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This week seems to be the Week from Hell for nibs. I just finished up a Parker Sonnet with an 0.4 mm cursive italic that I made for a New York client. We got a frantic email last week saying that the pen had slipped out of a hand and done a fair imitation of a dart. Onto a concrete floor. It was really ugly; the nib looked like the legs of a person kneeling to pray. The pen was the client’s go-to pen, could I save it? I could, and it’ll go home on Saturday. Sorry, no photo.

Tuesday I reground a Visconti Ragtime 20th Anniversary broad nib into a left-foot oblique cursive italic to match an existing Pelikan M200 nib that I’d done. The Visconti belongs to a customer of the shop where the Pelikan’s owner works. So here come, in separate packages, the two nibs. No pens, just nibs. Umm, did anybody ever stop to ask whether I have a Visconti Ragtime? It turns out that I do have a pen with the exact same feed — and therefore the exact same nib fit — as the Ragtime…

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