Chris thanks for making this ! Have you ever bought some cheap pens and grinds some stubs and then into obliques yourself using sand paper and mirco-mesh ?? A ton of fun and great way to learn and customize yourself
I have several obliques. some more oblique than others. all are vintage. I enjoy using them, and dont have issues with writing. The most unusual is a P51 with a RIGHT oblique. I can use it but with difficulty. If I'm not mistaken, its more useful for left handers.
Yes, right oblique for left handers. My first left oblique was P45. Fell in love with it. The way I write right handed the left oblique works well. I also enjoy my vintage obliques. Most have a very slight angle leaning down to the left. Adds nice variation to my writing.
I’m a left handed underwriter. There’s no way in the world right foot oblique could work. The line variation falls on the wrong strokes. Consider how we write the letter “n”, the diagonal upstroke is supposed be thin line. How in the world would anyone comfortably achieve it with right foot oblique? In fact, if you consider stubs vs left foot oblique, it is obvious that if we want this: | to be thick and this: / to be thin, the pen with stub nib should be held like this: \ and the pen with left foot oblique may be held more like this: |. Right handers hold the pen more like this:\ which is not a comfortable angle for left handers. They’d much rather hold the pen more like this: |. If you’re a right hander, try writing holding the pen like this: / and you’d get what I’m talking about. Hence, left foot oblique is actually for left handed underwriter.
These nibs help to develop a lot of personality on one's writing! Great video.
Absolutely!
Chris thanks for making this ! Have you ever bought some cheap pens and grinds some stubs and then into obliques yourself using sand paper and mirco-mesh ?? A ton of fun and great way to learn and customize yourself
I'm very pleased you did a left foot oblique I love the 1 I have it's a Mr Pen Italix
I have several obliques. some more oblique than others. all are vintage. I enjoy using them, and dont have issues with writing. The most unusual is a P51 with a RIGHT oblique. I can use it but with difficulty. If I'm not mistaken, its more useful for left handers.
Yes, right oblique for left handers. My first left oblique was P45. Fell in love with it. The way I write right handed the left oblique works well. I also enjoy my vintage obliques. Most have a very slight angle leaning down to the left. Adds nice variation to my writing.
I’m a left handed underwriter. There’s no way in the world right foot oblique could work. The line variation falls on the wrong strokes. Consider how we write the letter “n”, the diagonal upstroke is supposed be thin line. How in the world would anyone comfortably achieve it with right foot oblique?
In fact, if you consider stubs vs left foot oblique, it is obvious that if we want this: | to be thick and this: / to be thin, the pen with stub nib should be held like this: \ and the pen with left foot oblique may be held more like this: |. Right handers hold the pen more like this:\ which is not a comfortable angle for left handers. They’d much rather hold the pen more like this: |. If you’re a right hander, try writing holding the pen like this: / and you’d get what I’m talking about.
Hence, left foot oblique is actually for left handed underwriter.
Fantastic Video. Thank you for showing your lovely Pens. Keep up the great work. Nick.
Wow - the character from Delta Zen left oblique is gorgeous!
Was my daily writer for a year.
I can see why it would be such a pleasure - a beautiful instrument.
Does Mike have any contact info...a website?
www.mikeitwork.com/index.html
Can you put links for purchase for all those pens please?
Links not relevant for these pens.
Nibs, custom grinds.
So a right-handed person should get a left oblique usually?
Yes, works well for right handed me.
Thanks Chris. I have no obliques but I am tempted to get one. Mr. Pen UK does some nice grinding, I am told.
Nib the tip