Stub / Italic nibs for Jinhao X159?

Monday at 01:37 AM

I have a Jinhao X159 which I'[m not happy with - perhaps a dodgy nib/feed.

Anyway I was wondering if there are after-market nibs available that can be swapped into this pen.

I have looked on aliexpress without luck so far.

Monday at 02:52 AM

The Jinhao X159 uses a (size) number 40 nib. I don't know of any other brand or manufacturer that makes those and offer them as off-the-shelf retail products. If you're really keen, you can always send the nib (or entire pen) to a nibmeister to “fix” for you, if satisfaction is the priority and not the feeling of being astute with squeezing value-for-money out of every consumer dollar you spend on the hobby.

Monday at 04:58 AM

I know of no nibmeister, or pen repair place, here in Australia - do you?

Monday at 06:22 AM

1 hour ago, LandyVlad said:

I know of no nibmeister, or pen repair place, here in Australia - do you?

No. There was supposed to be one attending Sydney Pen Show 2019, when I badly needed help to make the 18K gold F nib on my Pelikan Souverän M815 usable to me; but I ended up not going, because even when it was so local the economics still didn't work out. $40 for two tickets (for my wife and me) to attend, plus whatever the Australian nibmeister would charge to reduce the nib width for me; that'd work out to about $100. Or I could just risk it and regrind the nib ham-fistedly myself; if worse comes to the worst, I'd just spend a bit more and buy a replacement M805 nib of a more suitable width grade.

And that underpins the point I was trying to make. If you want to spend a helluva lot of money getting a Jinhao X159 to perform better-suited to your liking, then go into it eyes wide open; don't expect that just because it's a Jinhao/cheap pen, there ought to be a commensurately cheap way of dealing with it either locally, or through Chinese sellers or service providers. Or you can try to do it yourself and risk ruining the pen (which would still cost far less to replace entirely and try again, than to send it to a nibmeister elsewhere in the world to “fix”), or just write that pen off and buy a better pen that comes factory-fitted with a decent Stub or Italic nib to suit your needs.