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Some Kind Of Moonman Clone With Piston


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This model had been on the market for quite some time , yes its a piston filler but fill more like a syringe filler , the black round button is a locking thumb screw serve as handle for the piston where you grab and move the piston up or down and also serve as a roll stop. it use Schmidt nib no.5 and yes another independent store brand. The brand got a few other model. Though I do not had one, I read from those who do had good words to say about the workmanship of the pen but plenty also complain about the less than inspiring styling

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I have one of their Smog acrylic pens similar to the MoonMan with the red band. It's a very good pen with great acrylic. And the other models I have seen seem to have some very good quality.; This particular one may have all the quality built in but really could use a cosmetic make over.; On the other hand, it seems that pens with a particular gimmick are all the rage so there could be a market for it. .

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Is the OP saying that there are already knockoffs of Moonman pens out there? :o

Okay, I have what is probably a fake Hero 616. The guy who gave it to me ordered a ten or twelve-pack of them a few years ago and hadn't them out to anyone interested at a pen club meeting. So it's a probably fake of a of pen that was in of itself a knockoff of a Parker 51. It writes, but that's about all that can be said. So I have a free pen that's worth about $2 US -- and writes like a pen that's worth about $2.... Ironically, I got a REAL Parker 51 at an estate sale a couple of years ago and paid $2 for THAT pen. And with $20 worth of nib work on it (it had a scratchy EF nib)? I have a great pen in apparently one of the rarer 51 Aero colors (Forest Green).

Oh yeah, and some cheap Chinese knockoff of an inexpensive Chinese knockoff.... :rolleyes: Which I haven't used in about three and a half years because, well, I have a Parker 51 I paid two bucks for at an estate sale.... :D

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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Well, AFAIK there is no other Chinese fountain pen with this mechanism and the way its profiled, and as far as styling goes, its just a straight cylinder and this is too generic to say its clone of someone or something , and Moonman was not the first one who do all Clear Demonstrator ( with or without patterned acrylic ) , Hero been doing that since the 80's ... many fountain pen , Chinese or otherwise , share very similar styling and very similar choice of material simply because those works. it would not made them a clone of someone else or something else. One need to be way more closely engineered against the original to be called a knockoff / clone / copies

 

That staed, I really do not find these late demonstrator tasteful or stylish .. with a few exception sure but generally their styling and profile is generic and shall I say a bit boring , well its just me and YMMV

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