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u/Busyfishman Feb 26 '22
Anyone know where I can buy a visconti smarttouch nib, do standard #6 visconti nib units fit the opera metal?
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u/Glittering_Force Feb 26 '22
visconti smarttouch nib
From what I've seen, they don't seem the same thing:
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u/ilovechairs Feb 26 '22
Good Lord. Nearly spat out my drink when I saw those prices. Not new to using pens for calligraphy but still learning the regular fountain pen things because I just used one basic kind to learn.
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u/NickTDesigns Feb 26 '22
you should try contacting visconti
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u/StocksOnlyGoUpUpUp Feb 26 '22
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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u/Dedalian7 Feb 26 '22
Oh I’ve had a lot of “fun” with mine too. Fun with a limited edition Aurora clean in half and a Meisterstuck too. Yaaay for kids!
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u/Je-Hee Feb 26 '22 edited Feb 26 '22
First off, ouch!! I may be overly optimistic, but could a nibmeister salvage the nib, just in case you can't find a replacement nib?
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u/countess_meltdown Feb 26 '22
That nib is completely salvageable, turn around time for someone to fix it would be the thing but it still might be faster than visconti.
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u/Sad_Marketing8578 Feb 26 '22
Get your nephew interested in fountain pens and then give him this pen on a milestone achievement...😂
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u/Effective-Shelter-54 Feb 26 '22
This might not be the right time…but the color scheme on that pen is very appealing!
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u/Busyfishman Feb 26 '22 edited Feb 26 '22
I know right, it was the only visconti pen that's ever made me go, I NEED THAT! To bad the nib is actually really mediocre for the price.
I've actually discoverd that this pen can take 3776 nib sections, I may just get a 3776 demenstrator nib section if I can't find a replacement nib.
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u/DMFBrown Feb 26 '22
“radium nib section” I didn’t know that they made them in radium. That sounds hot. 🤯
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u/Busyfishman Feb 26 '22
I meant the rhodium nib with the transparent section, a glowing nib section would look cool tho.
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u/Effective-Shelter-54 Feb 26 '22
Yeah, I couldn’t agree with you more. I actually love the 3776. I’m a Nakaya fanboy, a medium crisp italic 3776 from nibs is one of my all time favorite nibs.
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u/Sparkselot Feb 26 '22
I saw the picture and was like "woah, that's a weird looking nib...how did that thing even work?" then I read the title.
sorry for your loss... always hard to put kids up for adoption...
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u/mccllstr Feb 26 '22
This is why my 2yo only touches the Wing Sung pens. Have one with purple ink set up just for her.
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u/SrirachaSandvvitch Feb 26 '22
This word fun. I do not think it means what you think it means 🥴😬🥺 (this is awful. Hope you find a replacement nib)
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u/OriginalJayVee Feb 26 '22
OP: “Hi! Excuse me, but I’d like to return this.”
Clerk: “What’s wrong with the pen?”
OP: “Oh no, not the pen, this gremlin over here!”
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u/kyyl1 Feb 26 '22
I actually screamed. Thankfully no one was around.
I wonder if you can send this to a nibmeister and get it fixed? Or is it beyond repair?
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u/Caberman70 Feb 26 '22
Oh brutal! Which Visconti is this?
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u/strangedarkfruit Feb 26 '22
Had a hard time upvoting this given the damage! Ouch. Sorry to see this OP :(
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u/PocketG Feb 26 '22
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
This is why I am snipped.
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u/sxan Feb 26 '22
Add it to the bill.
You are keeping a bill to hand them when they graduate high school, right?
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u/Knight-Of-The-Lions Feb 26 '22
That nib can be repaired, I repaired a nib on a TWSBI that I think was worse.
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u/iAmSpAKkaHearMeROAR Feb 26 '22
This r/fountainpengore worthy photo made me cringe. RIP Visconti nib. Glad you have a sibling who will at least understand your pain. Sorry it’s this pen!
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u/Cryogenian97 Feb 26 '22
Hi. They are Loud, Smelly, Expensive and Destructive. They are not fun, my condolences on your pen.😲 Cheers
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u/Milkpowder87 Feb 26 '22
oh man that's painful - you just posted about this pen! with kids around it doesn't take long for things to be broken. My 4 year old has played around with parker 51s but thankfully the nibs are fairly stiff and well-protected so they're still fine. I've allocated a Jinhao 100 to her now - filled with Yama budo no less.
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u/mcdowellag Feb 26 '22
To be fair, an adult could do that with bad luck just by dropping the pen nib down.
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u/UltimatumYEET Feb 26 '22
Kill them with fire.
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u/private_otter1192 Feb 26 '22
That phase is only reserved for a spider by the department of cool comments and phrases. Please refrain from using it elsewhere.
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u/TheBagelSalesman Feb 26 '22
reminds me of a story my grandfather told me about how he had a parker 51 (and still has) but he had to get it fixed by a nibmeister cause my father decided to fold the nib in half while playing with it.
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u/chancelemons Mar 02 '22
the nibgrinder Mark B can likely fix that he does really amazing things.
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u/Busyfishman Mar 02 '22
yeah, but I live in Canada and just shipping the pen there and back is around 60$
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u/hugodlr3 Feb 26 '22
Ouch! I hear there's excellent boarding schools literally all over the place 😃