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Minds my name is Doug and this is an inquiring mind Shorty video I'll try to keep this as short
and to the point as possible and the point today while the nibs today are for the lemon
M1 fountain pen you can see the review I did a few weeks ago on this new fountain pen brand
and model by clicking right up here within days of receiving my lemon M1 with a long knife nib
I received two extra nibs that I purchased for this pen and the names and the sizes of the nibs
are totally confusing so I thought a short video on them might help people understand what you're
getting there are seven nibs in total that you can purchase for this pen they all seem to be standard
number six size steel nibs that can be used in many other pens and they all say manual grind on
them and have names that are hard to figure out what the hell they are what the hell is that so
I thought I'd compare the three that I have here it's very difficult to see the difference between
these there's no marking or indication on any of them they all just say lemon and manual grind
and that's it the first thing to know that these sizes in millimeters are not the size of the line
you'll get when riding with the pen these sizes are roughly the size of the Tipping material on
the nib and I do mean roughly the second thing to note is that these translations from Japanese
to Chinese to English really get confusing and no two companies use them the same way anyway
hongdin has some Long Blade nibs and long knife nibs that don't mean the
same thing so that just makes things more obtuse my God how can you beatuce
now you're being acute in the case of these lemon Emmanuel grind nibs this is what they
are the long knife nibs and the various sizes are similar in Behavior to naginata togi nibs
the line gets thicker the lower your PIN angle to the page and the blade nibs are
similar in Behavior to architect grind nibs that is they write a thinner line vertically
and a thicker line horizontally but do not change in thickness with the vertical angle
of your pen to the page I use the term similar in Behavior because there are
purists out there that love to correct people whenever naginata togi is mentioned foreign
if they aren't produced by sailor and by a specific nibmeister and cost thousands
of dollars it isn't an actual Naggy not a togi so they are similar they have similar Behavior
but it isn't a Naggy not a togi clear good so let's quickly do some demonstration of these
three nibs I'll do the blade architect nib first as Architects are my favorites
so here is the lemon
M1 with the blade 0.65 to 0.9 millimeter and you can see that it has a thinner vertical
and a thicker horizontal so this blade is actually called a medium blade at this size it's also
available in fine which is 0.5 to 0.7 an extra fine which is a 0.38 to 0.5 and I really love
the line variation you get instantly with this blade nib or architect nib and here is the lemon
M1 with the
long knife and this is a 0.85 to 1.2 millimeter in size and this one is the naginata togi
Style keep your cards and letters from coming because I said in style that means that we get
a thinner vertical yes in normal rating angles and a thicker horizontal but if you raise your
nib up you get a thinner line you start lowering it it gets thicker here's normal writing angle
and the lowest actually the vertical gets very thick the same thing with the horizontal
we'll see how the lower my pen angle the thicker the lines and the thick horizontal line is a zero
0.7 millimeter line and the vertical line normal writing angle is a 0.4
millimeter line and here we go with the last one and this is the lemon M1 with a
long knife and it is a 1.4 to 2.0 millimeter nib again in the naginata togi Style vertical line
horizontal line the horizontal line the thickest one is a 0.8 millimeters and the vertical line
is a 0.4 and it also is the same style it gets thicker the lower your pen angle it gets thinner
the higher your pen angle until it's very thick indeed giving you lots of line variation
let me draw a lousy little diagram that will illustrate the difference between the United
toga and a an architect so the tip looking at the footprint of the tip of a nagging out of togi
or the long knife has a pear shape and so when the pen is vertical you get this part of the tip
and when the pen is low in angle you get the bottom part with an architect it's more like
this where you have a long thin vertical slit so that gives you the very thin vertical and
when you pass it horizontally you get a nice wide horizontal line so that's the architect
which is an opposite
of a stud this pen has also been updated so that there are more colors available
there are now six different variations of colors you can have white with gold
or silver trim you can have black with gold or silver trim and you can have a teal green
with silver trim and there are eight nib choices from A Fine blade to a medium blade an extra fine
and a fine and long knife in four different sizes and if you buy the nibs individually you can get
them in either silver gold with silver or silver with gold and they're available in
seven sizes three blades and four Long Knives for about sixteen dollars US each I hope this
little video helps you in selecting the nib you might like thanks for watching I made this