#jinhao

its been a while since I nerded about / treated myself to some pens and inks,these happened to match very nicely

my reading journal 📔 ⋆˙⟡. i was lucky to get a skip-the-line loan for chibineko kitchen, only to remember that i already have a physical copy on my tbr pile x) still, grateful. now i can get another skip :)) so obsessed with moomin, tho. i hope i can get the official cover this month~

Clone of the Pilot Capless but only 3% of the Pilot's price

I got it with an EF nib. $6.79 AUD from AliExpress.

Nib dries out faster than a regular fountain pen with a cap. Go four or five days without writing anything and the ink flow is stuttery and scratchy. But rehydrate it with a droplet of water and it comes good right away, same as any other fountain pen. Saw a comment on Reddit saying this can be remedied with silicon grease around the trapdoor, so I'll have to try that.

Its converter doesn't have a huge amount of volume, but that's par for the course. Plus more frequent refills mean more frequent changes to your ink colour, so it's not all bad.

A friend had a birthday coming up and needed a pen that could handle some shimmer inks I'd given them. Obviously this meant I had to buy myself the pens first to test them, and my word do I love these (and so much better than the Jinhaos I bought a few years ago)

Definitely helps that a recent Valentine's exchange let me discover a new favourite paper that really showcases all the properties of the inks

Now I just need to find a way to justify having such beautiful equipment!