Great well thought out video. I'm just getting into fountain pens and these Chinese pens are a great way to figure out what kind of pens I enjoy without breaking the bank. With so many to wade through online I appreciate your reviews very much. 👍😎
I've heard that some people having trouble with the ink leaking by wingsung 3008, did that happen to you? i really like the pen but Im so afraid of getting ink on my finger
Hello! No problems with leaking. Only problem that I had with original model was (like described here) the rust on the screw inside the cap. Other than that, this pen is a charm, smooth nib and high ink capacity. I vouch for this pen!
Pens from BAOER are good.The 388 is a grest pen its not scratchy if you use it regularly.Once i bought an inexpensive plastic pen fron Inoxcrom,at first the iridium nib was scratchy,but using it regularly,became a great pen ..! The same stands for BAOER pens.
@@offrampt I'm British and have been using fountain pens on and off since secondary school (age 11) now 27. I just think every country has different appreciation for them. Definitely going out of style. I'm finding it harder to get a variety of affordable fountain pens off the shelf.
I subscribed for your beautiful accent. I do love inexpensive fountain pens. I have several Jinhaos, mostly the big heavy ones. I want to check out your new sources. I’m in the USA, so I usually shop on Amazon or US retailers. I do not like scratchy nibs so I’m leaning toward medium nibs. I love the Kakunos as well. You present so well. 💝
I just received the Wing Sung 7363 which is their ECO clone. It has the same filling mechanism as the 3008. The nib was trashed but I had a few spares around so no big problem there. Same balance and feel as the 3008 with a plain cap and fewer shiny bits.
Thanks so much for your reviews. They encouraged me to but the JinHao 911, as well as the Baoer 388. The first is comfortable but a bit scratchy. The Baoer 388 is just delightful though. Beautiful pen and easy flow,and writes like a dream. I , like you have tried numbers of odd ingredients for ink like red wine, calamari sepia, boiled red onion skins etc with various but generally unhappy results. I was so pleased to see your video on food colouring. I went straight to the kitchen cupboard and immediately tried, with EXCELLENT results. In fact I had a clogged pen that would not write with proper ink, and which now writes well with the colouring!!!! I am an artist,so I have played around with the tones, and have found something I am happy with. A mixture of red and a little blue to make a sepia sort of colour, delightful to draw with.Thanks so much, you are informative, well spoken, and helpful. So nice to hear an aussie accent for a change too!
From what I understand the chinese government subsidises shipping for many of these companies to make them competitive, hence them being able to sell these $1-3 pens
That is my understanding as well. I'll use them to fuel my desire to tinker. I recently ground a "stub" from a Jinaho 992. Not perfect (as I removed all the tipping material) , but its fun to write with and relatively smooth.
Love this review I wish you’d shown how they write , just ordered a Jinhao with worry because of the low price , now I’m looking forward to its delivery , Thank you for sharing x
thank you for making great reviews. I just got a wing sung 698 as my first fountain pen and am loving how it writes. I just ordered a few wing sung 3008's to have different colors. hopefully they work well.
My choices: for both metal body and hooded nib, the Wing Sung 6100 (if you can find them.) Your choice of the other Wing Sung for the metal body is great as well. Plastic body? Hands down you nailed it with the Jinhao 992. Another hooded nib one would be the Jinhao 51A with the hooded nib. Large nib would be the Jinhao number 6 nibbed pens (I'm partial to the 159, myself. I kind of need the primary crayon in the hands of a very small toddler vibe of it. 😁) Piston filler would be the Wing Sung 3008.
I bought a Wing Sung 3001. It says "Wing · S" on the clip, the nib says "Wing Sung", and the band has the Wing Sung logo with the number 3001. It's a nice pen that writes very well. The only complaint is that if I open the barrel the converter has a habit of falling out. There's not a good fit.
