You Tube Channel launched

Helpful guides and product information

We have put our You Tube channel live, and it currently has two videos. The aim is to use the videos to provide additional information that we just can’t really convey through the website, and the two videos give an idea of this.

First up is a little video on how to change a Lamy fountain pen nib. It is a question we are often asked, and although we do our best to explain we hope the video will make it clearer.

Second up is a video which showcases the new Moleskine Reporter bag – again it is easier to show some of the features of the bag rather than try and explain in words.

The idea is to carry on and make more videos, with other luggage items and some more Help guides planned.

Should you use a left-handed nib…?

A helpful insight into how left-handed pens work

A blog posted on the subject of how left-handed nibs work and which pens are worth trying. I can’t comment as I’m right-handed but it did make me think we should do some research of our own on the subject.

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Lamy Nibs – a helpful guide

Lamy nibs

Despite selling Lamy pens for something like 16 years, there’s always something new to learn, and today we learnt something new about the nibs available on Lamy pens. I thought I would share this, to make a definitive statement of what nibs are available.

Most Lamy pens take the standard Z50 nib, available in a range of sizes (see below). Some pens take a more expensive 14 ct bi-colour gold nib (e.g. the Lamy Dialog 3, Lamy Accent 98 series and some Lamy Studio pens). The Lamy 2000 fountain pen takes a slightly different 14 ct gold nib.

The point of this blog entry is to summarise the different Lamy nib sizes available, and to highlight what nibs are available as spares. This is as follows:

Lamy Nib Sizes

Z50 Standard sizes

EF – Extra Fine

F – Fine

M – Medium

B – Broad

LH – Left Handed

A – Medium light (see notes below)

Z50 Calligraphy sizes

1.1mm

1.5mm

1.9mm

Z50 special sizes (available fitted on limited range of Accent and Studio pens)

BB – Extra Broad

OM – Oblique Medium

OB – Oblique Broad

OBB – Oblique Extra-Broad

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NB: The ‘A’ nib is a medium nib positioned in size somewhere between a fine and a medium nib, and it is intended for being a more suitable nib for younger children. For this reason it is fitted to the Lamy ABC fountain pen, and also comes as a special option on the Lamy Nexx pen.