{"product_id":"jowo-6-nib-unit-watermans-5-ideal-14k-gold-medium-super-flex-stub","title":"Jowo 6 Nib Unit | Waterman's | #5 Ideal | 14k Gold | Medium Super Flex Stub","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c!-- obsidian --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e🥇 Grade: B\u003cbr\u003e🏠 Housing: Nikko Black Ebonite, JOWO #6\u003cbr\u003e🔱 Nib: Waterman's Ideal 14kt 5 Made in U.S.A.\u003cbr\u003e🖋️ Line Spec: M\/F – 5B | 0.60mm V \/ 0.30mm H – 1.63mm (5.43x)\u003cbr\u003e🌡️ Flexibility Pressure: 330g Super Flex\u003cbr\u003e📐 Dimensions: 22.14mm nib length past housing\u003cbr\u003e⚖️ Weight: 1.768g\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt certain angles this nib resonates on the page, a faint hum up as you write that some well polished modern nibs also exhibit. Even unflexed, the stub grind runs your downstrokes at a full medium while cross strokes hold fine, so everyday writing picks up fantastic subtle variation with no effort at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe flex is the smoother surprise. Moderate pressure opens the tines past 1.6mm, better than a 5x spread, and the opening is so even that your flourishes, swash capitals, and long entrance strokes swell without a hitch in the flow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStubs of this era were working nibs, made for correspondence hands that wanted shading without snag, and the softly rounded edges forgive rotation far better than a crisp italic. The Ideal on the imprint is older than the nib by half a century; Waterman's first New York operation traded as the Ideal Pen Co. in the 1880s, and the 1884 three-fissure Ideal feed patent is the one the company was built on. This size 5 dates to the 1930s and 1940s, the tail end of American flex production, heat-set over a matched ebonite feed in a black Nikko ebonite JOWO #6 housing and tested as a complete unit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGraded B, slight wear from use with a legible imprint, original throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTested on Tomoe River 68gsm A5 paper with Pelikan 4001 Brilliant Black.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heron's Mooncake","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47142029820092,"sku":"HM2607008","price":400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0740\/7435\/7948\/files\/DSC03567.jpg?v=1784308770","url":"https:\/\/heronsmooncake.com\/products\/jowo-6-nib-unit-watermans-5-ideal-14k-gold-medium-super-flex-stub","provider":"Herons Mooncake","version":"1.0","type":"link"}