The Meisterstück 149 Calligraphy Appreciation Thread

[fpupulin]

 

 

Details on the beautiful paper (Fabriano Unica) and a comparison of the to pens (with a lot more of bla bla..., may be found here: 

 

 

 

[fpupulin]

And yesterday's calligraphic and photographic divertissement with the 149 Calligraphy on Fabriano Unica paper...

 

[como]

@fpupulin: I have no illusion that buying such beautiful paper and pen will make my handwriting half as good as yours. Still I would like to thank you for sharing your calligraphy, photography work with us, and compliment you on your fine taste in pens and other fine things in life. 

[KJY]

On 1/28/2021 at 8:27 PM, como said:

@fpupulin: I have no illusion that buying such beautiful paper and pen will make my handwriting half as good as yours. Still I would like to thank you for sharing your calligraphy, photography work with us, and compliment you on your fine taste in pens and other fine things in life. 

💯Exactly. Don't let us think we can write beautiful like you with some good paper, some fine pen and some special ink.🤣

[max dog]

Wow, so many more beautiful Calligraphy examples there FPUPULIN! 

 

For me I am approaching 1 year with the 149 Calligraphy, and it's still my main everyday writer workhorse pen, and the nib does not skip a heart beat after so many flexy flourishes.  I think the nib gets even better with time, it is so easy to flex, yet maintains it's structural integrity to serve as a great everyday writer when speed and ease of quick writing is necessary like in a work note taking environment.  

 

Flexing the 149 Calligraphy is just second nature, love it.  If I could only leave with one pen, this is it.  I'd love a second one in Rose Gold Trim. 

 

Here is a great youtube video I found showing the pen in it's paces.

[fpupulin]

There are things that calligraphy has in common with the visual arts and architecture, in particular composition and the relationship between empty and full spaces. Other similarities are with fencing, for movement and lightness. But there is still one thing that calligraphy has in common with the performing arts, such as music, and that is the uncorrectable uniqueness of its execution.

 

A calligraphic text can be done and redone, perfected through repetition and exercise, but each new execution is a definitive unicum, good or bad, with its perfections and imperfections. I suppose that, like the virtuoso musician, one can get to perform a calligraphic text with practically absolute perfection, but nevertheless each sheet will continue to be a very personal and unique interpretation, which cannot be individually improved, but only completed, as an execution.

 

I have done the following writing numerous times, before putting it "in fair copy" on Fabriano Unica paper. While I was doing the writing in blue, the ink gave several signs that it was about to finish, creating some "railroads" here and there in the thickest strokes. I took the opportunity to change the ink of the 149 Calligraphy with Black Permanent (for some reason, black seems to me more suitable for calligraphy work), but in the first version the hand put too much pressure on the subtle curves of the capital "C". The second execution in black was better, but a noticeable hesitation of the hand on the ascending shaft of the "A" and a "squashed" curve on the "y" of the word Calligraphy still made it mediocre. The larger "149" of version 2 is nicer in my opinion than the smaller version of version 3.

 

But I can't correct any of the 3 executions. They are as they came.

 

I say this, in particular, because we can best appreciate the practically perfect works of the calligraphic masters, their performances which could not be improved.

 

[KJY]

On 1/30/2021 at 10:03 PM, max dog said:

Wow, so many more beautiful Calligraphy examples there FPUPULIN! 

 

For me I am approaching 1 year with the 149 Calligraphy, and it's still my main everyday writer workhorse pen, and the nib does not skip a heart beat after so many flexy flourishes.  I think the nib gets even better with time, it is so easy to flex, yet maintains it's structural integrity to serve as a great everyday writer when speed and ease of quick writing is necessary like in a work note taking environment.  

 

Flexing the 149 Calligraphy is just second nature, love it.  If I could only leave with one pen, this is it.  I'd love a second one in Rose Gold Trim. 

 

Here is a great youtube video I found showing the pen in it's paces.

😍🤩

[fpupulin]

On 1/30/2021 at 3:03 PM, max dog said:

Wow, so many more beautiful Calligraphy examples there FPUPULIN! 

 

For me I am approaching 1 year with the 149 Calligraphy, and it's still my main everyday writer workhorse pen, and the nib does not skip a heart beat after so many flexy flourishes.  I think the nib gets even better with time, it is so easy to flex, yet maintains it's structural integrity to serve as a great everyday writer when speed and ease of quick writing is necessary like in a work note taking environment.  

 

Flexing the 149 Calligraphy is just second nature, love it.  If I could only leave with one pen, this is it.  I'd love a second one in Rose Gold Trim. 

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I am also now close to the first year of ownership of this great pen. Actually, I have to pay my last two rates, and I have no regrets in having spent so much money on a pen like this one. It is a true workhorse, as you say, and a beautiful one. Still write with several other pens of mine, but I confess not with the same satisfaction that the 149 Calligraphy gives me.

I really, really hope that Montblanc would eventually decide to maintain this nib in production, as a special nib or whatever, to allow others to give it a try, and to allow you and me, in the future, to secure a second one... 

[leksluthah]

Wow.  This topic has some amazing photos.  I don't want to hijack, but I waited too late and now cannot find a Calligraphy 149 in stock anywhere.  Does anyone know if Montblanc will continue to produce, or where I can find one?

 

Thanks.

 

[purkinje]

34 minutes ago, leksluthah said:

Wow.  This topic has some amazing photos.  I don't want to hijack, but I waited too late and now cannot find a Calligraphy 149 in stock anywhere.  Does anyone know if Montblanc will continue to produce, or where I can find one?

