Re: Fake Montblancs
Posted by AndrewC
on September 12, 2014, 9:09 am, in reply to "
Fake Montblancs"
A friend was in China and saw some pens. He brought me some Crocodiles, Hero, and a MB Starwalker. Which was pretty obviously a fake to me. The build quality was rough, the nib looked fairly generic, the thing was ill-balanced, posted or not, but it felt really smooth dry-writing. As I went to fill it, I took off the cap and the cap jewel came off, which caused the clip to go, and then the rest of the parts of the cap came out. Something had sheared so I couldn't fix it. What the heck, I'll just fill it. Well, the feed collar was cracked as well and it leaked. In 45 minutes of taking it out of the box, I had completely destroyed a MB "Starwalker". I was laughing pretty hard at the end. I still have the nib, but threw out the rest of the parts. I was afraid it might be contagious.
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