I bought a Jinhao 450 from the wish.com site a few months ago......quite satisfied with the smooth writing pen and 60ml Hero ink which at 6$nz was 1/3 the locally available ink. Value for money...if you don't mind the 6-8 weeks delivery time from Suzhou to NZ.
Jinhao plastic tends to crack. I bought the Jinhao you mentioned in the video. All in different colors. They have all cracked where the cap screws to the body. Gigity.
Sorry to hear that, I have only had one 992 crack and a 599 crack (and since then I have never recommended that pen) but apart from that all my experiences with jinhao have been very positive.
Hi! I’m really enjoying your videos but can’t remember whether I saw you review the Wing Sung 619. IG you haven’t definitely do. It’s an excellent piston pen and now that I have one, I definitely want more!
Excellent report. Are any of these pens eyedropper-friendly? As you said, the JinHao x450/x/750 nibs can be replaced with #6 nibs. Are any of the other nibs replaceable, such as with a #5?
The best fountain pen I ever had was a Waterman Phileas Kultur wich was the cheapest from waterman (8,5€ at the time). Then I tried the new waterman allure (17€) wich is not as good, and the 40€ parker IM wich was by far the worst. Since the price is unrelated with the quality from my point of view, I bought about 5 chinese fountain pens yesterday (from 1,5 to 5,5€) to know if their quality/price ratio is higher than europeans fountain pens...
Previous owner of the Baoer 301. Definitely one of the best pens I ever had. There is a Lamy Safari with a hooded nib, by the way. Jinhao 878 with 0.38mm. I really like extra fine pens so I ordered the 911 after your review. Small and sharp pen is very much my thing. And I suggest you order Hero 9626 for giggles. It's a sub $2 fulmetal hooded pen with funky looks. 25g and 13cm. It's surprisingly heavy for its small size. Gold-ish fine hooded nib does the job. Overall a guilty pleasure of mine. Bought it for my mom but kept it because it's just great. Curious how it compares to the 911.
I bought a Jinhao hooded pen last night. When it comes in I'm going to try out using food coloring for the ink in it. Your channel is very interesting because you review chinese pens and have a diy approach to pens, which I like, as a newbie in the fountain pen world.
JPL, How is your Jinhao 992? There's a lot of talking on the net about cracking plastic on this model, and I have ordered two of them, one demonstrator, and one black.
Mine recently cracked, both, on the cap. It's a pity since they were pretty good pens, but for the price I cannot really complain. Looking right now for an alternative
my first jinhao 886 was amazing. it wrote like a medium nib pen. the ink flow was smooth and consistent. it was light weight and wrote well on all kinds of paper. in fact i was so impressed that i bought a 2nd jinhao 886 and it turned out to be a complete failure. way too much ink flow even on good quality paper, wetting the paper completely, rendering the other side of the sheet completely useless. so one success and one complete failure. which is still better than hero 616, four failures and no success so far, lol.
ghalib khan That seems to be the kind of odds you get with the Chinese pens. You almost take what you get. Some work, some don't. I have the Sheaffer School pen that is the perfect depiction of a cigar pen. Jinhao 886 so much reminds me of that pain. They are so much alike. At least in writing. The Filling systems are just a little different in the way they hold the cartridge. But nib performance, ink flow, handling size, they are so much alike, and both of them are a pleasure to write with. I hope your future purchases of the 886 will give you such pleasure to write with. Happy writing!
I recently purchased 3 Wing Sung 6359, and while I love the pen. Mine have a plastic barrel and cap! I wanted the metal version, and I am a bit weary of purchasing them on eBay, because I didn't get what I originally wanted. All the listings I saw say that the material is metal + ABS. Does anyone know where else I can get a metal Wing Sung 6359?
I had a horrible experience with the Jinhao 911. Super dry, hard starts, skipping--it was in every way awful. I ended up gifting it to someone who was willing to tinker with it to get it to work. My favorite hooded nib pen is a bit of an odd duck. The eBay seller calls it the You 291, but if you look at the actual pen's markings, the cap clearly says Luoshi, a known Chinese pen brand. It's not only an all-metal body pen with beautiful weight and balance to it, but also an incredibly smooth and wet writer. In fact, it writes better than some pens 50 times its $2.99 USD price. It even looked better in person than it did online! Cannot recommend it highly enough.
