These hyper-rounded tips are more common on Pelikan and other European nibs, and can be remedied by a very light re-grind and polishing. We use wheels to speed up this process, but it can also be accomplished using Micromesh 10,, an extremely fine but aggressive polishing fabric. You can wreck your nib if you go too far. We recommend just a few strokes at a time while the nib is inked so you can see what you are doing. Sailor, Platinum, Nakaya, Namiki, and Pilot nibs usually do not need any of this kind of work.
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While all of the techniques listed here are relatively simple to perform, it is possible to permanently damage a pen if they are done incorrectly. Using these techniques may void any manufacturer's warranty the pen might have, and you will be responsible for any damage that might occur.
Levenger inks often dry on the nib and have a finicky flow. The last cause of skipping is often the hardest to fix: the nib itself is defective. Defective nibs are ones with improperly ground tips or misaligned tines. Improperly ground nibs are nibs whose tips are too round to apply the ink consistently to paper. Nibs that are improperly aligned have their lines out-of-plane with each other; that is to say, the two halves of the nib do not touch and cannot evenly apply ink to the surface of the paper.
The best way to deal with fountain pen skipping is to start small. Since a clogged feed is the most common cause of new pen skipping, I recommend flushing all new fountain pens before using them for the first time. Flushing is a simple cleaning technique. Unscrew the nib from the fountain pen body. If you have already attached a cartridge or converter, remove the ink. Using a very diluted dot of dish soap, gently run water through the collector the tube that sticks out into the cartridge.
Allow the water to flow through the nib tip for a minute or two. Make sure to use a very low flow of water, so as not to damage the internal parts of the ink feed. Allow the nib to dry for at least a half-hour.
Wipe the nib with a cloth not a tissue or paper towel, whose cotton fibers could catch in the nib. Work the ink through the nib feed by holding it as though you are going to write. To confirm that the ink is reaching the nib, dab the breather hole against a paper towel the breather hole is the round circle on the nib.
Do not dab the tip with a paper towel. Catching fibers from a paper towel in the tip can worsen your skipping problem! If the first flushing did not work, attempt a second flushing with ink.
To flush a pen with ink, fill a converter or cartridge and attach it to the collector. Squeeze the cartridge gently with your fingers. Wait for the ink to work itself through the feed. It should run down the nib. Dab this excess ink on a paper towel using the breather hole or on blotting paper if you have any on hand. If the pen is a piston filler or vacuum filler, research the filling system before you start with an ink flushing.
Piston fillers are uncommon, and vacuum fillers are rare, but they are still available on the market. The Pelikan M is a piston-filler. Piston fillers and vacuum fillers both draw ink into their reservoirs using the pen nib.
Some pen enthusiasts swear by ultrasonic cleaners to keep their nib feeds squeaky clean. Personally, I have never had cause to purchase one in my years of pen collecting. However, if recurrent clogs are a problem with your nib feed and the thought of flushing nibs wearies you, an ultrasonic cleaner might help ease the pain of weekly, or even daily, nib flushings.
Unlike cleaning, which is basic maintenance any pen owner should be able to perform, these solutions require a fair bit of confidence on the part of the owner.
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