Gillott Nibs in the Keswick Pencil Museum
Photo L. Apostolakou
The author of The Trades and Manufactories of Great Britain describes the process of how pen nibs are made. The best Swedish iron, brought from Sheffield in sheets, is used. The iron is cut into thin slips, then goes into the cutting-room where girls pass the slips under a cutting-out press (each girl produces around 30,000 pen nibs per day).
What takes place next is
- side-slitting during which a slit is cut on each side of the pen, and "it is curious to see the quickness with which nimble fingers of the girls accomplish this";
- piercing the metal to make the central part in which ink flows through the nib;
- annealing, that is marking the pen nib with the makers' name and firm trademark
- raising or binding, an operation which gives the nib its form
- hardening during which the pen nibs are put in boxes, placed in a hot furnace, then emptied into pots of 5-ft deep oil, then whizzed around in a cylinder;
- tempering, i.e. heating the nib "destroying the previous brittleness... and turns it out with all the elasticity requisite for the discharge of its future duties to society".
- cleaning the nibs in a cylinder containing saw-dust
- grinding
- slitting the nib
- colouring in a variety of tints and varnishing.
Pen Nibs by Gillott. Keswick Pencil Museum.
Photo L. Apostolakou
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