Enjoyed the Video. Just one point. The pen you described as the Baoer 301...isn't. It's the 801. You described it as a Parker Vector knockoff. Again, it isn't. It's a copy of a much more expensive Parker, the name of which escapes me.
Hi Harriet. Yes, you are right. The 801 is a copy of the Parker Rialto actually. I have a number of 801's- they are fantastic for the money, and, in my opinion they are far superior to the Vector- which I also have several of. The 801's come in numerous finishes. I have a couple of Green Leopards and Aurora Borialis, plus the stainless steel.
@@jpl2475 there is no wing sung 6359 on Aliexpress please if you have link then send me here I've been searching for past few hours but only Ebay have these pens.
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Metal pens - Wing Sung 6359 - Baoer 388 - Baoer 801
Plastic body pens - Jinhao 992 - Wing Sung 3003 - Wing Sung 3001
Hooded nib - Jinhao 911 - Jinhao 993 (shark)
Large nib - Jinhao x450/x750
Piston pen - Wing Sung 3008
Check out the Wing Sung 3010 for a hooded nib pen.
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Your style of conversation is marvelous wonderful well done keep it up
Great well thought out video. I'm just getting into fountain pens and these Chinese pens are a great way to figure out what kind of pens I enjoy without breaking the bank. With so many to wade through online I appreciate your reviews very much. 👍😎
I’m impressed that you make your own fountain pens 👍💝
Nice video! My favorite Chinese pen is the Piston filler Wing Sung 3008!!! I got 3 and all of them write like a charm!
I've heard that some people having trouble with the ink leaking by wingsung 3008, did that happen to you? i really like the pen but Im so afraid of getting ink on my finger
Hello! No problems with leaking. Only problem that I had with original model was (like described here) the rust on the screw inside the cap. Other than that, this pen is a charm, smooth nib and high ink capacity. I vouch for this pen!
Great video. He is knowledgeable and eloquent. Also, good looking.
Pens from BAOER are good.The 388 is a grest pen its not scratchy if you use it regularly.Once i bought an inexpensive plastic pen fron Inoxcrom,at first the iridium nib was scratchy,but using it regularly,became a great pen ..! The same stands for BAOER pens.
excellent poster, you are by far the best reviewer of chinese pens. wonderful exploitation of the niche
Cheers man, for the next few reviews I'm going to non-chinese pens which will be a fun change.l
He looks - if I can say this - the wrong age to be a fountain pen user.
@@offrampt
I'm British and have been using fountain pens on and off since secondary school (age 11) now 27. I just think every country has different appreciation for them. Definitely going out of style. I'm finding it harder to get a variety of affordable fountain pens off the shelf.
I subscribed for your beautiful accent. I do love inexpensive fountain pens. I have several Jinhaos, mostly the big heavy ones. I want to check out your new sources. I’m in the USA, so I usually shop on Amazon or US retailers. I do not like scratchy nibs so I’m leaning toward medium nibs. I love the Kakunos as well. You present so well. 💝
I just received the Wing Sung 7363 which is their ECO clone. It has the same filling mechanism as the 3008. The nib was trashed but I had a few spares around so no big problem there. Same balance and feel as the 3008 with a plain cap and fewer shiny bits.
Great video, keep making them!👍👍👍
Please do writing samples with these pens.. some people like to hear if they're scratchy or not and to see line variances of specific nib sizes.
Top five from China: PenBBS 308, PenBBS 309, PenBBS 323, Wing Sung 601, Moonman M2. They are more than $5 but still great value for money.
