Informal Review - Jinhao 650 Rosewood Barrel

[sanyalsoumitra]

A handwritten review and some photos. welcome comments.

Warm regards

Soumitra

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Alex2014]

I had the same problem with my JNH 950. It is very wet and sometimes it starts skipping. Unfortunately, there are not specialists in my town to tune the nib. The pen is indeed very heavy (65 gr. !) and not easy to use.

[GHigley]

Mine has a bit of a start-up issue that I was unable to correct with my first attempt at tuning the nib. Mine is also a very wet writer. Many Jinhao pen nib/feeds are friction fit, but I couldn't remove them on this pen even with more than moderate pressure, so I abandoned that. If I had been able to I would have backed off the feed from the nib tip a bit for slightly less ink flow. Trying to tune a nib when on the feed is rather difficult, so I wasn't too surprised at the lack of results. I got the pen for less than $10, so I'm not going to be too disappointed if I can't improve it.

 

I'd like to know if anyone has sucessfully removed the nib/feed from the section and how. Perhaps I was just too gentle or mine is particularly tightly inserted. I think it's a very attractive pen and I certainly like it - especially at the price.

Edited June 29, 2014 by GHigley

[Alex2014]

Mine has a bit of a start-up issue that I was unable to correct with my first attempt at tuning the nib. Mine is also a very wet writer. Many Jinhao pen nib/feeds are friction fit, but I couldn't remove them on this pen even with more than moderate pressure, so I abandoned that. If I had been able to I would have backed off the feed from the nib tip a bit for slightly less ink flow. Trying to tune a nib when on the feed is rather difficult, so I wasn't too surprised at the lack of results. I got the pen for less than $10, so I'm not going to be too disappointed if I can't improve it.

 

I'd like to know if anyone has sucessfully removed the nib/feed from the section and how. Perhaps I was just too gentle or mine is particularly tightly inserted. I think it's a very attractive pen and I certainly like it - especially at the price.

 

The feed is firmly pull inside and probably it needs a device to be removed. My opinion is that my J950 has a baby bottom, because it skips particularly on down strokes. The nib seems to be a broad one (which I dislike). I tried no longer to remove the baby bottom because meantime I got a couple of J650's and J149's so the J950 remained uninked. None of my other Chinese FP's skips and their nibs (F or M) write very smooth.

[Brandywine]

Just stumbled over this thread during a search.

I have this pen, too and would like to share my experiences,

just in case someone is still interested in this pen:

 

ALL Jinhaos come with fine nibs, so does this one.

 

The nib is a #5 and I changed it for a Bock 180 stub in 1.1 (because I don't like fine nibs).

The nib and feed are friction fit and can be pulled, but they sit VERY tight.

The Bock nib needed some "encouragement" to slide in, so be careful!

The pen is very much like the Jinhao 500, but there are little differences.