A New Chinese Pen

[Charles Skinner]

I have three Jinhao pens and really like them! I believe that it is time for me to buy a Hero pen! Give me suggestions about which one to buy. I love larger pens, about the size of the Jinhao 159 or MB 146. Medium nib only. Thanks. C. S.

[Mech-for-i]

As a long time Hero pen user , should I say : welcome to the abyss ..... lol ..... Hero had over the years made numerous different models and there are a large variety of them. But as per norm among Chinese pens its rather hard to find a true M nib , this is of course a condition that arise from the fact that most of their pens goes to their home market and being engineered to write Chinese, the customer would choose to use one of the ( Fude ) calligraphy nib if they want the line to be. So most Chinese pens happen to have only either the standard ( sort of FM to most of us ) and EF. Hero no exception here.

 

You might want to check out the earlier thread regarding the Hero 856 ( one of the few that actually do have a true M nib ), and you might want to check out the Hero 565 ( hooded nib ). The model H708 is somewhat styled as the mentioned ones and its got a 10K gold nib. There is also the model 8008. If you do not mind something Montblanc 144 sized, then I would highly recommend the model 572. If you fancy the odd bit and do not mind buying NOS you could try to look for the Hero 124 with the delta nib

Edited July 15, 2017 by Mech-for-i