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Namisu Nova Brass Fountain Pen
marlabee
302
Apr 20, 2017
Question to all who own one: do you find the brass (metals in general) hard to hold as you write?
A community member
Apr 20, 2017
marlabeeI haven't held one of these yet, but I do have an all brass pen made by Machine Era that I love. It's a bit heavy in the hand, sure, but I find it comforting to hold and write with. It is because of that pen that I'm buying one of these in fact.
Nightharper
41
Apr 20, 2017
marlabeeMetal pens are heavier but this one has a brush finish on the section allowing a relatively solid and comfortable grip. I have problems with slick section like lamy studio or even visconti michelangelo. I find the weight of this pen helps me to loosen my tight grip.
F00lw0lf
60
Jul 9, 2018
marlabeeMy Namisu nova have bigger problems than being hard to hold. It writes like shit unfortunately and the nib works better in reverse mode than normal. Hard starts, skips and simply won't put ink to the paper on almost one letter per line with ten words. Extremely annoying. It's a nice enough pen to hold though and I liked everything but how it wrote - which in fact doesn't really makes this endorse-able by me since writing is what you kinda expect these things to do...
Firecrab
8
Dec 14, 2019
F00lw0lfJust buy a new nib that you like. #6 Bock's have a lot of different options. The rest of the pen is what makes it unique, not an affordably replaceable nib.
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F00lw0lf
60
Dec 17, 2019
FirecrabA pen at this price range should do some basic Quality standards - and many Bock nibs are not behaving correctly. A new Nib unit costs around 23€ incl shipping around here - and for that I can get a pen that usually works. Now, I didn't buy any of my Namisu pens via Drop, but from them directly - which is even worse! Now, I got in contact with Namisu, this is after all a nice grave digging of a post ;) and they were kind enough to send me a replacement nib. That nib worked very well and were obviously checked.
Most pens these days I buy from vendors that I know will do a quality check on nibs before shipping them. The ones I chance, I'm always a bit anxious for what the nib-lottery will give you.
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