Budget 2000. The Jinhao 80 Lamy 2000 Clone

[Helen350]

My (3) Jinhao 80s arrived today--white/dark blue/burgundy.  All three have the gold tone

clip & nib.  Inking up the white one with Diamine Sherwood Green after prepping nib & feed. 

Will  give update by Friday.  

[Mech-for-i]

the White is more an Ivory and the Brown is more a Cocoa , mine arrived yesterday , I flush them clean today and let see how they write , also got the Grey which is pretty mice colour 

[Helen350]

Been writing with my new Jinhao 80 off and on today.  Feel the more I use the pen, it

will help smooth it out a bit.    Used 80 lb weight paper (not fountain pen friendly)

[apastuszak]

I'm liking this pen way too much.  I just got the green one in, and filled it with Noodlers Green Marine

 

Also got a replacement Jinhao 777.

 

The quality improvement in Chinese pens over the last 2 years has really been impressive.

 

 

I think I am going to buy all the color variants.

[A Smug Dill]

16 hours ago, Mech-for-i said:

also got the Grey which is pretty mice colour 

 

Off-white, brown, and grey mice? Makes sense.  

[ncc]

what metal are the threads made of? i want to try a eye dropper conversion.

[Dip n Scratch]

You might need to put an 'O' ring on the threads to get a seal. The thread of the section looks too coarse. I have just about finished the first converter of Sargasso Sea with no problems.

[ncc]

Just received two Jinhao 80 in "grey", and i like it so far. The clip is a little too sharp for my taste. I had to work on the corners to round them.

 

You are right, the threads have wiggle room.. i would need massive amount of silicone grease to fill that gap without an O-ring. I will not make the Eye Dropper Conversion.

[Mech-for-i]

A comparison of the black , grey and white version respectively with black clip , silver clip and gold finished clip , the black one had been retrofitted with a black oxide finished nib

 

[ncc]

is the jinhao 80 feed compatible with the lamy safari feed? thinking ahead in terms of replacement parts

[HobbitLife]

Yes I have switched both feed and nib from a Safari into the 80. 

[socialmoth]

1 hour ago, HobbitLife said:

Yes I have switched both feed and nib from a Safari into the 80. 

 

Congratulations, you've made something more reliable than a Safari 😆

 

Will take note though-- I think the Safari's feeds run wetter?

[ncc]

9 hours ago, HobbitLife said:

Yes I have switched both feed and nib from a Safari into the 80. 

 

thank you

 

7 hours ago, socialmoth said:

Congratulations, you've made something more reliable than a Safari 😆

 

the ink windows of the lamy safari are dust magnets

Edited September 25, 2022 by ncc

[J120]

Great pen. Jinhao needs to embrace their inner Majohn and make this a piston filler for $20-25. 

 

Waiting on the white. 

 

Really enjoying the .3 nib.

[Sailor Kenshin]

As a color group, they look very good.

[Dip n Scratch]

Which size cartridge do these take?

I just ordered another in Blue.

Is the white a pure snow-white or does it incline towards creamy?

[HobbitLife]

21 hours ago, socialmoth said:

I think the Safari's feeds run wetter?

I actually switched my Safari feed over because my Jinhao feed was running obnoxiously wet! I think it may be because I damaged the feed slightly when first removing the Jinhao nib to replace with a Lamy nib (the Jinhao nib was much harder to remove originally than Safari nibs are). At any rate, the flow has been more restrained/consistent now that I have the Safari feed in there. 
 

And yes - I do find this pen MUCH more comfortable to write with than a Safari. Reliability has been on par so far too. 

[HobbitLife]

Question: I have seen pictures of 80s with metal threads on the section, but mine are plastic. Does anyone know if it is a black vs. other colors thing (mine is black and the ones I’ve seen with metal threads are grey and maroon)? Or did they change over from plastic to metal across the board?

[Helen350]

5 hours ago, HobbitLife said:

Question: I have seen pictures of 80s with metal threads

on the section, but mine are plastic. Does anyone know

if it is a black vs. other colors thing (mine is black and the

ones I’ve seen with metal threads are grey and maroon)?

Or did they change over from plastic to metal across the board?

 

When the Jinhao 80 was first put on the market, the section was plastic.

 However, the updated models have a metal section connector.  You can

still buy the two (fiber black) pens which have a silver or black clip with the

plastic section connector.  The updated ones have a gold clip with metal

section connector.

Updated:  White (cream white)/Burgundy (Red)/Green/Brown/Black/

                  Dark Blue/Grey

[A Smug Dill]

5 hours ago, HobbitLife said:

Question: I have seen pictures of 80s with metal threads on the section, but mine are plastic.

 

20 minutes ago, Helen350 said:

You can still buy the

two (black) pens which have a silver or black clip with the plastic section. 

The updated ones have a gold clip with metal sections.

 

Huh?

 

My black Jinhao 80 pens (with clips in either black or silver) have plastic gripping sections over threaded metal connectors to join them to the pen barrels, as far as I can tell. Looking at the product photos, I don't think any of the more colourful recent variants have “metal sections” (i.e. where the user would grip the pen when writing).