Awesome professor. If you get a new Legrand from MB retailers, you can send it for free nib exchange and can get EF, F, B, OB, OM, BB, and OBB. Those are free. For 149s, you can also get OBBB for free exchange. Their Bespoke lineup is a lot more expensive, at around 1600 dollars on top of the cost of the pen. They include such nibs as Signature Large [around 4.5 mm width], EEF [0.3-0.35 mm], and stuff in between. In fact, I am waiting for a nib exchange for Signature Large, and one for O3B. I am hoping to visit Calgary sometime next year, and share it with you. Cheers
Love my Legrand, they really do have good balance for most sized hands. I still love my Pelikans the most lol Obliques are very interesting. I have a Medium left Oblique on my Tibaldi Bononia Vintage in Honeycomb. I really enjoy that nib.
Very nice pen! Not sure why there's a balloon on it. 😂 As a aside, I've just seen (and ordered) a Jinhao 10 retractable nib pen, and I wonder how it will compare to the Majohns I have. It could be precisely the same pen, but I'm hoping it will be better.
Yeah. It was David Niven! In the film not the book. The Illustrated book on Amazon has a balloon contraption on the cover. Maybe Montblanc judged it by the cover.
Lovely pens. I have 3 of the Writers Series, all ballpoints - Oscar Wilde, Voltaire, and Edgar Alan Poe. If you can ask Murray to let you borrow the Poe, I think you would be mesmerized by the beautiful resin. I do have the Wall Street in blue stacked celluloid. I am interested in your opinion of the pen.
My biggest problem with Montblanc is that they're not user serviceable. You can't unscrew the nib unit without a special tool and neither you can disassemble the piston mechanism. Considering their pricing, this makes me not want to buy any of their piston fillers:/
They can be disassembled, you can get a tool and take them apart easily. Not that you have to very often at all. I heard reports of people using them for 10+ years and never needing to take them apart.
Amazing, that Montblanc certainly deserves a minimum of 1 year of testing in order to do justice to the review. Murray knows his stuff !
5:06 I'm imagining Murray cackling like Tom Hulce in Amadeus.
That's the most fun way to travel the world! When you don't even have to leave the house! 😂
Bon voyage with this beauty! 🥰
Yes! Thank you!
Thats the closest I have ever gotten to a Montblanc. What a beautiful pen! Thank you Murray and Doug.
Glad you enjoyed it
A beautiful pen I can only dream about! Enjoyed the video. Murray is one generous man. 👍
That's for sure!
Awesome professor. If you get a new Legrand from MB retailers, you can send it for free nib exchange and can get EF, F, B, OB, OM, BB, and OBB. Those are free. For 149s, you can also get OBBB for free exchange.
Their Bespoke lineup is a lot more expensive, at around 1600 dollars on top of the cost of the pen. They include such nibs as Signature Large [around 4.5 mm width], EEF [0.3-0.35 mm], and stuff in between. In fact, I am waiting for a nib exchange for Signature Large, and one for O3B. I am hoping to visit Calgary sometime next year, and share it with you.
Cheers
Murray’s OBB nib is bespoke.
Murray!!!
Well said, @vajmanjinha!
That's a very beautiful Montblanc, perhaps a model that i'll have to try one day.
The nib is what makes it!
Love my Legrand, they really do have good balance for most sized hands. I still love my Pelikans the most lol Obliques are very interesting. I have a Medium left Oblique on my Tibaldi Bononia Vintage in Honeycomb. I really enjoy that nib.
Thanks for sharing
Are there several versions of the pens that carry the name "aroind the world in 80 days"?
I have no doubt.
Hey Doug...nice video on this interesting pen. What ink was used for your writing demo? I like that shade of blue...Regards from Kansas City, Joe M.
Oh didn't I include that? It was Montblanc Around the World in 80 Days Blue.
Very nice pen! Not sure why there's a balloon on it. 😂
As a aside, I've just seen (and ordered) a Jinhao 10 retractable nib pen, and I wonder how it will compare to the Majohns I have. It could be precisely the same pen, but I'm hoping it will be better.
Read your Jules Verne. Fogg traveled in a balloon.
@@InkquiringMinds I don't think he does in the book...
Yeah. It was David Niven! In the film not the book. The Illustrated book on Amazon has a balloon contraption on the cover. Maybe Montblanc judged it by the cover.
What a delicious bird dropping instrument of expensive delightl
Lovely pens.
I have 3 of the Writers Series, all ballpoints - Oscar Wilde, Voltaire, and Edgar Alan Poe. If you can ask Murray to let you borrow the Poe, I think you would be mesmerized by the beautiful resin.
I do have the Wall Street in blue stacked celluloid. I am interested in your opinion of the pen.
Cool, thanks
Sweet!
Very!
My biggest problem with Montblanc is that they're not user serviceable. You can't unscrew the nib unit without a special tool and neither you can disassemble the piston mechanism. Considering their pricing, this makes me not want to buy any of their piston fillers:/
Good point
They can be disassembled, you can get a tool and take them apart easily.
Not that you have to very often at all. I heard reports of people using them for 10+ years and never needing to take them apart.