Writing With A 149

[outsidephilly]

Do you guys post your caps (put the cap on the end of the pen) when you are writing with your 149? I tried it a few times, and to me, it just felt weird. So, now the cap goes in my shirt pocket or on the table.. How about you guys? What do you do?

[tpsfp]

Im with you. I place it on the table. Its odd posting it - too long I think!

[praxim]

Other hand or on the table. However, that is not a feature of my use of the 149. Rather, it is what I do with every pen which is not too short to sit in the web of my hand unposted.

[BillH]

I do not post any pens either... not even the pilot petit.

 

I could probably be talked into "posting" the Mozart 114, but it has threads to receive the cap so to me it isn't quite the same.

Edited July 18, 2018 by BillH

[Tom Kellie]

I do not post any pens either... not even the pilot petit.

 

I could probably be talked into "posting" the Mozart 114, but it has threads to receive the cap so to me it isn't quite the same.

 

~ BillH:

 

I'm exactly the same as you, including my feelings about the threaded Mozart.

In photographs the pens may appear posted, but that's no more than temporary.

The clips on the caps facilitate improved control of nib angle to light sources.

Tom K.

[zaddick]

No posting a 149 for me. I do not find it is necessary for my writing comfort.

[KaB]

I do not post any pens either...

 

 

+1

[PAKMAN]

The 149 is a very large pen, no need to post for me.

[Uncial]

Um, I guess I'm the only gorilla here that posts then.

[kazoolaw]

Post and don't post.

 

Apparently there are a few of us not locked in to gripping in the same place all the time.

 

Unposted my grip on a 149 is on the section.

 

Posted my grip moves up the barrel until the pen, with cap, is balanced in my hand. This provides a change of pace during longer writing sessions and eliminates the question of where to put the unposted cap.

 

gary

[irrigger]

I prefer to hold the cap in my hand or set it on the table, so that would be no posting.

[meiers]

I will compulsively post the cap of any 149.

[Barry Gabay]

When sitting at a desk or table, I post a 149, as I do with a KoP or a large Indian ebonite fountain pen. However, it is more comfortable for me not to post when sitting in the passenger seat, or on public transportation, or taking quick notes wherever there is no writing surface other than my lap. On those occasions, the 149 cap goes in my shirt or jacket pocket.

[Wolverine1]

I do not have very large hands, but, I do post all my pens, including my MB 149 pens. I grip my pens pretty high, near or just behing the threads past the section. I have just become habituated to posting all my pens, regardless if it is a smaller pen, like the Parker Sonnet, or it is the MB 149 pen.

[Charles Rice]

I post usually

[georges zaslavsky]

I never post my 149 when I write with it.

[Paul80]

I post all my my pens, if only for the safety feature of posting.

 

It's not so easy for a posted pen to roll off your desk.

 

Paul

[meiers]

I post all my my pens, if only for the safety feature of posting.

 

It's not so easy for a posted pen to roll off your desk.

 

Paul

I learned that lesson the hard way about thirty-five years ago.

[KAC]

I do when there's no safe place to put the cap and I don't when I read these threads and there is a safe place to put it

[C-town]

I dont normally post the cap of the 149 but I do like the silhouette created when the pen is posted. Something about the profile of the 149 when its posted is very elegant and satisfying. Unfortunately, it throws the pen off balance for me and I never seem to have a problem with losing caps anyway. I tend to write at a desk or in a lecture hall and not on the go.