{"id":2072,"date":"2019-09-04T03:16:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T10:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/?p=2072"},"modified":"2019-09-04T03:16:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T10:16:15","slug":"on-nibs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/04\/on-nibs\/","title":{"rendered":"On Nibs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A while back I learned that very few watch manufacturers have their own mechanism, the rest buy the mechanism and design a fancy case. So basically what most people pay for is the design and brand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And today I learn that it is also true for most Fountain pen manufacturers.  <br>Not sure where is the source of information, but found two links with same information:  <a href=\"http:\/\/danielpi.com\/fountain-pens\/2015\/12\/1\/nibs-and-who-makes-them\">Nib1<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fountainpennetwork.com\/forum\/topic\/297340-nib-manufacture\/\">Nib2<\/a>   . It actually seem like the same source as the user name in Link2 is identical to the first source. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shockingly, most &#8220;brand pen&#8221; like Montverde, Visconti and more are actually using Bock. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So glad my current collection has: Pilot, Platinum, Parker and Montblanc. All are in-house nibs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"469\" src=\"http:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-04-at-19.13.51-1024x469.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2073\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-04-at-19.13.51-1024x469.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-04-at-19.13.51-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-04-at-19.13.51-768x352.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I learned that very few watch manufacturers have their own mechanism, the rest buy the mechanism and design a fancy case. So basically what most people pay for is the design and brand. And today I learn that it is also true for most Fountain pen manufacturers. Not sure where is the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/04\/on-nibs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Nibs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2074,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072\/revisions\/2074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}