The nib as you would expect from JoWo is stiff and smooth. I do not think it is due to the membrane as water will still be pushing against it when the pen is on it’s side, which I assume will be the norm for many users. I’ve seen no mention but it did cross my mind this might be to keep ink in the nib and feed rather than risk it draining back out in to the converter. The result of this is when stored upright or clipped in to a shirt or jacket pocket, the cap and nib point downwards, not up. One design feature, which I do wonder if was decided upon for functional reasons not visual is the clip, which is mounted on the barrel not the cap. How successful it is alas I can not say but the fact that IndiGraph have admitted to the problem and looked to fix it does give me hope owners of new pens will not suffer the same annoyance. For the 2020 version of the IndiGraph the designers have listened to feedback and have altered the thread design.
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This does normally work but requires you to remember the trick each time you want to use the pen. The trick on the KS release/early pens is to first tighten the cap then unscrew. Theory is great however in practice I found the barrel would unscrew more often, and if the pen had not been used for a while, it would always be the barrel which was removed. To counter this two different types of thread are used, which the cap one being softer and so in theory easier to open. The design of the cap and the barrel both screwing on to the grip section is hardly unique amongst fountain pens, however the cap needs to fit tightly and so there is a risk that on trying to remove it you accidentally unscrew the barrel instead. As with Rotring Isograph pens and their rivals, the view is the user will be holding the pen closer to the nib and in a more upright position to allow greater accuracy when laying down the ink, net result is the IndiGraph is thin. The pen is very much designed with the artist and designer in mind, not the writer (though they do also target the calligrapher).
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Alas for poor Brad was he was inundated with people correcting him on the ink name and the following week he did the decent thing and apologised in his next podcast. Apparently in the US it’s just called India Ink and from what he could tell this campaign was just badly written with a mistake being made multiple times in the description, which is never a good sign. In an ‘any news can be good news’ situation, the pen, having been passed round a number of bloggers such as Stephen Brown, was used as an example of a bad/high risk Kickstarter campaign by the Pen Addict himself, Brad Dowdey, and all for the reason that Brad was unaware that the permanent type of ink the Indigraph was designed for was originally called Indian Ink and is still known that in most of the world.