- Joined
- Thursday August 8, 2013
- Location
- Silly Suffolk
The Japanese pen makers, principally Pilot and Platinum, have, from time to time, come up with some novel nib solutions.
As one who likes a bit of line variation in a fountain pen, either through nib form (stub, italic, oblique etc.) or nib flex, I'm always on the lookout for a pen that offers this.
My new acquisition is a Pilot Justus, with Medium nib. This has the ability to vary the hardness or softness of the nib, and thus the ink flow and line variation, by means of a collar on the section, which rotates from H(ard) to S(oft). This in turn moves a part of the 14K gold nib which alters the way the nib works. It's a converter or cartridge pen, but the converter is the push-button CON-70 model, with plenty of capacity.
In use, with a wet Pilot Iroshizuku ink, it gives good line variation, more semi-flex than real flex, but does so without pushing the nib too hard. It's also a nice long pen to handle, at a capped length of 6" or 150mm.
As one who likes a bit of line variation in a fountain pen, either through nib form (stub, italic, oblique etc.) or nib flex, I'm always on the lookout for a pen that offers this.
My new acquisition is a Pilot Justus, with Medium nib. This has the ability to vary the hardness or softness of the nib, and thus the ink flow and line variation, by means of a collar on the section, which rotates from H(ard) to S(oft). This in turn moves a part of the 14K gold nib which alters the way the nib works. It's a converter or cartridge pen, but the converter is the push-button CON-70 model, with plenty of capacity.
In use, with a wet Pilot Iroshizuku ink, it gives good line variation, more semi-flex than real flex, but does so without pushing the nib too hard. It's also a nice long pen to handle, at a capped length of 6" or 150mm.