Bought a pen and some inks and have a few new questions...

[Zed Homme]

Hi Everyone!

I was shopping for the SO when some sort of inexplicable tractor beam brought me into the Montblanc boutique on Madison Ave. I bought a pen Ive wanted for some time. I got the 149 with a fine nib. Its a wonderful pen, although I wish it was a little bit heavier.

I also bought some new inks from Noodler's. Up until now, my only experience has been with MB inks. While I do like them, I wanted a truly permanent ink that also wasnt going to harm the piston mechanism in my pen.

I inked up the new MB with Noodler's bad black moccasin. The ink looks great, but is it possible that it flows faster than MB ink? I always seem to have a bit of the ink pool up around the tip of the nib. To verify, I added the same ink to my other fountain pen which also had the ink pool up but not as much. Is having the ink there a problem? Do I need to take back my 149 to have the nib adjusted. Is this all normal and best ignored? Thanks in advance for the answers.

Cheers,

Chris

I dont have any good pics, I'll shoot some better ones tomorrow, but I do have this one of the nib that shows the pooling Im talking about. Even if I whip the nib clean, it comes back after half a sentence of writing...