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One of my favorite fountain pens is a franken-pen i built myself. Vintage pens have wonderful nibs but i find the bodies to be ugly or at the very least functionally limited. So i decided to take the best of both worlds.
This is my TWSBI Diamond but with the stock nib replaced with a 1910 flexible nib from a Waterman 52 (an ideal #2 nib), extra fine. I also replaced the feed with a ebonite feed so it has absolutely no problem keeping up.
In my mind this is the penultimate pen in everyway.
It's awesome to see your posts on it, though! So few people I know are into calligraphy. It's nice to hear about!
@MutoShack
It is very much a dying art. Its sad just how much extra work a lefty needs to go through, sometimes i think it would be easier for them to just learn to use their right hand, but for many its part of their identity and thats just not an option.
But if you got the skills down perhaps its time to splurge, you wont regret it.
@freemo
That's pretty rad! I was like "That looks like a TWSBI with a vintage nib on it", then I read the post. Nicely done!
I was into pens for a long time, a while back, but being a lefty made calligraphy awkward.
I took on a few different styles, from sideways, to upside-down, to mirrored, and "hook-hand", and got pretty good with some of them, but I never ended up splurging on a quality fountain pen.