LAMY Joy Calligraphy Steel Fountain Pen Nib 1.1 (LZ50/1.1)

I ordered this nib on a whim after getting a Lamy Safari Fine-Point fountain pen. I liked the fine point, but I wanted a thicker nib that would give my writing more of a fountain pen look. Before the nib arrived, I got another Safari, this time a black one with a broad nib. The broad nib's writing is appealingly rounded, and definitely looks more like that of a fountain pen than the narrow nib's writing does. However, when I replaced the narrow nib with the 1.1mm nib (a process that took seconds and resulted in no spilled ink despite doing it with a full converter in the pen), I was amazed at the difference. This was what a fountain pen's writing should look like! It is clearer than the broad nib, and offers more line variation, making the writing look fancier and more fountain pen-like. Also, I have found that the broad nib has the tendency to thin inks out and make them lighter than they are in thinner nibs, but the 1.1mm nib wrote as darkly as my fine nib. As compared to the fine nib, the 1.1mm nib had the aforementioned advantages as well as smoother ink flow and, as a result, a more enjoyable writing experience. The price of $9 seems steep at first, given a Safari costs you $22-$25 dollars, and I was kicking myself for buying this nib after I got the broad nib pen. However, now that I have tried the new 1.1mm nib, I am so happy that I bought it! While no pen or nib will make your handwriting "better" (though I think that fountain pens do, a little), they can make it more fun, and make it easier to improve. This nib, and the Safari, make me love writing and make me eager to learn new styles of writing to move past my messy print. If you want to take your writing experience to the next level, get this nib. Trust me, you won't regret it.As a side-note, I have written with one or more of the nibs I have mentioned with the Lamy blue cartridges and black cartridges (which I wouldn't recommend), and with Noodler's Forest Green, Bulletproof Black, and Ottoman Azure bottled inks. The only ink I used with all three nibs was the Ottoman Azure, and so I based my review primarily on this ink.UPDATE 10/22I was tempted to say in the original review that the nib seemed like an italic, but, being new to fountain pens, didn't want to make such a declaration based on my own intuition. I have just confirmed, it is, in fact an italic nib, which explains why it is so much fun to write with. The one problem with it, however, is that because it doesn't have the bit sticking out on the bottom of the tip like the other Lamy nibs do, it is a lot harder to remove. Luckily, it's so good I probably will never want to remove it!

Great nib, high quality product. Fits well on the pen and writes extremely smoothly. Then again my daily note-taking nib is a Lamy EF, which is relatively scratchy compared to this. It does write italically very well. However, do note that it does use considerably more ink - and "real estate" as far as note paper is concerned - than the EF nib. I might be able to write twice as much per page with an EF nib compared to this. Basically, the lines are fat so you're forced to write bigger letters. Also, drawing diagrams doesn't really...work. You need to draw them massive to get any sort of detail. As an engineering student, then, I use my EF for notes.This is a great nib for writing essays or stories or in your diary or letters to a sweetheart - but for notetaking and schematic diagram drawing, not the best choice. Granted, it does seem to make me "want" to write in cursive/fix my penmanship.In summary - for what it is, it is a fantastic nib - just be sure that it is what you want for your purposes.

One of the best features of LAMY pens (except for the LAMY 2000) is that nibs can be swapped. One of the funner things about noodling around with fountain pens is leaving nice handwriting on the page. Put this on your Safari, AL-star, Studio or whatever, and you get much nicer handwriting more or less instantly. Well OK. SOME of us have handwriting beyond redemption. This won't fix THAT.It's a stiff steel nib, but it doesn't need to flex, and since you are not mixing your own iron gall inks in the basement, you don't NEED the gold. Unless you are signing the Treaty of Versailles, in which case you need a MontBlanc 149 instead.

I bought a Lamy Safari pen along with this nib and a converter (haven't actually used the converter yet, still using the cartridge it came with) as a way to get myself back into practicing calligraphy. I worked on that for a while several years ago as a way to improve my handwriting, using an old Osmiroid pen and an italic nib, and it did help, for a while. But my bad habits have come back, and the Osmiroid eventually picked up a bunch of hairs from bad paper, and then the nib got spread and it all went a bit bad. This nib is a lot more forgiving than that one ever was. It's not scratchy at all, even if you use it for an upstroke, which you're not really supposed to be doing but I still do sometimes by mistake. They've rounded the corners nicely to allow for that leeway. It does mean that you get a little less line width variation than you might be expecting from a 1.1 nib, but there's enough for my taste.This nib is also available with the Lamy Joy pen, which is a cheaper option than buying both this and the Safari, but the Joy is too long for my taste. I like the balance of the Safari with the cap posted.I'm very happy with this nib on that pen.

Lamy Steel Replacement Nib 1.1Mm Pointe de rechange pour stylo-plume Lamy, facile à changer et en plus ça vient plus économique que de racheter d'autres stylo-plume. Juste à changer la pointe pour plus large ou plus étroite. Je recommande.

lamy never disappoints.. just tht it writes a bit too broad for daily use

Great nib, very happy with the script.

It looks to be original and sturdy and functions pretty well. I just took one star for the price. It can be more affordable. I needed 1.5 mm too but couldn't afford it :-(