Jinhao 950 Blue and White Porcelain Dragon Medium Nib 18kgp

I purchased the Jinhao 950 Blue and White Porcelin Dragon Medium Nib for just under $12. At that price, this pen is a great value. It's a visually attractive pen and feels smooth and good in the hand. When posted on the back of the pen, the cap is secure, but doesn't snap into place, which detracts from the pen's otherwise good quality. I paired the pen with Iroshizuku asa-gao ink, which resulted in great flow and pen-to-ink color match. The pen is heavy. With ink, it weighs in at 55 grams compared to the 22 grams of my Lamy Safari or the 24 grams of my Parker Sonnet. That's around 2.5 times heavier. In my opinion, the weight feels good when picked up from a desk or table, but is too heavy for carrying around in a shirt pocket. Therefore, I recommend this as a desk pen rather than a portable shirt or notebook pen. If you don't like the weight, you can write without the cap posted on the back of the pen. Without the cap, the pen is 30 grams. If you are like me and have more ink than pens, this is a great way to put some of that ink to use.

I purchased from "G Wonderful Store" paying $4.99 on April 25th 2017. My pen arrived very quickly, within 2 weeks. I agree with all the reviews that say it's a lovely looking pen that feels great in the hand. But my first impressions writing with it were quite negative. The Jinhao ink I ordered at the same time took a month to arrive, so I didn't get to try the pen until recently, and I was upset. Terrible flow, constant blockages, never ready to write, gaps in all my writing. Hated it. I tried using the same Jinhao ink to fill a Sheaffer pen using a syringe, and it also had huge problems, so I bought a bottle of Qink. Huge improvement. The Jinhao 950 is a smooth writer with great flow, I love writing with it now that I have decent ink in it. I really enjoyed using the adapter to fill from a bottle of ink. First time I got a small blob of ink on my hand, but now that I have the technique down, I can now reliably fill it with clean hands. I waste a little ink blowing out the air bubble into a rag so I can fill the adapter all the way with ink, but it's worth delaying refills.

Really VERY remarkable for such an incredibly inexpensive pen! (I have expensive fountain pens that I don't dare carry around for fear of losing or dropping them. With this & my other Jinhao pens, if they break, it's an inexpensive snap to exchange or replace nibs or ink reservoirs or whole pens, and brands of bottles of ink are very inexpensive, too & come in gorgeous colours). Great weight in hand, refillable cartridge. So far, it's my favourite Jinhao yet. I love refilling rather than tossing out disposable pens and/or multiple plastic refill cartridges. Pointless plastic is among the greatest threats to us as oil/petroleum/fossil fuels, being nonbiodegrable means that ALL products with petroleum never stop choking Earth's oceans, wsterways, and soil, so that up and down the food chain, the absorption of toxic compounds is unavoidable. The omnipresence of plastic (often for absolutely NO reason whatsoever), and the use of it to replace things formerly made of paper, glass, wood, natural fabrics, many metals, and ANYTHING that can FULLY break down into non-toxic components is destroying our rivers, lskes, oceans, farms, forests, animals and all the people who depend on them for their lives, jobs, health, etc. Nearly all the food we now consume has levels of plastic/petroleum in it. It is toxic in any amount, and the amounts we are exposed to now is outrageous, and entirely due to corporate greed and complete lack of concern for the well-being of us all. Spend a week setting aside all plastics you encounter: wrappers, 'safety' seals, grocery & produce bags, labels, plastic derived fleece (almost all of fleece is plastic), The majority of all clothing, in fact, footwear, stockings, undergarments, athletic equipment.... EVERYTHING. I'm 50 years old, and Nearly everything that was formerly made of more innocuous materials (cereal & chip bags & candy wrappers & labels & shopping bags were PAPER! Clothing wasn't tagged with those insidious plastic tag fasteners...the list is endless & sickening in its scope & the damage it has caused in mere decades!) Drinks almost always came in cartons (with no stupid, utterly pointless plastic cap & seal on them, plastic straws attached, etc. Straws were generally paper or cellulose), glass, or aluminium. People still were assh*les who littered, but at least what they threw away didn't have a half-life of thousands of years! And, of course, the idea of bottles of water was nearly unheard of. What mineral waters there were were in glass bottles that didn't leech endocrine disrupting chemicals into the contents, and no massive corporations (Nestlè) were wreaking havoc on pristine parts of our country & all around the world, this destroying and impoverishing towns like Poland Spring Every chance I get to make changes (and it isnot easy to avoid the FFI's largely inescapable omnipresence!), I do. With something that lasts forever, continuing to do damage at every level of its existence, every single piece of plastic is a threat. Finally, it is a tactile and visual delight to write with a fountain pen. Everyone should try it.

I love this pen! It’s a nice weight but it might be a bit on the heavy size when posted for someone with a small hand. It also writes well.

I confess - I'm new to this whole business of fountain pens! But after reading all the reviews, I wanted to give it a try. I ordered the Waterman Serenity Blue ink to go w/the beautiful porcelain blue of the pen. Wow! After watching several U-tube video's on how to fill the pen up w/ink (I highly recommend!), I gave it a try. Never in my whole life have I ever had a pen write this smooth - right from the first Letter! Why have I waited this long to try fountain pens? I never thought they could be so fluid & smooth! I'm super impressed! I now use it for everything, and even after sitting without use for days at a time, it still writes perfectly fluid from the first stroke! I have now jumped with both feet into the art & collection of these beautiful Jinhao pens! This lovely blue porcelain pen sits on my writing desk in my bedroom, which is decorated in British Classic Colonial Chinese w/porcelain blue. This pen looks exactly like the picture. It is a weighty pen so you probably don't want to take it on the go. But, there is no leakage of ink - it's recommended to lay it on its side when not in use. The Waterman Serenity Blue ink is also a cult favorite (according to reviews), & I can see why! It goes quite nicely with the blue of this pen! If you are on the fence whether to buy this pen or not - DO IT! And just look at the price for such luxury! You won't regret it!

good pen, easy to use after rinsing the blue residue off the nib/feed. it is NOT a medium nib it is the usual jinhao fine nib that writes more like a fine/medium. works well enough for my purposes but the labels of this product on other listings as well says medium when it is clearly not labeled as such on the nib. worth it for the money though

A fine pen at an amazing price. It's very handsome, but heavy, so if you're used to carrying around ballpoint pens in your shirt pocket (or purse), you might find its weight and girth surprising. I'd describe the point as a medium, so it lays down a fairly substantial (and very readable) line. If you stop writing for much more than a minute, the ink at nib dries, so you'll have to scribble a second or two to replenish the supply. Or, simply cap the pen until you're ready to resume writing. The pen comes with one refillable cartridge, so you'll have to buy a bottle of ink. For convenience, I chose to order a supply of disposable cartridges from Lanxivi (find on Amazon), which fit the Jinhao and a number of other pens. Love the pen, but you shouldn't expect it to be a replacement for a featherweight, throwaway ballpoint. Happy writing!

I love this pen, it is beautiful. I think I have about 6 Jinhao's now, I even give them as gifts as they are at a perfect price point. I write and edit Technical Manuals so keep several pens inked in various colors. I want my pens to go uncapped for a time while I'm reading. This pen does that, it might skip on the initial stroke after a few minutes, but it writes. I inked this with Monteverde blue ink, and it wrote smoothly and perfectly on the first letter. It is a little heavy, but I like heavy I like to post the cap which probably accounts for the weight. It feels good in my hand, is well balanced, has a mostly medium stroke, and just glides across the paper. I will just keep buying Jinhao's.