Jim Pingle

Father, geek, serial hobbyist.

Figured out a slightly better way to compare fountain pen nibs but it takes much longer!

Most interesting new bit is that I grabbed a four pack of cheap Yongsheng 3008 EF which makes it possible to see the difference between inks in the "same" pen.

Also realized it would help to try nibs both forward and reverse (upside-down) as that tends to produce an even thinner line.

It almost looks like a flannel pattern.

Best performers are the same, though!

Image of writing on paper. The image is split into two parts, a list on the left and a grid drawing on the right. The list consists of: 1 Platinum Century 3776 UEF - Diamine Sapphire Blue ink (Sort of a blurple color) 2 Pilot Kakuno EF - Pilot Kon-Peki ink (Dark-ish Blue) 3 Jinhao 80 UF - Diamine Sapphire Blue 4 Asvine Black Forest EF - Momiji (Red) 5 YongSheng 3008 EF - Diamine Sapphire Blue 6 YongSheng 3008 EF - Momiji 7 YongSheng 3008 EF - Fuyu-Gaki (Orange) 8 YongSheng 3008 EF - Ama-Iro (Light blue) 9 Majohn A1 EF - Ama-Iro 10 Platinum Preppy EF02 - Ama-Iro 11 Jinhao 9019 EF - Fuyu-Gaki The grid drawing is grouped into two lines per row and column showing a line drawn with each nib in "Forward" (normal) and "Reverse" (upside-down). The list serves as labels for the rows, the columns are grouped under the number corresponding to each line.

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