Kaweco Nibs

After Kaweco very kindly supplied me with a Kaweco Sport in Skyline Mint (medium nib), a Kaweco Liliput in Brass (broad nib), and a Kaweco Student in Vintage Blue (fine nib), I noticed the nibs were interchangeable between pens.

Below, I have written with all the nibs (fine, medium and broad) on each of the pens they have supplied me.

(As a note, the pens were in fact inked with different colors so the color will vary).

These nibs were a double edged sword. They were in fact the smoothest nibs I have every written with. There is almost no scratching whatsoever and it feels like the nib just glides across the page. I would say with confidence that these nibs are smoother than my Lamy Safari. The nib makes it feel like the pen you are writing with is an expensive, luxury pen. The detailed inscriptions on the steel nib truly make the pen truly add to the experience. However, I did run into some problems. The nib does skip when you begin writing with it. I would have to squeeze the international cartridge that these pens accept to get the ink running into the feed to provide a more consistent, wetter line. The pens would skip when writing very quickly and they do not keep up as well as my Pilot Metropolitan or Lamy Safari. The broad nib was probably the worst of them. It would take a lot of ink to get it to start writing. I might have gotten a defective nib which might explain a lot of the skipping I had encountered.

Overall, this is what I thought about Kaweco Nib:

Pros:

• Very, very smooth, luxury feeling nibs
• Detailed inscription on the nib
• No scratching

Cons:

• Skipping when starting to write with the pen
• Broad nib might not keep up with ink flow very well (might be a defective nib)

Overall:

In conclusion, these nibs are some of my favorites out there. Although I did find the skipping a little annoying at times, they could easily be fixed by allowing more ink to be delivered through the feed (by squeezing the cartridge as an example). I would not recommend the nibs for a beginner, but I would definitely recommend to a person who has owned and used fountain pens before.