What Chinese Pens Are You Using Today ?

[Dan Carmell]

2 hours ago, Penguincollector said:

  I’ve been looking at the Dragon 100 and can’t decide which color I prefer. Both the green and the red are pretty. They remind me of the Cross Botanica and Wanderlust lines, which have a similar background. 

I picked the green after the vendor told me red was more popular, being a dedicated contrarian! I’m sure you’re aware, but this pen is based on the Hero 100, so it has a screw cap and is a bit bigger, with a zogan (is that the right word?) on the section and a laser engraved LE number on the barrel. 
 

The 100 was my first Chinese pen and I’ve picked up several of the metal ones. There were at least two commemorative or LE pens based on the old version and since the 100 was Hero’s flagship pen for so long, I imagine there were others I’ll never see. 

[Penguincollector]

2 hours ago, Dan Carmell said:

I picked the green after the vendor told me red was more popular, being a dedicated contrarian!

  I have the green in my cart. If there was a blue, that would have already been here. Red dragons are always popular, double good fortune. I love the inlaid hooded sections; I wish most pens even just had a dot, so that the hood lines up nicely with the nib on the screw on sections. 

[Stompie]

20 hours ago, Stefan-Ionut-Marius said:

Today Fountain pens are :

Hero 343,

Hero Brass poket fountain pen .

 

I see all your posts and questions came to mind:

 

I wonder how many pens you have inked up at any one time?

I wonder if you only partially fill them each time you ink up a new pen?

I wonder if you just dip them into ink to write the required amount of words?

I wonder if you flush each pen out after use?

[Stefan-Ionut-Marius]

On 12/15/2024 at 1:55 PM, Stompie said:

 

I see all your posts and questions came to mind:

 

I wonder how many pens you have inked up at any one time?

I wonder if you only partially fill them each time you ink up a new pen?

I wonder if you just dip them into ink to write the required amount of words?

I wonder if you flush each pen out after use?

I currently have many pens full of ink, even too many around 30 and some of these pens i use only once, if I don't really like how the pen writes, after the
 ink is finished I flush each pen out  and i put the pen away.

I do not store any fountain pen before washing it and well i do not use pens unless they are fully filled with ink . 
But I also have about 8 pens that are constantly in rotation and full of ink.

[Stompie]

[Gloucesterman]

On 12/9/2024 at 1:22 AM, USG said:

I have many pens that can’t draw ink from a sample vial.  I unscrew the nib and eye dropper ink into the pen and replace the nib.  Converter pens are even easier.  Syringe ink from the vial into the converter.  

OR, you could fill the converter directly from the sample vial/bottle (if there is enough ink available).

[Stefan-Ionut-Marius]

1) Hero 100 -  Year of the Dragon (S.E) , Nib F, 14K gold,
2) Hero 1000 -  C.T , nib F, 10K gold. 

 

[USG]

On 12/25/2024 at 8:47 PM, Gloucesterman said:

OR, you could fill the converter directly from the sample vial/bottle (if there is enough ink available).

+1.   😀👍

[fabrimedeiros]

Majohn P139. What a great pen!

[USG]

3 hours ago, fabrimedeiros said:

Majohn P139. What a great pen!

 

Very nice pen. 😀👍 

I see you got the #8 nib.  Is it a fine or a medium?  

Could you go into a little detail about why you like it?

 

[Stefan-Ionut-Marius]

Hero 100 DingXin .

[Mech-for-i]

Moonman 80 ,inked with Platinum Fuji iron gall blue black

[Dillo]

On 2/25/2025 at 12:53 AM, Mech-for-i said:

Moonman 80 ,inked with Platinum Fuji iron gall blue black

 

When you are done with it, clean it well. That ink corroded out both the original nib of my 80 and corroded the screw in the inner cap. I now have a Parker nib in my 80. If you want to use that ink in the 80, you can use a gold Parker 45 nib instead of the original.

[Mech-for-i]

On 2/28/2025 at 10:17 AM, Dillo said:

 

When you are done with it, clean it well. That ink corroded out both the original nib of my 80 and corroded the screw in the inner cap. I now have a Parker nib in my 80. If you want to use that ink in the 80, you can use a gold Parker 45 nib instead of the original.

ok thanks

 

[USG]

On 2/27/2025 at 9:17 PM, Dillo said:

 

When you are done with it, clean it well. That ink corroded out both the original nib of my 80 and corroded the screw in the inner cap. I now have a Parker nib in my 80. If you want to use that ink in the 80, you can use a gold Parker 45 nib instead of the original.

‘How long was it in the pen before it corroded the nib?  Is Fuji more corrosive or does this apply to regular Platinum Blue Black as well?

[Dillo]

3 hours ago, USG said:

‘How long was it in the pen before it corroded the nib?  Is Fuji more corrosive or does this apply to regular Platinum Blue Black as well?

Both seem to be the same formula and they both behave in similar ways. It took a few weeks.

[USG]

6 hours ago, Dillo said:

Both seem to be the same formula and they both behave in similar ways. It took a few weeks.

Thanks, good to know.😀  I've had it in an Asvine V200 for a few weeks.

[Dillo]

I recommend using that ink in anything that has a gold nib and doesn't have non-gold or titanium metals in the ink path. I've used it for years. It's one of my favorite inks and one of the very first inks I ever used decades ago. It's not uncommon to find pens that have chewed up trim rings or nibs that used this ink because it was also a very common ink in my mom's country. Pen with gold nibs generally get along with it fine, even if they have been used that way for several decades. It's also been remarkably consistent. I don't notice many or any changes in this ink from the entire time I've used it. The color, performance, and consistency seems quite the same as I remember it.

[Stefan-Ionut-Marius]

Well ! 

Speaking of gold nib pens !

Hero 132 , CT, 12 k, F nib , from 1998 ! 

[Penguincollector]

  I just filled a Wing Sung 601a with Namiki Black last night for its first fill, and it’s really smooth. The ink might be slightly too wet for it, but it’s a nice writing experience. Other than that, I have a Yiren IEF, Wing Sung 698 SF, an anonymous M blue Sonnet clone, a Nonami piston that I also ground into an IEF, a five below EF hooded nib Safariesque pen, and a green Moonman B-25 F inked and in rotation for the day. That’s my Chinese pen group this week.