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This will be my first pen ordered under the new tariff regime and without the de minimus exception, so I’m curious how it affects shipping and how they will handle the tariff billing. Will be interesting. I’ll report back in 3-4 weeks but I’m sure others will be filling us in long before then. Anyway, this is the Moonman Ti200 with a 14K nib. It’s modeled on the Hero 100, which was my first Chinese pen many years ago, of which I have a few of the steel flighter versions as well. This one has been customized with anodized color and a hammered effect on the titanium cap and barrel. Also available in hammered original titanium or pink, and smooth pink or blue. The clip on the Hero 100 is very well made and I think it’s a nicely minimalistic accent to the pen. Same clip on the Ti200, of course. Same clip on the $3 Jinhao 911 or Hero 334 or…, you get the idea. Funny that the clip of this flagship pen is so widely distributed across so many brands and models, not unlike the ubiquitous arrow clip and its million variations. I also bought the new Admok 28 because the coupons and sale made it cheap enough. SDK says the ink sac is 3cm long. The pressure bar sure doesn’t look new/old stock so somewhere in a workshop people are making pressure bars for the first time in China since those early button fillers were pushed out, probably by aerometric fillers. (Or maybe not, where were the pressure bars Fountain Pen Hospital and others sold all these years made? Probably China, so maybe they never stopped making them.) I have the Hero 856, the Gold Star 28’s successor and as SKD says, it’s a neat pen, big but light and with a full size nib. Strong vintage look to it.