The ontological quandary posed by the Binderization of double broad fountain pen nibs.

When you buy a nib and you request binderization, I have a three step checklist:

1. Ensure the nib writes immediately when you fill the pen.

2. The nib doesn’t catch paper.

3. It doesn’t feel “stupid”. 

I use these objective criteria to keep the goal post from moving too much, and the third subjective criterion is my way of ensuring a positive experience…

I was taught that a good nib tuning makes a nib pleasant for any writer to write with in any correct orientation. (i.e. An italic nib can’t work when held in an incorrect orientation, but it can be made more or less forgiving to variation in writing angle when held in the correct orientation.)

This presents a quandary when tuning an “omnidirectional” nib of a “given size”: The Double Broad size #6 nib from Jowo, once tuned, writes a bit stubbish; it has wider downstrokes than horizontal strokes. I can round the nib down to write with uniform width in every direction, but then, the “double broad” nib won’t actually write double the size a broad nib will. So what to do?

I just binderize the nib I have to the three criteria. Thoughts?