Posted 01 February 2014 - 18:21

Since I bought this pen, a couple of weeks ago, I've been struggling to make it dance. Out of the box, it felt a little on the scratchy side, but not so bad that a nib smoothing wouldn't sort it (or so is my understanding). Through the loupe, with my untrained eye, I was not able to see any tine misalignment.

Waiting for the smoothing supplies, I've been using the pen, since it was far from unusable. Finding an ink that would play nice with pen, proved to be a challenge. Inks that will always function perfectly in my 'Safari', will not play with the 580. Drying out after a single day, and skipping with with some inks. Varying flow and line width with others. Too wet. Sometimes pooling in line intersections.

Now I've completely taken the pen apart, and cleaned it with soapy water. Body, feed and nib. All thoroughly clean, rinsed, and dried. Now, if anything the problem seems worse. Like I said, it's not that the pen is impossible to use, put it's really annoying when the pen randomly feeds you a little extra ink, or the line thins for a word or two.

Since I'm still new to this more DIY interaction with my pens, I'd love some advice on where to go from here. Thanks!