Jinhao Advanced Fountain Chinese Dragon Bronze White with Black Heavy Pen, Multicolour

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Let's face it. You're buying this pen to impress your friends. And it certainly will do that--unless they ask you if they can try it out.Let's start with appearances. The picture doesn't begin to do justice to this monst--- uh, pen. It measures 5 3/4" buttoned up (nearly 7" posted) and it is HEAVY. You've heard that the pen is mightier than the sword? Well, not always. If there is such a thing as a battle-ready pen, this is it. Nothing flimsy here: brass threads to close and post the pen as well as to remove the business end to fill it. The pen body is some sort of black lacquer-looking material but you can hardly see it: the entire pen except for the very back where the cap screws on when posting is covered with ornate metal that is supposed to represent a dragon: in fact the head of the dragon has two red rhinestone-like doohickeys that represent eyes. It has a clip to carry it in your pocket but I doubt that you'd want it there long, considering the sheer weight of this thing. It'd get uncomfortable right soon to say nothing of probably stretching your shirt. But there's nowhere on your body to carry this where you WON'T be aware of the weight. It is by far the heaviest pen I've ever owned or used, and I've own and used plenty.The business end seems pretty standard--the front unscrews to reveal a plunger mechanism that seems to work as it should. No leaks to date, and the amount of ink it holds, while not overwhelming, is certainly ample. I filled 'er up with some Diamine "Sargasso Sea" ink for the test run. It was here that things got dicey. It took forever (well, maybe a minute or so) of scratching around before the ink began to flow, and the line was faint, with skips. I did some adjusting (pressed the nib away from the pen body, tried to separate the tines with a razor blade) I got the thing to put down a legible line. It currently writes well (on the third tank of Diamine) but only if you write slowly. It is also a bit scratchy but I don't hold that against it: most fountain pens, unless they have gold nibs, ARE scratchy at first and $19 (the price of this behemoth) might give you a nib with a little yellow stuff on it but the nib certainly WON'T be gold.Comfort? Forget it. The place where you grip it to write (just in back of the nib) is polished plastic but most of your hand makes contact with the metal dragon that engulfs the rest of the pen and that begins at noticeable, progressing very quickly to downright uncomfortable. In addition the cap weighs nearly as much as the rest of the pen and when posted, and with the extra weight as well as the balance being not the best, writer's cramp sets in pretty quickly. You could try writing with it unposted, but if you do the large brass posting threads on the back of the pen make contact with your hand.Conclusion: an impressive attention-grabber with mediocre (so far) performance. But you're not REALLY looking at buying this thing to write with, are you?

I collect antique and modern fountain pens, mostly established brands like Parker, Sheaffer, and Waterman, and some historic brands no longer in existence. The Dragon is like no other pen in my collection, a unique, eye-catching design. It is not a “classic” with the quiet elegance of my MontBlanc Solitaire, Parker 75, or Duofold, either the historic original or the modern re-creation. With its shiny finish and a red-eyed silver dragon, this is a flamboyant pen made to be stared at.Gold or rhodium makes the best fountain pen nibs. The 18k gold one on this pen writes smoothly, but the nib is not as firmly seated as those on finer pens. The nib and feed (that’s the part that fits into the concave back of the nib) easily slipped out while I was wiping it with a piece of tissue.The pen is very bulky and heavy. It has an impressive look and feel, but with the cap posted, it is too heavy for my average-size female hand and too top end-heavy to be balanced. I can write comfortably only with the cap off. Also, while I have a handbag to carry pens and all my other paraphernalia in, this one seems far too heavy to carry in a man’s breast pocket.I see this as more of a fun or novelty item, in the same category as my antique fountain pen-mechanical pencil combination or Planters Mr. Peanut mechanical pencil. As a collector, I’ll enjoy having it, but I am glad I didn’t pay three figures for it.

Bought this as a gift for my father. He loves it and says it's heavy (he uses it without the cap) and that it writes well.UPDATEFive years later the pen still wrote well but the converter started giving trouble and my Dad tried gluing it in with Crazy Glue because he thought it was too loose! He told me after he'd glued it in that he wasn't getting the converter to work, I told him that he should have told me first because I can get replacement converters. He tried using acetone to remove it but it melted the feed of the pen. I've searched online for a replacement nib but not having any luck. Will try buying one of the other Jinhao fountain pens and seeing if I can take out the feed since it's his favorite pen.