Hero 9315?

[TaylorT]

Hello all, relatively new to the fountain pens. Purchased a Jinhao x750 a few months ago and love it! I like the nice bold line it puts down and it seems to write very wet, at least on the cheap paper our hospital buys. I write a lot of hand written notes to patients and typically write large so the bold wetness is not an issue, more of an advantage. I recently bought my wife a Pilot Metropolitan and inked it in her favorite color (coral) as a gift for moving with me and having to start at a new school. So today the Hero 9315 caught my eye, the gunmetal or silver body with rose gold accents just looks cool to me, I am not a big fan of flashy, plastic or the clear bodied pens and I'm not really a big fan of golds but I like the looks of that pen a lot. Does anyone have any experience with the pen? How does it compare to the Jinhaos or the Pilot? Do I really NEED a new pen? I only write in black but I may branch out to a blue/black or green/black.

[TaylorT]

Although the more I look I'm also considering a Jinhao 159. I'd keep black in that and probably put blue in my x750.

[Moshe ben David]

I'd go with the Pilot over any current pen from China. Absolutely marvelous pen and a real bargain. Pilot nibs are great!

 

Do you need a new pen? Well, you're on the site dedicated to the enabling never ending acquisitions of new pens, inks, papers, etc etc! Welcome aboard!

[TaylorT]

I like the Pilot but I'm not a huge fan of all the designs on them and I hate to just buy another solid silver pen.

[greensparcs]

I have the pen. it came with a overly smooth skippy nib. I am not the greatest at nib smoothing but if you tweak it I am sure it is a great pen. I also have only tried it with quink and no other ink. It is a nice pen and has good weight to it.

[TaylorT]

Yea, I got it. The nib was very skippy. Since it was like 6 bucks I tried to spread the tines out a bit, now it writes great in down but struggles to write in all other directions, I can write Is and lowercase Ls really well but that is about the extent of it. I ended up ordering a Kaweco Sport Ice and love it. I may buy a new nib for the Hero eventually but its very low on the priority list, as of now it sits in its box in the back of my desk drawer.

[wastelanded]

You mean you only have one pen?? Come, sit over here, we are going to have a chat with you...

[______Zaphod_Beeblebrox]

I purchased one of these Hero pens from China, worst pen purchase ever.

 

You are better off buying a better pen, like a Lamy Al-Star.

 

This pen in going back to China or in the Trash, worst $10 that i ever spent.