yaroslaw
Member
I've recently met a calligraphy professional, who is well-known in my country and nearest country calligraphy community, and even organizes calligraphy festival at the end of May.
We were talking about possible pen line for them, as normal fountain pens are of very low interest for them.
We have few ideas to discuss:
1) nib holders for calligraphy nibs seems unprofitable - we have a lot of them from China for $2-3, and they would need long pieces of wood (which already is more them $2-3, and hard to get nice wood that size). And, all vendors I order (all from IAP) have them out of stock.
2) gold custom calligraphy nibs (italic, stub) are just TOO expensive, and a pain to stock them up. They are too specific.
3) I saw few pens from a member here made from Rotring nib units, also few vendors (Manuscript for example) made calligraphy nib units that can be dressed up in a wood or nice acrylics
4) cheaper calligraphy steel nibs (like I was shown) are UNTIPPED. So I've got an idea of grinding off tips from normal IPG nibs (I have a bunch of them which are substituted by Heritance) to make stub broad nib.
Your thoughts and more ideas?
We were talking about possible pen line for them, as normal fountain pens are of very low interest for them.
We have few ideas to discuss:
1) nib holders for calligraphy nibs seems unprofitable - we have a lot of them from China for $2-3, and they would need long pieces of wood (which already is more them $2-3, and hard to get nice wood that size). And, all vendors I order (all from IAP) have them out of stock.
2) gold custom calligraphy nibs (italic, stub) are just TOO expensive, and a pain to stock them up. They are too specific.
3) I saw few pens from a member here made from Rotring nib units, also few vendors (Manuscript for example) made calligraphy nib units that can be dressed up in a wood or nice acrylics
4) cheaper calligraphy steel nibs (like I was shown) are UNTIPPED. So I've got an idea of grinding off tips from normal IPG nibs (I have a bunch of them which are substituted by Heritance) to make stub broad nib.
Your thoughts and more ideas?