Parker and other fountain pens with their nibs!

Waterman Carène nibs: stub, medium and oblique broad: Comparison of Stub with italic fine in second picture (a crop from one of my other posts):

Uncial type font with some oblique / italic/ stub / standard Carene & Parker nibs: Why I love this typeface: it comes with a classic keyboard from synth genius Dave Smith, in fact several: The hugely famous Prophet-5 from 1978-84 and now the equally excellent Prophet-6 from 2015 until now:

Four Parker oblique/ italic nibs, plus Carène stub and oblique fine writing sample: Waterman Carène oblique fine Waterman Carène stub Parker 75 nib #42: medium oblique Parker 75 nib #45: medium oblique italic Parker 45 D nib: medium italic (stub shaped, flat across) Parker 45 R nib: medium oblique (maybe not 'italic') Parker 61 Broad Italic also included on lower picture Click on the image to magnify then to magnify to full extent you might be able to right click and open image in new tab, then use the magnifying glass if in Google Chrome: Same nibs with squiggles:

This blog will have details and pictures of what you might expect when writing with Parker pens and their nibs as the main course - with Waterman Carène and its nibs for desserts. I am going to try to see how the various types of nibs write. I have around twelve so far and will be illustrating and discussing them on here. Mostly "vintage" pens - with some newer ones hopefully.