Jinhao X750, What To Do?

[usk15]

Recently I acquired a Jinhao X750 with a medium nib in black lacquer. But I don't like the nib, it's a smooth one and bit dry, feeling like watery ink when writing. I'm wonder if I should buy a fine nib or stub fine from JoWo, Bock or Schmidt. Or just simply PIF? I do like the pen, size and weight on the other hand.

[A144]

In my experience, the Jinhao nibs are hit an miss. I usually run mine with one of the following:

 

1. My one Jinhao stock nib that writes beautifully. No skipping, just a smooth wet line.

2. A Goulet #6 nib (made by JoWo). A F or EF for note taking at school, or a 1.1 for personal writing.

3. One of the stock Jinhao nibs that I ground to a stub. They're great inexpensive nibs for practicing nib work on.

 

While writing performance is hit or miss, I've never had a Jinhao write dry. Try to gently spread the tines a bit to increase ink flow. Both Brian Goulet and sbrebrown have videos about this on YouTube I believe.

[cpark2005]

A144 hits most of the important points. I'd only add the suggestion: almost all of my Jinhao pens with medium nibs have written dry until I flush them (or run about 2 converters worth of ink through them). I'm guessing they just have a fair amount of machining residue. I'd suggest, if the pen is at all new and you haven't already, flushing it with a bit of tepid water and a small amount of dish soap, or a pen flush if you have one handy. That has typically fixed the dry-ish writing problem for me, without the need to mess with the tines. However, since they are so inexpensive, you really can't go wrong experimenting with them.

[usk15]

Thank you both, I have flush the pen this morning, but i will soak it with some dish soap and more flush tomorrow! I will run some tests these days.

[KBeezie]

Until I just recently traded it, my Jinhao X750 has been using a Black-coated Monteverde Fine Nib, and previously to that it was using a Goulet 2-tone EF nib. The Goulet one is my favorite by far (currently in the Monteverde Invincia Deluxe where the black nib came from).

 

I really don't care for Jinhao nibs, as said above they're a hit or miss (and mostly a miss for me), but the Goulet nibs are excellent on them, as I'm using a Goulet Medium in a Jinhao 159 as well.

 

I've also noticed that most of the Jinhao #6 nibs I have appear to be thinner than the Goulet ones, and the Jinhao ones also have a much glossier/slicker surface on the underside of the nib, which I'm not sure affects the flow or not.

 

Course if you don't mind putting the work into it, you can adjust/smooth the nibs with some micro-mesh and mylar paper.

[KBeezie]

Just reminded me to pull out one of my spare Jinhao nibs (same one they put on the X750, 159, etc), I smoothed it up and then inserted it into my Jinhao 159 (which has the exact same feed as the X750 as well).

 

The nib was already 'meh' as it had an annoying habit of starting out thin on the strokes or not always "catching".

http://static.karlblessing.com/pens/jinhao159/jinhao_wib.jpg

 

For comparison this is the Goulet Medium that's normally in my 159

 

http://static.karlblessing.com/pens/jinhao159/goulet_wib.jpg

 

Same pen, same ink, same feed.

Edited August 27, 2014 by KBeezie

[usk15]

Thank you Karl!

 

For the moment I just soak, flush and scrub the feed/nib and I've noticed a good improvement. Also I've align the tines a bit and the nib is performing much better, good flow, a line between fine to medium and nice shading. In the future I'll keep in mind to get a #6 nib from Jowo or Bock.