Question for kitless fp folks

[Hippie3180]

For those who make kitless fountain pens, do you tune the nib before selling or refer the tuning out to a professional? Or is it needed with high end nibs?

 

[duncsuss]

If a special grind is requested, I leave that to professionals; otherwise I test and smooth it myself.

I always do one or the other - no fountain pen leaves me "untuned".

 

[EricRN]

Any tips or good vids that will reach someone how to tune a nib?

 

[Hippie3180]

Any tips or good vids that will reach someone how to tune a nib?

There are You Tubes on the subject, if you do a search several will come up. The thing is you will need to tune the tines up or down and adjust the slit, also smooth the tip, a bit daunting with such delicate parts.

 

[duncsuss]

Any tips or good vids that will reach someone how to tune a nib?

I've posted links to Richard Binder's "nib smoothing workshop notes" a couple of times. Be careful of stuff you find on Facebook, and be very wary of anyone who tells you to use knives/scalpels/pliers on nibs that aren't already trash, because you can quickly turn them into that.

 

[Hippie3180]

Here's a link I found

Beginning Nib Tuning

Tuning your fountain pen’s nib if you don’t know what you’re doing.

www.richardspens.com

 

[duncsuss]

Here's a link I found

Beginning Nib Tuning

Tuning your fountain pen’s nib if you don’t know what you’re doing.

www.richardspens.com

That's part one - scroll down to the section "

"Lots of Don'ts, Not a Lot of Dos?"

" and you'll see a link to the PDF I mentioned.

Good luck - I recommend you buy half a dozen cheap fountain pens to practice on (I got these from Amazon for $3 each) and the smoothing kit from Indy-Pen-Dance that Richard uses in his workshops. A bottle of Waterman's Serenity Blue ink is a reasonably priced quality choice to use to standardize your testing.