Thanks so much for your reviews. They encouraged me to but the JinHao 911, as well as the Baoer 388. The first is comfortable but a bit scratchy. The Baoer 388 is just delightful though. Beautiful pen and easy flow,and writes like a dream. I , like you have tried numbers of odd ingredients for ink like red wine, calamari sepia, boiled red onion skins etc with various but generally unhappy results. I was so pleased to see your video on food colouring. I went straight to the kitchen cupboard and immediately tried, with EXCELLENT results. In fact I had a clogged pen that would not write with proper ink, and which now writes well with the colouring!!!! I am an artist,so I have played around with the tones, and have found something I am happy with. A mixture of red and a little blue to make a sepia sort of colour, delightful to draw with.Thanks so much, you are informative, well spoken, and helpful. So nice to hear an aussie accent for a change too!
Really great review, Mate. Thanks for sharing your findings. Keep up the fantastic work.
I have few baoer . Their nib bends permanently if you put some pressure on in. Metal quality is pure.
The Jinhao 992 is my favorite. Many pens especially the more cigar shaped one's are a bit heavy for my hand.
Me too
Thanks for “making me” buy 3 Wing Sung 6359s before the video was even over. Haha
At this rate Wing Sung need to start paying me for these reviews lol
though, i;m not sure they are making enough money after paying shipping charges with the low low price they charge. Haha.
From what I understand the chinese government subsidises shipping for many of these companies to make them competitive, hence them being able to sell these $1-3 pens
That is my understanding as well. I'll use them to fuel my desire to tinker. I recently ground a "stub" from a Jinaho 992. Not perfect (as I removed all the tipping material) , but its fun to write with and relatively smooth.
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Love this review I wish you’d shown how they write , just ordered a Jinhao with worry because of the low price , now I’m looking forward to its delivery , Thank you for sharing x
I have 4 JinHao's, I love them.
You will love it.
Just bought a wingsung 3008 to tide me over until I can save up for a twisbi 580AL in purple. Thanks for the heads up!
thank you for making great reviews. I just got a wing sung 698 as my first fountain pen and am loving how it writes. I just ordered a few wing sung 3008's to have different colors. hopefully they work well.
Jinhao 699. Hooded nib, matt black metal body. Awesome pen! For big one, check Jinhao 159
One of my favorites.
My choices: for both metal body and hooded nib, the Wing Sung 6100 (if you can find them.) Your choice of the other Wing Sung for the metal body is great as well.
Plastic body? Hands down you nailed it with the Jinhao 992. Another hooded nib one would be the Jinhao 51A with the hooded nib.
Large nib would be the Jinhao number 6 nibbed pens (I'm partial to the 159, myself. I kind of need the primary crayon in the hands of a very small toddler vibe of it. 😁)
Piston filler would be the Wing Sung 3008.
Excellent review pleasekeepwithyouygoodjob thank you I enjoyyouyrvideo cheer
Excellent review. Many. thanks!
Great overview. I own almost all of these because of some of your reviews. The only one I have yet to pick up is that Lamy AL-Star copy.
If you like the lamy style grip, that's the next best thing to a real lamy
Most excellent review my good chap. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Cheers, thanks for watching :)
I bought a Wing Sung 3001. It says "Wing · S" on the clip, the nib says "Wing Sung", and the band has the Wing Sung logo with the number 3001. It's a nice pen that writes very well. The only complaint is that if I open the barrel the converter has a habit of falling out. There's not a good fit.
I bought a Jinhao 450 from the wish.com site a few months ago......quite satisfied with the smooth writing pen and 60ml Hero ink which at 6$nz was 1/3 the locally available ink. Value for money...if you don't mind the 6-8 weeks delivery time from Suzhou to NZ.
Jinhao plastic tends to crack. I bought the Jinhao you mentioned in the video. All in different colors. They have all cracked where the cap screws to the body. Gigity.
Sorry to hear that, I have only had one 992 crack and a 599 crack (and since then I have never recommended that pen) but apart from that all my experiences with jinhao have been very positive.
