Editing The Pen Addict 120/transcript (section)

== Nib Materials ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. There's a few other metal types that are available with nibs.

'''Myke Hurley:''' We both have titanium on the way.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We have titanium on the way. The Nexus pen, fountain pen project filled. So I will be getting my first titanium nib.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah, I paid for mine yesterday. Yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' They say they're going to have it to me in November. So we'll see.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' That's great. And then, you know, there's other just random materials. Like I have a Visconti pen with a chromium nib. I can't even explain to you what the qualities are of that nib. But it's a very firm, firm metal nib. And I actually like it. It's kind of neat. So in your steel nibs and your gold nibs, there's some standard sizes. Extra fine, fine, medium, and broad. That's obviously from smallest, thinnest line width to widest line width. And these are just your standard. There's a whole wide range of non-standard nib size that we'll talk about too.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And they differ country to country.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' This is one of the most important things for beginners who are buying their first fountain pen to understand. And we bang on it, bang on it, bang on it. You have to be aware of your country of origin to understand how their nib sizes work. So a lot of Western pens, and we're talking Germany, U.S., their extra fine, fine, medium, and broad nibs leave a much wider line than their Eastern counterparts. Pens from Japan, for example. So a fine, Lamy nib or a fine Pelican nib, both of those coming from Germany, will be much wider than the same fine nib on a pilot or sailor that has come from Japan.

'''Myke Hurley:''' My feeling about this is, and this is probably on complete biases, but I'm going to go with it anyway. The German style and the Western sizing feels more accurate. So fine feels like a fine line and medium feels like a medium line, etc. I mean, that could just be my kind of bias on it, but that's how I feel.