[MaxPengwing]

what many rollerball users dont know is that you can take a Mont Blanc roller ball refill, which is by most rollerball users considered to be one of the best rollerball writing experiences, and place it in a Pilot G2 with out any issue.

you'd get a 200+ dollar writing experience for about 8 dollars. https://unsharpen.com/pilot-g2-montblanc-hack-200-pen-for-7/

You could also do this with a fountain pen buy buying a gold Diplomat 149 replacement nib and put on a Jinhao 159 Mont Blanc "homage pen" (pirate copy). and use mont blanc ink in that pen. Gold Nibs are not cheap but they are about 150-200 usd, but when a pen could easily be 1000-10000 usd in the extreme high end then that's a bargain https://www.instagram.com/p/ChJSq-Iv6HE/

Why would you do this? Because some people like to have good writing tools without paying an extra premium.

[hammyhavoc]

The Mont Blanc inks are all hype, IMO, as is pretty much everything they sell by modern standards since the acquisition and treatment of it like a luxury brand in the '90s rather than focusing on innovating in tools. Plenty of other decent inks for less. It's like saying Tiffany makes great jewellery and has great quality stones because the pricing is high.

The Jinhao 159 is creaky junk and buying it supports the CCP. As with the ink, it's people kidding themselves that just because Mont Blanc charges x for y then that must make x somehow special and worth having in 2023. For the same price point, you can do much better, and probably even go Japanese-made, and not support the CCP.

It's a century later, with modern manufacturing techniques, don't you think someone can do better than a Meisterstuck or Meisterstuck clone?