Fuliwen 017

[MuddyWaters]

9 minutes ago, Mech-for-i said:

 

What nib come with the pen , though I do not own the 017 , I do however had a number of their no.6 nib the Medium pretty nice and smooth, the EF would be a curse to anyone not writing Chinese and the F somewhere in the middle.

 

There are quite a variety of Chinese manufactured no.6 or compatible form factor nibs around. Fulin had B and BB , Fuliwan's Medium , Hero got FM , and a whole load others got F and EF.

 

For simple no.6 PenBBS and Linmo ( Lorelei ) had nib unit retail in different grind.

 

And vintage nib are also there but beware , they can be a gamble. That said I do not find Knox, Jowo, Bock any better either. 

 

 

I only have one fuliwen to base my judgment on but it seems to have some kind of baby bottom issue and real sensitivity to angle, despite there being no pleasurable sweet spot (like say a sailor nib or Lamy 2000). To me the fuliwen is a failed round nib. Jowo medium nibs can have these types of problems too, I don't contest that, but less so their finer nibs. I checked eBay to see if there are finer fuliwen nibs but could not find any. I won't even try moonman #6 style nib because I know those ruin the experience of the otherwise nice moonman pens like c1. 

[Mech-for-i]

The better current No.6 from China IMHO are the Fulin B and BB ( but they bother on BB and BBB ) , the Hero FM , and The PenBBS , if one can source iit, the old Guanleming ( GLM ) Sim type no.6 and the Golden Star ( Jinxing ) is a very smooth Medium & Fine respectively. Chinese Fine and EF nib are almost always somewhat dry and scratchy for those seeking to write cursive style , but they typically are well tuned for writing the home language in the typical daily usage and Quasi Calligraphy application, which are written with the pen way more vertical to the paper.

 

Baby Bottom seems pretty universal these days , its not any single brand , its perhaps the by product of too many asking for absolute no feedback, skate on the ice style smoothness , I've encounter them on Pelikan, Montblanc, and way too many expensive Italian names, and sadly been seeing more of these on Japanese and now Chinese pens too.

 

a ref photo

 

Starting from the Lamy  Safari B nib clockwise , is Golden Star ( Jinxing ) 1st version FM , Golden Star ( Jinxing ) 2nd version M , Fuliwan M, GLM M Lamy Safari M, Fulin B , Fulin BB

[MuddyWaters]

The penbbs nib is all that I have on hand. I could try it...

[A Smug Dill]

Doesn't Wing Sung make 35mm-long EF nibs for its model 699 pens? That should qualify as a “Chinese #6 EF” nib. I bought three of those on AliExpress as loose nibs. My wife has a Fuliwen 017, which I think she still hasn't inked since I bought it for her 18 months ago, so I'm not about to go and fit one of those on her ‘new’ pen now just to test the compatibility and performance, much less compare it against the original Fuliwen nib, though.

[MuddyWaters]

Thanks Smug, the WS nibs are probably more accessible through ebay canada.