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 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!

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 did not know when I ordered this pen that is was actually made of real porcelain, but I was thrilled while it was in transit when I saw that it was and couldn’t wait for it to get here! Now that it has arrived and I’ve had a chance to ink it up and give it the ol’ test drive, I can honestly say it does not disappoint! Opening the pen up were greeted with the Jinhao standard universal converter, which is no bad thing. The Fine nib is more of a “fine-medium”, which is perfect for me, and glides on my Rhodia N* 81 DOT pad with almost zero feedback, when using Pilot Iroshizuku Murasaki-Shikibu ink. There is some line variation available and this combination lays down just wet enough without becoming dry. It really is an absolute joy to put to paper. The fit and finish of this pen is beyond what any reasonable person has any right to expect in its price point and the ceramic offers a heft I have yet to experience in a pen anywhere near this class. It is a little thick in my hands, with a steep step from the large-ish barrel to the small-medium section, but it is nicely balanced and I got more comfortable with it as I wrote. The cap snaps off more easily than my other Jinhaos and does post, but makes the pen far too heavy for long writing sessions and throws the balance way off. I’m going to leave this one inked up for a while and alternate between it and my Royal Blue (marble) Jinhao X750 to decide if it isn’t too heavy or bulky to maybe take over daily duties. In all, very happy with this purchase and I plan to use it quite a bit for years to come. (Note; This pen is ceramic, but I doubt it's an 18kgp nib and mine came with a Fine nib, thought it's more of a "Fine-medium" in actual size, which I like. FYI)

I purchased this pen because I have an older fountain pen that I don’t write with it regularly because of the scarcity of direct replacement parts, and of course the real reason being that I like dragons. I already assumed that this pen wasn't going to be the Mont Blanc, Parker, Waterman, Cross quality you or I might be looking for, nor just a great writing pen in general straight out of the gate. And it wasn't, but really the only writing problem it had was the nib skipping in certain places during writing. It can be fixed with a few adjustments, something to be expected from an inexpensive pen. Other than that, the rest of the pen is of decent quality. It came exactly as pictured, no fancy ink starter kits or complementary ink, however I've noticed that ink tends to seep out of the reservoir in small amounts over time. The ink isn’t particularly being held between the metal body and the plastic converter but it is held in the cap, and I’ve also noticed the threads tend to not lock in place when you have it in your pocket which could be a reason why the ink slips out since the converter is moving too. Although the threads backing out is something you can’t stop without a thread lock or sealant, the overall quality of the pen seems to out weigh the flaws. The metal furnishings that decorate the pen are highly polished and give a nice design to the ceramic. The barrel did not have many flaws in it as ceramic tends to have, but I wouldn't doubt if it was made of some other material as someone had suggested. The black plastic tip on the cap came off somewhere between building and shipping, which is sad really because the builder put one drop of glue on the bottom of the thin walled cap rather than directly where it would hold it. I added a stained wood cap in its place, but really this pen can genuinely write once you are all squared away.

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.

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!