using a fountain pen.
A nib is not the whole end of a fountain pen that has a threaded end to screw into the pen body. That is the nib holder with the nib installed in it.
If Craft Supplies can sell nib holders with the nib in them for $4.50 each, the nib would be less than half that price. I am thinking in the $1.50 or less range.
I have looked for quite a while for nibs. I can find web sites that sell nibs for $50, $60 $100+, mostly antique or rare ones. Someone somewhere must sell the nibs, the little metal pointy thing without the nib holder. I am talking about the nibs that we get in standard pen kits. I wouldn't mind putting even a $10 nib on a $15 pen kit to improve the writing ability. I cannot put a $60 nib on a $15 pen kit.
I haven't seen every fountain pen kit out there but every one I have seen uses the same nib. No matter what plating or what source of the kit they all have the same nib in them.
Where can you get the nibs? I'd by 10-12 of each grade F, M, L if I could find the dang things.