Lamy Nib for Safari, Vista, Joy, AL-Star, Black Fine

Excelente grosor de linea me da ésta punta, es grado fino y escribe de manera perfecta, no chorrea, tampoco se pasa al lado de atrás de la hoja. Lo recomiendo.

Installed on a black Lamy Safari fountain pen. Looks great against the black Safari. It replaced the supplied medium nib which wrote nicely, but a bit broad. Was hoping for a nice fine line, equal to a 0.7mm rollerball. It wrote nicely, smooth & consistent immediately, however, it was as broad as the medium nib. A bit of tuning was required to achieve a fine line. Slight alignment of the tines, and polishing the tip with micro mesh (time consuming), I was able to get a nice fine line.A little extra work, and it's a winner.

On the plus side, after some coaxing this is writing better than my original nib. I got it to replace the F nib on my Safari that I've had for ages but always felt a little scratchy and seemed much more wet and broad than a fine nib should write. (I have many EF nibs and the difference between this F and those EF was beyond drastic). On the more negative side of things, this nib didn't fit on the feed Initially. It was loose and would fall right off holding the pen perpendicular to the table. I had to gently crimp it with pliers to get it I to fit snugly, and then carefully but firmly roll the back of the nib side to side against a pad of paper until the tines were flush with the feed. As I said, after a fair amount of shaping work, it writes great. I'm not certain whether this is normal or I got a lemon (though I found one person on Reddit who had this exact issue from a lamy nib he got on Amazon). However, I could find no information that indicated replacing a Lamy nib should be this much work.

This writes broader than I expected. It writes more like a medium than a fine. I replaced the ex-fine on my Lamy Safari with this nib and was a bit disappointed. It's still usable but I have other pens with a medium nib that are my go to pens and probably won't use this pen or I might just put the ex-fine nib back on it. I was expecting it to write similarly to my Pilot Metropolitan with the hopes that I would have two everyday writers that I could switch back and forth, but I guess I'll just have to try out some others. I'm looking at a fine nib Waterman that I think I'll try next.

My 3 year old son grabbed my blackout Al-star off the kitchen table. What followed was a theatrical slow motion "Noooooo" with me trying to catch it before it fell nib first on my kitchens ceramic floor. My stomach flipped because unlike the movies, I wasn't quick enough.This was an identical replacement.