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The Baoer 388 has had many reviews comparing it quite favorably to the Parker Sonnet. This is yet another!

 

This pen wrote right out of the bubble-wrap and the postman's hand. It is beautifully proportioned ... well, it is a Parker knock-off. The color of the black subtle striping blending in with the deep red-brown make this a very attractive pen. And one that stands scrutiny under work, check signing, or other "if you got it, flaunt it" situations.

 

"Two Buck Chuck" is the house wine of Trader Joe's grocery chain in the US. The 75cl bottles are $2 a pop. Trader Joe's is now owned by Aldi Nord of Germany. It was a family affair started in California and is now in 44 states. Unlike Aldi, the low-price leader in the UK, Germany and other countries world-wide, Trader Joe's is a market leader in organic and fresh food groceries. I throw this in because the headline may not have meaning to some FPN readers.

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Just ordered one to try out. I love the Sonnets, think I will rotate one in for tomorrow.

<i>"Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had."</i><br>-Marlowe, in <i>The Long Goodbye</i>

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Alas Two-Buck_Chuck had a price increase in 2013 and now sells for $2.49 in California and more in the hinterlands. The Baoer 388 is a nice serviceable pen and I have a couple of them.

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This is one of the best cheap pens available out there...Baoer nibs write in a peculiar smooth feedbackless way...which may appear outstanding to those who are just starting with fountain pens..but may not appeal to those who are using costly European or Japanese ones for long...as most standard pens are made with some feedback to the nibs...but once someone get adjusted to the particular sensation, this is a good pen

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This is one of the best cheap pens available out there...Baoer nibs write in a peculiar smooth feedbackless way...which may appear outstanding to those who are just starting with fountain pens..but may not appeal to those who are using costly European or Japanese ones for long...as most standard pens are made with some feedback to the nibs...but once someone get adjusted to the particular sensation, this is a good pen

 

Samrat, I agree with your observation. Among a lot of fountain pen users, "zero feedback" is the holy grail, and how close a pen is to this mythical standard is the only metric for evaluation. Even my mother who spent most of her life using fountain pens still does that.

 

However, aiming to engineer a nib to give the feeling of near zero feedback is more for sales purpose: if a customer at a B&M store is trying out a few pens, just by drawing a few circles on a pad when the pen is dry would give a deciding first impression; this I believe is why some nibs now are of the "baby-bottom" grind for this purpose, whether it performs well with ink actually in them would be another story altogether...

No, I am not going to list my pens here.

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Got mine yesterday for $4.70 shipped. Just ordered 3 more at about $2.19 each to give as gifts. A very good little pen indeed. Yes, the nib is not as subtle and nice as my gold-nib Sonnet, but it's smooth and a decent line between F and M. Good flow, decent converter. Cap has a nice firm click and you can post the cap, as long as you don't wave it around unduly. Impressive. I honestly don't know how they can make/sell them at this price point. Hopefully, the ones I just ordered will be the same as the blue/black stripe one I received. But...worth the experiment. I found that that big Jinhao's were a novelty and the converter was bad, but this looks like a pen I will actually use, like my Hero 616s, on days where I don't want to have a pen I have to worry about. Plus, this is a stiff clip - no worry about this guy falling off my shirt pocket!

<i>"Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had."</i><br>-Marlowe, in <i>The Long Goodbye</i>

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