I love that one could have a choice of 40 nibs in the past. It makes sense, pens and typewriters were really the only tools to communicate with formally, or as an adult. Having that kind of selection of nibs then is analogous to our selection of phones, tablets and computers now. That blue chatoyance is so cool!
Love that Esterbrook gave you this pen. Love that they are promoting their products. Your videos are awesome and your engineering background really helps bring a technical lens to the hobby. Looking forward to the interview.
Super video and super nib. Esterbrook are to be congratulated for giving the customer more than the usual boring nib sizes. Once upon a time many many different grinds were available from every manufacturer. Thank you sir.
I bought that nob with the new Botanical resin. It's a great nob, love that Esterbrook is patterning up with nibmeisters to offer custom grinds. It really sets the brand apart.
I love the look of the different grinds out there, especially the architect. That is, until I write with them. The way I hold my pen in relation to the paper tends to counter any line variation, I need to practice holding, or positioning my paper differently.
Yeah the architect requires the user to possibly change the way the write or orient their hand. Not for everyone, but offers a great effect for those it does work for.
Great video I have this nib grind on my one and only Esterbrook. Like you say best for printing. I take to most nibs fairly easily. I’m very much at the beginning of my journey with the Scribe nib but growing to like it more. It needs practice and you need to keep the nib close to the paper when doing horizontal strokes. I also surprised myself by realising that I struggle with oblique nibs but not any other member of the italic family. For me oblique & architect nibs are the real challenge. Enjoyed the video and very pertinent for me. Thank you.
Lol for me the reverse nibs are harder ahhaha i just got the scribe and it felt natural immediately. First nib in this style too lol. I tried a pilot signature nib and i failed miserably with it hahaha
Thanks this was super helpful and informative. I ended buying one in Sea Glass. I hope they get one in like a rose quartz or an amethyst quartz....waiting for the day!
Thank you so much for showing a bit of what the Scribe nib can do. I've been waffling on picking one up since I'd not found any reviews that really offered up much detail, but this has helped clear up a lot of my questions. Thanks again!
I saw the announcement by Goulet about these specialty grinds being available. I would LOVE to have the needlepoint grind by Kirk Speer! Unfortunately, it is just priced out of my reach at $255 here in the States.
Thank you so much for this video! An architect nib has been on my wish list for a long time, so I bought this nib in a black Estie just recently and have been trying to figure it out. I found your explanation very helpful. Love your videos!
Looking forward to interview with a nibmeister as I'm an up and coming one I guess. I'm certainly not at waiting list levels yet but I've sold about a dozen nibs so far most being stacked nibs. Excited to hear any tid bits of knowledge that comes with having sold way more. Architect grinds are my favorite so I'm glad to see another brand offer what looked like a really good one. Better than that Lamy Cursive thing for sure
Ive heard some also say this nib is akin to a naginata togi or zoom in the sense that the different angles used changes the width, which sounds about right to me, i just bought it yesterday and i love it.
Love this nib. It's one of my favorites in my collection along with a Tibaldi vintage honeycomb Bononia with an Oblique Medium 18k gold nib. Excellent video Doodlebud as always.
So the OM worked out well for you. I'm glad. I purchased it in the Pomegranate with the OB. Surprized that it was a right foot oblique, but it does write very well. Glad I purchased it. Not to mention the stunning nib design.
@@ironmic9244 At first I didn't like it much but I also had a lighter color ink in it. I put Pelikan Edelstein Topaz in it and I love how smooth it is with this ink. I think I also had to have a lot of time with it to figure it out and hold it. Once you do though it's amazing. While not a flex nib it has a decent bounce to it. I've never tried an OB.
I like the scribe style, but prefer it finer (I think) - like the Schon reverse grind you did. I print when I'm trying to be neat, but print a bit smaller. Cool stuff!
Great video and shout-out to @Esterbrook for excellent customer service! I hope other pen makers start pairing up with nib meisters for custom ground nibs. I know one seller in The Netherlands that has an in-House nib Meister - Appelboom. You can get a lot of pens with custom nibs or just get a standard nib tuned! Thank you!
I'm interested in CY's Techo nib and Gena Salorino's Journaler nib. When I'm ready to buy my first Estie (probably an OS) I'll spring for the MV adapter too.
