I have tried the popular Sailor Fude de Mannen but I didn’t like how the feed interfered with a broad line, adding an unwanted “ghost” underline, so I gave it away.
My first fude nib pen was this Hero M-86, a gift from my sketch crawl buddy, Cathy “Kate” Johnson. Very stylish and a great nib, but the body is heavy and unbalanced __a bit clumsy__ and the cap doesn’t always post well.
So I tried what Kate did with hers: put the Hero nib onto the body of a Noodler’s Creeper. Her blog post can be found HERE. Her’s became a quick favorite; mine, not so much. Maybe my Creeper is to blame — it is very hard to get any ink to flow smoothly and the ink refill mechanism doesn’t work very well.
Nina Johansson’s Instagram videos of drawing with various fude pens can be quite mesmerizing! So after giving up on these pens for a time, I find myself returning for another try. She posted a Lamy Safari hack, actually bending a Lamy nib in a vise. I tried this and it works well . . . but the Lamy barrel is a bit too awkward for switching line width smoothly. My previous post on the Lamy conversion can be found HERE.
Larry D. Marshall once mentioned a Duke 209 fude pen on his blog and I like this one a lot. Always quick to start up again after being ignored and smooth to manipulate for various line width. But it tends to make “railroad tracks” if I draw a line too quick and the metal barrel tends to slip out of my hand. I suppose it is still my best choice. But just for fun I refilled the Hero M-86 with ink. I may play with it a bit more . . . .
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