Save $200 in 2 minutes and have the worlds best writing pen

transform a $3 pen into a $200 pen in just seconds. Mont Blanc pens are the worlds finest writing pens but they make specialized refills so you must buy their $200+ pens to use their amazing ink...until now. This is the easiest hack/adaptation to give anyone the king's writing ink.

Step 1:

Go out and find a Mont Blanc pen you like. Ask the salesperson to let you write with it...nice, huh? Now ask the price. When you've gotten over the sticker-shock, leave and go back to your good old G2. Remember what life was like before G2? The pens were cheap and the ink was like cheese. G2s were the best thing since clickable mechanical pencils. Even after we all had G2s, I still admired the uber-extravagant Mont Blanc people. Their pens were so smooth, they nearly wrote by themselves. Alas, at $200-$2000 a pen, that miraculous ink was out of the reach of the common man.....until now.

Comments

[itchyboobers]

I tried this today. It worked out great.
I now have 2 G2s with Mont Blanc inserts :)

The only difference was that I used coarse sandpaper to shorten the back end of the Mont Blanc insert vs an x-knife.

Thanks for the great article & instructions!

[Dustycookie]

What's a G2?

[Dustycookie]

Or just talk to SimSimi. He makes as much sense as a 5-year-old.

[Dustycookie]

Or just talk to SimSimi. He makes as much sense as a 5-year-old.

[Matt428]

this is suite!!!! I gotta try it. it has to save a lot of money!

[r.michael.seng3]

Thanks for the insights! I used this to mod a Bic Velocity1.6 to use the Mont Blanc ball point by using a bit of the original pen's ink barrel as the spacer - it was a little trial and error to get the retraction mechanism to function but it just required nibbling away at the length of the spacer used...tried to use the blue "cap" the MB cartridge came with and it did not fit. I had cut it to the total length of the original ink barrel. That provided me with a starting length for cutting the end off the original barrel - note: the ink is filled to almost the end of the barrel...expect a mess. Thanks for the fun!

[wombat_boy]

Cool! I have to try it!

[WillyTheKid]

Don't mix up your buffer spring with the pen spring. Big problems..

[Lily Lovegood Tonks]

You could actually use the original ink and make this pen when it runs out.... Just a thought...(Figured it might be obvious though.)

[VictoriaRain]

Outside of this vocabulary lesson here, the pen is cool. This is awesome :)

[mperdue]

This worked awesome. I used the regular G2 body since it was my previous go to pen and I had a lot of them laying around. Great for anyone who does a lot of writing like I do. Great instructable.

[WriterChick]

Oh, this is great. Just superb. This snarks alone are worth the price of admission; in fact, considering the initial outlay and the result, about 50X the price of admission!

[helava]

If you lack a knife, it's trivial to grind down the back of this on the sidewalk.

[snoopindaweb]

Yaa.!

[helava]

Weird thing is that after trying this several times, I've decided that I actually like the G2 Pro gel refills *better* than the Mont Blanc refills. They're easier to write with, and I like the way the end result looks more, *and* they feel better to me. And are cheaper!

[evindrews]

And if your really desperate, use someones teeth, (they don't always have to be yours) And chew it off.

[Plo Koon]

At the sight of the knife, the pen screamed," AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHH! NO! NO! PLEASE, NO!!"
But alas, its cries and pleas for mercy did not soften the Instrucableist's cruel, stone heart.
As the knife sawed through the defenseless pen, horrible screams of pain pierced and rent the air, and yet the brutal Instructableist was deaf to them.

[snoopindaweb]

Put It to the grinder, slowly..!

[SteampunkManiac]

U IS SPOOKY!!!!!!

[Plo Koon]

Thank you.

[account3r2]

LOL

[ninjasamurai]

Yay now lets start sawing pencils for the sound it makes... MWHAHAHAHA

[Izokay]

Can anyone help me with this step?

[snoopindaweb]

My thumbs are busted.!

[Boom-Man]

dont ask me i'll only blow it up

[lobo_pal]

Just don't start asking around a playground, you get in trouble.

[Boom-Man]

ya people might think ur MJ or someone like that\

[endawmyke]

Hey reaspect for the dead

[maxpower49]

if you look when it was posted it was posted last year

[lobo_pal]

Ha, fail.

[lobo_pal]

Hey MJ will never grow up, he's Peter Pan. He lives in never land with a lot of young boys because he's confused by his small parts.

[biscuitking]

In the early 80's I was homeless.  Today I work for NASA.  Just goes to show you what hard work and determination (along with a really nice pen) will get you.  True story, believe me now or believe me later.

[Cambenora]

Are you the guy responsible for the trouser wearing ducks?
Just what is NASA up to, exactly?

[ComplacentBard]

you are an inspiration to all the homeless people who still realize the value of a quality writing implement

[Whales]

 thats an amazing story actually. congratulations if it's not a lie

[biscuitking]

Yeah, it's true.  Got out of the Navy and had no place to go.  No friends to speak of, I was a bit of a loner.  Spent about a year living in my truck (does that qualify as homeless?), bumming around the country...met some really good people along the way.  There's an education to be had being on the road but the price you pay for it can be an expensive one if you let it.  One day I decided I needed to get responsible and get a real job.  Found one, stuck with it for a bunch of years, took college classes while I was working.  Graduated with an AAS in Computer Networking, started applying around and wound up getting this gig.  All in all, things haven't worked out too bad. 

[cellopants]

*impressed whistle*

[Whales]

 niceeee, thats awesome all the way.

[supertoria12]

nice, cheaper way to write with the world's finest ink, plus you have an anti-theft casing for it! kudos!!

[dandrade4]

anti theft casing? more like "hey can I borrow that?" and you not wanting to be mean, "sure!" then you forget or the person walks away before you can catch them. so the next day you ask, "hey can I have my pen back?" and they're like "oh, I lost it" or "oh, I lent it so someone else, sorry. it's just a pen.. i'll get you a new one!" no, it wasn't just a cheap G2, it was an 6-8 dollar pen that you made a special trip to the store for and spent five minutes reading an instructable to make it. lol.