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This being summertime, I get perhaps a little giddy, and fill my 149 with turquoise ink instead of the somber dark blue of autumn and winter. Montblanc Unicef Blue is a lovely, well-behaved ink.

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INK (noun): A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic and water,

chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime.

(from The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce)

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145 Classique (M) - J. Herbin Perle Noire

 

This pen has been finicky, skipping with a number of dryer inks I tried. (Too bad, because I really wanted to run ESSRI in it.) I have been on the verge for months of sending it off to Penrealm to get tuned - and maybe ground to a finer size.

 

But on a whim yesterday, I loaded it with Perle Noire. Not a single skip in page after page. If anything, it's a little wetter than I would like! But it's saved the pen for me.

 

I still might get it ground down, but I know now I don't have to do any work.

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My new, six weeks old, fresh from Hamburg, Le Grand in EF. At the moment inked with Montblanc Royal Blue. I am a lefty and been practising my right hand. Getting somewhere, practice, practice, fun with my 146.

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Hi, I hope this is the right place to ask my question… I have a collection of vintage fountain pens with almost every nib type and width. I have only two modern pens, both Visconti (HS original with a wet ‘medium' and a fine VG Maxi Demonstrator). I can now (happily) afford a Montblanc 149 and have a couple of questions that I hope experienced 149 users can help me with :-) I could spend time looking ‘everywhere' for a nice vintage example with 14K nib, or a customised nib, or instead just walk into a local specialist pen shop and buy a new 149 with 18K fine-tip nib off the shelf. I’m pretty much italic’d, broad, stubbed and oblique equipped, so would most like a truly smooth, un-wet, excellent practical fine nib. MB doesn’t appear to offer any 149 nib option narrower than a 'standard fine’ (no EF etc.). What advice do you offer in terms of best nib choice for the 149? Is it likely I’ll be able to walk into a new pen dealer’s shop, buy a ‘fine’ nibbed example, come home and be perfectly happy with nib performance, any custom tuning being totally unnecessary? Thank you indeed for your valuable advice!

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For the first time in ages, I inked up my old (1986) 144 with a cool grey cartridge, and I am rediscovering a little of what brought me to the Montblanc brand in the first place. It's a classic pen that affords a lovely writing experience.

 

What amazes me is that I remember thinking how huge the pen seemed when I first held it (being a kid who grew up with Cross Centuries, and in those days, I had been living mostly on Pentel mechanical pencils)...

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For the past few days I've been using a lovely ~1972-1976 french market 149 that I had purchased for a very good price.

 

I had originally thought it would be used as a parts pen because of the price and the seller "knew nothing about it" and I assume that means something is wrong. I guess the low price was due to it being engraved but it doesn't bother me at all.

 

The pen is, as best I can tell in wonderful condition and is somewhere between a F and an EF.

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Is it likely I’ll be able to walk into a new pen dealer’s shop, buy a ‘fine’ nibbed example, come home and be perfectly happy with nib performance, any custom tuning being totally unnecessary?

 

Bring your own paper. A paper whose behavior you are familiar with. When you test a pen in the shop on a paper you don't know, you may be disappointed with your purchase once you come home and use your own.

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146 - Iroshizuku Shin-kai

149 - Iroshizuku Tsuki-yo

 

 

These inks inks are so wonderful with these pens. They're making the fine nibs write slightly thicker, compared to the MB inks I had in them before. Gorgeous colors. A perfect match, as was the Iroshizuku Take-sumi I had in the 146 before.

 

I keep threatening to sell the 146, especially since I just yesterday impulse-ordered a Sailor KOP on r/pen_swap - and my fancy pen case only has two slots! But then when I use it, I don't want to let go of this little beauty. (little compared to the 149 :D ).

 

I love using them both. :wub:

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These two lovelies from the 1920s that just came in today :)

 

Cool tools! Fantastic!

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