I've owned a 992 for almost a year now it is my favorite pen to write with. I've used parker, Monteverdi, Conklin and this pen is my favorite writer. much better than parkers entry level pens.
I'm with you, I have a Faber Castell Loom which cost far more than the 992 and guess which one is still my favorite? Even the stainless steel nib of the Jinhao performs as good as the Loom.
I just got one of these today (1 of 4 ordered). I’m thrilled with it! The nib is fine but writes like a medium, which I like. I inked it up with some Robert Oster Tranquility and away I go!
Chris, I can now understand why you were raving about the 992. I got one for myself and was greatly surprised at how well they looked and wrote for the price. Great review! And thanks for leading me to get this pen.
Got one last week and could not agree more. Jinhao has come a very long way since I first bought a bunch of models 2.5 years ago. "WOW" is right, Chris. Thanks for this fine review.
I took the plunge too... ordered 2 clear fine nib pens. $1.78 each. Amazing. I'll probably take my round file to one of them and squeeze out a little more flex.
I've been tottering on the edge of buying a pack of these pens for a little while now. Your review just pushed me over. Looking forward to receiving them.
Chris, you've done it again! I have just bought 3 of this Jinhao 992 Transparent, one for myself and the rest as gifts to convert some friends to using fountain pens....fingers crossed and waish me luck.
I received two 992's a few weeks ago as well. The green one I purchased came with some cracks at the bottom of the barrel as another commenter referenced. Using that particular one for an eyedropper probably isn't a good idea. The other pen appears to be fully intact though. I loved your review and agree that this pen is a great writer. I've been using the green pen daily at work for a couple of weeks now and it performs wonderfully.
I have purchased jinhao pens in the past but it's been a while. I have an x750 with a 1.9mm stub nib and I carried a Jinhao 886 with me everyday for about a year. the 886 was my favorite pen and I own 3 Lamy pens, 2 Nemosine pens, a Waterman Lauret, a couple of pilots, two Shaeffer calligraphy pens and several Baoer pens. The Jinhao 886 was by far my favorite pen and I recently lost it so I got online to order another. When I got online, I discovered the 992. I went ahead and ordered both and after watching your video.....I'm excited to get my 992 demonstrator which will be my first demonstrator.
Unfortunately many folks are experiencing cracking of the 992. While writing with my coffee colored 992, the finial broke off in my hand. I was able to reattach it with some epoxy. I am very careful with my pens, so I could not understand why the finial (just above the clip) broke off. The nib on the 992 is surprisingly smooth.
Question on the demonstrators: If you glue on and seal the barrel finial, will it work as a dropper fill, or will it leak at the housing and section, even with the O ring in place? The 992 and 599 do use the same number 5 nib and feed. The housing on the 599 is glued into the section. The housing on the 992 screws into the section. The 599 feed and nib fit and work in the 992, and vice versa. I have both and have switched the feeds and nibs around.
Thanks for your reviews Chris. Always interesting and informative. I just went and bought a few of these after watching this. Also picked up a Wing S 698 at the same time. Appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts. John, Ireland.
It's now four years later, September of 2021 and I just bought 6 translucent 992s for less than two dollars a piece after watching your video on them. After using Opus 88s, PenBBS eyedroppers and several Rangas, all of which are amongst my favorite pens, I've decided to try some Kanwrites, FPR pens, and now, Jinhao 992s. It will be interesting to see how the Jinhao 992s compare. Thanks for your great videos. They stand the test of time. And get me to buy some great pens. The last two that your videos led me to were Wing Sung 601s and 618s and Bobby Bent Nibs for them..
@@chrisrap52 Wow indeed. After 6 weeks of use, these are great pens. I eyedropper them and store them nib down. For a dollar and change, they have become some of my favorite pens.
