Standard international twist converter in a steel nibbed pen. It fills to roughly half and then stops taking ink, even doing the plunge and twist trick five or six times. The pen writes fine on what it does take. New…
Capped overnight nib up, and the first stroke is dry for about a centimetre before it flows normally. Happens with a particular blue black, never with the standard blue in the same pen. Flushed thoroughly with a bulb…
Bought a 200 page A5 notebook advertised as 100gsm, and every ink I own spreads into little hairy lines, worst with a medium nib. The same pens on 80gsm printer paper are crisp. I assumed heavier paper meant better…
I write four or five pages of meeting notes a day and have about 120 pounds to spend, once. I keep flip flopping between a single nicer pen with a gold nib and a handful of solid steel nibbed ones so I can keep…
New fine steel nib, smooth on the downstroke and left to right, but it drags noticeably on the upstroke and when I pull it toward me. A loupe shows nothing obvious. It's my first pen above 20 pounds and I don't know…