Asvine v800

[drakolord]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DPCeuQbElef/

 

Spotted and reviewed by doodlebud. Have not seen it on Amazon yet.

[PBWilson1970]

 

Here's a video and there's a link to the Amazon listing. It makes good sense that they combined the C80 with the V126. Both pens get a lot of use over here. I especially like the looks of the clear one with silver trim. Nice price too! They'll sell a bunch.

[PBWilson1970]

 

[PBWilson1970]

I just ordered one in Clear with Silver trim and a Medium nib. It's going to take a few weeks to arrive, but I'm glad I took the plunge.

[Dan Carmell]

7 hours ago, PBWilson1970 said:

I just ordered one in Clear with Silver trim and a Medium nib. It's going to take a few weeks to arrive, but I'm glad I took the plunge.

Some colorways must be in stock in the US, because I just ordered an EF in the blue/white colorway. It’s actually swirled blue and translucent. Anyway, it’s arriving Tuesday 9/30. 

I love my V126 and I’m confident I’ll love this V800 as well. It’s definitely getting inked when it arrives. 
 

I am appreciative of the #40 nib brands who provide an EF option, like Asvine and Wing Sung and Hongdian for the A9. I need to buy an Asvine #40 stub in (unplated) steel and several of their new #35 stub nibs so I can swap more pens between EF and Stub nibs. Yes, I’m a man of extremes!

[lascosas]

I just noticed that Amazon is selling Asvine #40 replacement nib units, in all sizes.

[jthole]

I just bought a V800 with the 1.1mm stub to take with me for our next pen meet. I am very impressed with the Asvine #6 stub (it beats the JoWo 1.1mm stub for me).

I hope the #8 size stub will be at least as good as the #6!

[Dan Carmell]

15 hours ago, jthole said:

I just bought a V800 with the 1.1mm stub to take with me for our next pen meet. I am very impressed with the Asvine #6 stub (it beats the JoWo 1.1mm stub for me).

I hope the #8 size stub will be at least as good as the #6!

I think you will be equally pleased! Conversely, I’m eager to add #6 stubs to several of my Asvine favorites, probably the V200 and V169. 
 

My V800 (EF) arrived today. Very nice, but I won’t be inking it immediately—too many already inked. 

[jthole]

10 hours ago, Dan Carmell said:

 

My V800 (EF) arrived today. Very nice, but I won’t be inking it immediately—too many already inked. 

 

Congratulations, mine (stub) should arrive today. I will ink it, even though I already have too many pens inked as well, since I plan to attend a local pen meeting this weekend (so I want to bring the Asvine #6 and #8 stubs with me).

[Dan Carmell]

I hadn’t planned to ink the V800 immediately but I need a writing sample from an Asvine EF and realized I don’t have an EF inked, something that doesn’t happen often over the last few years. So I tried to ink the V800, and I’m glad I did, because it’s going back—it’s not filling properly. I’ve had vac fillers for years, from several different pen makers and since the acrylic is partly transparent, it’s clear the necessary vacuum isn’t being created. 
 

I do like the V800’s shape. It isn’t the classic or ideal shape I consider the V126 to be (in a class with the original Sheaffer Balance or Omas Ogiva), but it’s very friendly in my hand, very comfortable—unposted. The one fault I’ve identified (not the bad vac filler which I’d call a defect) is the cap band which feels flimsy and cheap. The look of it is fine, but it’s not very solid feeling to me. 

[lascosas]

I fill everything I can with a syringe, including vac fillers, but I did find this hard to fill, and it wouldn't fill more than half.  It didn't bother me, but tomorrow I will experiment with it more.  I don't like that when you loosen the end for ink flow the end piece rattles around.  And I think the band at the end of the cap looks cheap.  But somehow, taken together, I'm okay with this.  I bought the yellow which is only semi-translucent, but I like it.  If I want to check the ink level I can, but in general I don't notice the translucence.  

 

I bought the stub, and it is very nice.  Bouncy (more so than the #6 stub) quite wet and well tuned.  But while it looks like a stub, it writes like a broad, or even double broad.  Very little line variation in the different directions.  I noticed the same thing with the #6.

[drakolord]

20 hours ago, Dan Carmell said:

I hadn’t planned to ink the V800 immediately but I need a writing sample from an Asvine EF and realized I don’t have an EF inked, something that doesn’t happen often over the last few years. So I tried to ink the V800, and I’m glad I did, because it’s going back—it’s not filling properly. I’ve had vac fillers for years, from several different pen makers and since the acrylic is partly transparent, it’s clear the necessary vacuum isn’t being created. 
 

I do like the V800’s shape. It isn’t the classic or ideal shape I consider the V126 to be (in a class with the original Sheaffer Balance or Omas Ogiva), but it’s very friendly in my hand, very comfortable—unposted. The one fault I’ve identified (not the bad vac filler which I’d call a defect) is the cap band which feels flimsy and cheap. The look of it is fine, but it’s not very solid feeling to me. 

Did you try the super fill method from doodlebud. https://youtu.be/Y_4NKKc967c?si=JIFXE5rvRxWzLZRW go to 14:35

[lascosas]

Since I syringe vac fillers I use one of two methods with a very thin syringe needle: 1) if the gasket around the rod is soft, I place the vac rod all the way up & nudge the syringe needle under the gasket and fill (works for example with Opus88); or 2) depress the rod all the way back, fill the pen from the syringe and slowly push the rod up with the ink making its way around the gasket.  A variation of #2 is what was shown in the video.  The problem I had was that the gasket it so tightly fit that the ink wouldn't pass below easily.  I gave up waiting after slowly working the plunger down and the result was a 1/3 filled pen.  Maybe as it gets older the gasket will loosen up.  Maybe.

[jthole]

No issue with filling here really (I only wrote about one page, so this basically is the ink level after filling).

 

[Dan Carmell]

On 10/2/2025 at 4:18 PM, drakolord said:

Did you try the super fill method from doodlebud. https://youtu.be/Y_4NKKc967c?si=JIFXE5rvRxWzLZRW go to 14:35

I actually watched a doodlebug video for the first time, it was doodlebug filling the V800! He got only a partial fill as well (but still easily twice what I got) and so he demo’ed the super fill, which I’d heard of but never seen. 
 

Here’s the thing: I don’t want to make an extra effort to fill a vac filler, especially since I don’t need the full capacity anymore. I just want the filler to function properly. Between that and the cheap-feeling cap band (FYI people were criticizing it over on the Reddit sub as well), I may not replace the pen. 

[jthole]

Yes, I am not wild about the cap band either. Why not a simple plain ring instead of all those nubs?

[Penguincollector]

  The gentleman with the Fountain Pen Therapy channel said he found them on Amazon by going to the Asvine page and entering “v800” (no quotation marks) in the search bar for the page on the right, not the general Amazon search bar.

How to find v800 on Amazon/(somewhere around 9:15 in)

 

[lascosas]

Amazon seems to have solved the hidden pen problem.   You can just search for the pen & it shows up.

[langere]

Yes, I was able to order from Amazon last week and the pens have already arrived. So -the Amazon process works well.

 

Now, to ink them, once I have I have emptied the pens I just filled.

 

Erick

[jthole]

I had no problem at all finding them on the European Amazon pages (I usually check DE and NL both to see if there are any price differences). And I assume they use the same search engine as the Amazon USA site?