What Chinese Pens Are You Using Today?

[J_MM]

X450 with a homemade italic stub and Iro Kon-peki

X750 with Noodler's Aircorp Blue (green)-Black.

Jinhao 159 Chesterfield Antique Yankee

Ranga Model 3, Diamine Asa blue

[richila]

My trusty orange Jinhao 159 with a custom blend of JHerbin Orange Indien and Lies de The

My gold X450 Kurve with Lies de The

My dark red X450 with Levenger Shiraz

[richardandtracy]

My charcoal K316 and its home ground BI (after I broke the iridium off trying to pull the JoWo replacement broad nib out when wanting to clean Diamine Ancient Copper sludge out).

 

I really love this pen, but the plating is no longer brassed, but qualifies instead as 'slightly gilded' brass.

 

Regards,

 

Richard.

[Artlike]

I mainly use Jinhao pens due to price, good writing and overall probably the best value for the money.

I'm a lefty and I like line variation in my writing. I recently sent one of my pens to Pendemonium to have a Jinhao nib custom made to be a left oblique. I just got it back today and like it pretty well. I,have a variety of Jinhao pens and I can now change pens and put the oblique nib in write away. Does anyone else have a source for left oblique nibs that would work? I'm no great penman but I do like line variation. I've attached a photo of my humble effort with a sample...I will get better with the line variation with practice.

Artlike

[Artlike]

sample of line variation. my photo of my writing didnt thru with my post????

[richila]

I changed the ink in my green X450 to Lierre Sauvage and I am in love again. I have a green Jinhao 500 on order to use with Vert Empire.

[jimrittenhouse]

My newish Baoer 388, which is doing very well with Kiwa-Guro Nano Black and writes very well, along with a Hero 359 (using the ink that came with it) and a Jinhao 599.

 

Finally inked up my orange Jinhao 159 with Apache Sunset, and it looks great.

[rafizip]

Back to my Jinhao X450 - M with Waterman Absolute Brown; what a great combo

Edited December 7, 2015 by rafizip

[rafizip]

Anyone out there know why some Jinhao pens have an X before the model number and some don't??

[richardandtracy]

Short Answer: No.

 

I will guess a possible suggestion: X = design intended for export. Just like the red wax on Edam cheese indicates intended for export.

And then they found other pens were being exported & just gave up.

 

Regards,

 

Richard.

[basterma]

Hero 666. A Parker 5 clone with a noticeably larger squeeze converter than other Chinese pens I have had.

[rafizip]

Short Answer: No.

 

I will guess a possible suggestion: X = design intended for export. Just like the red wax on Edam cheese indicates intended for export.

And then they found other pens were being exported & just gave up.

 

Regards,

 

Richard.

That makes sense - I'll go with that

[ppdiaporama]

A Baoer 051 & a Jinaho X450 regularly shop up in my roster of pens that I use during a given week

[WC Lee]

Baoer 3040 and the Jin Hao General

[mehandiratta]

Today I am using a inexpensive vintage stuff from China....

Wing Sung 590 inked with Pelikan 4001 Violet....

Paper Used is CampAp Legal Paper _ Canary _56 gsm...

[Sailor Kenshin]

Today I am using a inexpensive vintage stuff from China....

 

Wing Sung 590 inked with Pelikan 4001 Violet....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper Used is CampAp Legal Paper _ Canary _56 gsm...

Beautiful penmanship!

 

 

Today I'm using a Hero Youth that I repaired with nail polish. Loaded with Noodler's Henry Hudson. This pen is reminiscent of many vintage Sheaffer school pens.

[mehandiratta]

Beautiful penmanship!

 

 

Today I'm using a Hero Youth that I repaired with nail polish. Loaded with Noodler's Henry Hudson. This pen is reminiscent of many vintage Sheaffer school pens.

Thank you...

I would love to see the repaired pen pics

[Sailor Kenshin]

Thank you...

I would love to see the repaired pen pics

It's not really a visible repair. The pen was leaking very, very slightly at the section threads. Not having shellac on hand, I ran a little clear nail polish around the leak. So far, it's held up, even after flushing the pen.

[magnus919]

This just in from China: Another Jinhao X450. What can I say? I love this model. Total cost, including shipping, was $2.84. I inked it up without washing it or tuning the nib in any way and it wrote so buttery smooth. I may tune it to write just a weeee bit wetter.

 

http://i.imgur.com/P9tHjCz.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/RPIZfLl.png

[rafizip]

This just in from China: Another Jinhao X450. What can I say? I love this model. Total cost, including shipping, was $2.84. I inked it up without washing it or tuning the nib in any way and it wrote so buttery smooth. I may tune it to write just a weeee bit wetter.

 

http://i.imgur.com/P9tHjCz.jpg

 

http://i.imgur.com/RPIZfLl.png

My Jinhao X450 writes a bit rough - not smooth like my others; anything "easy" I can do to make the nib write a bit smoother?