Montblanc Platinum 149 Obbb

[Ghost Plane]

Just get out there and go at speed. You'll be amazed how fast your hand/eye coordination refines your lines when you're not overthinking it. Vroom!

[Tom Kellie]

The thing is, while immensely fun it is taking time to get adjusted to. For a person that likes to use several different pens on the same page, its taking me time to adjust to the one huge line that dwarves even the OB/Bs.

 

[meiers]

 

Hi Tom! I like the lavender purple you are using. Is the blue ink MB Royal Blue?

 

[meiers]

This is written in MB Midnight Blue:

[Tom Kellie]

Edited November 22, 2016 by Tom Kellie

[Tom Kellie]

[meiers]

My handwriting tends towards the microscopic... that is why I prefer Ef, F or M nibs.

Tom, thank you for identifying the Iroshizuku ink that you are using in your handwritten post. You have encouraged me to open my bottles of Kon-Peki and Asa-Gao and discover what they can do.

Best wishes to you all.

Edited November 24, 2016 by meiers

[Tom Kellie]

My handwriting tends towards the microscopic... that is why I prefer Ef, F or M nibs.

Tom, thank you for identifying the Iroshizuku ink that you are using in your handwritten post. You have encouraged me to open my bottles of Kon-Peki and Asa-Gao and discover what they can do.

 

[meiers]

[meiers]

One more:

[Ghost Plane]

Oh yeah!

[Pravda]

This forum keeps getting better and better

[Mastiff]

One more:

Lovely ink shading and writing style, almost artistic.

[Ghost Plane]

No "almost" about it.

 

THIS is why I love the big nibs. They make individual expression so easy.

[Tom Kellie]

[Ghost Plane]

Tom, you might want to clarify it was the writer breaking in and not the nibs.

[Tom Kellie]

~ Ghost Plane:

 

Absolutely correct!

It's comparable to the statements authors once placed in book prefaces noting: “any errors of fact are strictly the fault of the author”.

The OBBB nibs were flawless from the outset.

What was lacking was adequate experience in a rookie broader-than-usual fountain pen user.

If one purchases a high-test sports car, it's ready to go out of the showroom floor, but the purchaser may need a few hours on a local track to get used to the high-grade special features.

Likewise, a deliciously lovely OBBB nib in the right hands is ready to report for duty for any sort of daily writing.

What's needed is to train one's own writing hand/fingers to be fully qualified “right hands”.

Happily, that's a natural process, involving no more than playfulness, a couple of bottles of ink, several types of paper and a happy heart.

Who wouldn't feel cheerful if first experiencing a finely crafted OBBB nib?

Tom

[Ghost Plane]

Absolutely! Almost every thread about broader nibs has amateur anecdotes about "needing wider lined paper" or "I can't close the loops on my letters" from the needle-nibbers. Often followed by "how do you hold it? I can't make it write. It's skipping." And then the real culprit is revealed - lack of experience with nibs that do not compensate for issues like finger-writing or use of bad paper designed for greasy ballpoints.

 

It's similar to my experience taking my older sports car in for a service only to find consternation in a generation who never learned to drive stick shift cars and stare at the clutch pedal in bewilderment, unable to pull the car into the service bay, much less experience the joys of high-speed cornering it's capable of. They cling to their computerized automatic mass-production econo-boxes rather than practice the hand-eye coordination required for driving a high-performance car. "Look at the mileage I get, more than 3 pages to the cartridge." But how much fun did you have filling those pages? Silence, then, "Fun? Commuting isn't supposed to be fun." Says who?

[Pravda]

Adjusting from B or BB to OM took me about a day.

 

Then from OM to OB maybe 3-4 days.

 

This OBBB took me about 7 days to get fully acquainted.

 

But is it solely or entirely the nib shape? As with every Montblanc pen I have ever bought, I think the courting takes me for as long as I need to find the correct/perfect tine alignment.

 

That is to say, I never received a pen that was 100% aligned- especially the obliques.

 

I wish it wasn't so. But even if they look or appear perfect to the naked eye, a little here or there makes them ever the more luscious. So its a process of finding a benchmark ink, getting out the loupe, trying different paper and then adjusting.

[Ghost Plane]

Boy can ink/paper considerations make a difference!