For those coming to this video thinking its easy its not. Beware all the missing variables 1. Shes added removed the nib several times and wouldnt be suprised if they were all heat set before hand 2. It is doable straight out the box BUT i would not recomend it if you want to be left with a jammed feed. Althought this is very much doable it takes considerable force and a very i mean very high propability the feed will jam because of the bottom part of the nib adding pressure to the barrel making it next to impossible to remove, i would first always make the bottom of the nib flush with the feed and tinker with it, this video is most likely of nibs which are already worn to the feed hence why it seems so easy, trust me its not i spent a whole hour removing jammed feeds doing this method. I would presonally stick to flattening the nib first otherwise you have a high risk of damaging the feed and the nib and if your lucky you might get the nib out if its jammed if its all the way in and you didnt align it properly you will need extreme i mean extreme force to remove the nib due to the bottom of the nib acting as leverage on the barrel i wpuld avoid doing this
I did this with nibs right out of the box. I have no idea what heat setting is, but at the time I made this video, there weren't a lot of options for pens with feeds made for zebra G calligraphy nibs. That's not the case now, and there are some great pens out there that you can use rather than this hack. Also, jinhao changed the shape of their feeds and barrels, so on newer pens this doesn't work anymore. And you're right, lining up the nib is extremely important, and often takes several tries. It's also important to take everything apart and clean the parts at _maximum_ every two weeks, unless you want the nib to clog and freeze and be completely unusable, uncleanable and un-take-apartable.
I've liked your video. It is exceptional in that you just showed how to put in and also to pull out the nib plus feed. You so easily did that. Do you think that other dip pen nibs can be used in jinhao pens as well? Please make another video about the issue, if you can.
i think you can try by yourself, but i think not all the nibs work with jinhao, the fact its the Zebra G Nib its so rigid, large and curve but not all the nibs are have the same proportions. I hate G nibs for do calligraphy, but fits in a jinhaoo 750 and i can get a flex fountain pen without costing 200$ . I recomended you to search the dimensions of differents nibs and compare with Zebra g dimensions. My favourite nib to write with its Hunt22b and i think i was watching a company that put all the nibs that you want in their fountain pens.
It will eventually, yes. If you do this hack, it's best to use the pen frequently, and disassemble regularly to put in a new nib. I haven't used the titanium plated ones so I can't speak to how they perform! If you try it, let me know how it goes!
i know this video is old but ive done this and used the titanium plated version, and the thing is, there is still corrosion and i dont know hot to deal with it.
These nibs will always corrode eventually if they're stuck in a pen feed, because despite any thin coating, the base of their construction is cold rolled steel. It rusts pretty fast if it stays in constant contact with liquid, and a pen feed is never really dry. I've since moved on to using pens with feeds designed for G nibs, and even then they still corrode. The only way they'll last a long time is as dip nibs, if you clean and dry them carefully after each use.
@@LeilaAMMartin The feed. Strange, for me it is hard to insert it. And even harder to pull it off, without pliers. And I saw you doing it with bare hands. I got two jinhao and they both same to be same, hard to insert and remove nibs.
@@Wsadef they have a 6. I'm able to put the nib and feed in the with bare hands as long as I get the alignment right (which is tricky), but it's almost impossible to get them out without pliers unless you've cleaned and prepped before hand and the pen isn't filled. And it has to be emptied, disassembled and cleaned FREQUENTLY (ideally, every week or two) or it's likely to gum up and glue itself together with rust.
