handmade handcrafted Chinese fountain pens?

[PaJaC]

Hi!
 

I'm considering buying my dream pen. I'm interested in handmade (Is this true? I have no idea) Chinese fountain pens. I'm looking for something of Namiki, Taccia, Sailor quality. Something with raden, maki-e etc. I've only come across the SELMY brand from TaoBao. Prices range from ¥1900 CNY to ¥4550 CNY for a pen with a Bock steel nib. Is this a good price? How about the quality of Selmy pens? Are they top-tier, or is the quality proportional to the price and I can't expect the same from them as from Japanese fountain pens? Or are there other Chinese brands worth recommending?

 

 

Greetings from Poland,
PaJaC

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

Hopefully someone will answer. I don't know.

I do have a normal Chinese  (only one) that someone told me is worth money...in China.

I had had a Chinese pen a decade ago, back in the day of buy ten to get one or two that worked.

I don't care for nails and then that was all I knew they made...outside of fake cartridge 149's.

 

[SpencerianDream]

Hope you get an answer because I am very curious about these too. I like the “tang palace maid” one, but $645 is a LOT to spend on a pen of completely unknown quality. 

[mke]

15 hours ago, PaJaC said:

I'm looking for something of Namiki, Taccia, Sailor quality.

 

Add Platinum to your list too. And recently, there are "newcomers" who produce Makie pens like SeY, Matsuzawakobo, etc. The quality of their pens is also unknown.

And don't forget the Taiwanese makers like finewriting.tw and cypress.tw

 

Usually, you get what you pay for. While I guess, the pen is handmade, I am sure they made many shortcuts to keep the cost low.

On the other hand, I guess that the famous pen makers also do shortcuts which they will not publicly admit.

One needs to be an expert to be able to understand what is going on.

 

In this case, I would say "no risk, no fun".

 

 

[PaJaC]

Thank you all for your response. I have a little hope that people from China who could have these pens in their hands and can directly compare them to Western and Japanese brands will respond to this topic. Only there can you find Chinese and boutique pens in the same city. I am certainly not the first European who has thought about it, let alone people from China. I found a few channels on YT that had contact with these pens, they even have a large collection of luxury fountain pens from Europe, but no one has attempted to make any comparison between these two worlds of fountain pens.

Let me know what you think about it, did it make an impression on you too? (Yes, I know that some of it is a copy of Dorsal Fin)

Here's a links: 
https://youtu.be/XmaA0XaH3GQ?si=EZ4fpodEhU22h28J
https://youtu.be/XXZ_oisYrxM?si=DsKI99Rh_vEysQNC
https://youtu.be/vmvolWMS7Qs?si=wTLGEG5zx57m2IX6
https://youtu.be/vEYx9_w-NeE?si=M2NbR58cyrvFEqtN
https://youtu.be/Kkzzw3Ojpkg?si=7u2ZsFw_314sZFpS
https://youtu.be/b571P3M2NPw?si=8uZ_LYanGRP78XQl
https://youtu.be/o6Mwe-77YUI?si=r5FpWpgHP74Mx6On
https://youtu.be/fOENRbtusDo?si=I28Spm84X-MMaKFr
 

[PaJaC]

bump 🥺

[Bo Bo Olson]

Wait five years and the world will have your answer.

 

I am writing a western, and when I was first starting the book, finding out about corsets was next to impossible, there was one partial answer...long ago when I started. Inside five years, there were 20 experts to pick from. None of them of course having a dainty 16"...much less a bloated 18" waist. The girls were tortured into them at age 12. Not talking about sweatshop weaving factory working 10-12 year old girls. Those with enough wealth to aim herself at a man who could supply a maid.

 

Relatives of famous conmen; Lou Blonger and Soapy Smith jumped up...when once there was hardly any info. That was a bit longer than five years in waiting.

.........................

If anyone had known anything, they'd answered.

Try Fountain Pen Geeks, that is where Jar hangs out now....he has one's basic top flight 500 pens.

 

[PaJaC]

thanks for the tip, as soon as I find a moment I'll try to register there