11:13 Your enthusiasm entirely *made* this video. Experimentation and creation are absolutely ace. Can't wait to see what you have 3 years from now!

Best FP chanel is definitely back?

You are evolving and becoming a self created master... (over time)…. :-)

Great work! Relentless passion is what keeps the love and tradition of fountain pens going. Good to see you back in action.

Of course, an important aspect of vintage flex nibs is how quickly the tines snap back when you let the pressure off. That's what gives the writing that nice variability - fine lines on the upstroke, and thicker lines down. Modern flex nibs tend to be slow in this regard. The difference would be greater with a fine nib.

I think it's time to pull my Indiegraph pen out of the drawer and ink it up, for the first time since jumping in on the initial kickstarter. Thing is, it came with a nail; I want a bit more line variation for drawing; and official flex nib units cost £35. Not bank breaking, but... shoot. 😅 Thankfully a £5 Noodlers Creaper nib fits, but I wouldn't mind just a touch extra flex. That's where this video comes in, and I have to say thanks for the processes and encouragement. I'll give it a whirl.

Awesome! Keep it up, next is making sure the feed keeps up with the flex. That's something many pen companies have issues with today.

How brilliant! It was super fun watching your reaction as you tested each nib. Looking forward to the line cut out video next! Love your enthusiasm ! It's exciting!

I knew Josh was an engineer in order for him to make his own style fountain pens from scratch. Today we saw the excitement and joy of a creative soul putting his ideas into practice. You are a special person Josh PEACE

It will be more dramatic if you use a fine or extra fine so the flex can show more.

You could always use a black marker to draw on each side and then grind down until you see that no marker is showing. When grinding on the wheel, to protect the tip you could also put a dab on it with a hot glue gun just in case you accidentally hit the wheel.

You really inspired me to try this. It was really fun and easy. Thank you. Glad to see you're back.

Thank you! I've been wondering about this!

Awesome! I was just wondering when the newest JPL vid was coming. I am ordering 2 of your pens

Nicely done

Put a smile on the face to see the facial expressions and to hear the excitement in the tone! P.S. Glad the grinding didn't damage them tips! XD

Dude, I'm glad to see this. For some reason, KZread hadn't showed me any of your videos for the last several months, even though I'm subbed. Gosh, this website sucks. I didn't know you were back.

Get the notched nib into production and have it as an option for your pens and I'll definitely buy the red-banded Slim. Or make a limited run by hand I guess. Regardless, I want one now.

You could find out what stainless they are using and then do a special heat treatment on it to soften the metal. I’ve had some success making steel nibs softer that way. Though they do lose some springiness if done wrong.

i wonder if you could grind a lamy nib to be more flexible. you could use a jinhao lamy ef clone nib as base.

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"Unless you count my handiwork as precision." proceeds to run into the camera Lol the worst possible moment to bump the camera after talking about precision.

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You can do both on one and take away a bit.more on the tip for.more line variation

If the nib was fine it would have much more interesting variation. over all great video

Noodler's tends to try to reproduce vintage pens and styles, so they tend to have longer tines. Get virtually any of the old Esterbrook nib units (as cheap as possible, preferably) for an example. Nothing current comes close to the "wet noodles" of the past. You just can't duplicate one of them with stainless steel. They are all gold nibs. And either the knowledge how to make them is lost, or it's just not in the interest of the gold nib manufacturers to make them any more. That said, you can get flex from some stainless steel nibs. Again, Esterbrook did one (you have to look for the correct orientation of the numbers for the truly flexible ones, which still don't compare to the old "wet noodles.") Noodler's seems to be the example to shoot for, for a modern nib. (I've heard that India makes a flexible nib, if you know where to look, and apparently that's what Nathan Tardif has done, as his pens are all made in India.) Good job on the nib! I'd like to see if a modern nib can get to the same flex of the old ones! (Feed is an extra step in getting a great flex pen. All the old ones are ebonite, as are the ones that Noodler's has. Much easier to modify for the necessary ink flow.)

Have you tried to do both things to the same nib?

Hey JPL just wondering how would you recommend I improve my handwriting with FP's Great video also

how about a mix of both? I only ever see people the fin cutouts but not thinning the shoulders

Very good approaches. Te round file one seems the easiest to try for me. Thanks a lot for your videos

Did you put a plastic or metal pen in a metal vice? I would protect it. I guess it was a throw away pen?

And now both modifications on 1 nib.

learn your tools. and have respect for your lathe. clean and care for it.

Have you seen that one: gidden.net/2018/12/12/flex-and-the-art-of-line-variation/ or you're using data from there?

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