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Hello All,

 

I hope you're having a great week. I'll be posting up full details later, but I'm pleased to say that the 149 is being serviced (by my preferred specialist) and re-assembled as we speak. Its an early 1990's version with the plastic feed and a lovely fine nib which has been 'tuned' by John Sorowka.

 

Apologies for the quality of the image, it was snapped very quickly on my iphone this morning.

 

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Congrats ! i hope you will get it restored in the way we all like a fountain pn to be...
today my Sheaffer 300 fall from my hands and had a slight damage on the top of the cap -_-

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Hi Opooh,

 

No, the nib is being left as is on this one. To be honest there's a good chance I'll move it on as I wanted to ensure that the results were as I expected them to be.

 

I have a preference for broad nibs on 149's and so the 'keeper' will be probably be a rhodium version with that nib.

 

It does look wonderful!

 

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hi Roy

 

Looks nice, a MB149 looks great with the white metal.

Thinking of having my 149 (with BB nib ;) ) rhodinized.

 

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Nice. I like the rhodium 149, I can perform this service too. It's a shame that mb does not have this pen in their collection too.

 

Here are some examples from my ''custom 149 nib book"

 

Enjoy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nib (re)plating: please visit www.Dutchpen.com

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Nice. I like the rhodium 149, I can perform this service too. It's a shame that mb does not have this pen in their collection too.

 

Here are some examples from my ''custom 149 nib book"

 

Enjoy.

 

hi Lennard

 

Never before saw so many transformations of the well known nib. Some are very interesting ;)

 

How is this performed?

Do you disassemble the pen?

Is all of the nib treated or just the front?

 

Rob

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Very Interesting indeed.

 

Are the components 'tank' plated, or are they electroplated using a plating 'wand' (pen plating system).

 

All metallic parts can be dis-assembled from precious resin body, apart from the three cap bands. Would this mean that both wand and tank processes have to be employed?

 

Michael.

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Hi,

 

The body parts are all tank plated. The nib can be tank plated too if it is in full rhodium. To apply the nib details it is easier to use a pen plater. All parts are professionally plated by a goldsmith so everything is ultrasonic cleaned, electro degreased and polished before plating.

All parts are dismantled except for the cap rings.

 

The pen are polished and serviced too before assembling.

It is a time consuming job to do this modification properly but the result is very nice.

Nib (re)plating: please visit www.Dutchpen.com

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Here are 2 mb 149 pens in rhodium and a pic from my 146 in black rhodium.

Nib (re)plating: please visit www.Dutchpen.com

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hi Lennard

 

Never before saw so many transformations of the well known nib. Some are very interesting ;)

 

How is this performed?

Do you disassemble the pen?

Is all of the nib treated or just the front?

 

Rob

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The pen is completely dismantled and The complete nib is treated. I also plate the underside of the nib.

Nib (re)plating: please visit www.Dutchpen.com

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As promised :-) Apologies that they're only iPhone ones!! I have to say it's an incredibly handsome beast of a pen.

 

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Roy,

 

I have decided not to sell you my 149 so could please send it back to me asap and I will forgive what you have done to it :)

 

ps The return postage is down to you !

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Roy,

 

I have decided not to sell you my 149 so could please send it back to me asap and I will forgive what you have done to it :)

 

ps The return postage is down to you !

Of course, that's only reasonable! Haha

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It's up for sale! Although I keep just staring at it, so I'll have to bring myself to send it out to the lucky new owner!

 

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Now this has got me jealous and wanting to have a much loved 146 spruced up. Anyone want to direct me to where I could find more details? Please :-)

All the Best!

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Nice. So this thread is for spinning interest on a for-sale item. B)

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I like the nibs.

 

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