July 31,2026
Fountain Pen nib grinding
This takes courage and/or foolishness.
The thing to do is to buy several inexpensive pens (think Jinhao) and
learn by working on them.
The following video is mostly cautioning you about what you are getting into and warning
you to expect to ruin 8 or 10 nibs before being able to do one successfully.
Old links (but good information)
And some older links that are perhaps interesting, but aren't directly dealing with
how to do nib grinding.
What about stub vs architect? An architect is trickier to write with as it is quite
fussy about the angle you hold the pen at. Both yield interesting line width variation,
but if you want to go that route, just go with a stub.
Feedback? Questions?
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Tom's Pen Info / tom@mmto.org