Tools i use to work on nibs and fountain pens | Pen Talk 101

[@SaintMolotov]

Loving the breakdown of the tools needed for fountain pen repair skills. Thank you.

[@pen.venture]

More to come! I'm glad it was useful :D Enjoy

[@lw771230]

Excellent video and I am also looking forward to your grinding video. It always helps to get different perspectives on how to tune, grind, adjust nibs. Thank you Emy!

[@pen.venture]

Thank you my fried :D looking forward on getting the jig set up and showcasing my tools and also my technique :D

[@focusers1]

I have watched many of your videos, and this is the most informative and enjoyable. BRAVO! I am very experienced and self-taught (like you) in adjusting my nibs, yet I still learned valuable information and techniques from you. I very solid THANK YOU is quite well earned.

[@pen.venture]

Wonderful! This is exactly the kind of feedback that i enjoy to see... people that i can build confidence in and they start to progress and gather more knowledge regarding their writing instruments. Thank you so much Gary

[@CosminMiron]

Looking forward to hear from you becoming a nibmeister soon...it would be nice to have in our country such a crafty man....you are such a passionate guy and i'm proud to be one of your follower...thank you for your quality content !

[@pen.venture]

Thank you Cosmin - I hope we can meet one day and share some quality writing instruments and have a great conversation :D

[@CosminMiron]

@@pen.venture gladly i will visit your new HQ to see all the beauties that you sell and to cherrish a cup of coffee....but let's keep that to a brighter and a healthy near future! Stay safe and keep up the good work! Hoppe to see new videos soon!

[@keithwhitney7491]

As always, I am grateful for your diligence and for the fact that you would take the time to talk about tools that are available. Since I am one of those guys who finds such fine tooling to be difficult, I probably will continue to just do some simple adjustments with seems or with polishing grit on nibs or cloth/polish on bodies. Nevertheless, I admire your dedication, and I truly favor your nib checks before shipping. Best wishes in your “Venture.”

[@pen.venture]

Thank you Keith, i try to showcase always the things ive learned and what tools i manage to put in my line up and use in order to get nibs to write the way i like :D I really think that is the most important step for a retailer to make sure that the relationship in between the end user of a fountain pen and the brand of a fountain pen is the best - check the nib / adjust it if its needed / if its that bad... send it back to the manufacturer and dont let the disappointment to escalate from the customer to the brand :D

[@keithwhitney7491]

@@pen.venture You know, I have really posted a lot of bad comments about Stipula. I wish I had purchased the pen from you. After breaking all the rules (when the vendor was not encouraging about sending it back, I just put the pen away for a year and didn’t use it) by finally trying out some nib tuning techniques I had learned watching various KZbin videos, all of which strongly encouraged not trying them on more expensive pens until you had practiced a lot, I FIN?ALLY GOT THE PEN TO THE POINT OF WORKING. It is far from my favorite, but i try to use it every few weeks (with a full fill). You may have been the one who said something about a Stipula nib being friction fit and easy to pull out. That tip allowed me to more effectively use the brass piece to slightly open up the pen. Its titanium nib is a little better; still la nail! It is probably I just one of those issues that arise once in the manufacturers run of titanium nibs (a hint to me from Dan Smith, a nib tuner I also shipped the pen to. His comment, “Titanium nibs are wonderful except when they are not!”). I will take you hint and quit blaming this on Stipula! That was unfair of me. I do follow a practice of not publishing the name of the vendor. I just do not order from them any more. THANKS AGAIN. [By the way, I will order again from you. I simply spent too much last year, and I have had a lot of house repairs. I had to back off for awhile! :)

[@MultiEbbot]

Yes please the grinding section would be interesting to see.too.

[@pen.venture]

Well i know everyone has their own jig of grinding nibs but ill be interesting to see if I'm close to others in regards of gear because no one pointed me and i did the choices myself

[@EugenioCardoso]

Cool selection of tools my friend... Very comprehensive for anyone dealing with fountain pens!

[@pen.venture]

I think that it’s good for others to see alternatives, I might not have the solution for every problem one my encounter but this is what I’ve experienced and this is what I’m using to fix them

[@EugenioCardoso]

@@pen.venture actually for a starting point you get pretty much covered.... Beyond that you need to get more specific stuff

[@pen.venture]

one important piece of equipment was missing this time because is due to show up tomorrow - a ultrasonic cleaning machine - small nothing major (a 2L bath) - that should help with getting the ink out of tight spaces :D

[@EugenioCardoso]

@@pen.venture i want one of those u.s. cleaners also.... Very useful 😁👍

[@pensplanners6460]

It's great that you offer the service to check nibs, but it's crazy that you have to make adjustements 95% of the time - especially for the more expensive pens you sell, you'd believe at that price point they would write perfectly right out of the box! (Excepted Viscontis, we all know Viscontis don't write out of the box, it's almost a feature)

[@pen.venture]

well 95% of the write out of the box - but not to my standard - thats why, being a perfectionist i always tinker with them, just to feel that they are having that small edge. You'll be socked to see that the consistency of visconti is far better than most others. The new 18K nib i can say that ive sold and tested over 20 25 pens... none had any problems, none needed severe adjustments...

[@pensplanners6460]

@@pen.venture that is great news! I have 2 of their palladium nibs and both required serious work from a nib specialist before I could use them :( It's great that they have improved their quality control, then!

[@pen.venture]

i had tried a lot of palladium nibs - over 30 40 ... id say that from all those, 2 i know the had serious skipping and a few where too dry ... but the bulk of them, wrote ok

[@alexandermacridis3705]

Excellent video and tool box for the pen collectors! How about assembling these various tools for sale under one basket in your site? AM

[@pen.venture]

Hey Alexander, we are working first to bring together a cleaning kit for everyone and then we go into tools as well :D

[@andreimj]

Ce surpriza! Felicitari pentru video. Tot de la ei vreau sa imi cumpar scule. Am gasit o super oferta pentru 2 Lamy 27, Parker Duofold, Parker 45, Penol senior Ambassador si un Skribent Vacuum, toate pentru 350 de lei. Poti sa faci un video in care explici cum se folosesc burnishing tools? Am vazut ca are si multe carti la vanzare

[@pen.venture]

salutare :D cam cu sculele nu prea am lucrat :)) decât la ajustat penițe dar daca vrei ceva anume lasă-mi un comentariu si daca știu cum se face îți pot arată :D

[@andreimj]

@@pen.venture mulțumesc mult 🙏

[@RodrigoSmarzaro]

Nice. I'm trying to get micro-mesh sheets but the shipping to Brazil makes hard to get. :-(

[@pen.venture]

Brazil is always tricky with taxes and shipping - if you ever want to order someting from PV ask me ahead - I can help you

[@EugenioCardoso]

Look for it on aliexpress 😉

[@RodrigoSmarzaro]

@@pen.venture thanks. :-)

[@RodrigoSmarzaro]

@@EugenioCardoso Hi, Eugênio. I saw some there but I had a lot of doubt if they would fit. Did you ever buy any there? Can you tell me the link? :-)

[@EugenioCardoso]

@@RodrigoSmarzaro search for this on aliexpress: "micro mesh sanding 12000"

[@davidyiong6497]

Like this video, keep it up ...... :)

[@pen.venture]

:)) i hope my wife doesnt see this video because she might suspect that the last "Stuff for shop parcel" was full of tools :))