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Clarification Please! M400 Or M600?


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Who knew? :D It's exactly like my two M400 pens, so I had always assumed it was one.

The old style M600 had a single trim ring at the piston knob, a single trim ring at the section, and two cap bands. The old style M400 lacked both trim rings and had a single cap band. Both pens were the same size. Also, the old M400 nibs were mostly 14C while most M600 nibs were 18C. Fairly easy to distinguish between the two when you know what to look for.

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I've a new grail pen, a W.Germany '400' with a single gold ring by the piston knob....priced as a used 400 of course.

Want the better nib....if it is like the 400 and 800 W. Germany ones.

In reference to P. T. Barnum; to advise for free is foolish, ........busybodies are ill liked by both factions.

 

 

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The old style M600 had a single trim ring at the piston knob, a single trim ring at the section, and two cap bands. The old style M400 lacked both trim rings and had a single cap band. Both pens were the same size. Also, the old M400 nibs were mostly 14C while most M600 nibs were 18C. Fairly easy to distinguish between the two when you know what to look for.

 

Thank you once more. :) You have described my black and green striped Pelikan that I now know as a M600 and my brown and tortoise Pelikan M400 perfectly here. :)

 

I must take a picture of them together.

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Thank you once more. :) You have described my black and green striped Pelikan that I now know as a M600 and my brown and tortoise Pelikan M400 perfectly here. :)

 

I must take a picture of them together.

 

 

Glad to be of assistance and congrats on the unexpected upgrade. I really like the look of the old M600s. Quite sharp without being too gaudy.

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Who knew? :D It's exactly like my two M400 pens, so I had always assumed it was one.

 

Welcome to the club! Maybe we should call it the wow it was better than I thought all along! WIWBTIT.

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One nice advantage of a chunkier nib is that an ink that was somewhat missing in action, looking too light, can gain in saturation; in this case Tsuyu Kusa looks more like I thought it should with this m600 18C F nib than with a Sailor Pro gear HM; and Ama Iro looks distinctly lighter in that one. Then again what I call chunky might be the norm and I'm just used to thinner nibs...

 

This is probably obvious to the more experienced, the rest of us might miss this and muddle through thinking an ink looks too bland...

 

Clockwise from top left:

Tsuyu Kusa Sailor PG HM.

Tsuyu Kusa Pelikan m600 F 18C.

Kon Peki FC Ambition EF.

Sailor Souten Platinum Cool FM (probably, might be an M, no markings on the !!! pen).

Callifolio Équinoxe 6 Lamy Vista M.

Ama Iro Sailor PG HM.

 

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