Thanking About Getting A Cervantes

[Sblakers]

I am so impressed with my Balzac I am now looking to get a Cervantes. I read the great review by goodguy but would like a little more info. For those who have this pen what are your thoughts. are there any known problems with these guys? Thanks for the help yet again.

[franjov]

The Cervantes was my first WE, and a dayly writer for many years.

 

Never had a problem, the nib (M) was soft, the ink flow was great and I really loved the design.

 

It was stolen (the only MB that I lost) and for that, is a very special pen in my mind. I hope to have the opportunity to get another one in the future.

 

If you have the opportunity to get this pen you'll really like it. IMMO is a better pen than the Balzac

[Sblakers]

The Cervantes was my first WE, and a dayly writer for many years.

Never had a problem, the nib (M) was soft, the ink flow was great and I really loved the design.

It was stolen (the only MB that I lost) and for that, is a very special pen in my mind. I hope to have the opportunity to get another one in the future.

If you have the opportunity to get this pen you'll really like it. IMMO is a better pen than the Balzac

Wow. Thanks for the response. Now I am really wanting one.

[BrandonA]

To save you having to start a similar thread on each of the WE pens, I'll sum it up for you.

 

All the WE pens are built to the same quality as all other MB pens. If you like the quality of the Balzac you'll like the quality of the Cervantes.

 

As for whether this is the pen for you, it really comes down to preference on colour and weight. The Cervantes is one of the heavier WE pens. Good guy did post the weights and dimensions of the pens he had so you can check his stats.

 

One of the plus points a lot of people like for this pen is the ink window which only five or six of them have. This has never been a requirement for me though.

 

It looks great when filled with the toffee brown ink.

[da vinci]

I have a few of the WE series (Kafka, Dickens,Schiller, Cervantes, Swift, Verne) and I would like to get more.

 

They are all wonderful pens, although I am not sure for me they will become daily users, like your Romillo

 

From my perspective, the Cervantes is a favourite. Good weight, shape and general appearance. You wont regret buying this pen, provided you buy one that has been well looked after.

[HermetiC]

I don't like the Cervantes. Being spanish and grown up with Miguel de Cervantes literature, it could have been my first WE choice... but the mistake they did with the nib really dissapoint me. They put a dutch or german mill instead of a La Mancha mill !!!! WTH?

 

http://www.estilograficas.org/imagenes/examen/Montblanc-Cervantes/Montblanc-Cervantes-7.JPG

 

The color of the Cervantes rather seems cheap and industrial to me when turning it under bright light. The pen’s design is likened to bamboo (sure thing that’ll make the Asian clients happy) but there is no bamboo in Spain and Cervantes probably did not see a piece of bamboo in his whole life.

Edited April 26, 2014 by HermetiC

[Sblakers]

Thank you everyone for the great responses. I plan on collecting all the we pens(going to take me a while) so I have been trying to figure out which to start with. ( decided to go with the ones that look most speaking to me). I suppose these will be primarily collection pen that I will use on occasion - I found my edc grail pen and so I'm not all that concerned with writing characteristics I have to have in a edc pen. I think I'm going to go for as many different nib widths as possible.

 

I was more so curious about the individual build characteristics because I have read that certain we's have had some problems- ie . Hemmingway having a very thin cap lip- swift having some cap troubles- Wilde have some problems and a few of the pens with bands around the section having some problems. I'm not sure if these problems are more than a few bad apples but I want to make sure to know what to look for as i look to buy.

 

Thanks again guys

[jsolares]

I don't like the Cervantes. Being spanish and grown up with Miguel de Cervantes literature, it could have been my first WE choice... but the mistake they did with the nib really dissapoint me. They put a dutch or german mill instead of a La Mancha mill !!!! WTH?

 

http://www.estilograficas.org/imagenes/examen/Montblanc-Cervantes/Montblanc-Cervantes-7.JPG

 

The color of the Cervantes rather seems cheap and industrial to me when turning it under bright light. The pen’s design is likened to bamboo (sure thing that’ll make the Asian clients happy) but there is no bamboo in Spain and Cervantes probably did not see a piece of bamboo in his whole life.

 

It looks more like a La Mancha mill than german or dutch to me (from google images mind you), i'm guessing they decided to add the vertical lines to the roof and horizontal ones to the base since otherwise it would look too plain.

 

Although this one does have a roof like the nib, unless of course it's not from la mancha :

[Blade Runner]

Beautiful pen. What is the material of barrel and cap?

[HermetiC]

 

It looks more like a La Mancha mill than german or dutch to me (from google images mind you), i'm guessing they decided to add the vertical lines to the roof and horizontal ones to the base since otherwise it would look too plain.

 

Although this one does have a roof like the nib, unless of course it's not from la mancha :

Screenshot 2014-04-26 15.52.00.png

 

It is from La Mancha; that mill is one of those located in Campo de Criptana.

 

http://i.imgur.com/ujPfGED.jpg

 

La Mancha windmills are made with irregular stones, and then painted with lime. Dutch and German traditional mills are made with wooden planks (and for this the straight lines). La Mancha mills has no other windows that which is located above the door (only one, and always in this position) and eight "ventanillos" in the third floor, (little square windows to show the wind direction). The blades of the windmills from La Mancha have always four rows of cells; while in the blades of the Dutch and Germans are three (as in the MB Cervantes nib).

 

http://i.imgur.com/39jM4O9.jpg

 

http://www.madridejos.net/Molinos/index.htm

Edited April 27, 2014 by HermetiC