How to make a fountain pen nib

[mapletree]

Are there instructions available on how to make a fountain pen nib?

 

[watch_art]

Yep - you buy them.

Making a nib is not an easy or cheap process.

The tipping is where all the trouble comes in. You've got to be able to arc weld (or some kinda weld) this little ball of ruthenium to the tip of your gold nib. Once you do that cut the slit.

There's actually a lot written about it, and how hard it is, over at Fountain Pen Network.

Use this google searcher and look up terms like
Google Custom Search - The Fountain Pen Network Search


retipping nibs
making nibs
home made nibs

Somebody made some titanium nibs last year but w/o tipping.

 

[EBorraga]

Just search a little and you'd find this. This is a great tutorial.

http://content.penturners.org/library/pens/fountainpensection.pdf

 

[mapletree]

Thanks for the information.

 

[Timebandit]

Just search a little and you'd find this. This is a great tutorial.

http://content.penturners.org/library/pens/fountainpensection.pdf

Thats not a nib, thats a front section. I think a lot of people are using the wrong words to describe pen components. Maybe we need a Glossary of Terms in the Library so people can properly describe pen components. A nib is the writing portion of a fountain pen, not a ballpoint pen, not a rollerball, or any other kind of pen, and its not what you grab with your fingers. Its the metal part with the Iridium tipping on it that you write with with a fountain pen. What that nib and feed go into are a section. This is also true with rollerballs. Its not a rollerbal nib, its a rollerball section, there is no nib on it. Nibs are only on fountain pens. Sections are not nibs. Who votes for a Glossary of Terms?

 

[TomW]

Fountain Pen Glossary

Tom

 

[Timebandit]

Fountain Pen Glossary

Tom

Maybe it can be a sticky somewhere. I get confused reading threads sometimes because im not sure what the person is talking about. Who knows, maybe the OP of this thread was talking about a section and called it a nib. See, im confused in this thread even though the way i read it, he is asking how to make a fountain Pen nib, not a section.

 

[mapletree]

I was asking about how to make a nib on a fountain pen that transfers the ink to the paper.
Would like to hear from someone who has made a nib with a limited amount of tooling. I have appreciated all of the comments.

 

[watch_art]

Go search over at FPN like I suggested.

I've only ever seen one person do it. She made two from titanium.

Does anyone make their own nibs? - The Fountain Pen Network

 

[studioso]

here you go:
http://www.flick.com/~liralen/quills/quills.html#cutting