Pilot M90 Fan Club~!

[MGB]

I have a M90 with F nib - beautifully designed and very stylish.

 

Just wondering, is it the only one in Ireland, or have more of the 9,000 reached the green and pleasant land? Maybe I've got the one and only example!!!!

 

Anyway, I'd like to join the fan club.

Edited November 7, 2010 by MGB

[ExcaliburZ]

I have one with a fine nib.

[fraafreg]

Hey everyone! I just received my M90, M nib today. I am very happy with the pen but the con-20 I bought from ebay does not fit well. It is very loose and will fall out if I hold the pen upside down. I put in a cartridge and it fitted well and tightly so it seems the receiving/feed part works. The pen writes well with the cartridge ink.

 

Has anyone had any experience with a loose converter?

[troglokev]

It's probably tight, rather than loose, and you haven't pushed it in far enough. It goes a surprisingly long way into the pen. Several people have been fooled and thought the converter was loose when they actually hadn't seated it properly. In my review, I included an image to show how far in it actually goes.

 

Here 'tis:

 

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3277/3014468646_a13c50c823.jpg

CON-20 by Kev.1, on Flickr

 

When you have pushed it in all the way, there's only a couple of millimetres between the pressbar and the section.

I hope this helps!

Edited November 11, 2010 by troglokev

[fraafreg]

Thanks troglokev!

 

I had to push really hard to get it in. Never used CON-20s before so had no idea the fit is so tight.

[troglokev]

Glad to help.

 

The fit is particularly tight on this pen.

[paperskater]

Count me in twice! I have both the fine nib and the medium nib. I love them!

[Oops]

Woot! Woot!

 

I have joined the club.

 

 

I've got a medium nib, NOS.

[ukobke]

Hi all,

 

I'm in. I miss three though. the blue, the transparent and last but not least the elusive "White Stripe". Can anyone heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp? (I have some red/pink as double to change...)[image]

[mirko]

9000 means nothing, especially if these pens are still available to those who look. But I wanted to start a M90 fan club, for everyone who thinks that it's the bee's knees. Poor bees... dying off. Anyways, the only prerequisites are that you leave a post here.

That's it! Lets see how many we can roll in, of the 9000 of us that might be out there.

 

I am in: I own a beautiful F-nibbed M90, one of the smoothest Japanese Fine nibs ever experienced!

[2cents]

Count me in twice! I have both the fine nib and the medium nib. I love them!

 

 

I wonder if you can show us some sample writings for both the fine and the medium nibs.

Just wonder how different they are? thanks a million

[paperskater]

Count me in twice! I have both the fine nib and the medium nib. I love them!

I wonder if you can show us some sample writings for both the fine and the medium nibs.

Just wonder how different they are? thanks a million

 

Sorry for the crappy picture quality! Had to do it in a hurry! Strange shading, too. Guess it's because I had to dip the pens? *shrug*

 

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5245/5316845211_e26fdde235_b.jpg

[2cents]

Count me in twice! I have both the fine nib and the medium nib. I love them!

I wonder if you can show us some sample writings for both the fine and the medium nibs.

Just wonder how different they are? thanks a million

 

Sorry for the crappy picture quality! Had to do it in a hurry! Strange shading, too. Guess it's because I had to dip the pens? *shrug*

 

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5245/5316845211_e26fdde235_b.jpg

No, the picture is fine. This gives an idea of the Pilot nib size difference. I am sure others will appreciate it too. Thanks for doing it.

[cpickersgill]

I have a medium but I haven't tried it yet -- waiting impatiently for a con-20 and a bottle of Iroshizuku fuyu syogun to arrive.

 

Hi MGB, I'm not in Ireland but just across the water in West Wales. I'd have thought there were quite a few M90s in western Europe.

[secant]

I have a fine nib one.

[QuantumMisa]

Mine is a memento from a trip to Japan in December of 2009. Haven't gotten a chance to write much with it, though Perhaps it's because I switched to using mostly black ink last year and the M90 feels more like a blue pen...Hey, maybe I'll fill it up with the blue Diamine my friend just gave me!

[horolographer]

COUNT ME IN! :-)

 

I just received my M90 Fine Nib last week. Takes a bit of getting used to as I am more a large pen user. But I wanted a fine nib and managed to locate one for me to use as a traveling pen.

Its a tad scratchy but I am hoping it will improve over time. Filled it with Yama Budo. Its the best looking ink for the pen after trying out almost all of my inks. I think the nib writes dry and needs a wet deep ink.

 

 

[2cents]

Where did you get a M90 with a half decent price? I found most private sellers are asking an arm and a leg and is not worth it? the other thing is Pilot fine nib is known to be scratchy, I doubt if it will improve over time. The best nib is Omas. Unfortunately, if you go for a Pilot medium, it jumps to European medium. What pilot needs is a FM nib..somewhat in between...

[hobobaggins]

COUNT ME IN! :-)

 

I just received my M90 Fine Nib last week. Takes a bit of getting used to as I am more a large pen user. But I wanted a fine nib and managed to locate one for me to use as a traveling pen.

Its a tad scratchy but I am hoping it will improve over time. Filled it with Yama Budo. Its the best looking ink for the pen after trying out almost all of my inks. I think the nib writes dry and needs a wet deep ink.

 

 

 

It is so new the pen has not even made its way to your signature yet. Congratulations, I am jealous of everyone in this thread.

[furple]

Hope I'm not too late to join the club. Actually got my M90 Fine nib in June of 2009. However, I just stumbled across the fan club today, and I could use some advice.

 

Y'see, I loved the M90 as soon as I saw it, surfed the web until I found one at World Lux, checked my finances and finally bought it. It arrived looking even better than in the photos. It felt great in my hand and, even dry, the nib slid smoothly across paper. I could tell it would be a great writer.

 

And I'm sure it would be, if I ever filled it. I know I'm a heretic, but I just can't bring myself to mar its pristine beauty by actually using the damned thing! I should have bought two; one for writing and one just to look at! And this isn't even the first pen I've done this with! I only take out my Imperial Vacumatic to wipe it with a soft cloth. I'm sick, I know...

 

How sick? Well, now I'm thinking of buying a 1970's MYU on eBay, which appears NOS. Owned but not used -- that sort of thing.

 

So here's the advice part: If you had an MYU and an M90 (as I know some of you do) and wanted to keep one mint, which would you fill and which would you just display. Come to that, is it really worth keeping either unused? I'm not really concerned with re-sale. I just like to say, "And that one is in mint condition." Told you I'm sick. Help me!