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Mine is packed for moving or I'd share. I really want more of these when I'm able.

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~ I've just returned home from an extended afternoon visit to the China World Trade Center boutique in Beijing.



The ostensible purpose was to pick up a Classique which had been nib exchanged to EF — useful for marking graduate student papers.



I also bought two bottles of Montblanc Royal Blue ink and a blue rollerball refill for a Starwalker Extreme Screenwriter pen.



While there I was told that the two 149s which I sent for respective nib exchanges to OBBB and to BB over one month ago may arrive by July.



That's more than soon enough for me. It's a lazy pleasure to wait for so fine of tools, the anticipation heightening the happiness.



While there I tried the tester pen with a BB nib. I'd recently read in Fountain Pen Network that the paper in Montblanc boutiques was less than optimal.



On Montblanc's “Art of Writing” paper, the BB nib was a tad sloppy. On another piece of better paper, it was stellar!



If they arrive in July — Hurrah!



Tom K.


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I got a 149 90th O3B recently. It writes like a "crispier" version of my 146 OBB (sharper edges, but not really a wider line).

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Visconti, Visconti, and...more Visconti! (And some ST Duponts too). (Ok fine, getting on the Omas and Montblanc trains now too. Toot toot.) (And maybe on the Montegrappa one too, but only for the Miyas.)

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Congratulations Tom. Glad to see it in action.

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Looks like two hours well spent, and hopefully pleasurably by the end. The trick for me with obliques is to rotate the pen until the face of the nib lets both tines contact the paper evenly.

 

I appreciate the handwritten note! I'll get one up for you soon. :)

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Is that ink residue or tarnish/compromisation of the red gold plating? Thank you.

 

It's just a bit of ink, the nib has no blemishes whatsoever.

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Tom, I really appreciate your last post as I am awaiting the arrival of my 149 90 BB, looks like it will be a wonderful daily writer when I get my hands on it!

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Tom, I really appreciate your last post as I am awaiting the arrival of my 149 90 BB, looks like it will be a wonderful daily writer when I get my hands on it!

 

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Looks like two hours well spent, and hopefully pleasurably by the end. The trick for me with obliques is to rotate the pen until the face of the nib lets both tines contact the paper evenly.

 

I appreciate the handwritten note! I'll get one up for you soon. :)

 

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