Hero 7032

[orac]

The Hero 7032 is not a pen to be overlooked. Its in the mid price range for Chinese fountain pens but has a whole lot going for it. Black lacquered metal body coupled with gold colour rings (true rings not painted lines) and a gold clip gives this pen an air of class. Take the cap off and it reveals a patterned grip section and a wide two tone nib.

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So it looks good…. but how does it perform?
Although on the heaver side at 39g the 7032 feels light i the hand and well balanced. When posted the pen is not particular top heavy but is a little on the long side. The patterned grip section allows you to get a good firm grip, the section being a good 20mm also helps.
The nib although stated as medium write far finer, not unusual for a Chinese fountain pen. OK we are not looking at an 18k nib but it performs very nicely. The nib gave a little bit of feedback but not scratch, personally I like my nibs to be really smooth, in saying that the Hero 7032 was still very usable. The feed kept up very well with almost no skipping and the nib was fairly wet. Line variation was was minimal but a fine nib like this I would not have expected any thing else.

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So there you go, the Hero 7032. Stylish good quality fountain pen that could easily out strip many of its far more expensive counterparts.

Capped…. 140mm, Posted… 162mm, Weight 39 grams

 

review reproduce courtesy of www.fountain-pens.co.uk/blog

[estie1948]

Thank you for posting your review. It is well written and informative. You have provided sufficient information for a pen user to decide whether or not this Hero 7032 is a pen they should try. It is an attractive pen and I have not had a new fountain pen in over a year. Perhaps I should go hunting this pen. Thank you.

 

-David.

[bfoutch]

This review helped me decide to buy one of these pens and I am most happy that I did. It is a very nice writer that I use everyday for note taking at work. It doesn't seem to dry out easily when capped and writes pretty much first time, every time. Only once in a while do I need to give it a single "thermometer shake" to break the surface tension of the converter, however no more than any other pen I've used.

I recommend grabbing one while you can. Still under $5 on ebay and just over $4 if you get two. To me, they are a real bargain.

Thanks for the fine review.

[Kilrymont]

I guess this is something of an old topic now - but just to add another name to the short list of folks who think this one is worth looking at.

It's my first Chinese pen, having had only a couple of low end Lamys previously. The Hero out-smooths the Lamys easily, giving good solid adequately wet lines without overdoing it. Virtually without feedback of any sort. All without any sort of modification - that's how it was from brand new.

On the matter of feeding - after perhaps a page or maybe a little more it can run slightly dry-ish; which needs a pause for things to self-adjust again. I'm guessing here that just possibly the converter had gone a little below atmospheric pressure and needed a gulp of air to let the ink continue to exit adequately.

Have more pens now - and from what I have I consider this one of the better ones - others of that approximate type being the Jinhao x450 - which is quite magnificent value for money, also writes smooth as silk.

On the other hand, I did get one Hero pen which was laughable in its ineptness and lousy construction - the model 616; complete with squint nib that wrote with an odd combination of horrible scratchiness and almost flooding the paper with ink so that it bled into the surface during writing. Be warned - the 616, although very cheap - is in some cases truly terrible.

But the 7032 - very nice pen indeed. Mine wasn't as cheap as noted above in earlier posts. It was £11 from a UK eBay seller. Since then I've had other buys for half that cost - I paid too much for mine.

[bob_hayden]

I received one of these recently, not because I had read this review, but because I had been investigating the other Heros numbered in the 70xx range.

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/330785-mini-review-hero-7036-pen/

 

Most of those appear to be more recent models than this. I agree that it is an excellent pen, though mine does not match the details of the review above in some respects, and perhaps in others my subjective response differs. For example, I find it too heavy, and quite unbalanced posted, but that may just reflect my preference for lightweight pens.

 

In appearance, this pen vaguely resembles the Waterman Expert. I once owned one of those, and I think the nib on this reflects what the nib on the Waterman was intended to be -- stiff and very smooth. In my case, the Waterman was not smooth but the Hero was -- at 1/20 ^th the price. It is also like the Waterman in that you can use short international cartridges in it as well as a converter. Waterman or long international cartridges may fit as well, though there are two ridges inside the body that you will have to sneak past. Fit and finish are very nice on both the Hero and the Expert. This Hero is one of the few Chinese pens that are not too chintzy nor too gaudy to be used in the executive suite. The only possible objection might be to the slightly loud waistband. Old USA Sheaffers and Parkers were very soft spoken re logos and model numbers. And speaking of Parker, the clip on this Hero looks more like the Parker arrow clip than like any Waterman clip I've seen.

 

My 7032 has an open nib and a snap cap that posts well but turns freely on the body when the pen is closed. It says "Hero" on the nib and "H" on the section. For me the cross-hatching on the nib was not sharp-edged enough to improve the grip nor to be uncomfortable so I took it to be merely decorative. My 7032 writes about like a Western Medium.

 

The pen appears to be available only in black as befits its conservative but classy looks. It appears more modern than the X750. Other options in business class are the Baoer 801 (which I like at <$2) and the various Sonnet clones (which I don't like).

 

BTW, none of the photos in this review load for me.

[bob_hayden]

I think somebody, somewhere asked about other Hero pens using the same nib. One is the 1502 Sonnet clone which has similar tasteful looks but not as classy or as heavy.

 

https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/332464-first-impressions-of-hero-1502-sonnet-clone/