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This week has been nuts, super busy, long hours, average sleep, and very little time for fun stuff. At about 11:45pm a couple of nights ago, I thought to myself, should I go to bed, or should I fix the Lamy Safari stub nib I bought ages ago and never really loved? Of course, the fountain pen won.

I picked up this Lamy 1.1mm stub nib a few months back, and it wrote smooth and wet, but it was kind of rounded. It wrote like a broad and didn't have the line variation I was expecting. Exhausted but determined to do something that wasn't work, I busted out my diamond stone and micro mesh.

I quickly got the nib in to a shape that liked and started polishing. By 1am the nib looked great, but just would not write... Blergh! It would hard start, then write ok for a couple of words, then run lean and write really thin before choking out completely. I threw the towel in and went to bed.

In a sleep deprived state on the first night, I had damaged the feed 🤦 It looked OK but clearly wasn't giving my nib what it needed. I grabbed a feed from a spare Safari, fitted it to my pen, inked up and crossed my fingers 🤞 OMG it works flawlessly!!! I was stoaked!

And that's the story of how I got my Lamy Safari 1.1mm stub nib to work and give me the lovely line variation that I'd been yearning for.

Hell yeah. Love my 1.1mm stub. Originally came on a Joy, but it's been on my Safari for years. I think I got lucky with mine, it's always been just how I wanted