{"product_id":"jowo-6-nib-unit-mabie-todd-swan-4-england-14ct-gold-medium-flex-stub","title":"Jowo 6 Nib Unit | Mabie Todd Swan | #4 England | 14ct Gold | Medium Flex Stub","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c!-- obsidian --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c!-- obsidian --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c!-- obsidian --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c!-- obsidian --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c!-- obsidian --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c!-- obsidian --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c!-- obsidian --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c!-- obsidian --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e🥇 Grade: D\u003cbr\u003e🏠 Housing: Nikko Black Ebonite, JOWO #6\u003cbr\u003e🔱 Nib: Swan 4 14ct Mabie Todd \u0026amp; Co. Made in England\u003cbr\u003e🖋️ Line Spec: M\/F – 6B | 0.60mm V \/ 0.30mm H – 2.15mm (7.17x)\u003cbr\u003e🌡️ Flexibility Pressure: 410g Semi Flex\u003cbr\u003e📐 Dimensions: 22.19mm nib length past housing\u003cbr\u003e⚖️ Weight: 1.844g\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA factory flex stub, two ranges in one nib. At rest your downstrokes run 0.60mm against 0.30mm cross strokes, stub contrast with no pressure at all, and firm pressure opens the tines to a 2.15mm 6B, over seven times the hairline. Wetness holds even with dry inks, so the widest strokes fill solid without railroading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe D grade is the repair, nothing else. This nib was bent, most likely from careless capping, and repaired; you can see the work, and the price accounts for it. The tines run thick through that area, the writing is untouched by it, and what you get is a cosmetic scar on a nib performing at full strength.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSwan gold nibs of the 1930s came out of Mabie Todd's English factories, in the decade the company ran one of London's largest pen plants at Harlesden and ranked among the wealthiest firms in the city. Two lines left those benches side by side: stiff Eternal manifolds for office work, and the flexible Swans that built the brand's reputation with writers. This is the flexible line, and an extremely expressive example of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTuning trued the tines, the tipping was smoothed and polished, and the nib was heat-set to an ebonite feed in the Nikko black ebonite JOWO #6 housing before a full writing test as a unit. The imprint is legible and the stub writes as it left the factory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTested on Tomoe River 52gsm cream with Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Black.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heron's Mooncake","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47110274285756,"sku":"HM2607006","price":325.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0740\/7435\/7948\/files\/DSC03525.jpg?v=1783876808","url":"https:\/\/heronsmooncake.com\/products\/jowo-6-nib-unit-mabie-todd-swan-4-england-14ct-gold-medium-flex-stub","provider":"Herons Mooncake","version":"1.0","type":"link"}