JINHAO 992 Fountain Pen (Translucent)

Don't think that because a pen is made in the orient that it is low quality. Jinhao makes some really good writing fountain pens at an exceedingly reasonable price. I'm a fountain pen devotee and I have a bunch of these. Many are perfection right out of the box. Note: I insist on a smooth nib and if there is any feedback, and there often is with a lot of fountain pens, I gently smooth them with a fine grade buffing pad till they are like I want. You can get those pads on Amazon and they will come in real handy. First check that your nib times are even. If they are then ink up the pen and buff lightly on the finest grade buffing pad in many directions. I highly recommend Jinhao pens if you can't spend a lot of money.

I have a wide array of fountain pens and this one popped up in my feed while I was shopping for ink. I picked it up because the price was right for a "cheap pen to keep at the office." I wasn't expecting much.But for $8, this is a VERY good pen! It's comfortable and lightweight. The nib is a little beefier than I tend to like (I think it's a medium and I like a fine), but for $8, who cares? The ink took a little longer than anticipated to start flowing, but once it did, this became a great pen that easily keeps up with my Parkers and Twisbi. I might not ever spend more than $8 for a pen again. You probably shouldn't either, now that you know this one is out there! I'm probably going to pick up a couple more just to keep some extra colors loaded!Only reason it's 4 stars instead of 5 is that I wish I could've picked a finer nib, but otherwise, it's outstanding!

This is a nice pen that writes well, after inking up, right out of the packaging. The pen fits well in the hand and the nib is very smooth to write with.

This pen is great! I filled the converter with Noodler's Bay State Blue ink using an ink syringe (from Goulet Pen Co.) and popped the converter in, waited a few minutes -- and it started right up and is so smooth -- I was pleasantly surprised the Fine nib is much closer to a medium nib size compared with the Pilot pens like the Metropolitan. In fact with this ink anyway the pen seems to write a bit thicker than the Pilot Metropolitan Medium. The pen is a nice light weight and it write extremely well posted (cap on the back). I am new (well returning) to fountain pens and I'm MOST into inks so I needed a few pens to ink up and experiment with. I'm glad I took a chance on this pen as it is going to be a favorite I can tell -- I will use it often because it's such a smooth writer! I have small hands so I'm able to write comfortably with this pen un-posted. If you have big hands, you'll need to post it. It looks like a very expensive pen. That doesn't matter to me -- except that I think I'll need to keep an eye on this pen or it could disappear never to return if someone else picks it up and realizes how nicely it writes!!!! I love that it's available in a variety of colors. I can see me purchasing some more in the future.

Looks beautiful but doesnt perform well with universal cartridges

This is a great entry level pen - HOWEVER some have a sticker on the cap and you cannot remove all the adhesive without a great deal of work and it still isn’t perfect afterwards. If this will drive you crazy, find something else. Out of 15 pens, 7 had stickers. We decided to return the rest of the ones with stickers after fighting to get two mostly perfect. (Ps: the seller was very nice and said he has no control over it- it comes from Jin Hao with the stickers.)

I'd long wanted a demonstrator-style pen for my small collection, and while this one doesn't tick my personal style box, it was inexpensive and rated well by others so I gave it a go.I wish I could remember what I inked it up with the first time, but the pen was overall disappointing. Scratchy, skipping, meh. I chalked it up to being cheap, cleaned it out, and set it aside.And then we got kittens, and my daily driver (a disposable Pilot Varsity) disappeared—I don't know where; under the couch? In a heat duct? The back of a closet?—so I grabbed another pen that I wouldn't mind becoming the next unintentional cat toy, only this time I filled it with Levenger ink and whoa, it's like a different pen. It's always been weighted well, the cap posts nicely, but now it _writes_ beautifully. The "Fine" nib is what I'd consider a robust Medium, but I knew that going in and I like it. And the pen is no longer left unattended on my desk.I eventually found the Pilot behind a planter.