Wing Sung 601 - Review

[WJM]

Or you can get replacement nibs. You can find standard fines or even modified upturned nibs which write more like a medium. If Wing Sung nibs don't do it for you, Jinhao 911/51A/85/86 nibs fit Wing Sung 601 and in my experience they're smoother than Wing Sung nibs. One of 601s has a nib taken from Jinhao 86 because the nib was too good to stay in a pen I don't use. 

[Paganini]

I believe the gold cap 601s are more generally available in China, which is why you can get the individual caps from 3rd party sellers online. They have a variety of interesting textures / patterns / scrolling (not sure what the technical word for it is). 

 

(Nice collection, BTW. I, too, have a Jinhao nib in one of my WS601s; mine came from a $3 Jinhao 911, I think, and is one of my best nibs. Sometimes you just get lucky.)

[donnweinberg]

I, too, have several of the WS 601 and 601A pens.  I love the spring-loaded pump; it is an improvement on the Parker 51 pump with the rubber diaphragm.  Oh, how I wish Parker would reissue a 51 Vac with the spring-loaded pump and the end piece that can be removed with a special wrench.  Or, more likely, that Ariel Kullock would make some.  The WS version does not fit the Parker 51 Vac on either end of the pump system, so that's not an option.  I've more recently obtained two of the 14k 601 pens (one grey and one teal) and two of the 18k 601 pens (orange body), and they are great.  All on Ali Express.

[jchch1950]

The Wing Sung 601  and 601 A have a version finished in all metal that are atractive. It will be very good buys if they were offered with wide nibs as stubs or double broad. Orange bodies should be great.