What Mbs Are You Using Today?

[Baka1969]

1 hour ago, ak47 said:

TOP!!!!

😎

[jmccarty3]

I'm writing this evening with a very nice 244G grey stripe with a marvelous extra fine nib. It's inked with MB Elvis Has Left the Building.

[greencobra]

my large platinum boheme is in use now. i usually rotate this with the 149 i mentioned earlier. the others are basically on a sabbatical. can i count a platinum rollerball? that's always on the desk for that odd non-fountain pen chore. 

[Baka1969]

[InesF]

Today it is my Gold Leaf flex - first test for the December Ink Set.

 

(sorry for the shadow in the photo)

[ak47]

9 hours ago, InesF said:

Today it is my Gold Leaf flex - first test for the December Ink Set.

 

(sorry for the shadow in the photo)

Fantastic pen!!!

I have lost it at shop..

[ak47]

Today 149 90th with its beautiful OBB nib

[Baka1969]

3 hours ago, ak47 said:

Today 149 90th with its beautiful OBB nib

 

How's the line variation with that nib? 

[yubaprof]

I'm writing to my best friend - we graduated from high school together sixty years ago - with a 146 Burgundy. It has a medium nib that leans toward fine and I'm using sepia ink, the only other color that I use besides blue. 

[ak47]

1 hour ago, Baka1969 said:

 

How's the line variation with that nib? 

It has a nice variation. Tomorrow i will post a picture 

[Baka1969]

Just now, ak47 said:

It has a nice variation. Tomorrow i will post a picture 

Thanks! I have room for one more MB. I'd like to have a special one. 

[kazoolaw]

4 hours ago, yubaprof said:

I'm writing to my best friend - we graduated from high school together sixty years ago - with a 146 Burgundy. It has a medium nib that leans toward fine and I'm using sepia ink, the only other color that I use besides blue. 

Which sepia ink do you use?  I have plenty of blues, but nothing in sepia has taken the place of the long-gone Omas.

[yubaprof]

4 hours ago, kazoolaw said:

Which sepia ink do you use?  I have plenty of blues, but nothing in sepia has taken the place of the long-gone Omas.

Hi Gary, I am using Schreibtinte by Rohrer & Klingner.  I have been using Private Reserve's Sepia, but it doesn't reflect the look I am trying to achieve. I want something that looks like an old manuscript. This German ink is better than PR, but still not there. Maybe I need to wait a couple of hundred years to get the effect I want.

[ak47]

On 11/24/2023 at 7:47 PM, Baka1969 said:

 

How's the line variation with that nib? 

That is

[Baka1969]

2 hours ago, ak47 said:

That is

Nice. Thanks!

[cat74]

Just came in the mail about 2hrs ago...a quick disassembly and clean and lucky I have one empty converter!! A 1970s? Montblanc 225 (not the piston version). It's like a super fancy Parker 45!! The EF nib is super smooth...could become a pen for when I'm in the office?

Oh! had to shave my converter down a bit though for it to fit!

 

 

[ak47]

Today I came back to Dumas.. F nib and diamine jack frost ink

[Roope]

Hey,

 

I just bought my first fountain pen (Montblanc 32) and I want to ask if its normal to kind of leak from this part?

 

It doesn’t leak, but when I am cleaning it to towel or touching it, it does. 
 

 

 

Edited November 29, 2023 by Roope

[Baka1969]

Welcome. A properly working fountain pen will have ink on the nib and feed. It shouldn't leak but will transfer ink to your fingers or a towel when touched. 

 

Enjoy the pen.

[Roope]

Okay! 
 

thanks for answering.