What Mbs Are You Using Today?

[markcotter]

Today one is enjoying the MB146 and, as always, the Heritage 1912.

[DrDebG]

[TimeoDanaos]

Not quite today, but I plan to use this strange little pen tomorrow: Ostensibly a Danish MB 204, but the blind cap does not have either model number or nib size.

The nib is a stubbish F or M (the downstroke is exactly the same as my 144 EF ...); even though it has no baby's bottom or the like, it unfortunately needs a bit of pressure to write with anything but quite a faint line. Hopefully by using it I may be able to get it to behave!

[NumberSix]

Can I just say: I was watching some of Ryder Carroll's Bullet Journal videos, and he was using a MB Rollerball. I have learned enough to guess that it was probably a Meisterstück Classique with gold trim, as it was quite slim but definitely of that pen family.

 

Ugh, I am just starting to get interested in Pelikans. And of course on the MB side, I have already wanted to eventually get a 146 and 149 FP.

 

Now, I find I need this rollerball, too?

 

I hate you people. All of you, including Ryder Carroll.

 

[siamackz]

Not quite today, but I plan to use this strange little pen tomorrow: Ostensibly a Danish MB 204, but the blind cap does not have either model number or nib size.

The nib is a stubbish F or M (the downstroke is exactly the same as my 144 EF ...); even though it has no baby's bottom or the like, it unfortunately needs a bit of pressure to write with anything but quite a faint line. Hopefully by using it I may be able to get it to behave!

iirc, sometimes the Danish models didnt have blind cap imprints

[TimeoDanaos]

iirc, sometimes the Danish models didnt have blind cap imprints

That's definitely the case sometimes, sometimes they do have imprints on the blind cap. But I sure wish I could find out what designation this nib size originally had! It's quite unforgiving with the writing angle, but as I use it more, the ink flow is slowly coming around, although it is still far from generous.

[siamackz]

That's definitely the case sometimes, sometimes they do have imprints on the blind cap. But I sure wish I could find out what designation this nib size originally had! It's quite unforgiving with the writing angle, but as I use it more, the ink flow is slowly coming around, although it is still far from generous.

Honestly, it sounds like an easy issue to fix if you send it to a pro. It would be nice to have the pen writing perfectly - its a lovely model. Enjoy it in good health! I love the Danish designs and have a red 216 which is somewhat similar to your pen.

[pmhudepo]

After a very long time of using other pens, I have finally returned to my first Montblanc fountain pen, a Meisterstück 149 from the late 1990s. Bought it used several years ago, my first big and expensive pen, quite a step up from the Waterman Expert II that was, until then, my only serious pen. Postponed it quite a few times, finally took the plunge.

 

And yet, for all its reputation, I never really bonded with the pen. Maybe it was the ink I used (mostly Waterman Florida Blue, I believe), perhaps it was the paper. Or me. Or the feed. Or... well, I don't know.

 

Anyway, decided to pick it up again, filled it with Montblanc Alfred Hitchcock dark red ink and all is well.

 

I do like to think that many, many hours of calligraphy practice with stubs, cursive italics and quite unforgiving crisp italic nibs, have finally instilled a sense of nib orientation and control into my stubborn fingers and head.

[pmhudepo]

Well, that single Montblanc didn't last long on its own... I inked a second MB, a classic 1954 model 146 with a springy 14C F nib. Used Iroshizuku Asa-gao (blue) ink in this pen. A wonderful combination to use.

 

Here are the two side by side. Quite a difference in size. The MB 149 is a modern one from the late 1990s.

[Cyrille81]

Today pens:

[ak47]

Uaooooo

[Matlock]

Not a MB pen, but a Pelikan M101N with a 1929 nib made by Montblanc.

[Andrew_L]

I thought that only the very first Pelikan 100, in the first six months of production, from the 1929, were supplied with Montblanc nibs.

[Matlock]

I thought that only the very first Pelikan 100, in the first six months of production, from the 1929, were supplied with Montblanc nibs.

 

You are correct, my M101N received a nib transplant.

[Unkei]

My MB Boheme

Cheers,

Unkei

[NumberSix]

• 145 (M) - Quink Washable Blue

I put the Quink in there to test it, after having some trouble with dry flow of the ESSRI I wanted to use. But I may leave it for a bit because as usual, it "just works".

 

[Penman222]

Today I inked up my MB 146 with Lamy Blue. I will use it as my journal pen along with my Sheaffer Statesman for a while.

[jagwap]

Today pens:

 

I really like the Einstein. They are not easy to find.

[Matlock]

MB 126S EF nib with MB Blue.

[roadrunner320]

Blue Hour Solitaire and Haidrian 4810