thank you hello there welcome to incrying Minds my name is Doug and I'm back with today's fountain
pen review this new model from hongdin the N2 hongding continues to make high quality fountain
pens that have consistently excellent steel nibs and beautiful finishes in the last two
years since I've heard of hongdin I've reviewed 14 different models and that's not all the new pen
models they've produced as I've never purchased some of them like the black forest which a lot
of people really love the first few pens were just okay in my opinion but once they came out
with the n6 and the N7 piston fillers I sat up and took notice then the anniversary 100 model
and the year of the rabbit n23 and especially the most recent the n1s Piston filler have been
just some of the best steel nib fountain pens for the money in my opinion and now the M2 is
another offering from hongdin please tell me in the comments what other non-chinese Pen Company
is coming out with as many new models with as high quality and relatively low prices what we tend to
see from Italian German and Japanese pen makers is the old standards in new colors for each season
the new color of the Safari or the new color of the year with matching ink for the tiny Pelican
M200 or the latest color and band texture from the pilot Metropolitan collect them all
Rambo collect them all and discover how exciting life can be but they're all the
same pen that hasn't changed in decades ooh the new Sailor Pro gear Northern Lights exclusive
very pretty it will set you back 440 U.S for a pen model that's been around for decades and the
Sailor 1911 was born in 1981 the most exciting new models of non-chinese pens for me have been coming
from Italy with Leonardo mayora and Visconti all making new pens that are at least within
the realm of being affordable for the ordinary fountain pen fan on a budget so I say kudos to
hongdian pen BBS as Vine majon moonman and jinhao for coming up with interesting new products that
are well made and affordable for fountain pen enthusiasts who aren't Rudy Giuliani
so let's take a look at the new N2 from hongdin right now
and again tracking is all over the place with shipments from China they
come to Canada then they go to a courier I think this is hongdian but I'm not sure
now I'm sure
and here it is
this is the new hongdian N2 it's called Blue resin it's turquoise it looks blue on camera
but it is in fact blue green teal turquoise color nice flat finial springy clip black long
black section number six size pundian and this should be a medium yep it's a medium
nib a nice design on it cartridge converter on the inequality metal on metal right there
feels like plastic got that insert feels metal
and it sounds like metal and it posts makes it long but it posts
interesting new pen from hongdian the hondian flying Dove or Partridge or pheasant or
something like that Laura leaves on the top finial interesting Flair at the end as well
I'll have to find an ink for this and give it a try Honda in in two I'll show the parts and
features of this pen some size comparisons and measurements and then provide a writing sample
and then I'll talk about what I like and what I don't like so much about this fountain pen
overall the pen is a medium-sized teal colored acrylic and metal flat bottom fountain pen with
a large wide top finial and chrome Hardware it looks very classy in style on the top we
see the large concave Medallion finial that has hongdian's typical imagery of Laurel leaves and
a partridge in a pear tree or a pheasant in an orange tree or a Black Horse and a Cherry Tree
uh whatever take your choice and it says hongdian in the center ring the top finial holds the
vaguely pelican-like clip in place and the clip is very springy and usable the cap tapers down
quickly and then is straight to a couple of chrome cap bands and then the barrel is straight to about
here and then it starts to taper away to another Chrome band that separates the barrel from the
end blind cap finial and the bottom is just flat let's take a look at this acrylic for a moment
it is very nice it has a lot of chatoyance to it some good amount of depth
and a good amount of Sparkle as well very nice it is similar in hue to my Leonardo Flores Grande
and smart Aldo though nowhere near as detailed and deep and chatoyant as this gorgeous fountain
pen the thing about this teal green or emerald green on camera is that it comes out looking
blue and by the human eye it's really more of a blue green teal color so there's a lot of green
content in there that you're not seeing on camera the cap unscrews with one and one quarter turns
to reveal the long tapering black section and number six size steel medium hongdium
two-toe nib and black plastic feed let's look closer at this nib it's very interesting Lotus
flower-like design and the two-tone golden Chrome then it says since 1997 hongdian
an M for medium and 35. your guess is as good as mine on what the 35 stands for
probably has something to do with ears and I can't calculate Chinese years it makes my brain hurt my
so there is some significance to that 35 perhaps someone in the comment Gallery can chime in with
what that means the nib and feed are part of a nib assembly that unscrews for maintenance or swapping
the section unscrews to reveal the hongdian Branded upscale converter that's included and the
converter has a reinforced a nipple on it all our nipples need to be reinforced that's a good thing
