@@poleve5409it absolutely is, though not for “professionals” per se. The expensive pen he shows is not a dip pen, it’s a standard fountain pen (wherein the ink is kept within the pen’s body) with this unique choice of nib (you can choose many). Additionally, the other pen is expensive due to the size, quality of materials, and quality of the nib. High-end Sailor Fountain Pens use 21k gold nibs, which are insanely well tuned. It’s a status/collector symbol, and not necessarily “better” than a $100 pen, but they do look and feel lovely to use. Source: I own many Sailor fountain pens.
I remember getting a fountain pen with my name on it as a gift after graduating 5th grade, I bent the tip barely a week after because I keep dropping it. Let us butter fingers stick to the average ball point pen from now on, yeah?😅
@@Dinger_DRomans 10:9-11 says, "If you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved".
@@IloveJesus777j77 If you confess with your mouth "Frodo is the Lord of the Rings and believe in your heart Gandalf sent him to Mordor to destroy the one ring, you will be saved.
i used to purposefully bend my fountain pen tips to get this effect. it has pretty much the same results and you dont have to pay hundreds of dollars for it loool
@@Soken50 Gee, thanks for the info, I'll go back in time and tell me 7 year old self... Fountain pens are dirt cheap anyway, so it's not like I was wasting money.
@@Soken50 Why would you buy a Mont Blanc for a 1st grader who can only write their own name so far? Someone commented on their childhood experience with these pens, if you don't have that, leave our nostalgia alone.
In germany we have this around every corner, can get em for 10 quid or so, if you want the bent just drop it on the floor, don't recommend doing that tho I've broken a few by accidentally dropping em
In the west they are called calligraphy ink pens. It's quite common and cheap to get. I guess he will have a heart atack when he go's in to an artsuply shop!😂😂😂
@@F.B.I I don't understand how Japanese steel ever became a selling point, they had to work it so much because the iron ore is of such low quality in Japan, now it probably all comes from the same Australian mine as the rest of the world and smelted using the same industrial forges unless it's a tiny artisanal shop where a 200 year old master takes 10 years to fulfill your order.
There are lots of cheap fude pens! Sailor makes one. Jinhao has several. PenBBS and Moonman (Majohn) also have them. They start at a couple of dollars. Fude nibs aren't as widely available in the western world because most scripts don't require the line variation that Asian calligraphy styles need. They're fantastic for drawing!
It's funny. In the Soviet Union, when my Grandmother went to school, they had exactly the same feathers. I inherited a whole box of brand new feathers of this type. Even now they are sold for 20 rubles (about 25 cents) in specialized stationery stores.
@@user-zy8nw2lc9rперьевая ручка с изогнутым пером. Честно говоря, я не смог вспомнить советских ручек именно с таким сильным изгибом пера. С небольшим изгибом - да, бывали. Я перебрал сейчас варианты винтажных ручек, доступных в продаже, и не встретил ни одной с настолько сильно изогнутым пером. В основном ученики писали обычными перьевыми ручками (вначале с открытым, потом с закрытым пером и автоматические). В наших магазинах действительно легко купить перья для ручек и сами ручки, но в основном это китайские, японские и западные бренды. А народ массово предпочитает использовать замечательные шариковые ручки Pilot толщиной 0.5 и 0.7 мм - начиная с дошкольного возраста и заканчивая обучением в университете. Они дешёвые, удобные, практичные - чернил хватает очень надолго. Не высыхают и написанный текст не размазывается легко. Я уделял этому вопросу немало времени, выбирая ручку ребёнку, но в итоге всё равно вернулся к верным шариковым ручкам.
Just gonna say that the specialty nib he’s referring to is a “naginata togi fude de mannen” Instead of just bending the tip, like the regular “fude de mannen,” they use their 21K gold nib with an iridium tip, and they grind the iridium with a taper. These are specialty nibs that can only be special ordered. Regular “fude de mannen” nibs are steel and can be found on lots of $10-20 pens in any good stationary store in Japan.
I also wanna mention that Jinhao sells both fude nib pens and fude nibs themselves -- I've bought #5 and #6 fude nibs of theirs; they work just fine and a pack of five nibs is something like $6
@@inihilisme1511 Yeah and you can get a car for 2,000 dollars yet we both know their is a big difference between a 2k car and 20k and a 200k car. You're just broke :)
Bruv in middle school they forced us to use these while learning cursive ( I live in Europe and they are common here, you can find these in every supermarket, plus they cost the same as a normal pen, maybe a little more)
Like, every student in Germany has at least one and because you always break or loose them you buy a bunch in total. They’re really not that expensive. You can get them for under 10€/$10 here
@@sugarzblossom8168 oh Japan is great, and Japanese probably are one of the most polite ppl I have met, so don't get me wrong but I do find there is some weird obsession with making certain things expensive and it's not done by non-Japanese ppl but by Japanese themselves. Prices for special breed Koi fish, some fruit, this pen, etc. are all hyped up by the local response of Japanese people, not others. I wonder what is with their fascination.
@@sidsingh24 I guess that's true and people's obsession with Japan lead people to buy them especially when it is used in the marketing. Like the Japanese knife that was as shape as any other
Love using this pen for calligraphy. I bought one in Japan when i was stationed there literally was a couple bucks. That was also about 20 years ago. Military outta HS
Sometimes i write my pen upside down and people think I’m weird. Thanks for the info ❤ To anyone wondering, yes I actually use that method because it has a good flow of handwriting when the ink is on low.
pretty normal here, back in the days (25 years ago) everyone in school class was obligated to get a "LAMY Pen" they come for $20'ish, able to change the "feather" and kids started to bend them in all different shapes, bend it "flat" was the most common.. some also cut their feathers short etc.. we had an entire "modding community" arround these pens.
In school in Germany we had to learn writing using those. I hated it, so many spills of blue ink, dried out, damaged after rolling from the desk etc. Never wrote using one when I was not forced to fo anymore.
Fude tips are great for Hebrew and Cuneiform (though there’s a technique to get the consistent reed points). A colleague gifted me a set of nibs like this for a dip pin, and (with A LOT of practice) my talismans have never looked cleaner and more professional.
I have two fountain pens that function almost exactly like this.. and yeah, they cracked a bit around the grip (because I have a negative habit of gripping hard), but otherwise I’ve never had troubles with writing ink pens. I feel bad for others who commonly have bad experiences with them, when they’re so nice to write with (my handwriting improved so much because of them shjagdkdnapan)
I hated those pen, just 'cause my hands were always full with ink after using them in school and I don't know how. Not only that, but these pens also need a mini bottle of ink so that you can write, but you ad to take alot of these with you, and sometimes they would spill all over your backpack! Definitely very nostalgic, very unique, but not so efficient 😫
lmao i had one of these in elementary school once (im from argentina and went to a school that made us learn how to write only in cursive and ink pens) and i remember it had the tip bent like that and i thought i had bent it myself and almost broke it trying to straighten the tip "back to normal"