I tried out one of my Jinhao 992 pens today - and it's great! I use quite a lot of Jinhao pens and they are usually good, but this 992 is a fantastic pen, and I also love the soft nib which gives a fair amount of line variation. I'd probably never have looked twice at the 992 if it wasn't for your video, as they look a bit too plasticky, so I'm glad that you did this video to make me aware of this great, cheap pen.
I've been looking for a dupe to the Taccia, Sailor, and Pelikan transparent neon green fountain pens. That Jinhao transparent green pen looks like an ok dupe. It's not as highlighter green as I'd like, but it's transparent and green enough.
I ordered a 6 pack for 19.00 with the intention of getting my kids into the written word. I recently got a n x450 in the mail, and it is a very smooth, wet writing pen (probably my first that I could definitely say, writes in a wet fashion, leaving a fair amount of ink, and making me have to choose to write in a different style. I am looking forward to trying these out now, once they arrive. I am learning a lot from these pens, and videos.
I received a Jinhao 992 Fine nib pen today. I very much like the nib on the pen. I find it to be very smooth with adequate ink flow. I am waiting for some 992 pens with EF nibs. I am not sure this is a pen I will want to use for long writing sessions. I find my hand tends to feel cramped when holding this pen. I think I need to look for something a little bigger.
Hi Chris. Thanks for the review of the 992. I just received my 992's yesterday and I am as impressed with them as you are. I got a pack of 15 pens for $36 (CDN), so that's Christmas taken care of.
I just received my first order of four yesterday: transparent, transparent coffee, blue, red. The only one with an issue was the transparent coffee. My daughter wanted it and when I inked it up, it wouldn't write. I tried priming the feed, but ink just blobbed from the section. I took the nib and feed out, rinsed them out, put them back together, and still blobbed. I fiddled with it the nib placement a bit more, worked the converter up and down a bit more, then voila! It worked. After all that, my daughter decided she wanted the red one. The other three worked just fine right out of their clear plastic sleeves. Another note: the transparent coffee one also has two micro-cracks near the bottom of the barrel. The cracks aren't all the way through the plastic and seem to just be internal. No eyedroppering that one : ) However: I have been writing with it this morning and have had no problems whatsoever with it. I have a green one and a white one on the way, too.
Also, my daughter is six and left handed. I told her to write very lightly with it because if she pressed too hard, she'd ruin the nib...I've noticed, like most kids, she normally presses the daylights out of her pencils and pens. Anyway, she took my advice and wrote with it straightaway. She somehow naturally discovered she could write with the nib upside down and the pen kept on writing like a champ. My daughter is super excited about it and is taking it to school to give it a permanent home in her pen/pencil bag.
Thanks for sharing. Great to hear about youngsters learning how to use fountain pens. The 992 is a great pen to start with. Your efforts to get it to write were perfect. QA on a $2 pen is not perfect.
The first ones I got were $1.35/each! I think there was a discount for buying that many because the other two I have on the way are from the same seller and were $1.43/each. Still, six really good budget fountain pens for less than $9 is a steal as far as I'm concerned.
i know it sounds crazy,but i really have to be honest about it.these pens write almost as well as my 146 and 149.i am still blown away with how well they perform.i do know this however,no more big money for big name pens.
Well, I don't own many fountain pens (just a bunch of cheapie Sheaffer 1990s calligraphy pens) but I quite like the looks of these, and for TWO DOLLARS, I decided to order one. I don't generally like now the new/mass produced pens tend to look, but this one has a really nice plain design. I ended up ordering the one in "blackish green" which is more of a hunter green (opaque). I considered a black one as well, but that seemed too boring. We'll see when it arrives.
So I finally got my pen today, and I'm a tad disappointed with it. I don't know if there's a problem with the pen, with my ink, or with my writing angle, but it doesn't seem to be able to keep up with my normal cursive handwriting. It skips and railroads pretty easily. Short strokes are fine, and I do have a bit of flex like in your demonstration. Maybe I just need to let it sit and soak for a while. Not a big deal, since it was only 2$, but I had high hopes.
