Unbox with Yoseka: Sailor Hocoro Dip Pens and Feed! 

Now that is shocking, getting so much writing out of one dip of a pen (with a snap-in feed), even while pausing for awhile! VERY clever design, making it easy to change nibs and also flip the pen point for easy carrying ... My old-fashioned cartoonist dip pens in 1973 could only write or draw for a minute or so.

I’m also blown away by how much writing one can do with the feed in and by how easily it cleans. Thank you for showing this, Daisy!

I picked these pens up as soon as I saw them on Yoseka, and they are as revolutionary for us ink lovers as you would suspect from Daisy's demonstration. Want to write long-form with an ink you aren't so keen on cleaning out of your pen? Toss in the shimmer and have at it. Nifty tip I picked up from "Inky Rocks" channel, have three glass jars of water to clean out your dip pen: first one gets the bulk of the ink out, second one gets the inky water from the first one out, third one truly washes out the pen with clean water. For those of us low-key leery about contaminating our ink bottles, you won't feel obligated to keep changing out the water you're using to clean the pen before you dip in your next ink!

Wow I'm stunned how much more you can write w/the feed. TFS Daisy.

Wow, these pens are great. I bought the pilot dip pens, but these Sailors are next level with those feeds. Thanks for the demonstration!

I have only recently discovered this pen and cannot wait to own one. I do a lot of journaling and love shimmer and sheening inks, but don’t want to put those inks into my pens. With this dip pen I will be able to write some with my inks without worrying that I am going to clog anything up. Thank you for the review!

Amazing the difference that feed makes on the duration of the ink supply!

I wish I had found these before buying a more expensive brass nib. I’m still going to get them because they are perfect for what I want to use them for, but I could have saved myself some money. 😅 I love changing colors for journaling but not changing out full cartridges. I also love swatching and having fun with samples of shimmer inks (which I’m leery of putting in expensive pens or cleaning out clogged feeds). Perhaps this pen set will help me overcome my love/hate relationship with OS Nitrogen. 👌

OMG... that looks like my ideal pen... Thank you for the video!

This is so cool! What a wonderful way to test inks. I just ordered around 25 samples, now I have to chase down this pen in Europe! Amazing and a great innovation for 2023!

I am so obsessed with this pen! An absolute godsend for someone with tons of inks they like to swap between or messy sheening/shimmer inks. Even without the feed I find the medium totally usable and not frustrating!

So innovative - signed up for restock notifications! ❤

Great review and that feed sure holds a lot of ink. :D

So cool, thank you for the demonstration!! ☺️

I shouldn’t watch these vid’s: you keep introducing me to cool new stuff that I didn’t know existed and now want to try!: thanks, I think!:)

Glad to see you share these. I snagged them and they are waiting for an ink swatching party soon 🎉

These are so amazing! If only I had watched your video first before ordering lol now I just ordered 2 feeds ... 2 of mine came with them and I definitely enjoy more ink at a time so this will be so fun -- thank you for the great tutorial!

Wonderful! Excellent content on the Yoseka channel.

Thank you for demonstrating these pens! I recently ordered this dip pen in a fine nib, and didn't realize it had no feed. Not an issue since I plan on using it mostly for sampling inks, but the amount of ink it holds with a feed is impressive. Might have to pick up one on my next trip!

I've been looking for a retailer that sold the nibs separately! I'll have to place an order for this awesome dip pen 😊

Thank you so much for your thorough review!! Thanks to you I decided to get a grip with the fide-nib (incl. a feed) and a spare fine nib instead of just a grip with a fine nib and getting totally frustrated by the low ink capacity until I can get my hands on a separate feed here in Germany 😁 Now I can go through with my plan of using a different ink each day for journaling next month ❤

I'm so excited to try these!! Thanks for the Demo Daisy!!

Thank you so much for this detailed and thoughtful demonstration. I've just ordered one!

That’s amazing Daisy! I wonder if these will catch on in the American fountain pen community. Seems like a such a fun way to easily switch inks. Just ordered one from Yoseka!

Sailor Manyo Akebi is so pretty!

Nice dip pens ❤

Wonderful video. I really want to visit. Ill come from Seattle!

Yes! I saw this on your story on Instagram and was gonna message you about them cuz i was interested in purchasing one for my ink swatching.

Great video & perfect timing! Just got this pen from you last week! Are the feeds easy to snap back out? I didn’t know about that feature, but have 2 pens 1 w/ & 1 w/o feeds in them; excited to learn can move the feed to the smaller nibs!!!

The Sailor Hocoro is incredibly well thought out and designed: the way the nib stores within the body for protection, the variety of compatible nib units, and the available feeds that snap on to allow extended writing. The engineers and designers clearly spent a lot of time designing and iterating. The only problem is the nibs just aren’t very good. The Pilot Iro-Utsushi is probably the most lazily designed dip pen on the market. It’s just a cheap stick of injected molded plastic with a Pilot nib glued to the end. But the nib on it is fantastic, and that’s what is so frustrating. I would love to use the Sailor Hocoro, but the nib is just awful compared to the Pilot. So now my thoughtfully engineered and designed Hocoro sits ill-used in my drawer, while the lazy and uncreative Pilot Iro-Utsushi sits out on my desk used frequently. It’s very annoying. I really hope Sailor improves their steel nibs to be as good as Pilot, because until then, I’m stuck using the terrible yet great Pilot Iro-Utsushi.

In truth, one can use *any* fountain pen as a 'dip' pen. However, adding the feed to a Sailor Hocoro and desiring to write a brief note or letter - hint: #InCoWriMo - with a particular ink, without the need to fill a cartridge, converter, or barrel, the feed accessory is a definite plus!

Super interesting!! So, I'm now trying to decide between the Sailor Hocoro and the Fonte glass dip pen, which also has a cap for portability. Would be great to have some overall comparisons between these two, and other dip pens. Thanks as always!!

technically this doesn't seem to be a feed, more of an ink reservoir. I would have loved to try it' but not at the current prices with shipping from either Japan or the US (I am in Israel). I am waiting for more western shops getting it so I can find it with a reasonable price tag in Europe.

Was thinking of ordering one but was on the fence. I am now sold, might have to wait a bit for my wallet to recover before acquiring but I will have one!

Well. I didn't know you can invert the nib like that so it's essentially a cap. Learn something new everyday. PS The Sailor Hocoro nib feed has been sold out forever. Thank you.

Oh no 😮 I just saw this video and the feed is already sold out 🥺 Hopefully you will get restocked soon. I was just looking for dip pens with caps the day before.

Is it good for calligraphy?

I want a couple for my birthday 🙂Will you be getting a restock soon?

Try the Fude nib!

New to dip pens, anyone have any suggestions for what to do with extra nibs when not in use? Thinking both storage and also portability/travel

Can you please share where you got your brown sweater? It looks so comfy..

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Question: With feed, are these usable with inks that are NOT fountain-pen safe? I have, I think, an F, and also bought the feed. The feed, according to the instructions, is *not* removable, or one risks damaging the nib. But I won’t want to pull the feed. I will, however, want both the fude, and one of the stubs…!Eventually.

Does the fude replacement nib come with a feed?

Too bad they are all sold out :-(