What Mbs Are You Using Today?

[ak47]

12 hours ago, Cjtamu said:

Thats a beautiful nib.

Thanks

[Karmachanic]

234 1/2 B nib

[penwarrior32]

16 hours ago, ak47 said:

My Homer today.

Nice!!!

[Bo Bo Olson]

A light and lively, semi-flex MB 32 eyeballed F/EF.

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I have a grand 234 1/2 Deluxe KOB semi-flex, that despite of brass guts, won my once 20 pen balance test. It has a thicker girth than standard pens.

 

There was a real big, big lot of 400FP / and some 50MP and a few BP's that I didn't win. One of the pens was a 234 1/2...from the cap rings, start of the War Pens.

 

One has way too many pens, when a 234 1/2 is not always in the live pen cup.

On 5/16/2024 at 1:45 PM, Karmachanic said:

234 1/2 B nib

[Bo Bo Olson]

deleted...doubled.

[Penguincollector]

Mozart Mini 114 Solitaire Doué F, Caran d’ Ache Hypnotic Turquoise. So cute!  Our homework assignment for pen club is to bring our show finds, so now I have to decide on an ink for the matching 144.

 

[Cjtamu]

1 hour ago, Penguincollector said:

Mozart Mini 114 Solitaire Doué F, Caran d’ Ache Hypnotic Turquoise. So cute!  Our homework assignment for pen club is to bring our show finds, so now I have to decide on an ink for the matching 144.

 

What a beautiful little pen. Ink looks a little like Pilot’s iroshizuku ku-jaku but always hard to tell from pics.

[Penguincollector]

4 hours ago, Cjtamu said:

What a beautiful little pen. Ink looks a little like Pilot’s iroshizuku ku-jaku but always hard to tell from pics.

  Thank you ! My Namiki is currently inked with Ku-Jaku; I will run upstairs later and do a quick comparison.

 

ETA: here’s that ink comparison for you @Cjtamu

 

Edited August 4 by Penguincollector
Added photo

[Inkyways]

On 3/9/2024 at 12:59 PM, Inkyways said:

I have three 146 Pens and a 149 pen and 4 other Mb vintage like Mozat/ and older vintages.  All my pens haven't got right nib for me as I got them for the sake of collecting.

I only like Extra  Fine or rather FINE NIBS on all average pen collections. . Yes I am into Vintage pens. In my MB collection I have my 149 in fine ( so it is a lucky  add) Out of three 146 I have a fine nib and one pen can be use as fine by using _UPSIDE DOWN writing. I am planing to grind few nibs to fine or EF grinds in the future. 

 

 

My MB collection has grown little more bigger. I have to add a new family photo soon.

[David In Austin]

Here is the MB part of my family (with a Chopard Il Classico to boot). These are the ones I am using regularly these days.

[Bo Bo Olson]

A semi-flex MB 14....noting else no 4,6 or 9.     F/EF semi-flex nib.

 

The MB 14 is of the size of the cartridge 144, so I don't need one of them, that I'd thought about getting for the better balance than the Large 146. (My medium-large '48-59 146, has much better balance than the large-stately 146 and I have a maxi-semi-flex nib on it.)

The bottom one is the 14. The above it 224 has a stuck piston and has to be repaired. It is the one that took after the '66 Lamy 2000; but not very rough.

 

I was an Army brat in Germany when the 2000 came out....being an American, knew the King of Fountain pens was the Snorkel and the Prince the P-51. And why one wanted as rough as sandpaper fountain pen was beyond me....and Bauhaus was an unknown term.

 

OMG, for that ugly rough pen, they wanted as much as for a Snorkel...$12.00 or 48 DM. At 4 DM to a dollar. Not that I had a dollar. Beer was 80 phenning for a pint, 40 (a silver dime) for a half pint. and the Gasthaus's loved taking a silver dime or quarters. A DM was a quarter.

Then came worthless American clad coins...

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I didn't understand the economical need of a pen company to sell expensive cartridges just to survive. Ever since I got to Germany in 1964, I though if pistons were any good, we'd have that on American pens....young and dumb. I was the last American generation that used sac pens.

 

[max dog]

My dream pens, the 149 Calligraphy and the 146 Calligraphy Solitaire Burgundy flex pens.  A very rare pair to find these days.  Also the 146 Sterling Pinstripe with a very, very fine EF nib, that still manages a subtle stubbish quality, a dream nib too.  

[max dog]

I find the clean design of the Montblanc flex nib gorgeous. 

[ak47]

13 hours ago, max dog said:

My dream pens, the 149 Calligraphy and the 146 Calligraphy Solitaire Burgundy flex pens.  A very rare pair to find these days.  Also the 146 Sterling Pinstripe with a very, very fine EF nib, that still manages a subtle stubbish quality, a dream nib too.  

The pens are all fantastic...but the red/gold Calligraphy is gorgeous.