🖋️ Lamy Fine Black Nib for Safari, Vista, Joy, and AL-Star Review

Mounted on a black Lamy Safari fountain pen. Looks good against the black safari. It replaced the included medium nib, which wrote nicely but was a bit broad. I was hoping for a good thin line, equivalent to a 0.7mm rollerball. It wrote well, smooth and even at the same time, but it was as broad as a medium quill. It took a bit of tweaking to get the thin line. With a little leveling of the teeth and buffing the tip with a microgrid (time consuming) I was able to get a nice fine line. A little…

This writes wider than I expected. It's more of a medium than a fine. I replaced a former fineliner with this pen on my Lamy Safari and was a bit disappointed. It can still be used, but I have other medium-tipped pens that I prefer to the nibs, and I probably won't use this nib, or I can just put the former fine nib back on it. I was expecting it to write just like my pilot Metropolitan, hoping I'd have two everyday writers to switch back and forth, but I think I'll just have to try a few…

On the other hand, after a little convincing, this pen writes better than my original pen. I got it as a replacement for my Safari's F nib, which I've had for ages but has always felt a bit clunky and feels much wetter and wider than a fine nib should write. (I have a lot of EF nibs and the difference between this F and these EFs was mind blowing). On the more negative side, this feather didn't fit in the feeder initially. He was weak and could fall while holding the pen perpendicular to the…