Pelikan M1000? Or are there other large pens that might be better suited to me?

Well, finer tipping materials have tendency for more forgiveness to the ROTATION of the pen.

Now, another factor is that if you use, say, a Pilot Coarse nib, you can feel it is significantly stiffer than, say, an F nib of the same FP model.

Stiffer nib means less "dynamic" misalignment of tines as you write. You do not see tines under your 15X loupe while you are writing. But tines are misaligned when you are writing. As you stop writing and take a look at the tines under your X15 loupe, there is no misalignment of tines because you are not writing.

So, the two factors (the size of the tipping material and the thickness of the nib) somewhat compensate each other.

Thus other than M1000, you do not see many people who say "oh I broke the nib because I gave way too much hand writing pressures to the nib ... I have been experience ink skips big time on some slippery papers with the ultra smooth tipping material, so..."

It is the COMBINATION of the super soft (not a bouncy nib, but the soft) nib and the super smooth tipping material which causes sad situations (broken nib) for some M1000 owners. Especially 2B, 3B and B. And especially the users of slippery papers.

Sure, some M1000 users tweak their pens so that their pens are ultra high ink flow and then they use Platinum Carbon Black ink only. The adjustment with the super high viscosity (dry) ink.

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