Pelikan M800 And Montblanc Royal Blue

[Samer1]

Hello,

 

I found that these two make a great combo. I thought I'd share my experience with this ink, should anyone like to give it a try.

 

I bought the Pelikan M800 tortoiseshell about a year ago, inked it with Lamy Blue, Iroshizuki Ajisau (a beautiful colour) and a few others inks, including Montblanc Midnight blue (which I didn't like at all), but I was never happy with the pen's writing. I bought it with a fine nib, that was way too wide, so I replaced the nib with an EF.

 

The nib still felt dull and the line too saturated. I was wondering what the hype was about these pens, and I thought I'd sell it someday, until I accidentally landed upon Sandy1's review of Montblanc Royal Blue. Becuase it leans a bit towards purple, I thought I'd give it a try. The Pelikan M800 was transformed. Now it feels like I'm sketching instead of writing. It produces a lovely line with the lightest touch from me. A thin line without any scratchiness, with some shading, and a beautiful colour. And i certainly feel the difference between this and other lower priced pens now. The ink with this pen is clean, classy, restrained without being dry.

 

I think I'll try Montegrappa blue too.

 

Makes me wonder why some sites claim that Montblanc inks should be avoided and are not up to par with the company's name or with other inks.

Edited April 5, 2017 by Samer1

[Penman222]

Montblanc Royal Blue is a terrific ink. It has worked well in every pen I have used it in. Nice bottle too!

[Call_me_Tom]

I had read about the Pelikan nibs writing wide even by western standards so I order my M805 with a fine nib as I'm used to using medium nibs on my Lamy's. The fine Pelikan puts down an equal line to a medium Lamy for sure.

 

Although it's very wet, I've been having good results using my M805 with Noodler's Blue Eel.

[Erik Dalton]

Pelikan pens are designed to work with Pelikan Inks, which are somewhat dry. Montblanc inks in the main, are not real wet, but more so than pelikan. The exception i found was Montblanc JFK Navy Blue, this stuff flows great.

Dry inks tend to tame an overly Juicy nib.

 

Its a great feeling when you are able to match a pen up with it's soulmate ink. All of a sudden it becomes a different pen. I've found this when i put Visconti Blue in my Monblanc 146 & 149, wow what a difference.

After reading your comments I'm going to ink up one of my M800's with Montblanc Royal Blue and give it a whirl...thanks for the idea.