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I also have a Wing Sung 698 with a gold nib and it just arrived last night and so far i am really impressed with how it write.

I love Fountain Pens, with hooded nib in the classic style, Parker 51/61 type .



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I also have a Wing Sung 698 with a gold nib and it just arrived last night and so far i am really impressed with how it write.

 

That's great news!

How would you describe the smoothness? Is it Western smooth or more like the Chinese type with some feedback?

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It is more of a European-style fine to medium and and it has very little feedback .

I love Fountain Pens, with hooded nib in the classic style, Parker 51/61 type .



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It is more of a European-style fine to medium and and it has very little feedback .

Great to know, thanks!

It seems like these vary in smoothness, but since this isn't the first time I've heard of one of these 14k Wing Sung nibs being smooth， I may just have to try one for myself.

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It is more of a European-style fine to medium and and it has very little feedback .

And here is the proof . :)

 

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I love Fountain Pens, with hooded nib in the classic style, Parker 51/61 type .



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And here is the proof . :)

 

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Very nice! Good to see your classic 4001 Royal Blue writing again. :)

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I finally got one of these and , wow! The nib is far more flexible than I had expected! It can flex beyond 1mm with a little effort and the feed manages to keep up well. The only trouble is that when flexing to the max, the feed will touch the paper and smear the ink a little. That's because the distance from the tip of the nib to the end of the feed to too short. Has anyone been able to solve this problem by putting the nib in another pen?

 

The nib is fantastic, the pen is good, but the combination nib and feed makes flex writing a pain despite the nib people able to flex well.

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It seems like it will fit in any of the lower-priced Pilot pens from Prera on down, as well as a lot of pens that have #5 nibs.

I'm sure I've got a Jinhao somewhere that it'll fit in.

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I heard it fits well in Faber-Castell Loom .

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJOrsQcygco

 

Yep, that's my pen. That's the standard wing sung 698 14k nib.

 

I'd say the line is between a western EF and F, flexing to a B

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It seems like it will fit in any of the lower-priced Pilot pens from Prera on down, as well as a lot of pens that have #5 nibs.

I'm sure I've got a Jinhao somewhere that it'll fit in.

 

It'll fit a 992 but god knows why you'd ever do that.

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It looks like the nib might be too thick for the Jinhao 500, 163, or 165.

 

Oddly enough all my other Wing Sung pens are hooded nibs.

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