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The pen is definitely on the pricier side at US$350 from Esterbrook (and US$410 with the Scribe nib). If you primarily print (especially if you write in all caps!) this would be a great nib for you I reckon! I write cursive, primarily, so the nib isn’t ideal for me but it’s different, interesting and fun. It can work as an architect or as something more general. The nib, I think, is an excellent interpretation of an all-rounder architect nib. I really like that you can’t see the particles that produce the sparkles but even so the sparkles are stronger than what some other pens produce! Very nice. There have been some exceptions of that for me with some Sailor pens (not all!) and I was surprised to like this DiamondCast material as much as I do. Architect nibs excel at print but where architect grinds often look clumsy is cursive. Brad Dowdy of Pen Addict uses a comparable all caps script. It is no-longer necessary for architecture but it’s still a type of script that many people have adopted (outside or architecture). And that is where this nib fits the bill for writing in this style well. The scrips was quite wide and often had a lot of side-ways strokes.

Because architects often collaborated, having a uniform and, importantly, consistently legible style of script was important and using all caps helped with this. The Architect grind is so named because it works really well the the now somewhat outdated script often associated with Architecture. This nib grind is the complement to a stub or cursive italic grind with the fatter line being horizontal and the thinner line being on the down stroke (with the opposite happening with stubs and cursive italics). The Scribe is Joshua’s interpretation of an Architect-style nib grind (sometimes called Arabic or Hebrew as well). a New York based nib grinder who has learned from Richard Binder. The Scribe nib! This is Esterbrook’s second collaboration with a nib grinder after The Journaler by Gena Salorino from Custom Nib Studio. 6 JoWo nib with the Esterbrook cursive name etched into it and the original founding date of the company.

The nib in the Esterbrook Gold Rush is a No. Before talking about the Scribe nib that came with this Gold Rush Prospector Black, I think it’s worth mentioning again my previous review of the Esterbrook Estie which looks at the Journaler nib, a regular fine, and a vintage Esterbrook Bookkeeper nib.

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