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Let me just say this is a beautiful pen. It has great line variation and puts down a line like butter!

 

Hope you can read my left-handed review. No pun intended. :roflmho:

 

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Rosie getting in on the act:

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The only thing that scares me more than spiders is the legendary copper headed water rattler.

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Love the pen! I would have thought the bold nib would have written a very wide and wet line but the line you have looks great.

 

 

The only critter that really creeps me out is the bat, but I take the long way around large spiders. :)

 

Come to think of it I remember I had a girlfriend in college who had a pet Female Black Widow in a huge glass tank. Seriously. That creeped me out a little too. J

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Yea... I am not very fond of spiders that grow to be that large.... I would rather have a nice docile goldfish.

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I LIKE big spiders. But then we have yellow legged banana spiders with furry knees around these parts. It's what they eat that disturbs me. :sick:

 

Nice pen. :thumbup:

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I LIKE big spiders. But then we have yellow legged banana spiders with furry knees around these parts. It's what they eat that disturbs me. :sick:

Prey the size of mice and small kittens?

Ah... yep, here's what Wikipedia says: "The biggest tarantulas can kill animals as large as lizards, mice, and birds"

:o

 

Another interesting tidbit: "Female specimens have been known to reach 30 to 40 years of age, and have survived on water alone for up to 2.5 years."

 

 

Anyway, sorry that the spider has been so much of a distraction from the main focus of the thread--review of the 149 with broad nib!

 

I wouldn't say there's really much in the way of line variation, but it certainly does look like it is butter smooth. Sometimes they can be so slippery as to make for a challenge in control. Yeah, I always feel like the 149 needs a big nib to go with the pen size. XF just doesn't feel right. ;)

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Yeah, I always feel like the 149 needs a big nib to go with the pen size. XF just doesn't feel right. ;)

 

I agree completely with this mindset.

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Yeah, I always feel like the 149 needs a big nib to go with the pen size. XF just doesn't feel right. ;)

 

I agree completely with this mindset.

 

hehe I have a MB 149, 'Binderized' to a true XF! :)

 

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This review has turned out to be quite interesting. Thank you.

 

I have found that MB B nibs have a character peculiarly their own. My 149 B is not a stub nib, yet it has stub-like characteristics. We have discussed this feature on the MB forum on occasion and the responders have all noted that same thing. That "flat" or stub-like feel is wonderfully smooth on paper, and it gives a special flair to the writing. I have experienced a similar trait with some other B nibs, but the MB is special. I wish nibmeisters could replicate that magic, but I have not seen it happen yet.

 

I also agree the 149 is too large for some nib points. I love 149's, and I have four with various nibs - F, M, B and BB. But, for an EF nib I got a 146.

 

By the way, nice spider. However, I prefer seeing them in the wild, not on my hand. :D

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Yeah, I always feel like the 149 needs a big nib to go with the pen size. XF just doesn't feel right. ;)

 

I agree completely with this mindset.

 

hehe I have a MB 149, 'Binderized' to a true XF! :)

 

My EF wrote like a medium: it got Kevinated to a true XF, because I'm a cheap b******. :happyberet:

 

An MB 149 has been my workhorse pen for as long as I care to remember: they are great pens!

 

Nice review, hcsk8ter! Nice spider, too. Our Australian spiders are nowhere near as friendly.

 

 

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I have a 1977 MB 149 with an extra fine nib that truely writes like an extra fine, also a 1985 MB 149 that writes like a fine and also have a 1977 MB 149 with a medium broad nib and a 1966 MB 149 medium oblique nib. Enjoy your new 149.

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Thank you for testing my continence with the arachnid =)

I actually made an inhuman noise out loud when I scrolled down! and then I said something I couldn't repeat here =)))))

*washes mouth out with soap*

 

Lovely pen =)

The only pens that I've seen that are of better quality and design (including ink capacity for the size of the pen) are made by our fellow forummer fountainbel.

 

Edited so that I didn't suggest I was incontinent =)

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