Thats cheap in the FP world LOL. I'm surprised it wouldn't be of any use with drawing. I love it for drawing straight lines. I have a terrible hand at drawing, but the architect nib seems to help me with pulling down to do lines. I have to rotate the page for horizontal lines, but the grind seems to keep my lines straighter.
Second viewing, the thing I forgot to mention 1st time round is that a juicy ink makes a huge difference to the performance of the Scribe nibbled pen. It seems to give a much better effect. I like KWZ Warsaw Dreaming for example as opposed to a thin dry ink
I have a cheap architect from FPRevolution that I wish was thinner on the downstroke, but after seeing you point out the sweet spot part, might just be me holding it wrong.
After finding it and playing around with angle a little bit, it's definitely a little better. But I still feel like I have to be more deliberate with it than I do with a stub. Probably because it's a $7 architect nib and not a hand ground esterbrook one
It took a while getting used to the Scribe nib’s architect grind. But once I did, I started enjoying writing with it. I still prefer Esterbrook’s earlier medium stub Journaler nib by Gina Salorino. The Needlepoint is also good. All my three oversized Esties have the three custom grind nibs. I reckon I’d not buy any Esterbrook Estie if the only nib offered was the standard Jowo.
@@Doodlebud ..Very true. I agree to the tee. I only wish the MV Nib adapter was included free. It would be nicer and fairer to customers. Also, it’s really disappointing how since July 1st last year, retailers are having to charge (following Esterbrook’s decision) full MSRP for ALL Esterbrook pens in their product line.
Well a stub is sort of the opposite of the architect. I used my MB 149 with a cursive italic nib as the comparison. Its very similar to a 0.6mm stub, so look at that part of the video where I compare the cursive italic to the architect and that should answer your questions
@@Doodlebud thanks for the reply and clarification. I’m still newish to grinds and only have a small FP community and no real stored here in Hawaii. Thanks.
Couple of things: i) I'm still trying to get an architect grind anything like as good as the ones you show off in this video. They are hard to find as an off the shelf item. ii) I don't have Monteverde Azure Noir in any of my pens at the moment and I can't think why ... I'm going to put that right straight away 🙂
Yeah a good architect can be tricky to find. Josh did a great job on this one. Azure Noir is a lovely ink! Especially on that Regalia paper.... it makes it POP!
i dont know to what standards you are working but as a DIN/ISO Guy im a little confused by your drawing is this rlly how you draw threads over there ? Whatever i rlly enjoy your Nib Content got me into grinding myself a little works better than expected :)
@@Doodlebud sry didnt meant to be rude I was actually wondering if that kind of thread drawing is a thing since imperial has other treads I figured maybe there's a need to have other drawings as well Me personally I was never able to get a Hand sketch right with line with and different lines and cuts and stuff it's just to much I messed up at least one line every time
As a left hander, I find it very difficult to use most grinds on a fountain pen. I would love to know what other Lefties do for the perfect, comfortable nib shape. No right hander can accurately experience the hardship of finding a great nib. I have ground nibs to try to find one. No luck.
@@Doodlebud Smearing gives the writing character. Spilling a bottle of ink, does not. I wonder if I can learn to write, Right Handed. Naw. Over 65. I am stuck.
Another lefty…. I choose my ink carefully and have a bunch that I love and minimally smear or not at all. Still working on great nibs. Surprisingly Schon DSGN are pretty high on my list so far. A reground Visconti Homo Sapien is waiting on a new nib and at the bottom of my list.
I have the architect...I am an OVERHAND...on the top lefty writer...just realized that...so...my estie architect...looks exactly the OPPOSITE of how it should...the downstrokes are FAT AND THE CROSSSTROKES ARE SKINNY...my cheap shaeffer 1.5 calligraphy stub...becomes an ARCHITECT FOR ME...WITH THE DOWN STROKES THIN AND THE CROSSTROKES FAT...I hope I can return it...but it is doubtful....crazy...no matter what it do...I cannot make the architect Estie grind have the fat cross stroke and the skinny downstroke...it is the opposite! I am at my wits end!
I did a video where a colleague of mine from Iran who studied calligraphy did some writing samples for me and I showed them in a video with him using a regular, CI, and an Architect nib. For the life of me I cannot find the video! I got him to do that because he knows all the characters and wanted his input. If I can find the video I'll add a reply. I guess I named the video poorly since I can't even find it!