How does ink comes out so nicely with your pens?, Is it because of the ink or the pen?, If it is the ink then please guide me with ink?
Hi! I’m really enjoying your videos but can’t remember whether I saw you review the Wing Sung 619. IG you haven’t definitely do. It’s an excellent piston pen and now that I have one, I definitely want more!
Hello there,
One more brilliant video by JPL 😊
Out of the lot which is the best writter
Also does the noodlers #6 nib fit in a jinhao x 750
Yes, it does.
Got did up like it was an award ceremony. Good video.
How would you compare the Jin hao 159 with the x450 or 750?
Excellent report. Are any of these pens eyedropper-friendly? As you said, the JinHao x450/x/750 nibs can be replaced with #6 nibs. Are any of the other nibs replaceable, such as with a #5?
Hello there,
One more brilliant video by JPL
Out of the lot which is the best writter
Also does the noodlers #6 nib fit in a jinhao x 750
The best fountain pen I ever had was a Waterman Phileas Kultur wich was the cheapest from waterman (8,5€ at the time). Then I tried the new waterman allure (17€) wich is not as good, and the 40€ parker IM wich was by far the worst. Since the price is unrelated with the quality from my point of view, I bought about 5 chinese fountain pens yesterday (from 1,5 to 5,5€) to know if their quality/price ratio is higher than europeans fountain pens...
You made me buy 2 pens during this vid ... I hate you, I hate you, and I love your vids !! :)
Previous owner of the Baoer 301. Definitely one of the best pens I ever had. There is a Lamy Safari with a hooded nib, by the way. Jinhao 878 with 0.38mm. I really like extra fine pens so I ordered the 911 after your review. Small and sharp pen is very much my thing. And I suggest you order Hero 9626 for giggles. It's a sub $2 fulmetal hooded pen with funky looks. 25g and 13cm. It's surprisingly heavy for its small size. Gold-ish fine hooded nib does the job. Overall a guilty pleasure of mine. Bought it for my mom but kept it because it's just great. Curious how it compares to the 911.
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How about the Jinhao 126? I have one and I love it!
Boer 301 looks like Parker vector
Thanks for the recommended list. Can you include the pens in the description?
Thanks for the list!
No worries :) I will probably make a new one soon because there are just so many Chinese fountain pens coming out
I bought a Jinhao hooded pen last night. When it comes in I'm going to try out using food coloring for the ink in it. Your channel is very interesting because you review chinese pens and have a diy approach to pens, which I like, as a newbie in the fountain pen world.
JPL, How is your Jinhao 992? There's a lot of talking on the net about cracking plastic on this model, and I have ordered two of them, one demonstrator, and one black.
Mine recently cracked, both, on the cap. It's a pity since they were pretty good pens, but for the price I cannot really complain. Looking right now for an alternative
Yes!
Hero 1501 looks very interesting next time when you have a dig at chines pens.
2 Jinhao pens I've not heard you review/mention are the 886 and the hooded 611. Have you ever reviewed them?
my first jinhao 886 was amazing. it wrote like a medium nib pen. the ink flow was smooth and consistent. it was light weight and wrote well on all kinds of paper. in fact i was so impressed that i bought a 2nd jinhao 886 and it turned out to be a complete failure. way too much ink flow even on good quality paper, wetting the paper completely, rendering the other side of the sheet completely useless.
so one success and one complete failure.
which is still better than hero 616, four failures and no success so far, lol.
ghalib khan That seems to be the kind of odds you get with the Chinese pens. You almost take what you get. Some work, some don't. I have the Sheaffer School pen that is the perfect depiction of a cigar pen. Jinhao 886 so much reminds me of that pain. They are so much alike. At least in writing. The Filling systems are just a little different in the way they hold the cartridge. But nib performance, ink flow, handling size, they are so much alike, and both of them are a pleasure to write with. I hope your future purchases of the 886 will give you such pleasure to write with. Happy writing!
