Not going to lie, I do the same. I love playing with cheap pens and just got a bunch of Jinhao 51s and a few Wing Sung VACs. It’s hit and miss but you do find some gems (some of their resin colors look amazing). Plus, if you accidentally drop one in the toilet at work you don’t get sad.
Downside is having so many pens on hand leads to inking too many pens at once.
I probably should experiment with these “micro blog” options and write up a few reviews. There are a ton of garbage AI generated “reviews” for these cheap pens, and it getting hard to find pens that come from a actual factory / distributor that has a ton of capacity… vs someone trying to scam.
Twelve Jinhao 82s I had to stop at 12. Too addictive.
What pens are these?
Jinhao 82. Cheap-ass Sailor Pro Gear clones.
How smoothly do they write? Love my Jinhao 51A pens.
To be fair, I have only inked half of them and I use them as guinea pigs for nib swaps. So I don’t really know :D
I love a good nib swap. What nib sizes do they take?
Me too!! Standard 26mm #5.
They’re pretty smooth writers out of the box. I used to hate Jinhao because all the pens I got had dud nibs, but they’ve improved vastly in QC. The five Jinhao 82s I got all wrote nicely when I inked them.
I ordered one since I was curious about the Sailor Pro Gear Slim when it was a lot cheaper. I’ll see how it feels in the hand since so many pens are uncomfortably heavy (Pilot Metropolitan) or wide (TWSBI Eco).
Replying again after my order arrived. It’s heavy in the hand, but feels good for short scribbles. It’s a good shape for my small hands and four-finger grip. I’ll have to test it for a longer time to be sure, though. Ink capacity with the built-in converter looks very small, so be warned.
There’s something so attractive about having a whole color family of the same model.
…also, I have a sudden desire to ink up a teal pen, I think I have one somewhere…
