Hero Pens?

[ghostb]

Has anyone got any experience with the 187 semi-flex nib?

I recently bought a second hand one. It's a great pen, but the nib is to stiff for me. I am looking for a full flex now.

 

[wednesday_mac]

If you like plastic pen bodies and consistent (mostly) writers, and/or Parkers, you'll like Hero pens. If you were a teenager in the 50s, definitely.

 

I find them eh... and I've a skinny gold one that has never written without skipping and thinning out that needs to go back to isellpens (NOT Todd's fault, I love his Sheaffers and Kaigelus and the other two Heros he sold me were fine).

 

If I lose a Hero pen, I don't weep. If I use one, I don't rejoice. They're just average everyday pens to me, but I don't much care for plastic-bodied pens, so I'm prejudiced.

[EventHorizon]

I have a Hero 563 and no complaints and I am not a fan of all metal bodied pens. Wednesday-Mac, maybe the 563 you would like. Picture from isellpens

Edited April 25, 2008 by EventHorizon

[kalali]

I was looking on Isellpens.com and saw a brand called Hero. Are they any good? They look cool and are pretty cheap.

 

Read the Pen Review section. There are quite a few reviews on the Hero pens. As for my personal input, I recently purchased a couple of them and I think they are generally pretty well made and the nibs are OK as long as you like "fine" nibs. If you have your heart set on buying one, I recommend the larger size (jumbo) 616.

 

[SallyLyn]

I have a ton of Heros and love them all... 100, 200A, 110 are the smoothest writers, also the 800, look at it if you want a smooth writer with a Medium nib, it's a Parker 45 clone.

Other Heros I have and all are good writers, have several in rotation always, 329, 330, 332, 616 reg or jumbo, 58M (out of production), 237-1 an XXXF (out of production).

 

As mentioned, look at the Pilot 78Gs, a very nice writing, lightweight pen... The Medium writes like a Western Fine, so the Fine is an XF or XXF. I have a bunch, one Medium is reserved for my Baystate Blue. May have to buy more for the rest of the colors!

 

Also look at the Wing Sungs the 237 is a good writer and very cheap price.

 

The selection of good/great inexpensive writers is vast.

 

Enjoy!