Your Favourite And Least Favourite Chinese Pens

[Ebberman]

I was offered a Moonman cheap. I had to buy it for £18 and review it on Amazon, then get £15 back. It was a terrible pen. It would normally come with an EF nib, but I asked for a F instead. I wish I hadn't bought it. It would write a few lines and then stop. I sent this email:

 

I regret to inform you that the Moonman pen is non-working.

When it arrived I filled it with ink and, after twenty minutes standing with the nib pointing down, I began to write. After a few lines of writing, it stopped. I left it overnight with the nib facing down. The next day I tried it and it would not write. I dipped the nib in water (the complete nib under water for 2 seconds - my usual way of dealing with a dried nib) and it wrote a few lines and stopped. I tried standing it for two days nib pointing up, and two days nib pointing down. Nib pointing up - would not write. Nib pointing down - I wrote a few lines and, after dipping in water, half a page.

I buy Jinhao 991 and Baoer 801 pens from Ebay.com for 99 cents (=66 pence) including postage, and they work every time and write wonderfully. If I don't use them for over a week I sometimes have to dip the nib in water. For a pen which holds a lot of ink, I like Wing Sung 3008. It also writes nicely. (£1.39 including postage)

The Moonman pen I received is not good. I wasted a lot of time on it. Even when it was writing, it was not as good as the Jinhao and Baoer pens I've mentioned - even though they are far cheaper than the Moonman.

I don't think you want this to appear as a review for your pen on Amazon. I shall return the pen to you and ask for a refund.

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My favourite pen is the Jinhao 126. It writes wonderfully, never dries and has a lovely weight and balance.

[old4570]

Yeah , I find a bit of flat polishing the contact point of the NIB ( where it contacts the paper ) helps the ink flow to paper .

I have destroyed two NIB's to date experimenting .

 

Must be like 15 NIB's in the post now ! And my 0.7 NIB came yesterday , the NIB I wanted on my Moonman M2 ..

Tempted to buy another Moonman M2 , Re-NIB it and be happy ..

[Ebberman]

I did some measuring - the Moonman holds 3ml of ink, the Wing Sung 3008 holds 2ml. The attraction of the Moonman for me was the amount of ink it holds -which turns out to be not so amazing.

I'm sending the Moonman back because, apart from it's intermittent writing ability, it's not a nice glide over the paper. Scratchy is a good word to use here. I think they are vastly over-priced and vastly over-rated, but perhaps the truth is simply that I have a bad one.

If I'm allowed to keep it as well as being refunded then you are welcome to it. old4570

[old4570]

Wow - nice gesture ...

But all you might need a a new NIB .. 75c will buy a NIB , $1.50 will buy 5 NIBs

 

My factory NIB was a real paper tearing monster ..

My M2 currently has it's 2nd aftermarket NIB , I destroyed the first one trying to make it perfect . ( Can cheap NIB's be perrrrfect ? )

[hbdk]

Top: Baoer 388 - they always seem to work (except for a couple of duds). I have a handful of them both with original nibs as well as Jowo and Bock nibs.

 

Bottom: Baoer 027, they dry out in a couple of hours - and yes they were capped

Probably due to the spring mounted clip that lets in a lot of air.