any real advantage to a Rhodium nib?

Alan Horowitz wrote:

rhodium is rather more expensive than gold. Any real advantage to
having the rhodium nib?


Not the slightest advantage on earth over stainless steel or gold. FD

rhodium is rather more expensive than gold. Any real advantage to
having the rhodium nib?


NO

It's overpriced due to other unrelated industrial uses. If you want a platinum
sister metal...palladium is the best IMO.

Steel, gold, palladium, platinum...there are many options - and hundreds of
alloy combinations with many different traits.

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wrote:
Alan Horowitz wrote:

rhodium is rather more expensive than gold. Any real advantage to
having the rhodium nib?



Not the slightest advantage on earth over stainless steel or gold. FD

My understanding was that there is an advantage, my memory is hazy but I
think it was related to rhodium being better wearing than gold

Um, no one mentioned 'tipping'... just the basic nib material.


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Alc yst wrote:

wrote:
Alan Horowitz wrote:

rhodium is rather more expensive than gold. Any real advantage to
having the rhodium nib?



Not the slightest advantage on earth over stainless steel or gold. FD

My understanding was that there is an advantage, my memory is hazy but I
think it was related to rhodium being better wearing than gold (a soft
metal), while being nonreactive and.....

Your understanding of how a nib mads is badly flawed. NO nib on earth
has gold as a tipping material. Never! The gold NEVER touches the
paper, Its is tipped with some other hard metal. No "gold" nib can
ever wear out a bit faster than any other nib. The tip may wear, but
that takes ages as the tip is ALWATS iridium, hard steel, rhodium,
octanium, or doezens of other alloys. NEVER gold.

Frank

Alc yst wrote:

wrote:
Alan Horowitz wrote:

rhodium is rather more expensive than gold. Any real advantage to
having the rhodium nib?



Not the slightest advantage on earth over stainless steel or gold. FD

My understanding was that there is an advantage, my memory is hazy but I
think it was related to rhodium being better wearing than gold (a soft
metal), while being nonreactive and.....



Not only does the above make no sense, but if one thinks about it the
original question made no sense either. Since I don't think I ever
heard of a rhodium nib. It is an alloy tipping material that is applied
to a gold nib, or steel nib, or whatever. Rdodium is somewhat softer
than high quality hard iridium and probably softer than the best grade
of hard stainless steel so its most likely a poorer choice of the three
for a tip material. However thats more theory than anything as if
properly made all three can last more than a lifetime of average use.
Frank

Rhodioum is sometimes used as a plating on the nib. Makes it look silver

True. Which also offers no advantage at all except looks and the plating can
of course be worn off in time or after polishing. The only plating on a nib
that made some very minor technical sense was Sheaffer's use of platinum
plating which offered a slightly higher ease of ink flow over gold or steel.
But the difference was slight enough that this too, was more theory than much
really useful results. Frank