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Are All Montegrappas Wet Writers?


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Having crossed the Alps from Germany to Italy - so too speak - and having added Omas' and more recently Montegrappas to my existing Graf von Faber-Castell, Pelikan and Lamy collection, I noticed that all my four Montegrappas (Memorias and NeroUnos) tend to be juicy writers.

 

From Omas, which I am more familiar with, I learned already that Italian pens have individuality, can be like Ferraris and may require some gentle breaking in and tuning before they reach peak performance, but unlike OMAS, I found all Montegrappas so far to be wet writers.

 

While I love the way Montegrappas write, I need to be more careful with the selection of inks (usually Diamine) and paper (unless I buy the Clairefontaine, Rhodia or Black n' Red myself, at work usually cheap copying paper and even cheaper notebooks that my employer supplies).

 

Is this juiciness typical for this Montegrappa?

 

 

 

Thank you for sharing your thoughts...

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Until today only one Eternal Bird with an M nib was quite dry...

 

But the rest based the idea of "italian nibs are german size +1" or "italian nibs are japanese size +3"

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There are no facts, there is no truth - just a data to be manipulated...

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I have, and have had, fiveMontegrappa Miyas (all were gifts.) All were dry and skippy and needed to see a nib technician before they were reasonable writers.

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