How Does A Pelikan F Convert To A Mb 146 Nib?

April 16, 2014

I am planning to buy a MB 146. I want to get a F, but found it to skip a little on a signature, at a MB Store, but the M was too broad. The salesperson says it was the pen I was writing with and a new F should writer thicker and smoother. I now use a Pelikan F m605 and am very happy with it.

How does a Pelikan F convert to a MB 146 nib?

April 16, 2014

My Woolf B=BB....springy nib....tip bend but little tine spread.

My 605 BB=BB 1/2....semi-nail.

Both are very smooth as expected from wider nibs.

Vintage '50s in both....are narrower than modern. The nibs have more flex than modern too. I have '50's MB & Pelikans in both semi-flex and 'flexi'/maxi-semi-flex.

I'd suggest a pre '75 MB....pre '65 is a tad more flexible from my reading. I only have '50s in Vintage MB.

I would suggest going vintage and getting the better nib.

Vintage is cheaper IMO better.

The vintage 146 will be medium-large...it grew into a Large pen in I believe the '80's. A 400NN is a standard width medium-large pen....I like it very much....mine has a 'flexi' OF nib.

Edited April 16, 2014 by Bo Bo Olson

April 18, 2014

I was planning on getting a new pen. Where can I purchase a vintage and be sure it is in good shape and it's real?

April 18, 2014

I am planning to buy a MB 146. I want to get a F, but found it to skip a little on a signature, at a MB Store, but the M was too broad. The salesperson says it was the pen I was writing with and a new F should writer thicker and smoother. I now use a Pelikan F m605 and am very happy with it.

How does a Pelikan F convert to a MB 146 nib?

I have a Pelikan F and M both in a m405 and a m605 respectively. My MB145 F is slightly broader than my M605 medium albiet not much. So I would say my MB145 F is on par with a pel m605 medium.

April 18, 2014

dcohenafp, First take your time. Go to Richard Binder's com...it is the basic's of fountain pens; nibs, filling systems, good advice on inks and very many pretty pens. are you ready for vintage?How many pens do you have? Which?

Do you have B, M, F and EF?...3 of the 4 you should have so when you look for other nibs, you can compare.

What do you want the nib to do?

Vintage pens do have better balance.

Rick Propas at Penquin...I think it's spelled. Is your man for Pelikan.

He is the Pelikan Guru for the states.

Look in the sales section here....no one can afford a bad name by selling junk....fake...they would find them selves with a bad name in a super hurry and or be barred for lying.

No one has counterfeited Piston, Soennecken, MB, Pelikan, Geha, Kaweco or Osmia pens.

They are all real.

US pens...I don't know....C/C is easy to do.

Vintage by me has to do with the nib action***...so I'd say a MB '75 is not quite as springy as a pre '66 from my reading. I have two from the '50's with grand nibs. I think of all '76-now MB as modern...just a springy nib...nothing else....Pelikan '83-97 as semi-vintage...true springy regular flex....after that a pen that you can find a real nib for...even if not so fancy looking.

Some pens from the '30's-40's early '50's might need new corks. Plastic gaskets came in for some German pen companies in the War. Essentially better plastic gaskets came in in 1955.

*** A vintage pen has guts or was made in the same time, even if they did make c/c. so a P-45 would be vintage.

A Sheafer Targra would be vintage....even if it is a '70's pen.

Do not join The Pen of the Week in the Mail Club....don't join the Pen of the Month either.

It is so easy to jump saying....cheap I want it. Been there, rented the table they sold the T-shirts on.

Take your time....learn, and you can get a better pen...a keeper.

Take your time...you have the rest of your life...soon you will have 25 pens....it is better to have 25 very good than 25 cheap ones.

25 cheap pens costs 5 grand pens.

April 18, 2014

dcohenafp, First take your time. Go to Richard Binder's com...it is the basic's of fountain pens; nibs, filling systems, good advice on inks and very many pretty pens. are you ready for vintage?How many pens do you have? Which?
Do you have B, M, F and EF?...3 of the 4 you should have so when you look for other nibs, you can compare.
What do you want the nib to do?
Vintage pens do have better balance.

Rick Propas at Penquin...I think it's spelled. Is your man for Pelikan.
He is the Pelikan Guru for the states.

Look in the sales section here....no one can afford a bad name by selling junk....fake...they would find them selves with a bad name in a super hurry and or be barred for lying.

No one has counterfeited Piston, Soennecken, MB, Pelikan, Geha, Kaweco or Osmia pens.
They are all real.
US pens...I don't know....C/C is easy to do.

Vintage by me has to do with the nib action***...so I'd say a MB '75 is not quite as springy as a pre '66 from my reading. I have two from the '50's with grand nibs. I think of all '76-now MB as modern...just a springy nib...nothing else....Pelikan '83-97 as semi-vintage...true springy regular flex....after that a pen that you can find a real nib for...even if not so fancy looking.

Some pens from the '30's-40's early '50's might need new corks. Plastic gaskets came in for some German pen companies in the War. Essentially better plastic gaskets came in in 1955.

*** A vintage pen has guts or was made in the same time, even if they did make c/c. so a P-45 would be vintage.
A Sheafer Targra would be vintage....even if it is a '70's pen.

Do not join The Pen of the Week in the Mail Club....don't join the Pen of the Month either.
It is so easy to jump saying....cheap I want it. Been there, rented the table they sold the T-shirts on.

Take your time....learn, and you can get a better pen...a keeper.
Take your time...you have the rest of your life...soon you will have 25 pens....it is better to have 25 very good than 25 cheap ones.
25 cheap pens costs 5 grand pens.

Great advice. I am using my pens for office work, signing lots of checks, making notes, lists and signing off reports. I know have a Pelikan M605 F, Lamy 2000 M, Lamy Vista F, TWISBI M. I like them all. The Pelikan in F sometimes will skip on starting my signature, but usually its great. The Lamy 2000 M is great also. I am not doing any Journal writing or caligraphy.

My Pelikan 605 is alittle small for me and am trying to sell it and will buy a M800. I want to buy soon a MB146.

April 21, 2014

Look up 'forefinger up' method of grasping a pen...a variant of the tripod, that gives you a automatically light grip.

There is no too small, too narrow, too wide too long, with the 'forefinger up' method. Look up 'death grip' in there are a couple of us who use the forefinger up method of grasping a fountain pen.

You Do Post your 600??????? It is designed to be posted***. I have great trouble thinking a thicker girth-ed medium-large pen as too small. Many who absolutely refuse to post for religious reasons, find standard sized pens too small....Yet they are longer posted than an un-posted Large pen....have better balance too.

I though grew up in the silver dime days of standard pens and big medium-large ones.....so did not grow up with big fat pens that can not be posted and used....like the modern Large pens....Safari and 800, Townsend, modern Large 146.

***I have it in my Pelikan two holder desk set...so for quick notes don't post. The cap lays on the desk set. I do have a real nib in it. An early '50's B semi-flex.