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Hi all.

 

I have a new pen, this an ASA Nauka from India, and I must replace the Jowo nib. I have my favorite nibbers in the US, but I'm in Hong Kong and would like to find someone in this region to avoid high shipping costs. Any recommendations?

 

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I'm not familiar with which retailers operate from Hong Kong (where I spent my "formative" years, incidentally), sorry. But I think the best way to avoid high shipping costs is simply to order from an overseas retailer that offer "free" international shipping when you buy enough from it in a single order. It gets the total revenue — which may or may exceed what you want to spend in total — but you get it all in tangible products and none of that spend is lost to "services" for which you have nothing to show afterwards; so that's the win-win solution (with drawbacks and compromises) as far as I'm concerned as a buyer.

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Look for nib units that use the same JoWo housing. E.g. opus 88 no 12 housing is the same as JoWo 6. You should be able to find something locally.

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Look on Baopals or Pandaboo. Pandaboo has agents who can tweak the search engine to give better results if they see you are looking through lots of results. I have seen retailers selling Bock nibs. I can't remember if I saw Jowo nibs as well. I search so much things run together...

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Thank you all! Sorry I've been missing. I ended up inserting an old Jowo nib. But the Opus 88 nibs are really special -- soft and therefore, subject to terrible disfigurement if dropped.

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