Namisu Nova Brass Fountain Pen

A pen at this price range should do some basic Quality standards - and many Bock nibs are not behaving correctly. A new Nib unit costs around 23€ incl shipping around here - and for that I can get a pen that usually works. Now, I didn't buy any of my Namisu pens via Drop, but from them directly - which is even worse! Now, I got in contact with Namisu, this is after all a nice grave digging of a post ;) and they were kind enough to send me a replacement nib. That nib worked very well and were obviously checked. Most pens these days I buy from vendors that I know will do a quality check on nibs before shipping them. The ones I chance, I'm always a bit anxious for what the nib-lottery will give you.

Just buy a new nib that you like. #6 Bock's have a lot of different options. The rest of the pen is what makes it unique, not an affordably replaceable nib.

My Namisu nova have bigger problems than being hard to hold. It writes like shit unfortunately and the nib works better in reverse mode than normal. Hard starts, skips and simply won't put ink to the paper on almost one letter per line with ten words. Extremely annoying. It's a nice enough pen to hold though and I liked everything but how it wrote - which in fact doesn't really makes this endorse-able by me since writing is what you kinda expect these things to do...