Fitting the Montblanc's Butt Splices
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I have a Montblanc pen from my father-in-law. It works very well, but it's not a typical 145. It's a LeGrand Traveler. So, it's a cartridge filler, not a piston filler.
I'm tired of using the freaking cartridges. Like the pens, Montblanc everything else is ridiculously over-expensive. When you get a Montblanc, you are 100% paying for the name. I have far better fountain pens—better nibs, better materials, better writers, more reliable, less fussy—that cost a fifth as much. So, fuck it, let's make this cheaper and open up the possibility of using other ink.
There's a dude online who used a Monteverde small converter along with some butt splices to make the conversion. The great thing about this method is that it's entirely non-invasive. It doesn't void the warranty, it makes no permanent changes whatsoever.
The biggest bitch of it is to cut off a piece of the butt splice. It has to be pretty exact. It has to grip onto the rest on the cartridge cage and provide no play for the converter.
After a lot of trial-and-error, I was able to get this and the converter to fit rather nicely inside the cage. But notice: you can't fill the pen by drawing in from the converter through the nib. What this means is that you need to draw the ink out through the nib using Q-tips to get it started. This takes a bit but once it's going, it's going.
After that, you're good to go.
(Sailor 143 for the absolutely nobody out there wondering.)
Please love yourself.
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After a lot of trial and error I was able to get this thing to work but not satisfying
I think it’s time I switched to montblanc.
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Well, you're a doc. C'mon, you should have one.
Please love yourself.
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I have a Montblanc pen from my father-in-law. It works very well, but it's not a typical 145. It's a LeGrand Traveler. So, it's a cartridge filler, not a piston filler.
I'm tired of using the freaking cartridges. Like the pens, Montblanc everything else is ridiculously over-expensive. When you get a Montblanc, you are 100% paying for the name. I have far better fountain pens—better nibs, better materials, better writers, more reliable, less fussy—that cost a fifth as much. So, fuck it, let's make this cheaper and open up the possibility of using other ink.
There's a dude online who used a Monteverde small converter along with some butt splices to make the conversion. The great thing about this method is that it's entirely non-invasive. It doesn't void the warranty, it makes no permanent changes whatsoever.
The biggest bitch of it is to cut off a piece of the butt splice. It has to be pretty exact. It has to grip onto the rest on the cartridge cage and provide no play for the converter.
After a lot of trial-and-error, I was able to get this and the converter to fit rather nicely inside the cage. But notice: you can't fill the pen by drawing in from the converter through the nib. What this means is that you need to draw the ink out through the nib using Q-tips to get it started. This takes a bit but once it's going, it's going.
After that, you're good to go.
(Sailor 143 for the absolutely nobody out there wondering.)
@Aqua-Letifer said in Fitting the Montblanc's Butt Splices:
(Sailor 143 for the absolutely nobody out there wondering.)
It's nobody's lucky day! Here's a feast of information about Sailor 143:
https://fountainpenpharmacist.com/blog/ink-review-133-sailor-studio-143
Education is extremely important.
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Will it make my writing legible? Anymore I go back and look at my own notes wondering what the hell words I supposed I was writing down.
"The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Fitting the Montblanc's Butt Splices:
(Sailor 143 for the absolutely nobody out there wondering.)
It's nobody's lucky day! Here's a feast of information about Sailor 143:
https://fountainpenpharmacist.com/blog/ink-review-133-sailor-studio-143
@Horace said in Fitting the Montblanc's Butt Splices:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Fitting the Montblanc's Butt Splices:
(Sailor 143 for the absolutely nobody out there wondering.)
It's nobody's lucky day! Here's a feast of information about Sailor 143:
https://fountainpenpharmacist.com/blog/ink-review-133-sailor-studio-143
And for a deep dive into butt splices, here's jon's sister!
Please love yourself.
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Will it make my writing legible? Anymore I go back and look at my own notes wondering what the hell words I supposed I was writing down.
@Mik said in Fitting the Montblanc's Butt Splices:
Will it make my writing legible? Anymore I go back and look at my own notes wondering what the hell words I supposed I was writing down.
No it will not.
However, no writing cramps with fountain pens and they do change your handwriting somewhat due to the nib shape and the way you have to hold them. -
I had one. Another extravagant gift. I think I actually gave it away. Pens don’t do it for me.
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Nor watches. I don’t have many status items.
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I had one. Another extravagant gift. I think I actually gave it away. Pens don’t do it for me.
@bachophile said in Fitting the Montblanc's Butt Splices:
I had one. Another extravagant gift. I think I actually gave it away. Pens don’t do it for me.
That's fair. I personally couldn't give a shit about the pageantry of them. I need pens that damn work. Instead of sitting down to write long letters or notes or something, I write short notes about 50 times a day. So my main pen's a Vanishing Point.
Attached to my wallet, though, is a Kaweco Lilliput. Very small, aluminum, impossible to leak. Didn't even cost $50.
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@Horace said in Fitting the Montblanc's Butt Splices:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Fitting the Montblanc's Butt Splices:
(Sailor 143 for the absolutely nobody out there wondering.)
It's nobody's lucky day! Here's a feast of information about Sailor 143:
https://fountainpenpharmacist.com/blog/ink-review-133-sailor-studio-143
And for a deep dive into butt splices, here's jon's sister!
@Aqua-Letifer said in Fitting the Montblanc's Butt Splices:
And for a deep dive into butt splices, here's jon's sister!
She's also up to Sailor 143 this week.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Fitting the Montblanc's Butt Splices:
And for a deep dive into butt splices, here's jon's sister!
She's also up to Sailor 143 this week.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Fitting the Montblanc's Butt Splices:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Fitting the Montblanc's Butt Splices:
And for a deep dive into butt splices, here's jon's sister!
She's also up to Sailor 143 this week.
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Well, you're a doc. C'mon, you should have one.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Fitting the Montblanc's Butt Splices:
Well, you're a doc. C'mon, you should have one.
True story...
Wife and I went out to a new restaurant last week. As we were seated, she looked at me and said, "The food must be good, I recognized three doctors as we walked to the table".
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Nor watches. I don’t have many status items.
@bachophile said in Fitting the Montblanc's Butt Splices:
Nor watches. I don’t have many status items.
You are a doctor, a heart surgeon; you don't need status items in today's society.
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@bachophile said in Fitting the Montblanc's Butt Splices:
Nor watches. I don’t have many status items.
You are a doctor, a heart surgeon; you don't need status items in today's society.
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Yea. Just sewage and fat. Very unglamorous
