Great looking pen, love the red and gold. Diamine Red Dragon is a perfect match for it. Jinhao is great, even if the nibs aren't always perfect, they are amazing for the price.
Hi Rob. Skeleton, Halloween.. I see what you did there! I think gold over the transparent red works wonderfully. A nice colour combination. Overall a good looking pen but sorry you were a bit disappointed with the nib. I hope the nib smoothing works out well and improves the writing performance. I don't own any skeleton pens yet. Perhaps one day I will.
As to Jinhao nibs: are they as prone to needing work as the LAMY ones you've had problems with? I seem to remember you having around a 20% rate of LAMY nibs with issues. I have to admit, I don't see the fascination with eyedropper filling a pen. Mostly because I frequently change inks and pens.😁 That said, the metal bits are generally plated brass, and brass was used for some inkwells with dip pen ink, throughout the past, when inks tended to be more corrosive than any used today for fountain pens. Not going to do it, but, for me, it's like the obsession with silicone grease "to prevent leakage" when modern pens are generally considered tighter tolerances than the potentially hand cut threads used by early pens, with no leaking from the threads. Is there REALLY evidence that they would significantly corrode in contact with ink? I might have to test this... Though I don't like eyedropper filler pens, usually.😁 (And wouldn't silicone grease prevent the corrosion? Making me curious...) Though my focus has been vintage, lately (you can find a nice gold nibbed pen that writes decently for sometimes the price of some Chinese pens. Just got a almost new condition, after removing the grime from decades of knocking about in storage, 1940s Wahl-Eversharp Skyline for $26 USD, for example, and an arguably 1958, though they first show in catalogues in 1960, through 1962 Eversharp by Parker "10,000 Word Pen," the ancestor of the Parker 45, for $3.26 USD. Less than most Chinese pens currently.) I like the design of flattop pens. The Jinhao 100 is one of them. And I quite like the look of the red and gold. The pairing with Diamine Red Dragon was perfect, IMO. Though I don't have that ink currently. Gave my bottle to a niece recently (she's into dip pen calligraphy, and I also gave her her first fountain pen, a late 1940s Waterman's Taperite, and she didn't have any fountain pen ink, so I told her to choose one out of my frankly "don't know how I'll use it all in my lifetime" selection.😁) Was starting to wonder if I'd hear from you this week, as you generally post videos in the morning. 😁 Hope you had a lovely weekend, and have a great week!
There will be 2 videos this week as a special treat 😉🎃 As for dodgy nibs, I’ll estimate that Jinhao used to have an overall rate of 10% of nibs requiring tuning. In the last 12 months this now stands at 50% However, I have had zero problems my Jinhao 80 fountain pens - it’s the other models (made elsewhere in China?) which affect this percentage. Out of all new Jinhao models (not including the 80) the percentage of dodgy nibs it’s currently more like 90% or higher!
@@FountainPenJourney Maybe it's an increase in production, with no increase in QC... Though I've not gotten any newer Jinhao since I bought an X159, so I really only have videos for point of reference. I remember Brian Goulet saying that Jinhao, when selling to them, would have preferred lots of 10,000 or more, so it's definitely a high volume production, which is arguably why LAMY has had their issues as well.
