My Top Three Nib Choices for a Beginning Vintage Dip Pen User
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- In this video I will discuss my top three choices for a beginning dip pen user. This is not a video about calligraphy but rather daily correspondence or business writing. I will cover the three types of lines commonly used in this type of writing. These are a mono line, an italic and a slightly flexible and sharp line.
One of the considerations in selecting the top three were price and availability. You should be able to easily find any of the three for about a US dollar individually. The ink is Parker Quink in black. The paper is SN2 (to buy email ordersn2paper@gmail.com and ask for a price sheet.)
I hope you find this video helpful.
Thanks for this! I'm actually just doing general research on pen types used in schools in the 1930s and this was really useful on basic use and nib type difference. Most guides I've found are more focused on either art or calligraphy use, but I really just want to know about everyday use in writing. Great video, thank again!
It's funny, I just bought (and received earlier today) a large box of Esterbrook 788s and Esterbrook 048s. I came to this video after looking into possibly getting some subway stubs. You covered everything that I was interested in in one fell swoop. The 788s and 048s are, by far, my favorite nibs. I'm glad to see someone talking about these nifty pens.
This was awesome thanks for the vid!
I've seen the forty-five degree angle to the top left of the page taught, but I was taught never to do this, and after trying both ways, I think my teachers were correct. It's too easy to ruin a nib that way, and very difficult to avoid scratching the paper.
If you're having trouble with scratching and grabbing on the up stroke, either the angle you're holding the pen is too steep, or you're using very bad paper, or both. The upstroke should always be every bit as smooth as the downstroke, and will be, if you use good nibs, good technique, and paper made for nibs.
By and large, if the paper isn't excellent fountain pen paper, it will be even worse for dip pens, which almost always have poorer nibs than fountain pens. If you haven't tried Rhodia, but some. If your nibs catch, scratch, skip, or do anything other than write perfectly in every direction on Rhodia, you need different nibs, or you need to smooth the ones you have.
Good stuff!
i enjoyed and learnt much thanks
Im new to dip pens...Im actually interested in them for line work in my paintings...technical pens can be so expensive, for such a disposable "thing", so I figured 'dip pens' why not?!
I got the mapping and drawing set from manuscript (since i have no idea what im doing figured cheapest is best) and im using India ink. Im having a issue with the tines on my nibs, they keep over lapping one another (on the more flexible ones) and I have to like...*pop* em back into their place. Does that mean I have defective nibs, or did i ruin them using heavy tooth paper (ive heard to be careful with thick water color paper and nibs). . Otherwise, I love them.
Also...is there, perhaps a nib that can draw a thin line and handle a toothy paper? Maybe that you can recommend? Thanks so much for the info. Subbed and watching.
Oh. And I am left handed... if that maybe has any bearing on dip pen nibs
Is any ink will work on the nib??
Please answer me
Erditya Permana Maybe but others will bleed
Hi! How do you clean vintage dip pen nibs?
Tiff, great question. I simply wipe them with my rag when I put it away. I find I rarely have to do more than this. There are cleaners available for ink that has dried on or you could just dip it in water followed up with a wiping down with your rag. Remember they are steel and will rust if you allow them to stay wet. Don't become overly concerned about the water since water is the main ingredient in your ink, just keep them dry when you are done. Lastly, try to not use a rag that will allow fibers to become wedged between the tines. You can usually avoid this by not applying to much pressure as you are wiping the area of the nib with the hole in it.
Beautiful straight pen nib holders. Although the writing remains questionable
Idiot.