Fully agree: we should use Iroshizuku or the likes with flex nibs. FPR bicolor nibs are not always as soft as monochromes ones: it depends on the nib itself! I'm puzzled: some bicolor ones do very well & others don't. Thanks for the great Flexploration series!
@@faniro4792 thanks for watching! I at least like to use an ink I'm familiar with for flex. I've had good luck with Montblanc inks as well. What you said is so true. Every nib is just slightly different. So everything is pretty anecdotal and everyone's mileage may vary. Often people think that if they buy the nib/pen I'm using, they'll be able to write like me. People forget that the key ingredient is always practice! Ha ha
Thanks. I'm not sure how old your pen is but mine is new. It's a piston fill Jaipur V2 in Mottled Brown Ebonite with a 14K gold EF Ultra Flex nib with an ebonite feed. I do not have the problems railroading that your pen has. This was my first flex pen, and I loved it so much that I bought another one! I own a Pilot 912 with the PO nib, and I love it. But I decided to save some money and buy the Jaipur V2 since it comes with an ebonite feed. I'm glad that I did! Oh yeah, I have Organics Studio Santiago's Sea Blue ink in it. My new pen has Tesla Coil ink in it.
@@robertcalkjr.8325 the nib unit is new. I have other FPR nibs as well. Sometimes they railroad and sometimes they don't. I'm glad that you haven't had railroading trouble. Coming up next in the series will be my veey favorite flex nibs!
@@FountainPenNews Cool, I can't wait to watch it. Both of my Jaipur pens write great. So, I went ahead and bought the other two ebonite Jaipur's. I'm sure that they will write great as well. Mine do hard start a tad if it has been upright in my shirt pocket. But if I have them tip down in my shirt pocket or lying flat on their sides, then they don't hard start. I also love the feel of the ebonite bodies. I'm going to collect every ebonite color that they make for the Jaipur. I was thinking about getting the Himalaya's, but I read that people were having leakage problems with them.
I have an FPR Jaipur V2 with the ultraflex nib and ebonite feed and is truly a flex beast, I love mine. I don't have much railroading issue with mine, it might be your ink? I do not recall if I heatset mine...
I find that the fountain pen revolution ultra flex nibs work really well with the noodlers konrad and the ADMOK M800 AND 400 with the 5.5 ultra flex nibs work really well but the jowo plastic feeds are just not good the flow is terrible but if you find a pen with a really wet flow this nib is excellent :)
Thanks, the results when starting to use the FPR ultra flex are speaking for themselves. But don't forget, when you inked up the pen again with Iroshizuku ink, the feed is soaked for a while and thus gives good results. Glad to see that not only my own bicolor #6 FPR Ultraflex EF bicolor nib from 2.1/2 years ago behaved exactly like that, unless you either buy a decent fnf feed and change the FP to an eyedropper or you deepen and widen the slits of the cheap plastic feed by yourself. Speaking about the price, in my book any nib sold as a flex nib and sold at any price level should work without flaws. What do you think about the Kanwrite Ti? I heard of some praises, but still I'm hesistant I will get soon a Maiora Ultra Ogiva, Golden Age 2.0, Fire, RGT with a #6 Maiora branded Jowo Flex F nib and I really hope that this nib meets my expectations regarding a pleasant flex writing experience without ink flow stops, railroading after a few downstrokes and other unpleasant issues. And if it doesn't fulfill my expectations I am simply going to stop thinking about flex nibs. BTW, maybe you saw that very recently launched video already, if not have look at it regarding a comparison of JOWO and Bock flex nibs by a french YT'er with English subtitles. ruclips.net/video/6eHdkYQEyNA/видео.html
@@FountainPenWorld-z4i thanks for this! I'll take a look. I've used the kanwrite nibs and they are just OK. I'd say not as flexible as FPR nibs but very similar as they are both made in India. I'll do a Flexploration on kanwrite and Osprey flex nibs soon. You'll soon discover my bias about my very favorite flex nib. Stylosuite X-wing Harpoon EF customized by Les Sheely. It is astounding. My favorite by far. So a video will be coming about that soon. As well as some vintage nibs, regalia cross-flex nib, and pineider Quill Nib. Should be a fun series!
@@FountainPenNews That will be interesting and I'm going to watch them all, promise! Wish you tons of likes, new subscribers and well-founded comments.
Weee! 🎉it’s a flexploration series!Thanks so much for explaining and showing!!
You're so welcome! I hope everyone finds it interesting.
Tsutsuji FTW! Next time we get to PlayPen together, I want to try a flex nib - just for the experience.
