Oh wow, a new video. It only took me 3,249 years to do a new one. The soundtrack is from Sarah 100’s There and Back Again Lane, Â “The Joy of Living” by Blueboy.
Greg Minuskin does great work. He retipped the nib of a vintage Eversharp Skyline, then slit it twice to create a music nib. I can only imagine what a blob of iridium that used to be. To make a music nib write well, it’s not enough to align the tines, ensure the slits are clean …
One of the Japanese big three, Sailor’s reputation rests solidly on its nibs. It’s no slouch in the design department either. The Susutake and Arita series take reimagine traditional Japanese elements into pens – bamboo taken from century-old chimneys, enamelled porcelain. (On a side note – and I am always going off into side notes …