so good my nipples is starting the 3.5 millimeter bore of this converter is the Chinese standard
which means you can also use Parker and Lamy long cartridges or two Parker short cartridges or even
a pen BBS converter in a pinch and that section is a piece of black plastic that has a metal insert
up here where you can see this ring and another insert here which is the nozzle and has that black
silicone o-ring right there that keeps the barrel from unscrewing during use making this a hollow
black plastic tube with a metal insert there and there lightens the entire pen rather than having
a black plastic overlay over a brass nozzle and the black enameled metal insert in the top of the
barrel meshes with metal threads on the nozzle so you get metal on metal which is very good
as well and with all this metal and this two-part Barrel I would never consider eye droppering this
pen the inside of the cap shows a black plastic seal attached to the top finial to seal the nib
from drying out the cap posts securely making the pen fairly long posted but that cap is very light
so it doesn't seriously unbalance the pen I prefer to write with the pen unposted and that section is
a good length and girth and not slippery at all in my hand making it a very comfortable writing
experience and those threads can't be felt at all they're very smooth I bought this pen from Sally
on her easy buy shop on eBay for 26.79 U.S and the pen is available with eff and medium nib sizes and
when I show you this screenshot of my purchase you can tell where I bought it by looking at the
information on the screen it says eBay it says the van under easy buy and it gives you the price so
all you have to do is search eBay for this model number which is hongdin N2 and you'll be able
to find it some people ask me where they can get these pens and that's why I post these screenshots
so that you can find it yourself currently this seems to be the only color available in this model
and two we'll see if others follow now let's look at some size comparisons and here is the
Hong Yin N2 acrylic with a hundian N8 a hongdin n1s piston filler a moon man m800 and an asvine
P20 piston filler now let's look at them posted and here they are posted the best posters of
the group are the n1s and the moonman m800 this of course is my favorite because it's almost a
direct copy of the Leonardo momento zero now let's look at them unposted and here they are unposted
they're all really lovely chatoyant beautiful colored acrylics it's
amazing what they're doing with these acrylics at these prices these days now
let's look at some measurements and I'll be back with a writing sample
and we're back with the writing portion of the review this is Claire Fontaine 90
GSM paper and this is the hongdian and two and it has a number six size feel medium nib
very very smooth a hint of feedback let's check the wetness and it's
nicely wet this is right out of the box with no tweaking or retouching at all
and the ink today is one of my favorite teal turquoise kinds of inks it is Leonardo
esmeraldo which is emerald in Italian learn something new every day in this Hobby
it's a lovely blue-green ink that has tinges of red Sheen to it that's a line variation
well you can see it's railroading a little bit
you can push a little bit out of it but it's stiff Steel and the line This nib makes
is a 0.6 millimeter which is bang on a western medium or a Japanese
medium to Broad and for our quote
and for some reverse writing
oh yeah that's uh pretty scratchy thin but it does do it and some quick writing
no issues whatsoever with that feed keeping up so what do I like and what do I not like about this
fountain pen well the fit and finish of this pen is of a very high quality everything is done to
perfection I like that they made the pen out of a beautiful pearlescent acrylic but added metal
where things needed reinforcement like at both ends of the section and the top of the barrel
that metal doesn't add that much weight to this pen especially if you write with it unposted as
it only weighs 16 grams unposted but most of all I like the number six size medium nib not only
are they offering medium nibs when the model is first released so you don't have to wait months
to get a replacement the nibs are smooth and wet right out of the box the pen can take Parker and
Lamy long cartridges which should please many pen users out there and it's very affordable at
just slightly over 25 bucks U.S the only thing I can see as an issue is the pen is only available
in this teal color perhaps they're testing how popular this pen model is first and if it sells
they'll come out with more colors we'll have to wait to see it's really nice to see all the new
things coming from hongdian I mentioned pen BBS in the intro we haven't seen much from
them in the last year or so I did predict that pen BBS would take their new piston from the
year of the rabbit piston filler and make a new model to replace the pen BBS 309 and that has
happened just five days ago pen BBS released the new pen bbs-495 piston filler and I was
able to snag one in Amber and one in Galaxy of course don't hold your breath for the review as
the last pen BBS pen I bought took six weeks to arrive and that's not too bad considering
the pinnator Avatar I ordered nine weeks ago still shows no signs of being here anytime soon
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