I recently purchased 3 Wing Sung 6359, and while I love the pen. Mine have a plastic barrel and cap! I wanted the metal version, and I am a bit weary of purchasing them on eBay, because I didn't get what I originally wanted. All the listings I saw say that the material is metal + ABS. Does anyone know where else I can get a metal Wing Sung 6359?
I had a horrible experience with the Jinhao 911. Super dry, hard starts, skipping--it was in every way awful. I ended up gifting it to someone who was willing to tinker with it to get it to work. My favorite hooded nib pen is a bit of an odd duck. The eBay seller calls it the You 291, but if you look at the actual pen's markings, the cap clearly says Luoshi, a known Chinese pen brand. It's not only an all-metal body pen with beautiful weight and balance to it, but also an incredibly smooth and wet writer. In fact, it writes better than some pens 50 times its $2.99 USD price. It even looked better in person than it did online! Cannot recommend it highly enough.
You didnt mention Jinhao 159??? =[
How do u have only 1k sub's
Great bid just getting into fountain pens
If possible do a beginners guide to fountain pens
Yeah I could totally do something like that. Thanks for watching :)
JPL no worries thank you
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I realy not like jinhao 992 because it is so dry the black become gray
Wwhat did you say the other competitor to the WIngSung 3008 is? It sounded like LambyTaub 6359 at the 12:20 mark?
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Enjoyed the Video. Just one point. The pen you described as the Baoer 301...isn't. It's the 801. You described it as a Parker Vector knockoff. Again, it isn't. It's a copy of a much more expensive Parker, the name of which escapes me.
Hi Harriet. Yes, you are right. The 801 is a copy of the Parker Rialto actually. I have a number of 801's- they are fantastic for the money, and, in my opinion they are far superior to the Vector- which I also have several of. The 801's come in numerous finishes. I have a couple of Green Leopards and Aurora Borialis, plus the stainless steel.
Nice presentation...
Thankyou
Hi, do you know is there a good copy of Pilot (Namiki) Falcon?
I have been looking out for one for a bit, have not yet found one
PenBBS pens?? Would like your feedback on 308/309/332
Ordered a 308, its in the mail right now :)
Prepare to be impressed.
Where are you buying these from? I ordered a x450 from eBay and it has a 36 day delivery window. There has to be a better way to get Chinese pens.
there's aliexpress which is, from my experience, faster than ebay
I have slowly been ordering more pens from aliexpress. Free airmail cuts the delivery time from > a month to a little over 2 weeks.
Look for postage via E-packet. Those are generally 2-3 weeks. But generally it's slow. That's why they can push the prices through the floor.
Amazon takes 15 days you can pay for express delivery but you could buy 20 more for that price
@@jpl2475 there is no wing sung 6359 on Aliexpress please if you have link then send me here I've been searching for past few hours but only Ebay have these pens.
Not a copy of vector,but Rialto.
How was ur HSC?
Did you mean Wing Sung 3008 instead of 3003?
In which category? I had both pens in this video.
There is no 3003 on eBay but a 3008
Just checked and there are 3003 located in china. the 3003 and 3008 are two different pens
JPL OK could u plz send link I would like to check it out
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Caliarts ?
That might be a good pen, I have one in shipment, but this video was for pens under $5 and that pen costs at least $10
JPL might bad I forgot it was 5 limit
Anyone know Hero pens?
I used lots of Hero pens during my primary school days
Kamail Kassim that’s great!
New zelend?
Australia lol
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God bless China and their zero fucks to copyright infringement for their cheap knockoff pens ^_^
australian accent though XD
STRAYA!
I don’t think it’s cool that China can knock off products that others worked hard to create. I’ll buy the original.
Lucky you can afford to do that.
I am sorry to say this, but I dislike this video, because it supports product piracy.
So you never buy store brands? Only major brands. How many folks can spend hundreds of dollars on pens⁉️⁉️⁉️
Can you give me the wing sung 6359