Fully agree: we should use Iroshizuku or the likes with flex nibs. FPR bicolor nibs are not always as soft as monochromes ones: it depends on the nib itself! I'm puzzled: some bicolor ones do very well & others don't. Thanks for the great Flexploration series!
@@faniro4792 thanks for watching! I at least like to use an ink I'm familiar with for flex. I've had good luck with Montblanc inks as well.
What you said is so true. Every nib is just slightly different. So everything is pretty anecdotal and everyone's mileage may vary. Often people think that if they buy the nib/pen I'm using, they'll be able to write like me. People forget that the key ingredient is always practice! Ha ha
Thanks. I'm not sure how old your pen is but mine is new. It's a piston fill Jaipur V2 in Mottled Brown Ebonite with a 14K gold EF Ultra Flex nib with an ebonite feed. I do not have the problems railroading that your pen has. This was my first flex pen, and I loved it so much that I bought another one!
I own a Pilot 912 with the PO nib, and I love it. But I decided to save some money and buy the Jaipur V2 since it comes with an ebonite feed. I'm glad that I did!
Oh yeah, I have Organics Studio Santiago's Sea Blue ink in it. My new pen has Tesla Coil ink in it.
@@robertcalkjr.8325 the nib unit is new. I have other FPR nibs as well. Sometimes they railroad and sometimes they don't. I'm glad that you haven't had railroading trouble. Coming up next in the series will be my veey favorite flex nibs!
@@FountainPenNews Cool, I can't wait to watch it. Both of my Jaipur pens write great. So, I went ahead and bought the other two ebonite Jaipur's. I'm sure that they will write great as well.
Mine do hard start a tad if it has been upright in my shirt pocket. But if I have them tip down in my shirt pocket or lying flat on their sides, then they don't hard start.
I also love the feel of the ebonite bodies. I'm going to collect every ebonite color that they make for the Jaipur.
I was thinking about getting the Himalaya's, but I read that people were having leakage problems with them.
I have an FPR Jaipur V2 with the ultraflex nib and ebonite feed and is truly a flex beast, I love mine. I don't have much railroading issue with mine, it might be your ink? I do not recall if I heatset mine...
@@AMusset I changed the ink and it was better. The funny thing is the first ink was a fountain pen revolution ink. Ha ha!
I find that the fountain pen revolution ultra flex nibs work really well with the noodlers konrad and the ADMOK M800 AND 400 with the 5.5 ultra flex nibs work really well but the jowo plastic feeds are just not good the flow is terrible but if you find a pen with a really wet flow this nib is excellent :)
I've had some good luck with a few plastic feeds. But mostly, you're 100% correct. They spell trouble for flex nibs!
Thanks, the results when starting to use the FPR ultra flex are speaking for themselves. But don't forget, when you inked up the pen again with Iroshizuku ink, the feed is soaked for a while and thus gives good results.
Glad to see that not only my own bicolor #6 FPR Ultraflex EF bicolor nib from 2.1/2 years ago behaved exactly like that, unless you either buy a decent fnf feed and change the FP to an eyedropper or you deepen and widen the slits of the cheap plastic feed by yourself. Speaking about the price, in my book any nib sold as a flex nib and sold at any price level should work without flaws.
What do you think about the Kanwrite Ti? I heard of some praises, but still I'm hesistant
I will get soon a Maiora Ultra Ogiva, Golden Age 2.0, Fire, RGT with a #6 Maiora branded Jowo Flex F nib and I really hope that this nib meets my expectations regarding a pleasant flex writing experience without ink flow stops, railroading after a few downstrokes and other unpleasant issues. And if it doesn't fulfill my expectations I am simply going to stop thinking about flex nibs.
BTW, maybe you saw that very recently launched video already, if not have look at it regarding a comparison of JOWO and Bock flex nibs by a french YT'er with English subtitles.
ruclips.net/video/6eHdkYQEyNA/видео.html
@@FountainPenWorld-z4i thanks for this! I'll take a look.
I've used the kanwrite nibs and they are just OK. I'd say not as flexible as FPR nibs but very similar as they are both made in India. I'll do a Flexploration on kanwrite and Osprey flex nibs soon.
You'll soon discover my bias about my very favorite flex nib. Stylosuite X-wing Harpoon EF customized by Les Sheely. It is astounding. My favorite by far. So a video will be coming about that soon. As well as some vintage nibs, regalia cross-flex nib, and pineider Quill Nib. Should be a fun series!
@@FountainPenNews That will be interesting and I'm going to watch them all, promise! Wish you tons of likes, new subscribers and well-founded comments.