A Look At Hero Pens

[His Nibs]

See the article and video here.

[JonB55198]

Thanks for sharing this.

[k3eax]

I'm very impressed.'Never realized that the nib of my Hero 616 was lavished with so much attention to detail!

[hari317]

Superb video. Thanks for sharing. Not only in China, but here in India Hero is a respected and fondly recalled fountain pen brand.

[SmurfK]

Well. let's not miss the obvious. Hero brand survives today thanks to them copying other famous pens and making cheaper versions of those. First, it was Parker 51, and today, their Lamy Safary copy sells very well.

It's funny for me to see how they missed any of these two pens in their presentation. You can't see not even a cap, a barel, a nib, that would fit those pens that they make in huge numbers. And the article gets even funnier, blaming "foreign competition" for them not selling many pens in the 90s.

 

Don't get me wrong, I love my Hero pens, they played an important part in my life, as they were the only pens I would use as I grew up, but I find these presentations hypocritical.

[Mech-for-i]

Well. let's not miss the obvious. Hero brand survives today thanks to them copying other famous pens and making cheaper versions of those. First, it was Parker 51, and today, their Lamy Safary copy sells very well.

It's funny for me to see how they missed any of these two pens in their presentation. You can't see not even a cap, a barel, a nib, that would fit those pens that they make in huge numbers. And the article gets even funnier, blaming "foreign competition" for them not selling many pens in the 90s.

 

Don't get me wrong, I love my Hero pens, they played an important part in my life, as they were the only pens I would use as I grew up, but I find these presentations hypocritical.

 

couldn't agree more , when back in the days , I can understand how that could be in the then socio-economical situation the brand's in , but the current one , I am not so sure in fact the Lamy clone do not actually made much for Hero today ... as presented in their annual report, in fact fountain pen only made for a very slim portion of the profit though the marketing side would be totally different and in reverse. Its how many Chinese industries ( especially those from the old nationalized ones ) had not get around to shake off some of the old habit, .any of which would be seen to be ( as of today ) questionable business practice even though the are legal.