 

Thanks.

 

 

I'm in the same boat. I kept waiting for Fountain Pen Hospital to show "In Stock" instead of "Backordered". Instead, now they show "Not Available" and I'm heartbroken! 😭

[TheDutchGuy]

I’ve discussed the pen’s availability with Appelboom and their take on it is a temporary shortage due to both the pandemic and huge demand. This pen is backordered to such an extent that ‘unavailable’ is an apt description for the next 15 months or so.

[fpupulin]

6 hours ago, TheDutchGuy said:

I’ve discussed the pen’s availability with Appelboom and their take on it is a temporary shortage due to both the pandemic and huge demand. This pen is backordered to such an extent that ‘unavailable’ is an apt description for the next 15 months or so.

 

Good to know. At least, the high demand may let us hope that Montblanc would not stop the production of this unique nib with the introduction of the “fude de manne “ Expression nib in one moment or the other this year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[fpupulin]

Whilst I am really grateful to Montblanc that they choose to install the Calligraphy Flexible nib on a standard, unadorned, plain Meisterstück 149, I would have nonetheless appreciated if they had used a small detail to differentiate this special edition pen from other 149s.

 

I own five 149s, and I am thinking, for the first time, to have the cap of the Calligraphy engraved to distinguish her from the others. I am actually planning, when I will have a chance to visit Europe after the pandemic, to have the cap engraved with the word “Calligraphy”.

 

Still not sure, though. What do you think?

[Inked]

2 hours ago, fpupulin said:

Whilst I am really grateful to Montblanc that they choose to install the Calligraphy Flexible nib on a standard, unadorned, plain Meisterstück 149, I would have nonetheless appreciated if they had used a small detail to differentiate this special edition pen from other 149s.

 

I own five 149s, and I am thinking, for the first time, to have the cap of the Calligraphy engraved to distinguish her from the others. I am actually planning, when I will have a chance to visit Europe after the pandemic, to have the cap engraved with the word “Calligraphy”.

 

Still not sure, though. What do you think?

 

Hello and thank you for the incredible pictures of your efforts.

 

I think that any good friend should be easily identified; and deserves it's own name.

 

It does not sound like you will part with this 149 anytime soon, so go ahead and engrave the name on it you feel it deserves.

It is no different than having a nib customized to your personal taste.

 

Inked

[rvur]

3 hours ago, fpupulin said:

Whilst I am really grateful to Montblanc that they choose to install the Calligraphy Flexible nib on a standard, unadorned, plain Meisterstück 149, I would have nonetheless appreciated if they had used a small detail to differentiate this special edition pen from other 149s.

 

I own five 149s, and I am thinking, for the first time, to have the cap of the Calligraphy engraved to distinguish her from the others. I am actually planning, when I will have a chance to visit Europe after the pandemic, to have the cap engraved with the word “Calligraphy”.

 

Still not sure, though. What do you think?

 

A different idea: just the symbol, why not? The same of the sticker. 

On the cap, over the rings, on the opposite side of the clip.

Something more subtle but still distinctive.

[como]

@fpupulinRe engraving: only if you can put "FRANCO, KING OF CALLIGRAPHY" on it. 😀😀😀 I know it sounds a little pompous, but at least you deserve it. It's also better than "The quick brown fox jumps over...". Ok, I will behave better for the rest of the day😜.

[Nujoi1908]

13 hours ago, TheDutchGuy said:

I’ve discussed the pen’s availability with Appelboom and their take on it is a temporary shortage due to both the pandemic and huge demand. This pen is backordered to such an extent that ‘unavailable’ is an apt description for the next 15 months or so.

I ache for this pen! I have been waiting eight months for one. I would have some hope if Montblanc would provide some sort of update on anticipated production or even acknowledge the demand. This would have been my first Montblanc. The experience has left me quite frustrated -- especially after the introduction of the Expressive limited edition.

 

[fpupulin]

6 hours ago, rvur said:

 

A different idea: just the symbol, why not? The same of the sticker. 

On the cap, over the rings, on the opposite side of the clip.

Something more subtle but still distinctive.

 

The idea is beautiful!

Now I want to try to make a mockup in Photoshop, because my only fear is that, when the golden engraving has disappeared, the "mark" alone may look as if the cap has been scratched.

[fpupulin]

6 hours ago, Inked said:

 

Hello and thank you for the incredible pictures of your efforts.

 

I think that any good friend should be easily identified; and deserves it's own name.

 

It does not sound like you will part with this 149 anytime soon, so go ahead and engrave the name on it you feel it deserves.

It is no different than having a nib customized to your personal taste.

 

Inked

 

You know, my friend, none of my pens is going anywhere anytime soon... In so many years of fountain pens passion, I only sold to a friend a 149 with an OB nib, because I was literally unable to write with that nib. For my friend, it was great instead!

 

So you are right, I may engrave my Calligraphy without any problem. Just trying to decide what I want engraved on her, as I would like to have something just to distinguish her at first sight, as the good friend she is, from her siblings.

[jagwap]

On 2/4/2021 at 4:01 AM, Nujoi1908 said:

I ache for this pen! I have been waiting eight months for one. I would have some hope if Montblanc would provide some sort of update on anticipated production or even acknowledge the demand. This would have been my first Montblanc. The experience has left me quite frustrated -- especially after the introduction of the Expressive limited edition.

 

They are sitting in the cabinets here in China.  I guess they are less popular due to different writing style.  The rumour of a architect/fude nib being the next edition makes sense here.

 

In China it is 8000 RMB (it was 7300 when I bought mine).