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Well i took the plunge and bought an x450 for a whole £1.84 hopefully it will help me.get my chicken scratch hand writing legible enough for my boss to read my job cards.
I have seen a few jinhao on eBay while looking that had fine and extra fine nibs, I may buy a 599 with an extra fine nib for a quid and try/swap them.
Just your luck I suppose. So the Extra Fine wasn't that fine after all?Got my Goulet EF replacement nib in the mail today.
Swapped out the stock Jinhao and put the Goulet on.
Writes a bit finer which is great...but holy cow this nib is SO scratchy!
It almost wants to bite into the paper - and does so audibly.
As it is it's unusable but will see if there is anyhing that can be done to it.
So a $2 Chinese pen (the entire pen) outperforms a $10-15 American nib by leaps and bounds.
@RedHorseman - I start with an 8000 and then go to a 12000 for polishing off. Although, if it is really scratchy, I would start with 4000, then move up through 8000, and 12000 as before. If you do use a 4000, be very careful as it doesn't take much at that grade to start removing metal...Oops, I may have just bought a jinhao 9009 for £1.77 in burgundy. Lucky they are cheap eh? Nico, I'll give it a go if I have problems with the tip, what grade do you use? I have up to12k
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Went a little bit Chinese-pen-crazy this sunny afternoon;
1) Ordered a Hero 861 w/ Fine nib ($1.80 w/ free shipping);
Wow , that is a bit crazy. I've got the same (4 horses design) pen but made by Baoer (another Chinese co.). It's an excellent smooth writer. It was a Xmas present - we're big spenders (;
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