It's another every day carry. It's taken a lickin' and it keeps on clickin'Originally Posted by rkesey
Re: How often do you use your MB fountain pen?
It's another every day carry. It's taken a lickin' and it keeps on clickin'
Bob
Making the world a more peaceful place, one fine art print and one handwritten letter at a time.
Paper cuts through the noise – Richard Moross, MOO CEO
Indiana Jones used a notebook in the map room, not an app.
rkesey (February 18th, 2022)
Re: How often do you use your MB fountain pen?
I've got a 146 and a 149. Both are great writers! No special treatment, they get used like any other. But, they are competing with about 80 other pens to get in the rotation, so they can go months in storage... I'd say that they get used a bit more than the average pen in the collection though.
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A former high school classmate gave me a chrome Cross ballpoint pen one year for Christmas.
I left it on a counter at a city office while looking at papers I was signing. When I noticed it was not in my shirt pocket, I went back and happily learned they had put it aside in case I returned to retrieve it.
As a Navy officer, our working uniforms had flap pockets with pen loops, so losing the Montblanc Classique and MB rollerball was not a concern.
Since then, I've managed to hang on to my Montblancs and Pelikans. Perhaps the money I invested in them motivates me to keep better track of them.
Bob
Making the world a more peaceful place, one fine art print and one handwritten letter at a time.
Paper cuts through the noise – Richard Moross, MOO CEO
Indiana Jones used a notebook in the map room, not an app.
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I am glad the way you are equipped !!
This is the die-hard-Killer machine !!!!
Re: How often do you use your MB fountain pen?
Some years ago I figured I'd figure out the MB thing. I got a 145, 146 and 149 (the last two from the split-ebonite feed era). I got rid of the 145 (too small), even after I had Pendleton Brown grind a butter-line stub, and 149 (too big). The 146 was just right, and it's constantly inked and used every day - as mentioned in this "reviews, revisited" thread.
Finish every day, and be done with it.
You have done what you could - some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as fast as you can, tomorrow is a new day.
You shall begin it well and serenly, and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Emerson
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dneal (March 1st, 2022)
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