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I went to the

I went to the Northern pen show last year and spoke with the lady whose starting up nib production (forget her name now) and it was a fascinating chat. Sounds incredibly involved but she reckoned there was a huge market (relatively speaking) for someone to produce nibs other than Schmidt and Bock (apart from the chinese obviously. Incidentally, have you ever tried a Jinhao no.8 unit? They're actually ok and don't cost what a Magna Carta unit does. Easy enough to tap for the unit, 10x1.0). It seemed to me that splitting the tip and cutting the slit with a .2 or.3mm diamond saw is like taking a piece of uranium and.....

[QUOTE="sutdm, post: 367805, member: 3273"] I went to the I went to the Northern pen show last year and spoke with the lady whose starting up nib production (forget her name now) and it was a fascinating chat. Sounds incredibly involved but she reckoned there was a huge market (relatively speaking) for someone to produce nibs other than Schmidt and Bock (apart from the chinese obviously. Incidentally, have you ever tried a Jinhao no.8 unit? They're actually ok and don't cost what a Magna Carta unit does. Easy enough to tap for the unit, 10x1.0). It seemed to me that splitting the tip and cutting the slit with a .2 or.3mm diamond saw is like taking a piece of uranium and..... [/QUOTE]

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