Hongdian N1S

[A Smug Dill]

On 1/14/2022 at 3:55 AM, A Smug Dill said:

I'd be happy to wager that a Jinhao 35mm nib can be easily made to fit inside the HongDian N1-S (cf. adaptable), assuming one is not expecting ready reversibility, or to take it back out and put it inside a Jinhao pen at a moment's notice. Bending (if necessary) and putting a different (i.e. broader than Fine) Chinese nib into the N1-S once and for all should not be a problem.

 

Now that @DrScholl has brought this thread up again to my attention (thanks!), I should add here that I was wrong about nib interchangeability with other Chinese brands. This is what I discovered a couple of weeks after my earlier post:

[A Smug Dill]

On 1/5/2022 at 12:49 AM, kpong11 said:

Thanks @mke, any problem with ink capacity? Seem the piston head is extend too much in the barrel

 

On 1/6/2022 at 9:44 AM, garyc said:

But it did seem just by inspection that the piston tube diameter is narrower than you would find in something like a Wingsung 698.

 

 

The diameter of the ink reservoir in the HongDian N1-S (and N6, and N7) is 8mm. (I measured the diameter of the piston plug with a pair of digital callipers.)

 

On 1/20/2022 at 9:37 PM, mke said:

I recommend this pen.

 

I think the N1-S is HongDian's best piston-filler out of the N1-S, N6, and N7; and the cheapest one to boot. It also offers one particular benefit — on account of the removable, threaded nib unit, which by the way is not interchangeable with any other model's, as far as I'm aware — not shared by the N6 and N7. However, since I'm still not in the mood to help HongDian sell more pens, at this point I'm not about to clarify what real-world advantage that translates to, although I've hinted at it previously in one of my FPN Image Gallery photos.

[Pennstedt]

Looks like there are new colours on offer now on both eBay and Aliexpress. They’ve added a forest green, sky blue and dark red - the same resins as the N1 - but they don’t seem to have added white or dark blue yet. 

 

NEW Hongdian N1S fountain pen piston acrylic pen calligraphy exquisite student business office retro pens 0.5mm EF nib BLUE RED
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mKxlKQs

[A Smug Dill]

22 hours ago, Pennstedt said:

Looks like there are new colours on offer now on both eBay and Aliexpress.

 

Nice spotting! Thank you for sharing your find.

Spoiler

Looping @mizgeorge into this.

 

On 5/16/2022 at 8:25 PM, A Smug Dill said:

… I'd prefer HongDian to offer the N1-S in all the colours that the N1 c/c-filler is offered, instead of more colourways or designs for the N7 which I find to be less enjoyable to use.

On 5/16/2022 at 9:17 PM, mizgeorge said:

Agree wholeheartedly with this!