Great pens, I really like them but they are not that great for eyedropping. The little nub at the end of the body isn't sealed properly so you will get some leakage out of there. But awesome pens anyway if you use them with the converter.
Glad I could be of service. :P To be quite honest, it's an amazing pen. I haven't eye droppered it because of my lack of silicon grease, but I'll stick with the converter if more say that it cracks. I would keep it in my bag as a backup pen because why not for that cheap? I may get the fluorescent green yellow one because I'm a sucker for anything fluorescent. And all the other colors because why not.
I was out when I posted that, and didn't have access to my pens. The 992 rim is cracked on my blue 992, could be plastic mix due to color. I've seen plastic crack due to color variance. i.imgur.com/PfNvFQp.jpg Here's a shot of it.
There is no magic fix that I am aware of. I had not had a burp in any of my recent ED's, Moonman's, Leica's, PENBBS's, 992's, 991's. Best to keep ED more than 1/3 full, more air more expansion which is the major cause of burping. Avoid sudden temperature changes. I've had as many CC pens burp as ED's.
thanks for the review chris. these are great writers but barrel cracks where this knob is put it, mine leaked from the same place after developing some cracks. lingmo is a better pen for eye dropper conversion having a solid one piece barrel.
hmmm...there does seem to be a seam there. how did you remove? did you push from the inside? wonder if you can push it out then glue back with something more substantial like a weld type/super glue.
bjsc1100 I removed it after cracks developed...tried silicon grease but of no use...it was from the small cracks ink was coming out. had to put in the converter back. and yeah it comes out by screw unscrew motions if u wana do that.
I've been meaning to buy a 6 pack of these for a while now-I had some less than great experiences with my first Jinhao, but I really like the x450. I get great flow on that one for some reason. So I did order these and the Wing Sung 698-thanks for your great reviews!
Well, it is my pleasure! Thank YOU for all the great content-and it has been a while since you've posted, hasn't it? Hope to see new videos from you soon! :)
Thanks Chris. I always enjoy your more affordable pens review. I broke the nib and feed on my Twsbi ECO. Can this nib and feed set fit into the TWSBI ECO?
Excelente video. Ya compre un paquete de 6 estilografos en la versión demostrator. Ojalá tengan el plumón flexible como el de la pluma de este video. Saludos desde Medellin - Colombia
Nice review, thanks a lot! I've ordered a clear demonstrator one. Be careful if you plan to continue ED'ing this pen, however: as others have written here in the comments, the 992 is prone to small hairline cracks on the bottom of the barrel, near the "nub" (some reviews on FPN show them in detail). The reason might be the interaction between nub and barrel.
I eyedroppered my clear 992 and had no leaks. However, when it came time to clean, there was a tiny bit of ink trapped in the seam of that bottom piece on the barrel. No leaking externally, but the ink got in there. When I tried to clean it (forcing water into the barrel, blowing into it, etc.) I managed to force a drop or two of ink OUT of the seam where it could be blotted up with a paper towel. While this was good news in terms of getting the pen clean, it was bad news in that it showed an eyedropper 992 COULD leak. Mine didn't, though.
After reading about the plug at bottom of barrel, I took a closer look. I also have a leak, very slow, on my ED. On 2 of the 4, I was able easily pop off the plug. The other plug is very secure. I will glue the plugs back in, with a clear glue that will stop the leaks.
No. I like the nib on the 992 better. And the Lingmo cost 8x more. The Lingmo is slightly better made but not 8x. Buy all 992's in different colors & enjoy them & save some money..
chrisrap52 thats what i thought too! For the price that im getting right now, a Lingmo is equivalent to 12 jinhao 992s. Thats just insane in the world of inexpensive Chinese pens. Thanks Chris.
Received my 992s today. They write really great, as smooth as my similarly weighted old Pelikan M150. Thanks Chris, keep recommending great value pens!
I'm going to have to stop watching your posts. I zipped right over to the auction spot and bought a half dozen for about $2.00 apiece. Thanks....I think.
