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Is there really any Iridium in the nibs that say it? I am just gettting into learning about fountain pens and was doing a little research and found this article: http://www.nibs.com/article5.html and found it interesting. So if there is no iridium in the tip how do they get away with saying that on the nib?
Borrowed from a post on The Fountain Pen Network on this subject:
Beware that most any contemporary pen with a German Iridium nib is, in fact, not German, nor does it use iridium. Chinese suppliers bought out the tooling for German iridium nibs when a ""number of major German players went out of business, the most notable of which was Reform. Rather than spend money to alter the nib stamp, they just kept going with the German Iridium markings. The steel is of a much lower quality, they use poor tipping material (if anything at all), and the workmanship is generally poor.""
Just curious
Borrowed from a post on The Fountain Pen Network on this subject:
Beware that most any contemporary pen with a German Iridium nib is, in fact, not German, nor does it use iridium. Chinese suppliers bought out the tooling for German iridium nibs when a ""number of major German players went out of business, the most notable of which was Reform. Rather than spend money to alter the nib stamp, they just kept going with the German Iridium markings. The steel is of a much lower quality, they use poor tipping material (if anything at all), and the workmanship is generally poor.""
Just curious
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